Introduction to Cookies

A cookie is a small text file, often containing a unique identifier, stored by your web browser when you visit a website. Websites use cookies to help provide certain functions, and to personalize your web experience by remembering things like your language preferences or items in your shopping cart.

How to control and delete cookies

Thinkific does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how. Please note however that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website.

How does Thinkific use cookies

Thinkific uses cookies to understand how you interact with our websites, apps, and selected third-party websites primarily with the aim of improving your user experience. Thinkific does not store sensitive information such as login credentials or bank information within cookies.

The following is a summary of how Thinkific uses cookies:

Thinkific uses cookies that are essential for navigating and enabling certain functioning of Thinkific websites. For example, these types of cookies assist Thinkific in authenticating you and your device or allows Thinkific to administer secure websites. If you choose to disable these cookies, specific features of the Thinkific websites, such as accessing your account or making a purchase, may not be available.

Performance.

Thinkific uses cookies to understand how customers use Thinkific websites and services in order to improve their performance. Performance cookies generate aggregated, de-identified information which provide insights into trends and usage patterns that may be used for business analysis, website and service improvements, and for determining performance metrics. For example, these types of cookies help track the number of visitors to our websites.

Selections.

Thinkific uses cookies to remember your selections while visiting a Thinkific website. These types of cookies allow Thinkific to recognize your device so that you do not have to provide the same information repeatedly. For example, we may use cookies to remember your language preferences or province selected.

Personalization.

Thinkific uses cookies to personalize your experience while visiting a Thinkific website. These cookies may be used to deliver Thinkific content to you that is customized to your interests based on an inference from your browsing patterns on our websites or from your customer relationship with us.

Advertising and third-party cookies.

Thinkific uses cookies to deliver tailored Thinkific advertising to you. We may work with advertising agencies to place cookies to help deliver ads on third-party websites where we purchase advertising. These types of third-party cookies enable us to understand what Thinkific ads you see and interact with, both on our website and on third-party websites. This helps us to measure the success of our advertising campaigns. As part of this process, we do not disclose your personal information to the third-party website.

General

We may at any time change or repeal this Cookies Policy, the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, or any other portion of the Services at any time. You will be notified of any change in the manner provided by applicable law prior to the effective date of the change, including either by email or by posting such updates on our Sites. All such amendments, updates, modifications, replacements, versions, or revisions are effective immediately upon posting on our website. You specifically agree to accept such notice of change by notice sent to the last electronic mail address you have provided to us. However, if the change is made for security purposes, we can implement such change without prior notice. Should you decide that you no longer agree to accept changes or notices electronically, we may cancel or suspend this agreement, or any features or services of the Account described herein at any time. All references in this Cookies Policy to the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and any other Services matters are references to the same as they are amended, updated, modified, replaced, or revised.

If you have questions that are not addressed in this Cookies Policy or if you would like to contact us with your views about our privacy practices, or with any enquiry relating to your personal information, please email [email protected].

Thinkific.com Privacy Policy:

Privacy Policy

How we protect your privacy

Last Update: July 27, 2021

In order to provide you with the best possible platform for online course creation we collect and process some of your information. The purpose of this privacy policy is to help you better understand how we collect, store, and process this information. This policy is meant to help you understand more about why we collect and use your data whether you’re a Thinkific customer or a student/subscriber to a Thinkific site who uses the Thinkific application or services (together known as, the “Services”), a participant in Thinkific’s partner or affiliate program, or even if you’re just visiting the Thinkific website.

By using any of Thinkific’s Services or by interacting with a Thinkific customer using the Services, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy and, as applicable, the Thinkific Terms of Service. In particular, by visiting this website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy, including any updates or revisions to this privacy policy. This policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may be accessible from this website.

This Privacy Policy may be updated occasionally to reflect changes to operational or legal practices, or for regulatory reasons. If and when we make changes to this policy, we will notify you of the changes by posting the revised policy on this website or by other means when appropriate. By continuing to use this website or the Support Service after these changes are posted, you agree to the revised terms.

