Rev.
YSKOLAR PRIVACY POLICY ______________________________________

 

(Last Updated December 16^th, 2019)

 

Introduction

Yskolar takes your privacy seriously and the use, disclosure and protection of your information is important to us. This policy covers your use of our website www.yskolar.com and our mobile app, which also covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, store and protect your personal information. We encourage you take a moment and familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and contact us at support@yskolar.com for any further clarification.

 

Yskolar services are offered by Yskolar which is located at 8887 The Gore Road Unit 41, Brampton, ON Canada L6P 2K9, email support@Yskolar.com (“Yskolar.”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Yskolar (TPL) is referred to as “Yskolar”, “we” or “us”.

 

This Privacy Policy has been developed in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as in support of the California Consumer Protection Act CCPA.

 

Data Protection Principles

Yskolar is dedicated to ensuring the security of your personal data and adhering to compliance with applicable data protection laws. As a summary of how Yskolar protects and utilizes your personal data, the organization is committed to ensuring that your personal data is:

 

• used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;
• collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;
• relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes;
• accurate and kept up to date;
• allowed for you as the individual to request access to your personal data
• kept only if necessary, for the purposes we have told you about; and
• kept securely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of Personal Information Use

 

Yskolar as a Company

Yskolar may collect or obtain Personal Data about you, if you are located outside of the Canada this information may be transferred from a location outside of Canada to other regions through the following methods:

• directly from you (e.g., where you contact us); in the course of our relationship with you (e.g., if you make a purchase);
• when you make your Personal Information public,
• when you visit our website; when you register to use any part of the Services;
• when you volunteer Personal Data about yourself in public areas of the Services; when you interact with any third-party content or advertising;

We may also receive Personal Information about you from third parties.

 

Purposes of Data Collection

For data collection methods as described for Yskolar as a Company the following examples of uses of this Personal Information may be used for:

 

• Provision of Services to you
• Offering and Improving the Service
• Completing your Order
• Surveys
• Communication
• Advertising
• User Engagement
• Marketing
• Lead Generation
• Legal Compliance

 

What types of personal data do we collect from you, for what purpose and on what legal basis?

 

Data Collection Methods

The personal data we collect from you, and the way we collect it from you, includes the following methods when you:

• Visit our website
• Use our Mobile App
• Visit our Yskolar Branded Social Media pages
• Visit our Yskolar Offices
• Receive or provided communication from or to us through:

 

• Email
• Phone
• Texts/SMS
• Other electronic communication

 

• Use our cloud products and services as an authorized user
• Register for or attend Yskolar events, webinars, or free trials

 

Information Collected and Stored Automatically (Web Analytics Data)

When you visit Yskolar, we may store some or all the following:

1. The IP address from which you access Yskolar.
2. The date and time of access.
3. The Internet address of the website from which you linked to Yskolar.
4. The name of the file or words you searched; items clicked on a page.
5. The browser and operating system used, and any other related information.

 

This information is used for our legitimate purpose of measuring the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and identifying system performance or problem areas. We also use this information to help us develop the site, analyse patterns of usage, and to make the site more useful. This information is not used for associating search terms or patterns of site navigation with individual users. Simply means that if multiple users are using one account from the same IP address Yskolar will get their account banned from the site

 

Types of Data Collected

The type of personal data collected is listed as follows:

1. Name
2. Email Address
3. Any part of an individual's name that is stored or displayed in conjunction with any of the subsequent listings of data and information deemed PII.
4. Digital Identifiers, such as usernames, passwords, etc.
5. Personal data required by various form fields, and/or for purposes of searching, retrieving, and downloading data from www.yskolar.com

 

 

 

 

How we use this data

 

This information is used in order to take steps to conclude a contract with you, or to provide our services to you, as well as to enable you to use them. We may also use these personal data for our legitimate purpose of contacting you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information concerning our activities that may be of interest to you.

 

Opt-Out

 

You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us. You as an individual retain the right to withhold in part or in full your personal information in order to limit our use and availably of this data. Please note that refusal to provide Personal Information may result in our inability to provide the Services to you, to manage our relationship with you, or to improve the Services provided to you.

 

Third Party Disclosures

 

Yskolar as Processor

 

As a standard practice Yskolar does not disclose personal information to any third party or unauthorized party for any reason. Should Yskolar be required to disclose any personal data to third parties it will not do so unless fully authorized by the client agreement or in accordance with support of the agreement, or applicable law.

 

Yskolar as a Controller

 

Yskolar direct methods of personal data collection include through

our website, marketing, sales outreach, and third party provided information. This information is used solely to contact individuals and or organizations about sales, adverting or marketing prospects of Yskolar products. Any discloser of personal information to a third party is relegated to only be used on behalf of Yskolar and at Yskolar’ direction, and not for any other purpose.

