Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 10, 2024

In honoring our commitment to digital transparency and the protection of your information, The Biology Breakout Room, LLC (“company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) would like to describe how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers ("you" or "user") when you do any of the following:

Access our website (www.biologybreakout.com)
Purchase/use the resources (“intellectual property”, “products”, or “services”) available for free or for sale on our website
Engage with us in other meaningful ways such as through a subscription to our emailing list or through other forms of personal communications

We ask that you please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and data. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy (“Policy”), please refrain from accessing our website or purchasing/downloading our products and/or services.

Collection of Data on Minors

We do not knowingly collect information or market ourselves to minors (those under the age of 18). In using our services, you represent that you are 18 years of age or older, and that the information you are providing about yourself is accurate. In the event that we find out we have collected and stored data on a minor, we will immediately delete the data from our records. Please email us directly at biologybreakout@gmail.com should you become aware that we have unknowingly collected such data.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy from time-to-time. We will notify you of any material changes made to the storage, treatment, or distribution of our users’ personal information and/or data by posting the revised Policy on our website, displaying a notification banner on our website's homepage for a reasonable period of time following the update, and/or by way of email. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.

It is important to note that you are responsible for ensuring records, including your email and other preferred contact information, are up-to-date, so that you may receive important notifications such as changes to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information

When you complete any form on our website, purchase or download a product, sign up for a service, subscribe to our emails, and/or engage with any forms (such as surveys) sent via email, we collect all of the information that you provide. Such information includes, but is not limited to, your name, email address, billing address, payment information, and other relevant information necessary to complete your purchase and provide you with our resources.

1.2 Usage Information

Using the analytics services provided to us by Squarespace and Google Analytics, we may collect non-personal information about your interactions with our website or resources, including your IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. Such data generally provides us with information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, any communications or interactions between your computer and our website, and your digital whereabouts right before and right after accessing our website. For more information on how we collect this data, please read the “Cookies” section below.

1.3 Associated Information

If any personal information is volunteered, it will automatically be associated with any usage information collected when you access our website and/or purchase/download our resources.

1.4 Sensitive Information

Sensitive personal information is a subcategory of personal information that is differentiated based on the risks (to the individual) associated with its release. Such information includes that which concerns one's gender identity, sexual orientation, religious views, social security number, etc. We do not collect or process any information that falls within this category, and any sensitive information voluntarily provided, whether directly or indirectly, through email correspondences, open-ended form submissions, or personal conversations, will not be stored.

1.5 Cookies and Pixels

We employ the use of “cookies” in order to collect usage information on those who access our website or purchase/download our resources. Cookies are small text files sent from our website to your browser, that contain information about your activities on, just before, or right after using our website. While every company uses cookies differently, we use them to enhance our users' experience and improve our website and resources. Users can consent to or refuse the collection of cookies via a consent banner. This banner will appear as soon as a user accesses our website, and will reappear every time they re-enter it for the first time, regardless of whether they previously selected to allow or disallow the use of cookies.

Somewhat similar to cookies, pixels are small files used by social media platforms to track visitors to other websites in order to tailor advertisements to them. We reserve the right to use these pixels in accordance with the policies of the various social media websites used.

Use of Information

2.1 Provide and Improve Services

We use the personal information you voluntarily provide to process your orders, deliver products and services, provide customer support, and send newsletters/promotional material to you via email (see the next section for more information on this). Additionally, we may use usage data to monitor and analyze trends, track user behavior and preferences, and gather demographic information in an effort to improve our website and/or services, develop new products, and enhance the user experience.

2.2 Email Communications

Marketing communications are sent regularly via email to those subscribed to our emailing list. Examples of these email communications include bi-monthly (every other week) newsletters, exclusive offers and promotional information, and/or important updates/notifications related to our website or services. Both of the following actions will result in a user being added to this list:

The user actively subscribes to our emailing list by providing their email
The user (so long as they reside outside of the EU, UK, or Canada) registers for a seminar/webinar (whether free or paid for), downloads a free resource, or purchases a product through our website

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all of our emails will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact us should you need to do so. Further, any marketing communication delivered via email will include clear information on how to remove oneself from our mailing list, and will include both a link to “Unsubscribe”, and a link to “Change Preferences”.

Other forms of email communications that are not considered marketing or promotional emails include product update notices, which are sent to users about specific products they previously purchased, and email communications responding directly to specific users' questions, comments, or concerns.

Data Sharing and Disclosure

We are committed to keeping personal information, including your name and email address, confidential. We do not distribute or sell our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your information to any third parties except as is stated in this section.

