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This Privacy Policy describes how NextGen EDU, a product developed and operated by Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada (“we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, and discloses your information when you use our website, located at https://www.nextgenedu.net/, (the “Website”) and our online learning platform, NextGen EDU (the “Service”). We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://www.nextgenedu.net/.
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Student’s Full Name, Email Address, Phone Number, Address, Student’s Grade, Student’s High School, Student’s Self-Rated CS skills and experiences, Guardian’s Email Address, Guardian’s Phone Number, Why the student is interested in our program, How they heard about us. The foregoing list may be updated from time to time as we adjust what information we need to acquire in order to provide a full and complete service to you.
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We uses the collected data for various purposes: To provide and maintain the Service, To notify you about changes to our Service, To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so, To provide customer care and support, To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service, To monitor the usage of the Service, To detect, prevent and address technical issues.
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers 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 States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
The Site is intended for users who are at least 13 years of age. All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Site. Our intentions align with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We wish to limit information received about children under 18 while having the ability to run a successful program to enhance their knowledge.
If a child signs up for our service, we collect their name, date of birth, email address, home address, and optional information about their machine learning knowledge. We also ask for a parent name, email address, and phone number. We email the parent and child when a child (or parent on behalf of a child) has successfully applied.
We may share your information with third-party service providers who help us operate the Service, such as payment processors, data analytics providers, and customer service providers. These third-party service providers are obligated to use your information only to provide the services we have requested.
We may also disclose your information if we are required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with a court order, subpoena, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us or others.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
