Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Rize Education, Inc. (“Company”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses personal information about users (each, a "User") of the https://rize.education website (the "Site"), newsletters, our products, and other services (together, the “Services”).

How we collect information

Information Users provide to us:
When Users use the Services, Users may provide information to us directly. For example, when a User:

• Signs up for email updates, we may collect the User’s email address and marketing preferences.
• Fills out a form, completes a survey, or contacts Company, we may collect the User’s name, email address, mailing address, and contents of their communication.

Information collected automatically:
We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically collect information about Users and their computers or devices whenever they interact with our Services. This information may include browser name, IP address, device identifier, operating system, general location information (such as city, state), and information about the User’s interactions with the Services, such as pages viewed and links clicked. This information is collected using cookies, browser web storage, web beacons, and similar technologies.
We may also use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to personalize content, support communications, or analyze usage patterns. These tools do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects without human involvement.

Information we obtain from social media platforms:
We may maintain pages for Company on social media platforms, such as LinkedIn. When Users visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to those interactions and their collection, use and processing of personal information. Users or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information we obtain from other third parties:
We may receive personal information about Users from third-party sources where they have a right to provide us with this information. We may also obtain personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, and publicly available sources.

How we use collected information

Company may collect and use Users’ personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our Site: We may need User information to, for example, display content on the Site correctly.
• To improve customer service: Information a User provides helps us respond to customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize User experience: We may use information about you to personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site and provide customized content and information.
• To improve our Services: We may use feedback Users provide to improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, or survey
• To send marketing emails. We may send you marketing emails as permitted by law. Users can opt out of these marketing emails as described in User Choices.
• To communicate with Users. We may contact a User to send them notifications about their account and to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
• To post user testimonials and feedback: We may publish testimonials and comments from Users who have had positive experiences with Company. When we publish this content, we will identify our Users by their first name and last initial and may also indicate their home city. We will obtain the User’s consent prior to posting their name along with the testimonial.
• For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety: We may use personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, a User’s or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; and (d) to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas.
• With consent: In some cases, we may specifically ask for consent to collect, use or share personal information and will collect, use or share such information in accordance with such authorizations.
• To create anonymous data: We may create anonymous data from Users’ personal information. This involves removing or altering details that make the data personally identifiable. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for any lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the service and promote our business.

Sharing personal information

We do not share personal information with third parties without User consent, except as described in this Privacy Policy:

• We may use third-party service providers to help us operate the Services or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes.
• We may share your information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• Like many companies online, Company works with advertising partners that rely on tracking technologies – such as cookies – to collect behavioral information about how Users use and interact with our Site and emails or other online services over time in order to perform tracking and marketing analytics or serve advertisements that are more likely to be of interest to you ("Interest-Based Advertisements").
• We may provide functionality that enables Users to disclose personal information to other Users or the public. For instance, Users may also be able to submit content to the Service, and we will display the User’s name along with the content submitted. We do not control how other Users or third parties use any personal information that a User makes available to other Users or the public.
• We may disclose personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary for the professional services that they render to us.
• We may share personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes outlined above.
• We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including Users’ personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution. In such a case, we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.

User choices

All users have the following choices over their personal information:

• Opt Out of Marketing Emails: If at any time a User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future marketing emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or the User may contact us. We may continue to send service-related and other non-marketing emails.
• Interest-Based Advertisements: Users may limit the use of their information for Interest-Based Advertisements by companies participating in the Network Advertising Initiative by clicking here or the Digital Advertising Alliance by clicking here. Some of our partners, like Google, may offer their own opt-out mechanism.
• Do Not Track: Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. Learn more here.
• California Privacy Rights: California residents have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal information, and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of their data. To exercise these rights, please contact us at marketing@rize.education.

Residents of certain U.S. states — including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and others — may have specific rights under their state privacy laws. Depending on your state of residence, these rights may include:

• The right to know what personal information we collect about you and how we use and share it;
• The right to access your personal information;
• The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information;
• The right to delete your personal information;
• The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information;
• The right to opt out of the use of your information for targeted advertising or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights, or if you have questions about how your personal information is handled, you may contact us at marketing@rize.education.

Please note that we may need to verify your identity before completing your request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

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Third party websites

Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies that may differ materially from ours. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website's own terms and policies.

How we protect your information

We have adopted data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of Users’ personal information.
We also review our practices regularly to ensure they meet evolving data protection standards.

Children

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, we do not intentionally collect or maintain information from children under the age of 13, and no part of our website is directed to anyone under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Company has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify Users by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Site. We may also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach Users, such as via e-mail (if a User has an account) or another manner through the Site.
We encourage Users to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.

Users outside the U.S.

Company is a US-based organization, and we apply U.S. law to our privacy practices. Wherever you are in the world, this Privacy Policy will apply to the information you provide to us or we collect when you use the Services.
By using our Services, you consent to the processing and storage of your personal information in the United States, where privacy laws may be different from those in your jurisdiction.

Accessibility

We are committed to making our digital content accessible to all individuals. If you experience any difficulty accessing this Privacy Policy or any part of our Site, please contact us at marketing@rize.education.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at marketing@rize.education.

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