Privacy Policy

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Personal Data

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:

Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:

You

• When you provide such information directly to us.
• When you create an account or use our Services.
• When you register for a course, workshop, certification, or membership, or make a donation.
• When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through the Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.
• When you upload files (including documents and images) or authorize access to third-party applications.
• When you send us an email or otherwise contact us.
• When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically.
• Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section below).

Third Parties

• Vendors: Third parties may help us provide you with customer support.

Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data

Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services

• Creating and managing your account.
• Processing registrations, orders, donations, and billing.
• Providing you or your company with the programs, services, or information you request, including our courses, workshops, certifications, and memberships.
• Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us.
• Providing support and assistance for the Services.
• Improving the Services, including testing, research, and program development.
• Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences.
• Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
• Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws.

Marketing the Services

• Marketing and selling the Services.

Corresponding with You

• Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about us or the Services.
• Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences.

Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms

• Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
• Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, us or another party.
• Enforcing any agreements with you.
• Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
• Resolving disputes.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

How We Share Your Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.

Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:

• Third-party AI and LLM providers (like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, and others)
• Hosting, technology and communication providers.
• Security and fraud prevention consultants.
• Support and customer service vendors.
• Payment processors: Our payment processing partner Stripe, Inc. (“Stripe”) collects your voluntarily-provided payment card information necessary to process your payment. Please see Stripe’s terms of service and privacy policy for information on its use and storage of your Personal Data.

Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate

• Third parties you access through the Services (such as other users of the Services or Third-Party Services).

Legal Obligations

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Business Transfers

If we merge with another organization, transfer some or all of our programs or assets to another organization, or undergo a reorganization, dissolution, or bankruptcy, the Personal Data we collect may be transferred to the successor organization as part of that transaction. Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your Personal Data becomes subject to a different privacy policy and different privacy and security practice.

Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build, and improve the Services and to promote our organization, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out

The Services use a limited number of cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, Cookies) to operate our sites and provide the Services. Cookies are small pieces of data, usually text files, placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We use only essential Cookies that are necessary to operate our sites and provide the Services, and session Cookies that support account sign-in and the registration and payment process. We do not use Cookies for advertising. Because we use only essential and session Cookies, the Services do not support Do Not Track requests sent from a browser at this time.

We use the following types of Cookies:

• Essential Cookies that are necessary to operate our sites and provide the Services.
• Session Cookies that support account sign-in and the registration and payment process.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser's settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website, and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser's menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Data Security and Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism, limiting access to your computer or device and browser, and signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Personal Data of Children

As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 13 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at info@aiptd.org.

State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at info@aiptd.org.

Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at info@aiptd.org with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Services website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data, or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@aiptd.org.

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