This Privacy Policy explains how Kaplan North America, LLC (“Kaplan”) uses, shares and protects personal information that we collect on bluejacketeer.com (the “Site”) including its respective subdomains (“Site(s)”). By continued visits to the Site, subscribing or accessing our products, you acknowledge that you agree to this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms of your subscription and found at the footer of this Site.
State Data Privacy Rights
For state data privacy rights, visit the Kaplan Privacy Center.
Information We Collect
Personal Data is any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. Your name, email, contact address, and payment information are examples of personal data. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We collect Personal Data from you in various ways, including when you visit the Site(s), create an account with us, subscribe, access our products, use our Apps, answer surveys, participate in our social media communities, such as on Facebook, and when you send us feedback.
When you log-on to the Sites or to our App(s), we automatically receive information from your device, including your IP address and location. We and our service providers may use “cookies” to keep, and sometimes track, information about you, and to create a personalized web experience. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your device’s web browser. Cookies track where you travel on our Site and what you look at and purchase. You agree to the use of cookies in this way. Most web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. We and our service providers may also use so-called “pixel tags”, “web beacons”, “clear GIFs” or similar means (collectively, “Pixel Tags”) in connection with some Site pages and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates. A pixel tag is an electronic image, often a single pixel (1×1), that is ordinarily not visible to Site visitors and may be associated with cookies on the visitors’ hard drives. Pixel Tags allow us to count users who have visited certain pages of the Site, to deliver branded services, and to target our promotional or advertising campaigns and determine their effectiveness.
If a third party purchases a subscription on your behalf, such third party may provide us with Personal Data about you, including your first name, last name, contact and email address. We may also collect Personal Data about you from our business partners and other Kaplan owned companies. We may collect Personal Data from publicly available sources or third parties.
Use of Your Personal Data
We may use your Personal Data in the following ways:
- For the purpose you provided personal data, for example to process a subscription in one or more of our products or respond to a specific inquiry;
- To customize and personalize your learning experience;
- To administer, support, improve and develop our business;
- To track usage of the products, your interactions with content offered through the Site, and other online activity.
- To send you information about Kaplan products or services;
- To send you information about select third party’s products or services that may be of interest to you;
- To allow you access to the Site to post your content or communicate with others; and
- And as otherwise described to you at the point of collection.
Mobile Devices, Phone Calls
If you provide Kaplan with a telephone number, such as when you subscribe, access our products or receive Services, you agree that Kaplan may contact you by telephone and/or text message utilizing automated technology at such telephone number(s). You understand that this consent is not required to purchase subscriptions or services from Kaplan.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We do not share your Personal Data with third parties for their marketing purposes, though we may share your Personal Data with other Kaplan companies. We may disclose your Personal Data in response to legal process, to protect our rights, as otherwise required by law, or for the prevention or detection of a crime. We may share your Personal Data with trusted third parties (i.e. Stripe) who are delivering services to Kaplan, including those who help service the subscription, help us process transactions, such as charging your credit card when you make purchases, and otherwise help us operate our business. These third parties are not authorized by us to use your Personal Data except in connection with providing services to us. Kaplan may disclose anonymous data to third parties. We may also share your information with third parties that you have specifically designated as authorized to receive information from us.
If we sell our company or part of it, or our business enters into a joint venture with another business entity, we may disclose your Personal Data to our new business partners or owners who may then provide you with information about their products and services.
Your Ability to Choose
If you do not wish to continue receiving emails from us, you may unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our emails and following directions. You may also direct us to stop marketing to you by emailing us at [email protected].
Transfer of Data Outside of Your Home Country
Your Personal Data will be held in the United States. Your Personal Data may also be stored, processed and accessed in other countries where Kaplan has facilities or where you are located. You consent to the transfer of your Personal Data outside your country, including to the United States.
Third Party Websites
Some of the products and services advertised on the Site(s) are sold and delivered by third parties (“Third Party Sellers”). The Site(s) may also provide links to third party websites. This Privacy Policy governs collection and use of Personal Data by Kaplan. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sellers or to third party websites and Kaplan makes no representation about their data practices or policies.
Security
We have adopted physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to help protect against theft, loss, misuse, and unauthorized access to or disclosure of the information we collect and receive. However, please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we are concerned with the security of your personal data and strive to protect your information and privacy, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you disclose or transmit to our services and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your information, or any other disclosures out of our control.
Electronic transactions data will not be stored on Bluejacketeer’s servers. Bluejacketeer uses a secure payment gateway called Stripe. All transactional data (to include your credit card information, billing address, and phone number) is encrypted and stored on secure servers.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Effective Date” at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check our Site(s) from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.
Contact
All comments, queries and requests relating to this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed as follows:
By mail: Kaplan North America, LLC 1515 W Cypress Creek Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
By email: [email protected]
Rev. January 2023