We’ve broken this policy down into different sections so you can better understand what areas are applicable to you.

POLICY IS PART OF OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

Our privacy policy is part of, and subject to, our website’s Terms of Service.

1. Minors

We do not knowingly provide services or sell products to children. If you are below the age of 16, you may use our website only with the permission and active involvement of a parent or legal guardian. If you are a minor, please do not provide us or other website visitors with any personal information and do not use this website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].

THE TYPE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

2. Personal Information from customers, students, and subscribers

Your privacy and that of your students is important to us; as a Thinkific customer, you recognize that it’s your responsibility to post a privacy policy on your course site that complies with the laws applicable to your business, if you are required to do so. You also agree to obtain consent from your students for the use and access of their Personal Information by Thinkific and other third parties when required.

If you are collecting any sensitive Personal Information from your students/subscribers (for example: information relating to medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, or sexuality), you agree to obtain affirmative, express consent from your students/subscribers for the use and access of sensitive Personal Information by Thinkific and other third parties.

Information we collect from our customers.

In order to offer the Services, we need to collect certain information from our customers. Here is a summary of the information that we collect from our

customers and what we do with it:

We collect your name, email address, and IP address. We need this information to provide you with the Services, for example, to confirm your identity and contact you.
You may voluntarily provide additional information related to the registered account such as any API key provided or images or videos you choose to upload.
We collect data about Thinkific-hosted webpages, including how you interact with such webpages. We also collect data about how and when you access your account in order to give you access and to continuously improve our Services.
When you voluntarily share personal information with us in the course of offering your course and using our Services, we store that Personal Information.
When transactions between you and our website involve payment by credit card, debit card, checks, money orders, and/or third party online payment services, we will collect information related to the transaction as part of the course of doing business with you, including billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.
When you share personal information about your customers (“learners”) we store that information for you so that you can process enrollments and better serve your customers.

This information is collected when you sign up for our Services, when you access our Services or otherwise provide us with the information. In some circumstances, when you have given us express permission, we will also use and store your personal information. If you choose to use third-party tools or integrations in connection with your use of our Services, such third-party tools may collect personal information in accordance with their terms. Thinkific has no control over third-party tools or integrations, and you expressly acknowledge that Thinkific is not responsible for the privacy practices associated with such tools and integrations.

3. Information from our customers’ students/subscribers

In order to provide you with our Services, we collect and store information

about your students so that you and they can benefit from all our Services,

including, for example, providing your course, reviewing statistics about your

course, and engaging you’re your students. Here are some more details on

what information we collect and why.

We allow you to collect the name, email, and any other personal information from your customers. Name and email are needed to allow individuals to access our Services for processes such as processing enrolments, authentication, or otherwise administering your course.This information is given on a voluntary basis when a customer uses or accesses our Services, for example when a customer visits a Thinkific site, enrolls in a course, or signs up for an account on a Thinkific site.
We collect information about how your students interact with your course(s) and website(s), including but not limited to, their progress through the course, quiz scores, survey results, discussion or forum contributions and other student activities.
You may collect additional information about your learners in the
course of administering your course. As a course administrator, it is
your responsibility to ensure that information is being collected
lawfully. You should make your own Privacy Policy available to your
students and we suggest consulting with legal counsel to understand
how to ensure you are appropriately protecting the privacy of your
learners.
Thinkific processes this information via the Thinkific platform in order to administer the Services. You also have the ability to access and remove your students’ information at any point. Thinkific may retain a copy of students’ information in order to comply with its legal or regulatory obligations.
Some transactions between learners and our website or your courses may involve payment by credit card, debit card, checks, money orders, and/or third party online payment services. In such transactions, we will collect information related to the transaction in order to provide you with the Services, including a billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.
We may also receive Personal Information from our partners and third parties.
If a Thinkific customer chooses to use third-party tools or integrations in connection with their use of our Services, such third-party tools may collect your personal information in accordance with their terms. Thinkific has no control over third-party tools or integrations and you expressly acknowledge that Thinkific is not responsible for the privacy practises associated with such tools and integrations.

