Professor-oak.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and handle personal information when our website is visited.

Information Collection and Use

Information Volunteered
We collect the personal information that is provided to us voluntarily, including: name, address, and email. If there is an option to enter your information, then you can assume that we are collecting it and that you are giving consent for us to do so.

Payment Processing
When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, through the website we collect information from you. This includes name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers or PayPal information), email address and phone number.

Access Information
Information pertaining to your access to professor-oak.com is collected. Such information may include: Internet Protocol (IP) Address, as well as other connection and usage information. An IP address is a unique number assigned to a server or internet service provider. This information is used for system administration and to screen for risk and protect against fraud.

• To complete a sales transaction - Legal contracts require the collection of personal data to enforce the purchase/sale transaction.
• To send an order and confirmation to your email address, or to contact you.
• For calculating overall usage statistics, performance of data analytics, content improvement, accounting functions, as well as other internal functions, such as auditing.
• To protect against, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activity or claims
• To comply with any legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and our policies.

Consent and Confidentiality

All personal information collected is kept strictly confidential. Access to that information is restricted to only the people that need to access it.

When you provide information to us during a website visit, your consent for us to use and process that information is implied. We will only use your information for the reason intended, i.e. completing a sales transaction. If you do not give consent for us to collect data in this way, please do not provide it. We will only disclose your information if:

• We are required to do so by law
• You violate our Terms of Service

Third-Party Services

We use third-party services to assist with our advertising, functionality, and analytics. In general, the third-party providers we use will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform their services. They collect information pertaining to demographics, geographic location, website activity, and interests or preferences.

Specifically we use:

• Google Analytics - to help us understand how our website is used.
• Google Adsense - to serve ads on our website

For any third-party service we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

You can see how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Data Security and Storage

Professor-oak.com follows the industry best standards and takes reasonable precautions to ensure your data is treated confidentially and is only used for the intended purpose. We incorporate secure socket layer (SSL) technology, firewalls, and data encryption, among other safeguards to keep your information secure. Although no method of data transmission over the internet is 100% safe, we follow best practices and implement additional generally accepted industry safeguards.

Data is stored for at least the legally required amount of time. Any data stored that is no longer needed for its intended or legal purpose, may be stored unless there is a legal reason to do so otherwise, i.e. alteration/deletion of data.

Cookies

Cookies are a part of your web browser that store information from websites on your computer for record-keeping purposes. A cookie holds information like a username, password, or preferences. Cookies enhance the speed of your browsing session by saving you from having to re-enter that information on future visits. Professor-oak.com may use cookies to retrieve user information for website functionality or security purposes.

Our Third-Party partner, Google, uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner's website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads).

Additional Protections

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Professor-oak.com is a website directed at the general public. No children under the age of 13 are to provide information on our site. Once a child states that they are under the age of 13, we do not collect or store any personally identifiable information such as name, address, or email.

If you are a European resident, you have additional data privacy rights under the GDPR. These include the following:

• to access your personal information and make requests to correct, update, alter, or delete your information
• to data portability, and to object to the processing of your data
• When the processing is based on your consent, you may at any time withdraw your consent. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing data on the basis of consent given prior to its withdrawal.
• to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact us through the contact information provided below.

If you are a Brazilian resident, you have additional data privacy rights under the LGPD. These include the following:

• to confirm of the existence of data processing
• the right to access, make corrections to incomplete, inaccurate, or out-of-date information
• to anonymize, block, or delete unnecessary, or excessive data or data that is not being processed in compliance with the LGPD
• to delete personal data processed with the consent of the data subject
• to be informed of the entities with which the controller has shared data
• to data portability to another service or product provider, by making an expressing request
• to information about the possibility of denying consent and the consequences of denying consent
• to revoke consent by contacting us at the contact information provided below

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact us through the contact information provided below.

If you are a resident of California, you have additional data privacy rights under the CCPA. These include the following:

• The right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared
• The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions)
• The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information that a business has about them
• The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about them

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact us through the contact information provided below.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time to reflect our current practices, or otherwise comply with a regulatory or legal requirement. Please check back and review it regularly. All changes are effective immediately upon posting on this webpage.

Contact Information

If you would like to access, correct, or delete any personal information that we collect about you, register a complaint, exercise a right, or would like additional information, please contact us at support@professor-oak.com.

Updated 11/10/23