Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated June 15, 2024

Media Arts Academy Cookie Policy

Media Arts Academy, Inc. (also “Media Arts Academy,” “we,” or “us” in this Privacy Policy) cares about the confidentiality and security of your information. Media Arts Academy operates the Media Arts Academy Site, which consists of content and pages located within the Media Arts Academy.org web domain.

The Media Arts Academy Site allows you to:

  • Browse courses and programs offered by Media Arts Academy, interact with other members in the course forums and social community as a part of the course purchase;
  • Create a Media Arts Academy account;
  • Sign up to receive more information about some courses and programs on the Media Arts Academy Site;
  • Enroll in some of the courses on the Media Arts Academy Site; and
  • Participate in some of the courses on the Media Arts Academy Site, including engaging with course content, taking tests, obtaining your results and any certificates, and providing feedback following a course.

Some courses available on the Media Arts Academy Site may be offered by our Members. This term refers to educational institutions or other leading global entities that create courses and/or programs using tools provided by Media Arts Academy and offer those courses directly to you through the Media Arts Academy Site.

This Privacy Policy describes how Media Arts Academy collects, uses, and shares your Personal Information when you interact with the Media Arts Academy Site or when someone interacts with the site on your behalf. The term “Personal Information” (as used throughout this Privacy Policy) is information that relates to an individual who can be directly or indirectly identified.

This Privacy Policy also describes how Media Arts Academy uses your Personal Information when you interact with Media Arts Academy on certain other sites (e.g., on social media sites).

If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access, browse, or create an account on the Media Arts Academy Site, enroll in any courses, or complete any form requesting additional information about offerings on the Media Arts Academy Site. Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience, and the English language version is the authoritative version if there is any conflict.

      I. CONTENTS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

  • Information that Media Arts Academy collects from and about you (including Personal Information)
    • How Media Arts Academy uses your Personal Information
    • How Media Arts Academy shares your Personal Information
    • How Members collect, use, and share your Personal Information
    • How to manage your Personal Information
    • Notice for California Consumers
    • Storage & Security
    • Privacy Policy updates
    • Contact information

II. INFORMATION MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY COLLECTS FROM AND ABOUT YOU (INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION)

A. Browsing the Media Arts Academy Site and courses, creating a Media Arts Academy account, signing up to receive more information about courses, and communicating with Media Arts Academy

Media Arts Academy collects information from you when you create a Media Arts Academy account and/or sign up to receive more information about courses offered on the Media Arts Academy Site. For example, we require your name, username, and email address. (You can voluntarily choose to share additional information in your profile, but this is not required.) We also require your contact details when you sign up to receive more information about courses, otherwise we cannot send you this information, and we collect information from you when you send messages to us (whether on the Media Arts Academy Site or on other platforms, e.g., social media sites). You may unsubscribe from Media Arts Academy promotional emails at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” on the emails you receive from us.

Media Arts Academy also automatically collects information about your visit to the Media Arts Academy Site when you browse courses on the Media Arts Academy Site, as explained in our Cookie Policy.

Some courses or programs are viewable on the Media Arts Academy Site but are offered in partnership with other providers. When you sign up to receive more information about these courses or programs, you supply your Personal Information directly to that provider or otherwise direct Media Arts Academy to share your information with that provider. In those cases, the privacy policies explaining the Personal Information that the provider collects, and how the provider uses it, will be made available to you when you sign up. If you later choose to unsubscribe from receiving promotional messages about these courses or programs, you must do so directly with the course provider by clicking “unsubscribe” on the email you receive from that provider. Providers of other courses or programs for which you have signed up to receive information will continue to send you communications unless and until you unsubscribe directly with that provider.

B. Enrolling in courses

Media Arts Academy collects information from you when you enroll in courses on the Media Arts Academy Site. For example, if you enroll in any course on the Media Arts Academy Site that requires payment to access the course and/or be eligible for a Certificate of Completion, we require Personal Information to enable you to pay for that course, so that our third-party vendor can process payment. A Certificate of Completion (“Certificate”) is a virtual certificate that shows that you have successfully completed your Media Arts Academy course or program or other product or service.

