Privacy Policy

TechChange, Inc. · Last Updated: May 17, 2018

TechChange, Inc. (“TechChange,” “we,” or “us”) in the United States wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through our website at www.techchange.org and course.tc (the “Site”), as well as the TechChange courseware platform offered on the Site and on certain third-party sites (collectively, the “Services”). By using our Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy. Please take a look at the “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

Personal Data, Personal Information, and Personally Identifiable Information

TechChange collects a limited amount of information that identifies you as an individual. Depending on the legal jurisdiction, this information may constitute personal data, personal information, or personally identifiable information. Pursuant to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data is defined as:

any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identify of that natural person.

The definition of “personal data” is broader than the terms personally identifiable information and personal information, which are terms used in the United States. For example, some American jurisdictions define personally identifiable information as a name in combination with a limited sub-set of sensitive data fields such as social security number, driver’s license number, etc.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, we shall use the term “personal data” to also include “personally identifiable information” and “personal information.” However, there may be instances where local legal requirements necessitate us distinguishing between personal data, personally identifiable information, and personal information.

Personal Data We Collect

TechChange collects the following personal data:

Name
Email address
User information

How We Use Personal Data

We may use Personal Data:

To track your use of the Site and the Services, including your enrollment in, and progress with, courses offered on the Site or by certain third-party sites that use the Services.
To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters.
To send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.
To complete and fulfill orders, for example, to process your payments, provide you with the products or services you have purchased, to communicate with you regarding your purchase and to provide you with related customer service.
To send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
To personalize your experience on the Site and the Services.
To allow you to send messages to other users or instructors through the Site.
For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products, enhancing our website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How Personal Information Is Disclosed

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

To customers who provide courses through our Services.
To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, credit card processing, auditing services and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Site.
By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials.
To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Other Information

Other Information We Collect

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as: browser information, server log files, information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies, demographic information and other information provided by you, and aggregated information.

How We Collect Other Information

We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including through your browser, through server log files, using cookies, using pixel tags and other similar technologies, from you, and by aggregating information.

How We Use and Disclose Other Information

Because Other Information does not personally identify you, we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Data. If we combine any Other Information with Personal Data, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Data as long as it is combined.

Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

Security

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Data under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

Choices and Access

You may opt-out from receiving marketing-related emails by sending an email to info@techchange.org with the subject “Unsubscribe from marketing emails.” If you would like to review, update, or delete your Personal Data, you may contact us by emailing privacy@techchange.org.

EU General Data Protection Regulation

We believe the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are an exciting and necessary step in the right direction to improve privacy and security on the web. As such, we extend the protections provided in the GDPR to all users, regardless of their location. You can read more about our practices on our GDPR page.

Use of Site by Minors

The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen, and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Data through the Site.

Jurisdictional Issues

The Site is controlled and operated by us from the United States, and is not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@techchange.org, or please write to the following address:

TechChange, Inc.
2001 13th Street, NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20009