Elevate your practice

Privacy Policy

A Quick Summary (if you want to browse the highlights)

We take your privacy seriously. When you sign up for Elevate your practice™ or download our resources, we only collect the information we need (like your name and email) to give you access and keep in touch. We don’t share your personal details with students or other third parties, and we ask that you don’t share information about your own students or minors with us. We use trusted tools like Stripe, PayPal, and Google Analytics to process payments and improve our program. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time, and you can request to see, update, or delete your data by contacting us. Your account and information are generally kept for one year (the length of your program access) unless required longer for legal reasons. 

Please read the full Privacy Policy below for all the details.

Full Privacy Policy

1. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?

When you subscribe to our site to receive free or paid products, including online courses, digital downloads, and webinars, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name and email address. Additionally, we may collect device-specific information such as your operating system version and device type to enhance your app experience.

Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site, related services, products or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about new products, services, changes to products, survey you about your usage, or seek your opinion.

Marketing Communications and Opt-Out: You can opt out of receiving promotional emails at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any email we send. Transactional communications (such as purchase confirmations) will still be sent.

Testimonials: If you voluntarily submit feedback or testimonials, you grant Van Gompel Education, II, the right to use your comments for marketing or promotional purposes, consistent with our Terms of Service. You will not be compensated for such use.

User Responsibilities and Third-Party Data: Our Privacy Policy describes how Van Gompel Education, II, collects, uses, and protects personal information provided by users. Users are reminded that they may not disclose, upload, or otherwise share personal information about minors or students within the program. For additional requirements regarding user conduct, compliance with laws, and restrictions on sharing student or third-party information, please see our Terms of Service.

2. How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to subscribe to a service on our site, make a purchase, or participate in or consume a digital product, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to unsubscribe if consent is implied.

International Users: If you access our services from outside the United States, please note that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using our services, you consent to this transfer.

Children’s Privacy Statement

This children's privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen, and provides important information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such information.

• This Program is not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Program. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Program, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Program.
  
  

• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Program, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
  
  

• We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the Program.
  
  

• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Program, we do NOT condition the participation of a child under thirteen in the Program's online activities on providing personally identifiable information.
  
  

Compliance and Prohibited Information

You are responsible for complying with all applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations that apply to you, including those related to privacy, confidentiality, and data protection. You must not provide Van Gompel Education, II, with any personal information about your students, minors, or other individuals unless you have the lawful right to do so. In particular, you agree not to share information about minors or any other sensitive personal data when using Elevate Your Practice™ or services. Van Gompel Education, II, assumes no responsibility for your failure to comply with these obligations.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent at any time, by contacting us at [email protected].

Your Rights: Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, correct, amend, or delete information we have about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

3. Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law, such as in response to a court order or an investigation.

4. Payment

If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or PayPal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.

5. Third-Party Services

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 the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, 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.

International Data Transfers
Some of our service providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

If you are located outside the United States, please note that your personal information may be transferred to and processed in the United States (or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate). By using our services, you consent to this transfer.

Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Analytics and Tracking
We use third-party analytics tools, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how learners interact with Elevate Your Practice™ and to improve the overall user experience. These tools may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and time spent on Elevate Your Practice™.

Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to gather this information. Data collected through these tools is aggregated and anonymized whenever possible. We do not use Google Analytics to collect personally identifiable information.

By using Elevate Your Practice™, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google Analytics in the manner and for the purposes described above. For more information about how Google collects and processes data, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking at any time by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Links
When you click on links on our site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

6. Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with AES-256 encryption.

Security Disclaimer: While we take reasonable steps to protect your data, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we comply with PCI-DSS requirements and industry standards to safeguard your information.

Cookies
We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

We use cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalized experience. We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance and engagement.

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Web Analysis Tools
We may use web analysis tools that are built into the website to measure and collect anonymous session information.

7. Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our site or course is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

Business Transfers or Mergers: If Van Gompel Education, II, is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will continue to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and if any material changes occur regarding how your data is handled, we will provide notice (for example, by email or posting on our website) before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with Elevate Your Practice™. Once your access period has ended (one year from purchase unless otherwise extended), we may delete your account and associated information, unless we are required by law to retain it longer (for example, for tax or accounting purposes).

Questions and Contact Information

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information, contact us at [email protected].