Note that Media Arts Academy does not itself collect or store financial account numbers or identification issued by a governmental entity, employer, or other authority. Instead, if you choose to make a purchase on the Media Arts Academy Site, you will be directed to Media Arts Academy’s third-party payment processor. If you do not wish to submit the required payment information, then you will not be able to move forward with your purchase.

Media Arts Academy also automatically collects information about your visit to the Media Arts Academy Site when you enroll in courses on the Media Arts Academy Site, as explained in the Cookie Policy.

When you enroll in a course on the Media Arts Academy Site, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information from your Media Arts Academy account profile.

As set out above, enrollment for some courses and programs viewable on the Media Arts Academy Site takes place on other sites. In those cases, this Privacy Policy does not apply. The course or program provider’s privacy policy will be made available to you when you begin the enrollment or application process.

C. Participating in courses

Media Arts Academy collects information from you when you participate in courses offered on the Media Arts Academy Site. For example, we collect the information that you submit as part of your participation in the course, that you include in messages to Media Arts Academy, that you provide in user surveys, or that you provide on public forums, webinars and other interactive experiences on the Media Arts Academy Site. We also require Personal Information when you earn a Certificate (the certificate will have your name on it).

Media Arts Academy also collects usage information about your participation in courses, as explained in the Cookie Policy.

When you participate in a course, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information about your activity and performance in the course.

As set out above, participation for some courses and programs viewable on the Media Arts Academy Site takes place on other sites. In those cases, this Privacy Policy does not apply. The course or program provider’s privacy policy will be made available to you when you begin your participation in the course or program.

D. Information Collected from Other Sources

Where permitted by law, we collect or receive information about you from Members or third parties to which you indicate that you would like to learn more about a course or program offered on the Media Arts Academy Site, organizations that are our partners, companies to which you’ve provided your information for professional or continuing education opportunities (collectively “Other Sources”) in order to update or supplement the information that you provide or that we collect automatically when you visit the Media Arts Academy Site. We use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services or other offers that may be of interest to you, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes. We collect Personal Information from Other Sources with your consent where such consent is required or, otherwise, for the purposes of our legitimate interests, as further described below in How Media Arts Academy uses your Personal Information.

E. Children’s Information

We do not direct the Media Arts Academy Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Information via the Media Arts Academy Site from, children under the age of 9. If you learn that a child has provided us with Personal Information in violation of this Privacy Policy, you may notify us at [email protected].

III. HOW MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY USES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Media Arts Academy uses information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:

  • Operate and improve the Media Arts Academy Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving features that support the Media Arts Academy community and enable Media Arts Academy Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the Media Arts Academy Site, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most useful and helpful experience for our learners.
    • Create, administer, provide, and teach courses — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving the delivery of online courses and programs on the Media Arts Academy Site. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs, assessing your performance, and awarding Certificates. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most educational courses possible.
    • Offer and improve products and services — We use information we collect for this purpose, including enabling you to navigate the Media Arts Academy Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the Media Arts Academy Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, to purchase or obtain products and services on the Media Arts Academy Site such as Certificates, and to invite you to participate in market research. We offer products and services on the basis that it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you under the Terms of Service and improve our products and services to meet our legitimate interests in offering the highest-quality online courses and programs available.
    • Develop and maintain the security and performance of the Media Arts Academy Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including tracking Media Arts Academy Site outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the Media Arts Academy Site. We do this to meet our legal obligations to keep Personal Information secure and to meet our legitimate business interests in keeping the Media Arts Academy Site available at all times.
    • Communicate with you — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including answering your course and platform questions and notifying you of course and Media Arts Academy Site maintenance and updates. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interests in keeping learners informed about our platform and responding to learner questions.
    • Promote courses and programs — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. We send marketing and advertising to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of Media Arts Academy or Media Arts Academy affiliates, as well as communications about products or services of selected business partners that may be of interest to you. Where required by law, we only send you marketing that you have asked for or that you have given your consent to receive. In other cases, we send marketing to meet our legitimate business interests to promote our business.
    • Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education — We use the information about your participation in courses for this purpose, including collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online, with the goal of improving course outcomes. We do this to meet our legitimate interests in supporting scientific and educational research.
    • Track Media Arts Academy Site usage against goals and mission — We use information we collect for this purpose, including performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services and to report aggregate usage information (not Personal Information) to business partners and external audiences. We do this based on our legitimate interests in completing and furthering our goals and the mission of the Media Arts Academy Site.
    • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations — In some circumstances, we use information we collect for this purpose, including responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Media Arts Academy, our Members, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law. We do this to comply with applicable law (including laws requiring us to keep Personal Information secure), or to meet our legitimate interests in preventing illegal activity, and/or protecting our rights and those of others.

