We appreciate your presence in the My Class Professor community. Our organization places a high value on your privacy and would like to ensure that you understand how we collect, share, and use your personal information. Our Privacy Policy covers all of our data collection practices and outlines your rights in relation to your personal data.

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the My Class Professor websites and mobile applications, as well as to any potential customers of our products and services. By using our educational platform, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy or any other agreements governing your use of our educational content, please do not use our website.

1.What Data We Collect

We collect various types of data from you directly, such as the essential information you provide about yourself, data related to your use of our content, and important information from third-party platforms that you connect to My Class Professor. Additionally, we gather certain information automatically, including your device information and the sections of our content that you interact with the most or spend significant time using.

1.1. Data You Give to Us

My Class Professor may collect different types of data from or about you based on your usage of our website. To help you better understand the information we collect, we have listed some examples below:

When you create an account with us and access our educational content, even through a third-party platform, we collect any information you provide to us directly, including:

Account Data- Upon creating a user account on the My Class Professor website, we collect and securely store certain personal details, such as your email address, password, and account settings. To create a tutor account, we also collect important information such as your name, email address, password, and account settings. Certain unique features on our website may require you to provide additional information, such as government ID information, occupation, date of birth, verification photo, skills and interests, race or ethnicity, and phone number. Once your account is created, we assign a unique identifying number to it.

Profile Data- You also have the option to provide us with important profile information such as a headline, biography, language details, website link, verified social media profiles, country, or any other relevant data. Please note that all of this profile information will be visible to others.

Shared Content- Certain parts of our website’s products and services allow you to communicate with other users and share our educational content publicly. This includes actions such as posting reviews, asking or answering questions, sending messages to students or instructors, or uploading photos or other content. Please be aware that any content you share in this way can be viewed publicly by others, depending on where it is posted.

Academic Educational Content Data- As you use the educational content available on the My Class Professor website, we collect certain data, such as the courses, labs, assignments, workspaces, term papers, and quizzes you have completed. We also gather information about your content purchases and credits, subscription details, certificates of completion, and your interactions with our tutors, teaching assistants, and other students on our platform. This list also includes important answers to questions and other elements submitted to meet the related content requirements. If you are an instructor on our website, we save your educational content, which may include important information about you.

Payment Data-

When you make a purchase on the My Class Professor website, we collect data from your purchase history, such as your name, ZIP code, and complete billing address. This information is necessary to process your orders and may be saved for future processing of orders. Additionally, you have the option to provide certain payment and billing information to our website’s payment service providers, including your name, complete credit card information, billing address, and ZIP code.

In some cases, we may also receive limited information, such as the fact that you are using a new card for your purchases and the last four digits of the card, from payment service providers to facilitate future payments. Please note that for security purposes, My Class Professor does not assimilate or store sensitive cardholder information, such as the entire credit card number or any card authentication data.

Instructor Payment Data- When you become a tutor on the My Class Professor website and link your payment account such as Payoneer or PayPal, we collect and use essential information such as your payment account’s email address, account ID, physical address, and other data required to process your payments. To comply with relevant laws, we have partnered with trustworthy third parties who collect necessary tax information required by law, which may include tax identification numbers, residency information, biographical information, or any other personal information needed for taxation purposes. For security purposes, we do not collect or store sensitive bank account information. The use, collection, and disclosure of your billing and tax information are governed by our privacy policy and the important terms of your payment account provider.

Your Account Data on Other Services- 

Please note that we may obtain certain important information from your online accounts and social media profiles if you link them to your My Class Professor account. If you log in to My Class Professor through Facebook or any other third-party website or platform, we will request your permission to obtain certain important information about that account. For example, depending on the service or platform, we may gather information such as your name, profile picture, login email address, account ID number, location, the physical location of your access devices, gender, date of birth, and list of friends or contacts.

These websites and services assist us in accessing your information through their APIs. The important information we can access depends on the information you choose to provide us through your privacy settings or the website or platform. If you access our content through any third-party platform or website or click on any third-party links, the collection, use, and sharing of your data will be subject to our privacy policies and other important agreements of that third party.

Contests, Surveys, and Promotions- If you choose to participate in surveys or contests offered by My Class Professor, whether through our services or any third-party platform, we may ask for certain personal information such as your name, email address, postal address, birth date, or phone number. This information will be collected and stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy, unless stated otherwise in the official rules of the promotion or in any other privacy policy.
The data we collect will be used to administer the surveys or promotions, including the process of notifying winners and distributing prizes. If you win a prize from us, we may ask for your permission to publicly post certain information on our winner’s page. Please be aware that if we use a third-party platform to administer a promotion or survey, their privacy policy will apply.

