www.thecomplianceprofessor.com (the "Site") is owned and operated by The Compliance Professor Corp.. The Compliance Professor Corp. is the data controller and can be contacted at: Privacy@thecomplianceprofessor.com
The Compliance Professor Corp.. ("by The Compliance Professor", "we", "us" and "our") is committed to protecting your Personal Information (as defined below) by ensuring that your Personal Information is treated with care and is not used or disclosed in ways to which you have not consented. This privacy policy ("Policy") explains the ways in which we collect, use and disclose your Personal Information. It applies to any Personal Information that is collected by us, whether it is collected over the telephone, in writing, or electronically.
by The Compliance Professor will never disclose, sell or lease to any third party any Personal Information that you provide to us, including through any of our websites (including this website) and mobile applications (collectively, the "Services"), without your permission, other than as described in this Policy, or unless we are required to do so by law. Notwithstanding this, the Services may be hosted, delivered by and administered by a third party. Accordingly, the Personal Information provided through the Services will be available to that third party for the limited purposes of hosting, providing and administering the Services.
The purpose of this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") is to inform users of our Site of the following:
This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time in order to comply with applicable law or because of changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we make any changes, we will change the Last Updated date above.
Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of the new terms. In all cases, your continued use of our services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.
"Personal Information" is information about an identifiable individual. Personal Information includes but is not limited to your name, residential address, telephone number, and e-mail address. This also includes non-personal information that we link to personal information such as training course history.
By using our Site users agree that they consent to:
When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful. We may not be able to provide certain services if you are unwilling to provide consent to the collection, use or disclosure of certain personal information.
You can withdraw your consent by: Contacting us at info@thecomplianceprofessor.com.
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.
We rely on the following legal bases to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
If a user does not provide the personal data necessary to perform a contract the consequences are as follows: We can not issue them certificates or proof of course completion or attendance..
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
We collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:
This data may be collected using the following methods:
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:
We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.
User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.
You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
We make every reasonable effort to prevent any loss, misuse, disclosure or modification of personal information, as well as unauthorized access to personal information. This includes the use of appropriate physical and technical safeguards such as the strongest available browser encryption and store all of our data on servers on AWS. All data is only accessible to our employees. Our employees are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the employee's termination.
We retain client personal information only as long as is reasonable to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected or for legal or business purposes.
In the rare instance of a breach affecting personal information, where it creates a real risk of significant harm to individuals, we report these to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner without delay.
The information that we collect is stored on servers, which may be located outside of Canada, including servers in the United States. Any information stored outside of Canada is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is stored. When we transfer user personal data we will protect that data as described in this Privacy Policy and comply with applicable legal requirements for transferring personal data internationally.
If you are located in the United Kingdom or the European Union, we will only transfer your personal data if:
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
You have the right to withdraw your consent for our use of your personal information. You also have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here:
Privacy Officer
Privacy@thecomplianceprofessor.com
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.
A cookie is a small file, stored on a user's hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user's browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.
We use the following types of cookies on our Site:
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our Privacy Officer, at: Privacy@thecomplianceprofessor.com