Media Arts Academy may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information, and in such cases will use your Personal Information only for the purpose described to you. All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.

IV. HOW MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY SHARES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Media Arts Academy shares the information we collect about you, including Personal Information, with other entities or individuals in the following circumstances:

  • With Members — Members receive your Personal Information when you enroll or participate in their courses or programs, as described in Section V below.
    • With service providers, contractors, and other third parties that help carry out the uses described above — We share your information with third parties that provide business, professional, or technical support functions for us. These service providers are only given access to your information to the extent necessary to process your information and/or provide services to Media Arts Academy, and they are prohibited from using or sharing your information for any other purposes. They also are required to handle Personal Information in a confidential manner and maintain reasonable security practices. In some cases, the Media Arts Academy Site and individual courses are integrated with services or content provided by third parties not affiliated with Media Arts Academy (“Third-Party Content”). Third-Party Content linked to or embedded on the Media Arts Academy Site is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. Your use of Third-Party Content is subject to each site’s privacy policy, which may be different from ours. We have no control over the information that is collected, stored, or used by Third-Party Content. For more information about exercising your choices regarding personalized ads offered through our advertising partners, please see our Cookie Policy.
    • With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the Media Arts Academy Site, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information — This includes sharing comments, coursework, or other information or content that you submit to a portion of the Media Arts Academy Site designed for viewing by other class members or for public communication. This also includes providing opportunities for you to communicate with other users who may have similar interests or educational goals, for instance, recommending specific study partners or connecting potential student mentees and mentors. In such cases, Media Arts Academy may use all information collected about you to determine who might be interested in communicating with you but will only provide others your username (for clarity, no disclosure of your real name or email address).
    • With employers, government programs, institutions, or other enterprises that sponsor your enrollment in a course for training or other educational purposes — If an entity pays for or otherwise sponsors your course participation, Media Arts Academy will share information with the entity as needed to confirm your enrollment, participation, progress, and completion status in that course.
    • With affiliates of Media Arts Academy — All Personal Information shared by Media Arts Academy will be used consistent with this Privacy Policy.
    • For legal or safety reasons — We access or share your information to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety; as permitted by law; or otherwise as required by law. We disclose your information to protect the security of the Media Arts Academy Site and our servers, network systems, and databases. We also disclose your information, as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our Honor Code or Terms of Service (including investigation of potential violations thereof), any other legal document or contract related to the Media Arts Academy Site, or the rights of any third party.
    • To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or other technical issues.
    • Pursuant to a sale or transfer of business or assets — Media Arts Academy may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use your information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Media Arts Academy may also seek your consent for additional disclosures of information, including Personal Information, and will share it only as described to you or as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, Media Arts Academy may de-identify or aggregate your Personal Information and share it with the public and with third parties, including, but not limited to, researchers and business partners.

We may transfer Personal Information from your location to other countries, including Australia, Canada, the European Economic Area, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where our employees and/or servers are located. Where your Personal Information is transferred outside of the country where you are located, such information is adequately protected by an adequacy decision by EU authorities, Standard Contractual Clauses, or a service provider’s Binding Corporate Rules. A copy of the relevant mechanism can be provided for your review on request to [email protected].

V. HOW MEMBERS COLLECT, USE AND SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Members receive your Personal Information after you enroll in a course or program offered by that Member or otherwise with your express consent. If you enroll in a course, the Member that offers that course will receive Personal Information from your Media Arts Academy account profile. During your participation in a course, the Member that offers that course will receive the information that Media Arts Academy collects about your activity and performance in that course.

Members use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Create, administer, provide, and teach courses;
    • Offer and improve products and services;
    • Communicate with you;
    • Promote courses and programs;
    • Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education; and
    • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations.