 

Cookies

 

When you visit some websites, their web servers generate pieces of information known as cookies. Cookies are commonly used to recognize your computer in the future. Yskolar also uses session cookies for its legitimate interest of pursuing technical purposes, such as providing seamless navigation through our site, allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information. These cookies do not permanently record data and they are stored on your computer browser. If you don’t want cookies to be stored on your computer, you can simply go to your browser settings and clear your cookies cache or refuse cookies.

Yskolar also uses persistent cookies for a few legitimate interests, such as to be able to track the number of unique visitors to the site. Additionally, persistent cookies enable Yskolar to tailor content and related subject matter to match your preferred interests and/or for the purposes of not showing you the same content and related subject matter repeatedly. 

We may also employ cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way. 

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Types of cookies we use on our website

 

• Strictly needed cookies. These cookies are necessary for the Website to work correctly. They will allow you to move around our website and use its capabilities. These files do not identify you as a person. If you do not agree to use this type of file this may affect the proper work of the website or its components.
• Cookies related to performance, efficiency, and analytics. These files help us understand how you interact with our website by providing information about the areas visited and the amount of time spent on the website, as well as showing problems in the operation of the Internet resource, for example, error messages. This will help us to improve the work of the website.
• Cookies related to analytics. These files help us to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and optimize the content of websites for those who are interested in our advertising. This type of cookies shall not be used for your identification. All information that is collected and analysed is anonymous.
• Advertising cookies. These cookies record information about your online activities, including visits to our website, as well as information about the links and advertising that you have chosen to view. Yskolar uses such files to collect data about your activity on the Internet and determine your interests, which allows Yskolar to provide advertising that suits your interests and on which you have given your consent.

 

The website captures limited data (user-agent, HTTP referrer, last URL requested by the user, client-side and server-side clickstream) about visits to the Website. Yskolar may use this data to analyse patterns and to perform system maintenance. You have several options how to manage cookies on your device. All browsers allow you to block or delete cookies from your device. You may consult the privacy features in your browser to understand what you should do if you need to manage cookies.

 

Browser Information Collected on the Website

 

Various elements of data sets may be collected to track the usefulness of certain actions and to ultimately improve the value of Yskolar. Please note that Yskolar does not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any type of Internet users’ personal data (as listed above) through these processes.

 

External Links

 

Yskolar may contain links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Yskolar therefore provides these links as a service to our users, and when users click on a link to an external website, they are leaving Yskolar and are thus subject to the privacy and security policies/related terms and conditions of these external websites.

 

Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

 

Yskolar complies both with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and, regarding EU data subjects, with GDPR. While children under the age of sixteen (16) may use the Site only with the consent of his or her parent or legal guardian, please be advised that this Site is not directed or otherwise promoted for use by children under the age of sixteen (16). By using the Service, you represent that you are at least sixteen (16) years of age. If you are between sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years of age, you will need to have parental consent to use the Service. If you are below sixteen years of age, you should stop using the Site and Service immediately. Personal data from children under 16 is not knowingly collected, nor are children under 16 knowingly contacted by Yskolar. To be clear, Yskolar does not intend to solicit information of any kind from children under 16. It is possible that Yskolar may receive emails pertaining to children under 16. If this is the case and Yskolar is notified of this, as soon as the information is verified, parental consent will be immediately obtained, or the email will be deleted from any services being offered and/or performed by Yskolar 

We will make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases, where appropriate, that consent is given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.

 

Compliance with Laws

 

• Except for authorized law enforcement investigations by local, state, and/or federal agencies, no other attempts are made by Yskolar to identify individual users and/or their usage habits on Yskolar.
• Yskolar as required by local, state, country or federal law will disclose your personal information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to pursue our legitimate interest of complying with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or of protecting the security or integrity of our services.

 

Retention period

 

We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we are processing it, unless the law permits or requires longer. For example, we might need to keep your personal data for quality assurance of the service we have provided, or we might need to keep it to defend future legal claims or to comply with a legal obligation.

 

Site Security

 

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the platform for which Yskolar resides on – commonly known as a “production environment”, utilizes a wide-range of software tools and programs to for the ultimate goal of ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) – a concept known as the CIA triad of information security. Tools which are currently in use, or are to be deployed if necessary, for the security of Yskolar are to include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

• Network Security and Network Monitoring: Tools that assist in securing the network for which Yskolar resides on. Such tools include network and perimeter firewalls, web application firewalls, routers, switches, intrusion detection systems, and other related tools.

• Network Performance: Tools that assist in monitoring all aspects of Yskolar, such as performance monitoring for website uptime, etc.
• Other: Additionally, a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards are implemented for helping ensure the safety and security of Yskolar.

