Website Privacy Notice
Website Privacy Notice
- Clarified wording to clearly distinguish this Website Privacy Notice (for visitors to briskteaching.com) from our separate Service Privacy Notice (for our products and services).
- Refreshed links and minor formatting clean-ups.
- No material changes to our data practices for website visitors.
This Website Privacy Notice applies to visitors to the online websites of Brisk Labs Corp. (“Brisk,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), including but not limited to briskteaching.com (collectively, our “Website”).
This Website Privacy Notice describes how we collect, use and disclose your personal data when you visit our Website. We maintain a separate Service Privacy Notice for our products and services, such as our productivity tools that speed up tasks like lesson planning and grading, engage student learning, and more.
In short: “Personal data” means data or information that identifies or relates to you, or otherwise meets the definition below.
When we use the term “personal data” in this Privacy Notice, we mean any data or information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular natural person or household.
In short: We collect personal data in the ways described below. For example, we may collect personal data when you register for an account on our Website, send us messages, subscribe to our mailing lists, participate in a survey, or integrate our Website with a third-party site or service. In addition, we may collect personal data automatically when you interact with our Website. We may also collect personal data about you from other sources and third parties.
Information You Provide
We collect the following information you provide in connection with our Service:
- Inquiry and Communication Information, including information you provide to us when you submit a form, email us, or call us in connection with your use of our Website.
- Information Collected Through the Use of the Website, including any files, documents, videos, images, or other information you choose to provide through your use of the Website.
Personal Data Automatically Collected
We and our third-party providers may use (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, related technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to automatically collect certain data regarding how you interact with our Website, such as log files and analytics data. For more information about how we use cookies and your choices regarding cookies, please see our Website Cookie Notice.
Personal Data from Third Parties
We also obtain personal data from third parties. We often combine with personal data we collect either automatically or directly from an individual. We may receive the same categories of personal data as described above from the following third parties:
- Referral Information: We may receive your contact information from people who think you may also be interested in our Website.
- Other Sources: We may also collect personal data about individuals that we do not otherwise have from, for example, publicly available sources, third-party data providers like MDR, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.
In short: We use personal data to manage our organization and its day-to-day operations. For more details, please see below:
We use personal data to:
- Provide and personalize our Website, including by recognizing an individual and remembering their information when they return to our Website.
- Conduct research and analytics on our visitors to our Website.
- Send communications, including via email and newsletters.
- Market and advertise to Website visitors. Please note that as a signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge, we never use student data from our products and services for targeted advertising. We employ personal data from Website visitors to run and evaluate the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, which include collaborations with social media platforms as detailed in our Website Cookie Notice. We don’t sell personal data from our Website. Our Website is free from any advertising, ensuring a secure, distraction-free environment for Website visitors.
- Improve and customize our Website to address the needs and interests of Website visitors and other individuals we interact with.
- Test, enhance, update and monitor the Website, and diagnose or fix technology problems.
- Help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Website, technology assets and other property, and our business.
- To enforce our contractual rights, to resolve disputes, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties.
- Prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity.
- Comply with contractual and legal obligations and requirements.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide personal data.
- For any other lawful purpose, or other purpose that you consent to.
Where you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to inquiries. We may provide you with additional privacy-related information where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal data we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy notice will govern how we may process the information provided at that time.
In short: We disclose personal data collected on the Website to a few different categories of recipients as described below.
- Service Providers: We share personal data with our other service providers, such as vendors who help us with data analysis, fraud prevention, infrastructure provisioning, analytics services, IT services, and web hosting. Our current list of service providers is available in Schedule 4 of our Data Processing Addendum. As required by applicable data protection laws, we impose contractual limits on how these service providers can use the personal data they receive.
- Other Users: Our Website does not currently enable users to post public profiles. However, if you are a member of a Slack channel, Facebook group or other online community group relating to Brisk, your public profile information for the applicable online community group will be disclosed to other members of that online community, as well as any other information you choose to provide or make public.
- Customer Service and Communication Providers: We share personal data with third parties who assist us in providing customer service and facilitating our communications with individuals that submit inquiries. As required by applicable data protection laws, we impose contractual limits on how these third parties can use the personal data they receive.
- Business Transaction or Reorganization. We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal data to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal data may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership. As required by applicable data protection laws, we impose contractual limits on how applicable third parties can use the personal data they receive.
- Legal Obligations and Rights. We may disclose personal data to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
- in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process.
- to protect the rights and property of Brisk, our agents, users, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of service.
- to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud.
- to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us.
- to protect the health and safety of us, our users, or any person.
- as otherwise required by applicable law.
- With Your Consent or At Your Direction. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Notice, we may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.
When we disclose personal data to third parties, we take steps to protect the data in a manner that is consistent with our policies and obligations under applicable privacy laws.
In short: Our Website is not for use by children under 13 years old.
Our Website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13 on the Website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 on our Website, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. Please contact us at privacy@briskteaching.com with any related concerns.
In the course of providing our “Brisk Boost” offering to education institution customers, Brisk may collect and process information from students under 13, but will not do so without appropriate consent or authorization. Please review our Service Privacy Notice to learn how we collect and process student data we process on behalf of educational institutions.
In short: If you would like to update, access, review, modify or delete your information you can do so as described below.
You may control your information in the following ways:
- Changing your cookie preferences. For additional details about the cookies we use on our websites and to adjust your preferences with regard to those cookies, please review our Cookie Notice.
- Changing your communications preferences. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications. We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests. You may not opt out of service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the Website, technical and security notices).
- Accessing, reviewing, modifying or deleting your information. If you want to access, review, modify or delete your information, or if you want to remove your name or comments from our Website or publicly displayed content, you can contact us directly at privacy@briskteaching.com to submit your request. We will respond to these types of requests in compliance with any applicable data protection laws.
In short: We maintain technical and organizational safeguards for personal data as described below.
Brisk has a multi-tiered approach to protecting personal data that includes technical and organizational safeguards. Brisk enforces a robust security program comprised of policies and controls aimed at protecting personal data against known and anticipated threats. Brisk’s security controls include, for example, firewalls, role-based access controls, and encryption. Our technical and organizational security controls are described in more detail in our Data Processing Addendum.
Brisk restricts access to personal data to a need to know basis and maintains a disciplinary process for any violations.
In short: Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Our contact info is below.
We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will provide reasonable notice to you, such as by email to your registered email address, by prominent posting on this website or our online services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.
As noted above, we will not make any material changes to this Privacy Notice that relate to the collection or use of Student Data without first giving notice to the School and providing a choice before the Student Data are used in a materially different manner than was disclosed when the information was collected.
In short: We may update this Privacy Notice. We will notify you of material changes as described below.
We will update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will provide reasonable notice to you, such as by email to your registered email address, by prominent posting on this website or our online services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.