Support And Communications- When you reach out to My Class Professor for support or to report an issue, we collect and retain important information such as your name, contact details, messages, physical address, email address, My Class Professor tutor account ID, ID of refund transactions, and other relevant data that you provide or we obtain through automated means. We utilize this information to address your inquiries and investigate your concerns or issues in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

1.2 Data We Assimilate Through Automated Means

When utilizing our educational content or browsing our website, automated means assimilate certain data, such as:

Data Of Systems/ Devices- We collect technical information about your device or computer, including but not limited to your IP address, device type, operating system type and version, unique device identifiers, browser language, domain, and other system data, as well as the types of websites you visit.

Data on Usage- My Class Professor also gathers important data on how users interact with our content and products, including information such as which content is accessed, the amount of time spent on particular pages or services, the pages visited, features utilized on the website, search history, date and time of usage, referral sources, and other related data regarding the use of our services and products.

Estimated Geographic Data- We also gather approximate information about your geographical location, such as your city, country, and coordinates, which are determined based on your IP address. Please be aware that this information is only collected through server log files and tracking technologies, as explained in the ‘Cookies and Data Collection Tools’ section. This data is stored by My Class Professor and linked to your account.

1.3 Data Accessed from Third Parties

In addition to the information you provide us, we may gather relevant business contact details from third-party commercial sources if you are a corporate or enterprise prospect of My Class Professor.

2.How We Access the Data Concerning You

My Class Professor utilizes various tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to gather the data mentioned above. These tools are essential for us to collect data about you. Some of these tools even provide you with the option to opt-out of data assimilation.

2.1. Tools For Data and Cookies Assimilation

My Class Professor utilizes cookies, which are small text files stored by your web browser, to gather, store, and share information about your online activities, including on our website. These cookies help us remember important details about your visits to My Class Professor, such as your language preference, which improves the usability of our site.

In addition to cookies, My Class Professor and our service providers (such as third-party advertisers and Google Analytics) use server log files and automated data collection tools like tags, cookies, customized links, scripts, devices, web beacons, or browser fingerprints to collect and track certain Usage Data and System Data automatically when you access our content. In some cases, we may even combine the data collected through these Data Collection Tools with other types of data we have gathered, as explained in the section above. Please note that you may have the ability to opt-out of data collection via certain tools.

2.2. The Crucial Reasons for Using the Data Collection Tools

My Class Professor utilizes all the Data Collection Tools for the following purposes:

Strictly Essential– The Data Collection Tools used by My Class Professor serve several essential purposes, including facilitating your use of our website, providing basic functionality such as access to educational content and the login feature, protecting the website from fraudulent activities and unauthorized logins, and identifying and preventing account abuse. Disabling these tools can cause sections of the site to permanently break or become entirely unavailable. Therefore, they are crucial for the proper functioning of our website and content.

Performance- The Data Assimilation Tools we use also help us to analyze and improve our content by providing us with usage and performance data, including visit counts, traffic sources, and download information. This helps us evaluate different versions of My Class Professor to see which content or features our users prefer, and identify which email messages are most frequently opened.

Functional-  The advanced Data Collection Tools we use also enable us to store your preferences and browser data, provide enhanced site functionality, and customize content to make it more relevant to you. They also remember important settings that affect the appearance and behavior of our content, such as your preferred language or volume level for video playback.

Advertising- The important Data Collection Tools we use also facilitate the delivery of relevant ads based on the information we have about you, such as your System and Usage Data, as well as the data that other ad service providers have about you through their tracking technologies. These ad recommendations are based on your current or past activity across various websites. My Class Professor may also provide these service providers with a hashed and anonymous version of your email address and information about the content you publicly share on our website to personalize the ads shown to you.

Social Media- These particular Data Collection Tools also enable social media functionalities such as content sharing with friends and connections. These types of cookies can track a device or user across other websites, and also help in building a profile of the user’s interests for targeted advertising purposes.

Please be advised that it is possible to configure your web browser to receive notifications when attempts are made to place cookies on your device, restrict the types of cookies you allow, or even reject them entirely. Please be aware that if you choose to do so, you may be unable to access certain features of our website, resulting in a different or less satisfactory experience.

3.The Purpose We Use Your Data For

My Class Professor uses the data collected from you for various purposes such as providing content, communicating with you, resolving issues, preventing abuse and fraud, improving and updating our website, analyzing how people use our website, serving personalized advertising, and complying with legal or safety requirements. We retain your data for as long as necessary to achieve the objectives for which it was collected.

The ways in which My Class Professor uses the data collected from your use of our content are as follows:

• Processing of payments to tutors and other third parties
• My Class Professor utilizes the data we collect from your use of our website to offer and manage our products and services, including facilitating your participation in educational content, displaying personalized content, issuing certificates of completion, and assisting with communication among users of the website.