4. Information from Partners, Affiliates, Ambassadors, and Experts

Individuals who qualify as partners, ambassadors, affiliates or experts are businesses or individuals that have agreed to specific terms to work with Thinkific to promote the Service by a) referring clients to Thinkific; b) developing Thinkific sites or themes for customer use; c) developing apps using the Thinkific Application Interface (API) for customer use or d) partnering with Thinkific for the purposes of promotion or collaboration.

Here is a little more about the information that we collect about partners, affiliates, ambassadors, and experts.

We may collect your name, company name, website, social media usernames/handles, phone number(s), address, business type, email address, PayPal Account, and GST/HST number (or local tax identifiers).
We collect data about the Thinkific-hosted webpages that you visit and how and when you access your account, including information about the device and browser you use, your network connection and your IP address. We use this information to give you access and to improve our Services.
We collect Personal Information about your customers that you share with us or that they provide to use directly. We use this information to work with you and to provide our Services to your customers.
We may also use Personal Information in other cases where you have given us express permission.
We collect this information when you sign up for a Partner, Affiliate, Ambassadors, or Expert Account, when you sign up one of your customers for our Services, or when your customers sign up themselves. We also collect any additional information that you might provide to us.

5. Information from Thinkific website visitors and support users

We collect information from visitors to the Thinkific website including your IP address and how you interact with our website. We also collect information such as when you visited, the website from where you came prior to visiting us, the website where you go when you leave our website, your computer’s operating system, location data, and the type of web browser that you are using.
We also collect Personal Information submitted by you via any messaging or email feature available from any of our websites.
We may also receive Personal Information when you submit help tickets or make other requests to Thinkific via any of our websites,
We also collect the name and phone number of our telephone support users.
For all those that email us for support we collect name, email address, location, Thinkific site address, as well as any exchange with with a Thinkific agent
If you use our forum or community, we collect your name and any content that you post.

We collect this information when you visit Thinkific-hosted webpages, use

Services offered on our websites or engage with us either by email, web

form, instant message, phone, or post content on or through our websites

(including forums, blogs and via any Messaging Feature). We also collect any

additional information that you might provide to us. We use this information

to provide and enhance our Services (including servicing your account, if

applicable), and answer any questions you may have.

6. Information from cookies and similar tracking technology

We use cookies or similar tracking technologies on our webpages. This

information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may

also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you

are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your

browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie

access to your computer. For more information about how Thinkific uses cookies, please see our Cookies Policy.

7. Information that we share with third parties

Thinkific works with third parties to help provide you with our Services and

we may share Personal Information with them to support these efforts. In

certain limited circumstances, we may also be required to share information

with third parties to conform to legal requirements or to respond to lawful

requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law

enforcement requirements.

Personal Information may be shared with third parties to prevent,

investigate, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,

situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,

violations of our Terms of Service or any other agreement related to the

Services, or as otherwise required by law.

Personal Information may be shared with third-party vendors to help us

conduct marketing and/or advertising campaigns.

Personal Information may also be shared with a company that acquires our

business, whether through merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution,

reorganization, or other similar transaction or proceeding. If this happens, we

will post a notice on our homepage.

Thinkific will ask for your consent before sharing your Personal Information

with third parties for purposes other than those described in this Section 7.

8. Terminating your relationship with us

When you decide to terminate your relationship with us, you may request

that we delete your information. We try our best to comply with such

requests but will continue to store archived copies of your Personal

Information for legitimate business purposes and to comply with our legal

and regulatory obligations.

We will continue to store anonymous or anonymized information, such as

website visits, without identifiers, in order to improve our Services.