3.1 Service Provider Disclosures

We may share your personal information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in hosting our website and delivering our resources. These providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and are only authorized to use your information as necessary to perform the requested services. If you would like to know more about our providers, what we use them for, and their privacy policies, please read the information below:

Squarespace is the platform we used to build and now host our website (Privacy Policy)
Google Analytics is an analytics service we use to examine and track user data (Privacy Policy)
PayPal is the payment processor we use to safely process our customers purchases (Privacy Policy)
MailChimp is the marketing platform we use to effectively market and promote our website and resources to interested users (Privacy Statement)

3.2 Third-Party Disclosures

From time-to-time, we may use affiliate links to promote products we think you will enjoy. These links, when clicked, collect data on you via the use of cookies. This ensures that you not only receive the promotion being offered, but that we, the company, receive compensation for our part in marketing the product. In accordance with the law, we will always disclose if a link we provide is an affiliate link, and you are under no obligation to click it.

3.3 Business Transfers

In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our business assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity as part of the transaction. We will notify you of any such transfer and provide options regarding your personal information.

3.4 Legal Obligations/Compliance

We may disclose your personal information when legally obligated to do so. In other words, we may release information in good faith in order to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes, or for the protection of our legal rights when compelled to do so by a court or other governmental entity.

3.5 Legal Disputes

We may disclose your personal information to third parties including attorneys or debt collection agencies as is necessary to enforce our Terms of Use and/or protect our intellectual property or other legal rights.

Your Choices and Rights

Regardless of the country in which you reside, we afford our users the right to access, correct, update, and delete their personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us directly at biologybreakout@gmail.com.

4.1 Email Marketing Communications

You may request to opt-out of/change your preferences for email marketing communications at any time. This can be done by clicking either the “Unsubscribe” or “Change Preferences” links found at the bottom of any promotional email.

4.2 Rights for UK and EU Residents

If you reside in the European Union, you have special rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your rights can be exercised at any time and, under this law, as they pertain to our collection, usage, and storage of your personal data, include the following:

Access to a comprehensive Privacy Policy that is transparent about the company’s practices
Access to one’s personal data when requested
The ability to correct any inaccurate or incorrect personal information
The ability to request that one’s personal data be deleted if and when one objects to its processing and/or it is no longer necessary for business purposes
The ability to withdraw consent to collect, use, and store one’s personal data
The ability to restrict the way one’s personal data is used
The ability to obtain personal data voluntarily provided in a “structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format,” or to have said data be transferred to another organization upon request
The ability to cease the continued processing of one’s data

Additionally, if you register for a seminar/webinar (whether free or paid for) or purchase/download a product using our website, you will only be subscribed to our emailing list if you provide us with explicit consent.

4.3 Rights for Canadian Residents

If you reside in Canada, you have special rights that protect your personal information. Your rights can be exercised at any time and, as they pertain to our collection, usage, and storage of your personal data, include the following:

Access to a comprehensive Privacy Policy that is transparent about the company’s practices
Access to one’s personal data when requested
The ability to correct any inaccurate or incorrect information
The ability (in certain provinces) to request that one’s personal data be deleted if and when you object to its processing
The ability to withdraw continued consent to collect, use, and store one’s personal data

Data Storage

We will only store your information for as long as it is necessary to carry out that which is described in this Policy. Should there come a point where there is no longer any legitimate business between a user and the company, we will take reasonable measures to ensure that relevant data and personal information is deleted. As was previously stated, any data unknowingly collected about a minor will be disposed of as soon as we are made aware of it.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect both your personal information and your usage information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Such methods include using reliable third-party vendors when processing or storing your data, and ensuring that access to these vendors' websites is protected via the use of strong passwords. Other security measures taken by the trusted providers we work with (see the “Service Provider Disclosures” section for more information) can be found on their websites and include the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). However, despite our best efforts and the efforts of our trusted providers, no electronic method of transmission and storage of information is entirely secure and as such, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

It is also important to recognize and note that email is not considered a secure communication method, and it is for this reason that we request you limit the information you share with us when communicating via email. If, despite our efforts to discourage it, you still choose to share such information using this method, you will be doing so at your own risk.

Should we be made aware of a data breach, all users whose personal information we have stored will be made aware of the breach via an email notice. If they are concerned with the specifics of the information that was leaked, they can contact us directly using the contact information provided below.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

biologybreakout@gmail.com

The Biology Breakout Room, LLC

36234 Congress Rd.

Farmington Hills, MI 48335