Privacy & Use of Cookies
Summary
Your privacy and security are extremely important to Speak Confident English. To help you fully understand our Privacy Policy and how we handle personal data, we’ve provided a summary. However, you may review our entire Privacy Notice & Cookie Policy below.
How and Why We Collect Your Information
We only collect the information you provide to use when you leave a comment on a blog post, subscribe to our newsletter, download a free resource, get a free training series, and/or purchase a course from Speak Confident English. This information is used to provide you the information you’ve requested, to enroll you in the program, to track your preferences, and inform you of related products or services. As a Visitor, you can also use much of this website without providing any personal data.
If you purchase a course, subscribe to a free training, or request to download a free resource, you’ll automatically receive our weekly newsletter via email every Wednesday. You may unsubscribe from this email newsletter any time. You’ll find an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email. Or you may email us directly ask us to delete you from the email list.
We only collect information that you provide by completing an online form for free resources or when you purchase a course. This data is never sold to a third party; however, it may be shared with a third party. For example, if you purchase a course and you use PayPal to make the purchase, then your data is shared with PayPal. You can get more information about the third parties we use in the full Privacy Notice below.
We Use Cookies
Speak Confident English does use cookies on its Sites. These cookies track and measure what is most popular or useful on our Site so we can continue to improve our services to you. This information is anonymized so there is no information that identifies you or any other user individually.
We also use this information for analysis, marketing, and promotional activities.
Please review our complete Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy below to learn more about your rights, the data we collect and why, how we protect it, the cookies we use and more.
Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority.
This Statement of Privacy applies to http://www.speakconfidentenglish.com, https://courses.speakconfidentenglish.com/, https://community.speakconfidentenglish.com/, and Syntactics LLC dba Speak Confident English and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Syntactics LLC dba Speak Confident English include http://www.speakconfidentenglish.com, Speak Confident English, Teach Confident English and teachconfidentenglish.com. The Speak Confident English website is a These website are intended for educational purpose only in regard to online language learning and teaching. site. By using the Speak Confident English website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Speak Confident English’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Speak Confident English collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
Speak Confident English may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Speak Confident English and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Speak Confident English does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Speak Confident English may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Speak Confident English, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Speak Confident English may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Speak Confident English or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Speak Confident English; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Speak Confident English, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Speak Confident English may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Speak Confident English, in order to determine what Speak Confident English services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Speak Confident English to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Speak Confident English. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Speak Confident English website.
Use of Cookies
The Speak Confident English website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Speak Confident English pages, or register with Speak Confident English site or services, a cookie helps Speak Confident English to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Speak Confident English website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Speak Confident English features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Speak Confident English services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
Speak Confident English secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Speak Confident English uses the following methods for this purpose:
SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
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Delete your personal information from our records; and
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Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
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Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
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Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
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Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
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Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
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Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
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Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
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Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
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Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
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Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
Speak Confident English does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Speak Confident English may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Speak Confident English or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Speak Confident English, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to this Statement
Speak Confident English reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Speak Confident English welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Speak Confident English has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Speak Confident English at:
Email Address: [email protected]
Effective as of August 16, 2023