Members share your Personal Information in the following ways:

  • With service providers, contractors, and other third parties;
    • With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the Media Arts Academy Site, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information;
    • With their affiliates;
    • For legal or safety reasons;
    • To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or other technical issues; and
    • Pursuant to a sale or transfer of business or assets.

Members may also seek your consent for additional use or sharing of information, including Personal Information, and will use/share it only for the purpose described to you. All use and sharing of Personal Information is subject to applicable law. Members may de-identify or aggregate your Personal Information and share it with the public and with third parties, including but not limited to researchers and business partners.

VI. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can manage your Personal Information through learner features on the Media Arts Academy Site and requests to the Media Arts Academy learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, Media Arts Academy will, as applicable, notify the appropriate Member to address your request. Media Arts Academy will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (e.g., for learners in the European Union, United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and other locations) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion. Media Arts Academy will notify you in the event that Media Arts Academy is unable to meet a request that is not legally required. Similarly, Members will only be obligated to comply with requests to the extent legally required but may choose to comply with other requests in their sole discretion. If you believe your rights regarding your Personal Information have been infringed upon, please contact us at [email protected]. Individuals with unresolved concerns may have the right to lodge a complaint with their applicable data protection authority.

If you have requested information about and/or enrolled in courses or programs offered on third-party sites or by providers that are not Members, the privacy policies relevant to those courses or programs describe how to exercise your rights over your Personal Information.

A. Access and correct your Personal Information

Much of your Personal Information is available in your Media Arts Academy account. Your name, email address, and other identifiable profile information is editable through your Media Arts Academy Account Settings except as noted below. Your account dashboard lists all current and archived courses in which you have enrolled and includes links to any Certificates you may have earned. You may download copies of your earned Certificates directly from your Media Arts Academy account. Please contact Media Arts Academy learner support to request any corrections to your Personal Information.

Please note that usernames cannot be changed. This is a Media Arts Academy system restriction. Because usernames identify you in courses and elsewhere on the Media Arts Academy Site, Media Arts Academy encourages you to use discretion in choosing your username. If you want to protect your identity, do not use your real name or a name identifiable to you as your username. Also, Media Arts Academy does not track or index every time or every place on the Media Arts Academy Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither Media Arts Academy nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. Media Arts Academy encourages you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the Media Arts Academy Site.

B. Restrict or object to the processing of Personal Information

If you want to manage emails and other communications Media Arts Academy sends to you, you may update your preferences in your Media Arts Academy account dashboard, follow the steps described in links at the bottom of email messages, or contact Media Arts Academy learner support. If you exercise your right to unsubscribe from promotional emails or other communications from Media Arts Academy, you will continue to receive promotional emails and other communications from providers that you have not yet exercised this right in relation to, unless and until you unsubscribe directly with that provider. To unsubscribe from marketing messages you receive after requesting information about a program or course offered by a non-Member provider, please follow the links at the bottom of those email messages.

You may object to, or request that Media Arts Academy or a Member cease, use of your Personal Information for other purposes by contacting the Media Arts Academy learner support team. Please note that if you choose to restrict Media Arts Academy’s or a Member’s ability to process Personal Information, and the processing is otherwise required to provide you with various services and products offered on the Media Arts Academy Site, you may not be able to establish an Media Arts Academy user account or enroll in a course, and Media Arts Academy or a Member may not be able to provide you with those services or products.

C. Delete account and Personal Information

To request deletion of your Media Arts Academy account and Personal Information, you should click the button labeled “Delete my account” in your Media Arts Academy account settings. Because this is a permanent action and cannot be reversed, Media Arts Academy may ask you to complete an authentication process that aims to confirm your authority to manage the Media Arts Academy account affected by your request.

With respect to your Media Arts Academy account, Media Arts Academy will permanently:

  • deactivate your Media Arts Academy account,
    • remove the active profile,
    • retire your username, and
    • remove you from Media Arts Academy email lists.

With respect to your Personal Information, Media Arts Academy will permanently remove your Media Arts Academy account profile Personal Information from the Media Arts Academy Site.

As noted above, to the extent that Media Arts Academy associates the information that Media Arts Academy collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your Media Arts Academy account profile. By erasing the Personal Information in your Media Arts Academy account profile, the remaining information about your activity on the Media Arts Academy Site will no longer be associated with you. These changes will be applied to data stores that are used for operation of the Media Arts Academy Site including course administration by Members. If you enrolled in any courses or programs on the Media Arts Academy Site, Media Arts Academy will share your request for deletion with the Member(s) that offered those courses or programs.

