Laurels Tutor Privacy Policy

Effective: 9th Jan 2023

Laurels Tutor Privacy Policy Effective: 9th Jan 2023 Laurels Tutor operates https://www.laurelstutor.com and may operate other websites. Laurels Tutor policy respects your privacy regarding any information we may collect while on our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Laurels Tutor collects information, the kinds that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request, among others. The laurels Tutor's purpose is to instruct visitors on how to use its website. From time to time, Laurels Tutor may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Laurels Tutor also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and users leaving comments on laurelstutor.com blogs/websites.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the IP address and browser user agent to help with spam detection.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors on the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Sharing Data with Third Parties

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

From time to time, Laurels Tutor may collect, use, and share de-identified information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our Websites. Laurel's Tutor may display this de-identified information publicly or provide it to others.

Necessary personal, billing and financial information may be relayed to necessary third parties to complete purchases and transactions. Your sensitive financial information including your payment card number is never stored by Laurels Tutor.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Laurel’s Tutor websites choose to interact with Laurel's Tutor in ways that require Laurel's Tutor to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Laurels Tutor gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at laurelstutor.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Laurels Tutor are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Laurels Tutor collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Laurels Tutor. Laurels Tutor does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Laurels Tutor may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Laurels Tutor may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Laurels Tutor does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Laurels Tutor discloses identifying information only to those of its managers, employees, contractors, and affiliated entities that (i) need to know that information to process it on Laurel’s Tutor's behalf or to provide services available at Laurel’s Tutor websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those managers, employees, contractors, and affiliated entities may be located outside of your home country; by using Laurel’s Tutor websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Laurels Tutor will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Laurels Tutor discloses information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or another governmental request, or when Laurels Tutor believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Laurels Tutor, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Laurels Tutor website and have supplied your email address, Laurels Tutor may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with Laurels Tutor and our products and/or services. If you send us a request (for example via email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Laurels Tutor takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

We may disclose Personal Information to the following parties:
· A service provider to which Laurels Tutor has outsourced institutional services or functions;
· Any governmental agency, regulatory authority, or self-regulatory organization with jurisdiction over Laurels Tutor, if (i) Laurels Tutor determines that such disclosure is necessary or advisable according to or in connection with any Applicable Laws and (ii) such disclosure is not otherwise prohibited by Applicable Laws;
· Certain other persons to the extent authorized by you.
In addition, we may use or disclose your Personal Information as we deem necessary or appropriate:
· Under Applicable Laws, including laws outside your country of residence;
· In the event of a transfer of control of Laurels Tutor or the sale of substantially all its assets

· To comply with subpoenas and other legal processes; · To pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain; · To protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; · To protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of us, our affiliates, you, and others; and
· To enforce our terms and conditions.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Our Websites may use the following types of cookies:
Essential/Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for our Websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Websites will not then work.
Analytics/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our Websites. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Websites. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our Websites.
We use Google Analytics, which collects information about the usage of our Websites and allows us to receive information about general usage statistics.
For Google Analytics to function, when you use our Websites, Google will place cookies on your device. Google Analytics may also collect information through other methods in addition to cookies. Information collected by Google Analytics when you use our Websites, and the way it is used, is described in the applicable Google Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service.

Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Business Transfers
If Laurels Tutor, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Laurels Tutor goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Laurels Tutor may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.
Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Laurels Tutor and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information
Individuals in Nigeria and certain other jurisdictions may have certain data subject rights. These rights vary, but they may include the right to (i) request access to and rectification or erasure of their Personal Information; (ii) restrict or object to the processing of their Personal Information; and (iii) obtain a copy of their Personal Information in a portable format. Individuals may also have the right to complain about the processing of Personal Information with a data protection authority. We do not sell your information, so you are already opted out of such sales. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
If you have an account on our Websites or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the Personal Information we hold about you, including any Personal Information you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any Personal Information we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How to Exercise Data Subject Rights
If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact us using the web form at https://laurelstutor.com/contact/ with the phrase “Data Subject Rights” in the subject line. We will review your requests and respond accordingly. The rights described herein are not absolute and we reserve all of our rights available to us at law in this regard. Additionally, if we retain your Personal Information only in de-identified form, we will not attempt to re-identify your data in response to a Data Subject Rights request.
If you make a request related to your Personal Information, we will need to verify your identity. To do so, we will request that you match specific pieces of information you have provided us previously, as well as, in some instances, provide a signed declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose Personal Information is the subject of the request. If it is necessary to collect additional information from you, we will use the information only for verification purposes and will delete it as soon as practicable after complying with the request. For requests related to particularly sensitive information, we may require additional proof of identification.
If you make a Data Subject Rights request through an authorized agent, we will require written proof that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf. We will process your request within the time provided by Applicable Laws.
Third-Party Websites
Our Websites may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. These third-party websites and services have separate and independent privacy policies, which we encourage you to read. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of such linked sites.
Articles on our Websites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Laurels Tutor and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
This website contains links and references to products and services that may include affiliates, sponsorships, or other business relationships in which Laurels Tutor may receive compensation from referrals or sales actions.

Children’s Privacy
Our Websites are not directed toward children under the age of 18. We do not promote our Websites to minors, and we do not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information from any person under 18. If we become aware of having collected Personal Information from children under the age of 18 without valid consent from their respective parents or guardians, we will delete it as soon as practicable.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Laurels Tutor may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, at any time, and at Laurel’s Tutor's sole discretion. Laurels Tutor encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the such change.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing us at info@laurelstutor.com, or in writing to: