Website Privacy Policy
Last Revised and Effective Date: December 12, 2023
GROWTH LOOP LEARNING, INC., a Delaware corporation doing business as Beehive (collectively with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “Beehive”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy (this “Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy describes the categories of information that we collect from and about users of the website located at https://www.beehive.io (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy also explains how we can use, disclose, and protect such information, as well as your choices regarding it, including without limitation, how to access, update, and delete your information. The information we collect and the purposes for which we use or disclose it will depend to some extent on how you use the Website and how you interact with us. Throughout this Privacy Policy, “information” includes personal information about you.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE (THE “TERMS”) CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR THE TERMS, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE WEBSITE.
1. Contact us
If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us as follows:
Email: privacy@beehive.io.
Postal address: 6120 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.
Telephone: (323) 214-3950.
2. Information we can collect
We can collect the following categories of information in the manner described below. We also can collect information about you through other individuals or our service providers, third parties, and/or other parties in the manner described below.
Information you provide to us
Parents or legal guardians and any other adults interested in learning more about our services can visit the website. Such users are invited to sign up for our newsletter by providing an email address. Users may also choose to join our waitlist by providing a first name, last name and email address. We will use the information collected to contact you about updates to our service and to add you to the Beehive Mobile App waitlist.
We ask for and collect the categories of information from and about you when you use the Website:
As a user of the Website, you may choose to provide us with information, including your personal information, such as a name, email address, and telephone number. Some examples include when you send us an email asking a question, participate in a video testimonial about our Website, or choose to participate in any research efforts with Beehive to improve the Website.
When you send us a message using the “Contact Us” page or via email, the email addresses and telephone numbers collected are not further used to market to the individual beyond providing the services requested or responding to the requests.
Information collected automatically
We, along with our service providers, third parties, and/or other parties, can automatically collect other information from or about you, including:
• Operating system type and version
• Browser type;
• Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• Platform type;
• Device type, manufacturer and model;
• Software and hardware attributes;
• Domain name of your Internet service provider;
• Your geographic location;
• Information regarding your access to and use of the Website; and
• Anonymized information.
3. Cookies and other technologies; do not track
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer.
• Persistent cookies remain on the user’s computer after the browser has been closed.
• Session cookies exist only during a user’s online session and disappear from the user’s computer when they close the browser software.
You can instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies. But if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions or all functionality of the Website. Please see www.allaboutcookies.org for additional information about cookies.
Web Beacons
Web beacons or tags (small images embedded into websites or emails that send information about your computer when you access or use the Website or open an email we send to you) can be used by either us or a service provider, third party, and/or other party.
Service provider, third party, and/or other party collection
We use the following third party service providers on our website:
• Google Analytics
• Google ReCaptcha
• Mailchimp
If you have any question about the third parties used on the website, please contact us at privacy@beehive.io
Do Not Track
At this time, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent from Web browsers or other mechanisms that provide users the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual user’s online activities over time and across service provider, third party, and/or other party Internet services.
4. How we may use your information
We can use the information that we collect from and about you to conduct our business and for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, subject to applicable law. Examples are as follows.
• For marketing and advertising: For marketing and advertising, such as to send you marketing and advertising communications and to customize the marketing and advertising that we show you. We can also run advertising on other websites and applications via our advertising display partners.
• Prevent fraud and promote security: To ensure the Website remains safe and secure, such as by detecting, investigating and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal.
• Comply with law: To comply with applicable laws, including complying with our reporting obligations or governmental requests.
• For legal and safety purposes: For legal and safety purposes, including to defend or protect us, you or others, from harm or in legal proceedings, protect our rights; protect our security and the security of others and property, respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests, address legal and regulatory compliance, enforce the Terms, and notify you of safety issues.
• Anonymized information: For collecting, compiling, and/or creating anonymized information, which we or a service provider, third party, and/or other party can do, subject to applicable law, and which we or a service provider, third party, and/or other party can use for any purpose, subject to applicable law.
• With your consent: We can use your information other than as described in this Privacy Policy if we notify you and you consent to such use.
• At your request: We can use your information at your request, subject to applicable law.
• For any other purpose with notice by us: We can use your information for any other purpose for which we provide you with notice, subject to applicable law.
• Business changes. If we become involved in, or engage in the preparatory steps leading to, a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, divestiture, joint venture, securities offering, financing, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or other transaction, or if the ownership of all or substantially all of our business otherwise changes, we can disclose or transfer your information to another party or other parties and it can be used subsequently by such party or parties.
5. Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website. The Website may have links to other websites, to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. The links from the Website do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these websites. The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to these websites. We neither can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. We suggest reviewing the privacy policies of these websites.
6. Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children ages 12 or under on our website. If you are under the age of thirteen (13), please do not access, use, or submit any personal information through the Website. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal information from an individual under age thirteen (13) please email us immediately at privacy@beehive.io.
Kids Privacy Assured by PRIVO: COPPA Safe Harbor Certification
Beehive is a member of the PRIVO Kids Privacy Assured COPPA safe harbor certification Program (“the Program”). The Program certification applies to the digital properties listed on the certification page that is viewable byc licking on the PRIVO Seal. PRIVO is an independent, third-party organization committed to supporting online services to safeguard children’s personal information collected online. The PRIVO COPPA safe harbor certification Seal posted on this page indicates Beehive has established COPPA compliant privacy practices and has agreed to submit to PRIVO’s oversight and consumer dispute resolution process. If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us at (323) 214-3950 or privacy@beehive.io. If you have further concerns after you have contacted us, you can contactPRIVO directly at privacy@privo.com.
Our app is certified compliant with the Childrens Online PrivacyProtection Act. For more information, please see our app privacy policy here: https://www.beehive.io/app-privacy-policy
7. Security
We take physical, technological, and administrative measures to protect the information that you provide through the Website from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, or alteration and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Please be aware, however, that no security measures can guarantee absolute security. No Internet or electronic transmission or method of electronic storage is ever fully secure or error free. Internet or electronic communications, including those sent through the Website, may not be secure. You should use caution whenever submitting information through the Website and take special care in deciding which information you provide us with.
8. Storage
Your personal information is stored on servers in various locations, including the United States. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities in the countries in which we operate. United States federal and state governments, courts or law enforcement, or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States. By using or accessing the Website, you understand that your information can be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.
9. Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so or as required by law (for example, for legal, tax, accounting, or other purposes), whichever is the longer.
If you have elected to receive email communications from us, we retain information about your email preferences until you opt out of receiving these email communications and in accordance with our policies.
To determine the appropriate retention period for the categories of your personal information, we will consider the amount, nature, and type of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we use your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
10. Choices regarding your information
You have choices regarding your information on the Website.
a. Changing your information. You can make changes to your information, including accessing such information, correcting, or updating such information, or deleting such information by contacting us via email at privacy@beehive.io, subject to applicable legal restrictions.
b. You can always unsubscribe from receiving any of our marketing emails or other marketing communications whenever you’d like by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.
c. Withdrawing consent. You can withdraw your consent to or affirmative authorization of our collection, use, or disclosure of your information at any time by emailing us at privacy@beehive.io. We will process such requests within a 30 business days after receipt and your withdrawal will become effective once processing is complete, until which time we will continue to handle your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
d. Declining to provide information. We need to collect information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we request, we may not be able to provide certain services.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect our updated business practices and/or new requirements, or to further protect our users. You can see when the last update was by looking at the “Last Revised and Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
If we make material changes to the personal information we collect, or how we use it, we will notify you.