9. What we don’t do with your Personal Information

We do not and will never share, disclose, sell, rent, or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies (other than to specific Thinkific customers you may be interacting with) for the marketing of their own products or services.

If you are a customer using Thinkific’s Services, we do not use the Personal Information we collect from you or your customers to independently contact or market to your customers. However, Thinkific may contact or market to your customers if we obtain their information from another source, such as from the customers themselves.

10. Keeping your personal information secure

We follow industry standards on information security management to safeguard sensitive information, such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details and any other Personal Information entrusted to us. Our information security systems apply to people, processes, and information technology systems on a risk management basis.

We exclusively process payments through PCI DSS Level 1 payment providers, which is the highest level of compliance available.

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information.

11. Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

Thinkific works with merchants and users around the world, including in the EEA. Please note that as part of our Services, we may transfer your personal information to other regions, including to Canada and the United States.

Additionally, if you are located in the EEA, you have certain rights under European law with respect to your personal data, including the right to request access to, correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data. In order to exercise these rights, please reach out to us using the contact information below.

12. How do we protect your information across borders?

Thinkific Labs Inc. is a Canadian company that provides services to

customers, and our technology processes data from users, around the world.

Accordingly, Thinkific may transmit your personal information outside of the

country, state, or province in which you are located. Thinkific ensures that

any such transfer is done in accordance with regulations including transfers

to countries where the EC reached an “adequacy decision” about the country

where the receiver is based, or transfers being covered by “appropriate

safeguards” including, for example, standard contractual clauses.

13. User Names and Passwords

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a username and password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping the username and password confidential. Do not give your password to anyone. If you enter a section of our website that requires a password, you should log out when you leave. As a safety precaution, you should also close out of your web browser completely and re-open it before viewing other parts of the Internet.

14. Accessing and Correcting your Information

If you have a customer account with us, you can review and change your personal information by logging into the website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an e-mail at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you are a learner/student and would like to access, change, or delete your personal information please contact the course provider that you interacted with directly. We act as a processor on their behalf and can only forward the request to the course provider.

15. Your Voluntary Disclosure of Information to Third Parties Who Are Not Our Suppliers

As noted above, you may choose to provide personal information to website

visitors or other third parties who are not our suppliers. Please use caution

when doing so. The privacy policies and customs of these third parties

determine what is done with your information and Thinkific is not responsible

for such processing.

16. Autoresponders

We may use autoresponders to communicate with you by e-mail. To protect your privacy, we use a verified opt-in system for such communications and you can always opt-out of such communications using the links contained in each autoresponder message. If you have difficulties opting out, you may contact us by sending an e-mail to [email protected], or sending us mail to the address listed below.

17. Disclaimer

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website, including the illegal acts of third parties (such as criminal hacking).

18. Policy Changes

The terms of this policy may change from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified through your account. Your continued use of this website constitutes your consent to such revised privacy policy.

If you are concerned about the topic covered by this policy, you should read it each time before you use our website. Any questions or concerns about this policy should be brought to our attention by sending an e-mail to [email protected], or one of the methods provided under Contact Information, and providing us with information relating to your concern.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
[email protected]
Thinkific Labs Inc.
#400 – 369 Terminal Ave
Vancouver, BC
V6A 4C4
+1 888-832-2409

ANTI-SPAM POLICY
We hate unsolicited commercial e-mail as much as you do: Spam or junk e-mail, is a disservice to the Internet and our community.

We fully endorse and comply with the requirements of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) and CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act), and all other applicable unsolicited commercial e-mail laws.

If you subscribe to electronic newsletters or other communications from us or our website, you will always have an option to unsubscribe immediately.

If you have additional questions, comments or concerns, please contact us by sending an e-mail to [email protected] and providing us with information relating to your concern.

You may also mail your concerns to us at the following address:

[email protected]
Thinkific Labs Inc.
#400 – 369 Terminal Ave
Vancouver, BC
V6A 4C4

+1 888-832-2409