 

Information Security

 

All information accessed through Yskolar website or App follows the required information security mandates of Article 32 of the GDPR. Specifically, Article 32 mandates the following:

 

• Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk:

 

• Encryption of personal data
• The ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services.
• The ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident.
• A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

 

International Transfers

 

• Your Personal Information may be transferred to, and maintained on, systems located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to Canada and process it there. If you are in the EU, in transferring your Personal Information to countries outside of the EU, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that such recipients act in accordance with applicable laws. To the extent that we transfer the personal data to recipients who are located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, we will provide an adequate level of protection of your personal data, including appropriate technical and organizational security measures and through the implementation of appropriate contractual measures to secure such transfer, in compliance with applicable law. See our Privacy Shield disclosure, below, for further information about our self-certification under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.

 

If you are in California (CCPA)

 

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year.

 

Data Privacy Regulatory Frameworks and Requirements

 

GDPR Data Privacy Rights

 

If you are an EU resident and Yskolar is processing, and/or transmitting your personal data, then you - as an “EU data subject” – benefit from the following rights and privileges under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

 

• Right of Access: you have the right to obtain from us, as controllers, confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the following personal data and information:

 

1. the purposes of the processing;
2. the categories of personal data concerned; i.e. name, email, phone number etc
3. the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, recipients in third countries or international organizations’;
4. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
5. the existence of the right to request from us rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning you or to object to such processing; (f) the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (for a list of supervisory authorities, see https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en);
6. where the personal data are not collected from you, any available information as to their source;
7. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, along the lines indicated by Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR, and meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you.

 

• Right to Rectification: you have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerned, provided during registration by him or her. Considering the purposes of the processing, the user has the right to have request his incomplete personal data be completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
• Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten): you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of your personal data without undue delay, and we have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay when: a) your data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected; b) you had consented to the processing; c) you have objected to the processing, as per below; d) your personal data had been unlawfully collected; e) your personal data need to be erased as a matter of compliance with a legal obligation.
• Right to Restriction of Processing: you have the right to obtain from us the restriction of processing if you: a) contest the accuracy of the personal data, until this is verified; b) the processing is unlawful but you don’t want erasure; c) we no longer need the personal data, but you require them to establish, exercise to defend a legal claim; d) you have objected to processing but there is a need to verify whether our legitimate grounds override your rights to object.
• Right to Data Portability: where your personal data have been provided on the basis of your consent or for the performance of a contract, and their processing occurs in an automated way, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data– or have directly transmitted - to another controller.
• Right to Object: you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your situation, at any time to processing of your personal data based on a legitimate ground point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1), including profiling based on those provisions. In this case, we can no longer process your personal data unless we show that there is a compelling legitimate ground for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for our establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Privacy Shield Framework

 

Data Subject Rights

 

Pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, EU and Swiss individuals, have the right to obtain our confirmation of whether we maintain personal information relating to you in Canada. Upon request, we will provide you with access to the personal information that we hold about you. You may also correct, amend, or delete the personal information we hold about you. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data transferred to Canada under Privacy Shield, should direct their query to support@Yskolar.com. If requested to remove data, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.

 

We will provide an individual opt-out choice, or opt-in for sensitive data, before we share your data with third parties other than our agents, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized. To request to limit the use and disclosure of your personal information, please submit a written request to support@Yskolar.com.

 

In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Yskolar’s accountability for personal data that it receives in Canada under the Privacy Shield and subsequently transfers to a third party is described in the Privacy Shield Principles. In particular, Yskolar remains responsible and liable under the Privacy Shield Principles if third-party agents that it engages to process the personal data on its behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Principles, unless Yskolar proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

 

Complaint Process and Independent Recourse Mechanism

 

You as the data subject in the EU or Switzerland have the right to bring a complaint directly to Yskolar as the Privacy Shield participant and receive a response within 45 days of receipt of the complaint. This complaint as provisioned by the Privacy Shield framework is of no cost to you.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Yskolar commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information transferred to Canada pursuant to Privacy Shield. European Union and Swiss individuals with Privacy Shield inquiries or complaints should first contact Yskolar at: support@Yskolar.com

 

Yskolar has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint. This service is provided free of charge to you.

 

Jurisdiction

 

Yskolar Self-Certification to the EU and Swiss Privacy Shield frameworks is governed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

 

Contact Us

For any questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy, GDPR, or Privacy Shield, please contact us at: support@Yskolar.com

 

Changes to this Policy

Yskolar privacy policy is to be revised and updated as necessary for ensuring its adequacy and sufficiency. You are encouraged to visit this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes to such policy. If changes are made to this policy, a new Yskolar policy will be prominently posted on our site please make sure you read the updated policy from time to time.