We retain some data for a further period for the purposes described in Section VI.D below. We also do not track or index every time or every place on the Media Arts Academy Site when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither Media Arts Academy nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. Media Arts Academy encourages you to think carefully before voluntarily sharing Personal Information on the Media Arts Academy Site.

D. Data retention

Media Arts Academy will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to: provide you with services you have requested; maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; or comply with Media Arts Academy’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you enroll in a Member’s course, such Member will also retain your Personal Information for as long as needed to provide you with services you have requested; to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; and to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Upon your request that Media Arts Academy deactivate your account and delete your information, Media Arts Academy will, within 30 days of your request, follow the process described in Section VI.C above, including, without limitation, archiving your course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives will be used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and each such Member may also keep and use course data for scientific research.

VII. NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

Categories of Personal Information that We Collect and Disclose

As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), below are the categories of Personal Information about California consumers that we collect and disclose for a business purpose.

We collect and disclose for a business purpose the following categories of Personal Information:

  • Contact Information and Identifiers, including real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, phone number, account name, or other similar identifiers.
    • Commercial Information, including records of products and services purchased and purchasing history.
    • Customer Records, including paper and electronic customer records containing Personal Information, such as name, signature, address, telephone number, physical characteristics (profile photograph), education, employment, employment history, financial information relevant to your payments, or medical information relevant to your participation in a course or program offered on the Media Arts Academy Site.
    • Usage Data, including internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information about how you interact with our services or advertisements.
    • Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information, including audio/video recordings of class sessions.
    • Biometric information, including facial recognition used for identity verification, where required by the Member, and remote proctoring.
    • Employment History, including professional or employment-related information.
    • Education Information, including information about education history or background.
    • Protected Classifications, characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law such as race, color, sex, age, gender identity, national origin, disability and citizenship status.
    • Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above reflecting your preferences and characteristics.

Categories of Sources of Personal Information

The categories of sources of Personal Information we collect are described in the Information that Media Arts Academy collects from and about you above.

Purposes for Collecting and Disclosing Personal Information

We collect and disclose the Personal Information identified above for the following purposes:

  • Operate and improve the Media Arts Academy Site;
    • Create, administer, provide, personalize, and teach courses;
    • Offer and improve products and services;
    • Develop and maintain the security and performance of the Media Arts Academy Site;
    • Communicate with you, including answering your course and platform questions and notifying you of course and Media Arts Academy Site maintenance and updates;
    • Promote courses and programs, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you, on behalf of Media Arts Academy and our business partners;
    • Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education;
    • Track Media Arts Academy Site usage against our goals and mission;
    • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations, including our Terms of Service and Honor Code; and
    • For other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is collected.

Media Arts Academy may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information.

Categories of Third Parties to Which Personal Information is Disclosed

We disclose the categories of Personal Information identified above to the following categories of third parties:

  • Members (all categories of Personal Information),
    • Third-party providers that serve business, professional or technical support functions (all categories of Personal Information),
    • Your employer or sponsor, or their designee (Contact Information and Identifiers, Customer Records, Employment History, Education Information),
    • Potential employers (Contact Information and Identifiers, Customer Records, Employment History, Education Information), or
    • Third parties for legal matters or safety purposes (all categories of Personal Information).

In some cases, we disclose Identifiers and Usage Data to business partners in order to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and to measure and report on the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Under the CCPA, some of these data disclosures may be broadly considered a “sale” of information or “sharing” of information for cross-context behavioral advertising, even though these activities do not fit what most people would understand “sale” or “sharing” to mean. Except for these types of disclosures, we do not sell or share your information. To opt out of the sale of your Personal Information or the sharing of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising, please visit Your Privacy Choices, also linked at the bottom of each page on the Media Arts Academy Site.

Data Retention Periods

Media Arts Academy will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to: provide you with services you have requested; maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; or comply with Media Arts Academy’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Upon your request that Media Arts Academy deactivate your account and delete your information, Media Arts Academy will, within 30 days of your request, follow the process described in Section VI.C above, including, without limitation, archiving your course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives will be used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and each such Member may also keep and use course data for scientific research.