Interact with you concerning your account by

• Addressing your queries and concerns
• We will send you administrative information and notifications, including messages from tutors, students, and teaching assistants, as well as information about important changes to our service and updates to our agreement.
• We will send you important information via email or messages regarding reward programs, course progress, the introduction of new products or services, new features, newsletters, and other content created by tutors.
• Sending various push messages to give news about updates and other relevant messages

4.The Parties We Share Your Data With

My Class Professor may disclose certain essential information about you to instructors, other users of the website, and companies that provide services for us. This includes our business partners, data enrichment and analytics providers, organizations that assist us in conducting surveys, contests, and promotions, and advertising companies that enable us to promote our website. In addition, we may also share your important data as required for security, legal compliance, or as a necessary part of corporate restructuring. Finally, we may share your data in other notable ways if it is de-identified or aggregated, or if we obtain your consent.

My Class Professor may share your data with third parties under the following circumstances or as otherwise stated in our Privacy Policy:

With The Tutors of My Class Professor- 

improve their content based on the needs of you and other students. This essential data may include details such as your country, city, browser language, device settings, operating system, the third-party website that led you to My Class Professor, and your activities on the website.

Furthermore, if we gather any other information about you, such as your age or gender, we may share that as well. However, please note that we will not share your email address with our tutors.

With Other Students and Tutors- Depending on your device settings, the content and profile information you share may be visible to other tutors and students on My Class Professor’s website. If you post a question for a tutor, some of your information, including your name, may also be visible to the public. Please note that all chat rooms, message boards, newsgroups, and other public forums are open to other participants, so it is your responsibility not to share any proprietary or confidential information through these features.

With Distinct Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents- My Class Professor shares your information with various third-party websites that provide services for us such as payment processing, fraud and abuse prevention, data analysis, advertising and marketing, email and hosting services, as well as customer support services. These service providers may have access to your personal information and are required to use it as we direct them to in order to provide the products and services we request.

With Business Partners of My Class Professor- We have agreements with other websites and platforms to share our content and increase traffic to My Class Professor. Depending on your location, we may share your important data with these partners.

With Credit-Granting Companies for Continuing the Education- If you are enrolled in a course for fulfilling your continuing professional education requirement, we may disclose your information upon the request of the accrediting organization that approves the continuing education credit.

For Supporting the Social Media Features- The social media features integrated into the products or services of My Class Professor may allow third-party social media providers to collect important information such as your IP address and the webpage you are visiting, and use cookies to enable this feature. Your interactions with these features are subject to the privacy policies of the third-party companies.

For Marketing- If we decide to adopt a marketing-supported revenue model in the future, we may share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party marketing companies and networks to provide general demographics and preference information about our users.

We may authorize our advertisers to collect System Data using Data Collection Tools to utilize the data for targeted advertising and to personalize your experience. They may also use this data for web analytics purposes. Additionally, these advertisers may share the collected data about you with us. It is important to note that if you choose to opt-out, you will still receive generic advertisements.

For Security and Legal Adherence- We can reveal your data to third parties if we only believe that the revelation is

• Approved or needed by the law
• Requested as a section of governmental, judicial, or legal inquiry, order, or proceedings
• Required as a section of subpoena, warrant or other legally-reasonable requests
• Needed to identify, avoid or address fraud, misuse, abuse, probable infringement of rules and regulation, security or technical concerns
• Reasonably essential in our caution to safeguard against impending harm to the rights, content, or safety of My Class Professor, our users, employees, public members or our products and services
• We may also share data concerning you with our auditors and legal counsellors to evaluate our disclosure rights and obligations under this specific Privacy Policy

In Situations of Change- In the event of any business transactions such as acquisition, merger, corporate divestiture, dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, My Class Professor may disclose, share, or transfer all of your data to the succeeding company.

After De-identification/ Aggregation-We may reveal or use aggregated or de-identified data for fulfilling any of our objectives.

With Your Consent-We can share your data with third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy only with your approval.

5.Security

My Class Professor employs appropriate security measures based on the type and sensitivity of the data stored. While every effort is made to prevent unauthorized access, there is always a risk associated with internet-enabled systems. Therefore, it is crucial to safeguard your password and contact us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized and illegal access to your account on our website.

To ensure the security of your personal data, My Class Professor takes necessary measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of data that we collect and store. These measures may vary depending on the type and sensitivity of the data. However, please note that no system can be 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee that the interactions between My Class Professor and you, or any information we collect through our website, will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties.

Your user account password on our website is a vital part of our security system, and it is your sole responsibility to protect it. Please do not share your password with any third party. If you suspect that your account or password has been compromised, we recommend that you change it immediately and contact our Support Team with any concerns.

