Effective Date: December 1, 2023
Last updated: October 16, 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to myTE Prof! We're serious about protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you use our platform.

2. Information Collection

We collect three types of data when you use myTE Prof:

1. Personal Data: While using myTE Prof, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to, your email address, name, gender, career stage, minority status, university affiliation, and department.
2. Usage Data: We collect information on how the Service is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
3. Encounter and Evaluation Data: We collect data related to Encounters you create on the site. This data may include, but is not limited to, information such as the Encounter's topic, date, number of attendees, and Evaluation details provided by learners in response to those Encounters.

3. Use of Information

The Data we collect is used for various purposes:

• To provide myTE Prof and its features to you
• To notify you about changes to myTE Prof
• To provide customer support
• To produce analysis that allows us to improve, fix, or otherwise support the growth of myTE Prof
• To support and enhance diversity and inclusion on our platform.
• To provide educators with valuable and timely feedback to help improve their teaching.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell or rent personal data to marketers or unaffiliated third parties. We share your personal data with trusted entities, as outlined below:

• Service Providers: We may engage service providers to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you; for example, cloud analytics tools that allow us to improve myTE Prof.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law, or to respond to claims, or protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, employees, customers, or the public.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be among the assets transferred.

5. Data Security

We take the security of your data seriously.

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

We regularly review and update our data security processes.

6. Your Rights

You have rights regarding your personal data. These include the right to access, correct, delete, or transfer your data, as well as the right to object to or restrict certain processing of your data. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us at the address below.

7. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We're not advertisers, and we don't need to be creepy! We do not use cookies or similar tracking technologies. We do not track or make any attempt to link your activities on the myTE Prof platform with activities elsewhere on the internet.

9. Data Retention

We retain and protect your data as long as you use the myTE Prof service. You can request that we delete your account or remove your data at any time using the contact information below.

Deletions will be processed within 30 days of your request. When we delete your data, we will remove all personal information, but please note that secondary data, such as anonymized usage information from your time on the platform, may not be removed. However, this secondary data will have no further links to your identity or former account.

10. Changes to This Policy

This policy is updated from time to time. The last updated date will be adjusted to reflect any changes, and we will notify you using the contact information we have collected in advance of any changes.

11. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests with respect to this policy, you may contact us at admin@myteprof.com.