California Consumer Rights

California law gives California consumers the right to make the following requests:

  • The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information.
    • The right to request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected about you in the prior 12 months.
    • The right to request deletion of the Personal Information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exemptions (for example, where the information is used by us to detect security incidents, debugging or to comply with a legal obligation).
    • The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you.
    • The right to request more details about the Personal Information we collect and how and why we use and share it, including the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, the categories of sources for Personal Information we collect, the business or commercial purposes for collecting Personal Information, and the categories of third parties with which we share Personal Information.

You can submit a copy, deletion, correction or right-to-know request online by following the steps outlined in How to manage your Personal Information above by emailing [email protected]. To opt out of the sale of your Personal Information or the sharing of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising, please visit Your Privacy Choices, also linked at the bottom of each page on the Media Arts Academy Site.

If you implement browser-based opt-out preference signals, Media Arts Academy will opt you out of the sale of your Personal Information and sharing of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can enable these signals through your browser settings for browsers that offer them. Please refer to your browser for additional information and instructions.

You may authorize another person (your “authorized agent”) to submit a request on your behalf through the methods described above. Your authorized agent should submit proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request. We may still require you to directly verify your identity and directly confirm that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations. We do not discriminate if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. Media Arts Academy does not use or disclose your sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those set forth in the CCPA.

California’s Shine the Light Law. If you are a California resident and do not want Media Arts Academy to disclose your information to third parties (or Members) for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt out by contacting Media Arts Academy learner support.

VIII. STORAGE & SECURITY

Media Arts Academy stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and on servers of companies that Media Arts Academy hires to provide services. Each Member also stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and/or on servers of companies that the Member hires to provide services. In each case, information may be stored in the United States and in other countries where Media Arts Academy or a Member operates, and in countries where Media Arts Academy and each Member’s respective service providers operate. If you are in the European Union, Switzerland, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, you acknowledge that Media Arts Academy and each Member may transfer, process and store your Personal Information in the United States and other countries, the privacy laws of which may be considered less strict than those of your region.

Media Arts Academy controls its own copy of information collected through the Media Arts Academy Site and has an information security program designed to protect information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures. Media Arts Academy uses administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information that it collects, receives, stores, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; and therefore, Media Arts Academy cannot guarantee its absolute security. While Media Arts Academy works hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, Media Arts Academy cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining information.

If Media Arts Academy learns of a security breach involving its copy of your Personal Information, Media Arts Academy may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the Media Arts Academy Site or providing Personal Information to Media Arts Academy, you agree that Media Arts Academy can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Media Arts Academy Site. If a security systems breach occurs, Media Arts Academy may post a notice on the Media Arts Academy homepage (www.Media Arts Academy.org) or elsewhere on the Media Arts Academy Site and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your Media Arts Academy account. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

If a Member learns of a security breach involving that Member’s copy of your Personal Information, the Member may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By enrolling in a Member’s course on the Media Arts Academy Site or providing Personal Information to the Member, you agree that the Member can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your course enrollment and participation. If a security systems breach occurs, the affected Member may post a notice on the Media Arts Academy site and/or send an email to you at the email address associated with your enrollment in the Member’s course on the Media Arts Academy Site. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

IX. PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time. When we do make material changes, we will give notice via the Media Arts Academy Site or by otherwise notifying you. The Privacy Policy will include a “Last Updated” date indicating that you should review the new terms, which will be effective immediately upon posting on this page. By accessing the Media Arts Academy Site after any changes have been made, you accept the modified Privacy Policy and any changes contained therein. In case you miss the notification referenced above, be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.

X. CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have privacy concerns, have disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to access, delete or correct the Personal Information that Media Arts Academy maintains about you, please contact us at [email protected]. You may also write to us at: ATTN: PRIVACY, Media Arts Academy, Inc., 645 SW Andros Circle, Port Saint Lucie, FL 34986 USA. If your request involves a Member, Media Arts Academy will, as appropriate, notify the appropriate Member of your request.

Depending on your location, you also may have the right to file a complaint with the data protection regulatory authority in the country where you reside.

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