6.Your Rights

Individuals have certain rights regarding the use of their data, including the ability to opt-out of cookies, promotional emails, and data collection by third-party websites. You can terminate or update your account on the My Class Professor website and contact us to request individual rights about your personal data.

If you are a guardian or parent and believe that we have collected important personal data about your underage child, please contact us for assistance in deleting that information.

6.1 The Choices about the Use of Your Data

Opting not to provide certain data to My Class Professor is an individual’s right. Nonetheless, it is important to note that refraining from sharing specific information may limit one’s access to essential features of our website.

• To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can use the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the promotional emails or adjust your email preferences in your account settings. However, please note that even if you choose not to receive promotional emails, you will still receive transactional and relationship messages regarding the services, such as order confirmations, administrative confirmations, important updates about the services, and notices about our policies.
• You have the ability to manage cookies and other local data storage through your device or web browser when accessing our content. Additionally, your wireless device may allow you to control the collection and sharing of your location data and other information.
• Each operating system such as Android, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows provides its own instructions on how to control in-app tailored advertising. For other devices and operating systems, please review the privacy settings on that particular platform.

If you have any questions or concerns about your data, how we use it, or your rights, please feel free to contact us.

6.2. Access, Update and Delete Policies Regarding Your Personal Data

Please note that you can always access and update the significant data that My Class Professor collects about you by following the below-listed ways:

• You can update the important data that you provide to My Class Professor directly by logging into your account on our website and manually updating it at any time.

In order to terminate your account on our website-

• If you are a student, please make sure to follow the steps provided on your profile settings page.
• If you are a tutor, implement the steps given here
• If you have any concerns or issues in terminating your account, please get in touch with our Support Team
• It’s important to note that even after your account is terminated on our website, some or all of your data may still be publicly visible to others.
• limitation any data that has been already- a. saved, copied, or distributed by other users of the website (with the inclusion of comments on our content) b. distributed or shared by you or others on our website (incorporating in your shared content), or c. published on a third-party website or platform.

After you delete your account, we may still retain your data for a legitimate purpose, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to legal obligations, dispute resolution, and enforcing our agreements. My Class Professor may continue to retain and disclose this data in accordance with this Privacy Policy even after the account has been deleted.

Please allow up to 30 days for a response. To ensure your security, we may require that you send your request from the email address associated with your account, and we may verify your identity before taking action on your request.

Please note that we may retain certain data where we have a lawful basis to do so, including for record keeping and transactional purposes.

6.3. The Policy of My Class Professor Regarding Children

My Class Professor values the privacy of children and strongly recommends parents or guardians to closely monitor their children’s online activities and interests. In cases where children are under 18 years of age but have reached the required age for online services’ consent in their place of residence (such as 13 in the US or 16 in Ireland), they cannot create an account on their own. Instead, a parent or guardian can create an account on their behalf and assist them in accessing appropriate content. Additionally, children under the required age for consent cannot use our website, and if we discover that we have collected personal data from a child under the required age, we will promptly take action to delete it. If parents or guardians believe that My Class Professor has collected significant personal data from a child under the consent age, they can request its removal by contacting us at our website.

7.Jurisdiction-Specific Rules of Our Privacy Policy

If you are an Australian resident, you have the right to file a complaint with the relevant government agency. For users residing outside the United States, please be aware that we transfer important data to the US and other specific locations outside the European Economic Area.

7.3. Users Residing Outside the US

In order to offer our services to you, My Class Professor may need to transfer your important data to the United States and process it there. By using our website from outside of the United States, you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your data to and from the United States or other countries.

8.Update & Contact Information

If there are any important changes made to this Privacy Policy by My Class Professor, we will inform our users through email, in-product notices, or any other mediums required by the law. Please note that these changes will become effective on the day they are published. If you have any concerns, questions, or discussions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email or postal mail.

8.1 Essential Changes to This Privacy Policy

My Class Professor may revise and update this Privacy Policy periodically. If any significant changes are made, we will notify you via email or a notice on the website, or as required by applicable law. We will also provide a summary of the important changes. Unless stated otherwise, the changes will be effective immediately upon publication.

As required by applicable law, if you continue to use or access the content after the effective date of the updated policy, you will be deemed to have accepted the new and revised Privacy Policy. The updated Privacy Policy will replace all previous versions. Please contact us via email or postal mail if you have any questions or concerns.

8.2. Interpretation

Please note that capitalized terms used in this policy are as defined in the ‘Terms of Use’ of My Class Professor. We may provide versions of this Privacy Policy in languages other than English for your convenience. In the event of any discrepancies between the non-English versions and the English version of the Privacy Policy, you agree that the English version shall prevail

8.3. Queries

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or disputes regarding My Class Professor’s Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact our team (including our Data Protection Officer)