PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® PRIVACY STATEMENT

Thank you for visiting the PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® website. PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® maintains a high level of confidentiality. We adhere to a privacy policy based on fair information principles, and we take appropriate measures to provide adequate security, and respect your preferences regarding unsolicited e-mail. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how we collect, use, share, and protect that data.

If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using the Site immediately. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

What We Collect and How We Use the Information

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us. We collect and use this personal data to assist in the administration and operation of the Site and to provide you an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience. PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® may ask you to provide certain demographic information, such as your name, contact information, address, native born country and native language. This information may be gathered when you visit this site to request free information and material, request product information or provide feedback in an online survey. When you provide such information voluntarily to us, we may use the data to fulfill our obligations with respect to the reason you volunteered the data e.g., deliver the requested services or information and provide you with information regarding products or services you may purchase.

• Allow you to participate in certain features of the Site;
• The administration of our website;
• Improve the Site or our Products, events and Services;
• Optimize your experience on the Site (technical troubleshooting, storing your preferences, etc.);
• Notify you about changes to the Site, Products, Services (including this Privacy Policy);
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from arrangements between you and us;
• For any other purpose with your consent or as permitted by law.

• Provide you with additional information regarding Products, events and Services from PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP®, and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies via email or through advertising on various social media platforms or websites (both desktop and mobile) that you may visit;
• Develop, improve, and target our promotional messaging to you and others via retargeting, online behavioral advertising, and use of social media platform tools for advertising (such as creation of Facebook Lookalike Audiences).
• By providing us such personal information, PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® considers that to be “opting in” to allow us to contact you with information, special offers or promotional materials in the future. Our policy is not to contact you for anything unrelated to the Products or Services unless you have “opted in” to such contact when you signed up. SEE BELOW in section titled Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data. You can choose not to provide the requested data, but you might not be able to take advantage of certain Site features.
• PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® does not make your contact information or any other personally identifiable information available to anyone outside PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® or its service providers (who use the information only for authorized PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® purposes) unless we are legally required to do so.
• We automatically collect data about your browser or device and your use of the Site. We use various tracking technologies (such as cookies, clear GIFs, and/or pixel tags) to collect data about your use of and access to the Site. Cookies are small bits of information that may be placed on your computer by websites you visit, applications you use, or advertisements you view. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are. Pixel tags generate a generic notice of a visit to the Site. Pixel tags are used in conjunction with cookies to anonymously track the activity on the Site by a particular browser on a particular site. We use these small files to improve the overall website experience. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you. SEE DETAILS BELOW in section titled Cookies and Other Browser Information.
• You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you a chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some websites may not work properly.
• When you access and use the Site, our technology and tools may automatically collect and record certain data (which does not identify you as an individual) about your use of the Site (your IP address, browser type, the make and model of device used to view the Site, unique device identifiers, the referring web page, pages visited, search terms and other information relating to your use of the Site, browser or device). Our website automatically captures IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, and to help ensure the security of your interaction with the website. Your IP address is used to help identify you.

Cookies and Other Browser Information

PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® understands that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Sites to recognize your device from those of other users of the Sites. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Sites, protect the Sites, and to process any requests that you make of us.

To administer our Sites and for research purposes, PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® also has contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Sites.

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® and that PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® places on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies as indicated below.

• Persistent Cookies - We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.
• Session Cookies - Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.
• You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.
• The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.

• Strictly Necessary/ Technical - These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
• Analytical/ Performance - These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these Cookies may be correlated to you.

• Functionality - These Cookies let us operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the Sites and Services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
• Third-party Advertising - These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Sites.

If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org . Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Sites.

If you want to remove previously stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if in the United States.

PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you through web beacons.

A web beacon is a graphic image, which is placed on a website or in an email that alone or in conjunction with cookies compile information about your usage of or your interaction with a PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® website or email. For example, we may add web beacons to the knowledge, research or event communications that we send to you to determine whether you have opened our email or clicked a link. The analysis gathered helps us improve the effectiveness of content and format of our websites and email communications.

You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.

Third-party Websites and Third-party Embedded Content

This website may contain links to other websites not under the control of or maintained by PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP®. Third parties may also automatically collect data about you. Some embedded content on the Site may be served by third-party content providers. Please note that these companies may also use cookies, pixels, tags or other similar technologies to collect data about you, both on the Site and throughout the Internet. Data collection and use by those third parties is subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other websites. It is up to you to review the terms of use and privacy policy of third-party websites or third-party content originators. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that other new site.

Our “Do Not Track” (DNT) Policy

Some websites have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. We do not currently respond to those signals or similar mechanism transmitted by web browsers. To learn more about browser tracking signals and DNT, please visit http://allaboutdnt.org.

How We Share Data

• Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your data collected on this Site with our subsidiaries or affiliated companies.
• Service Providers. We may provide collected data to our service providers. They may use your data to perform services for us and may have access to, store and process your personal data to provide services on our behalf.
• Sponsors or Event Partners. In the instance of ticketed events, we may share your personal data with sponsors or event partners.
• Law Enforcement and Safety. We may also share or disclose your data to comply with a court order or other legal obligation, to enforce the Site terms of use, and to protect the rights, property or safety of our users and other third parties. We may disclose data to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we determine, in our sole and absolute discretion, is necessary or appropriate to respond to claims or to comply with legal processes, to comply with laws, regulations or ordinances or to prevent or stop illegal, unethical or actionable activity.
• Business Transfer. In the event that PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® undergoes a merger, acquisition by another company or sale of its assets, your data will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
• Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

To the extent you provide us with personal data, we are processing your personal data under the following lawful basis:

• Your consent: by entering your personal data and clicking the submit/enter/opt-in button on the Site you consent to permit us to process your personal data for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
• Processing necessary for compliance with legal obligations.

 Opting-Out of Data Use or Withdrawing Consent

• As described above, we collect personal data about you when you voluntarily provide it to us, collect other data about you and your use of the Site automatically when you interact with us. If you do not want us to use your collected data as described above or if you wish to withdraw your consent to permit us to process your personal data, please email us at info@pronunciationworkshop.com.
• If you no longer wish to receive communications from PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP®, you can opt-out from receiving such messages in the future by following the instructions in the emails or contacting us at info@pronunciationworkshop.com.
• With respect to the Site’s use of cookies, pixels, tags, and other similar technologies, by adjusting settings on your browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be placed, and thus opt-out of certain features of the Site and the Site’s automatic collection of certain data about you.
• You may remove certain tracking technologies and opt-out of online behavioral advertising messaging by using the opt-out tools available from the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA Opt-Out Tool) and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI Opt-Out Tools). Please note that these opt-out tools are device and browser specific, so you must repeat the opt-out from each of your browsers and devices.
• You may also adjust your advertising preferences on various social media websites by adjusting your Settings on the platform.

 Protection and Retention of Data

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk and to safeguard your data in our possession. However, no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure and no security mechanism is impenetrable. Therefore, although we take steps to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security of the data that we collect from you or the security of our servers or the Site. By accessing the Site, any transmission of data is at your own risk and you agree to assume all risk in connection with data sent to us or collected by us.

We retain data only as long as necessary in light of the reasons it was collected as set forth in this Privacy Policy, or until you inform us you wish to have your data deleted, whichever comes first. Please note that we may retain your data for longer periods of time as necessary to comply with our legal obligations or respond to governmental authorities.

PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® does not knowingly or intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® does not target its website to children under 13 years of age. By using the Site, you have represented and warranted that you are either at least 18 years of age or using the Site with the supervision of a parent or guardian. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Site. If you are purchasing any of the products or services of PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP®, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please email us at info@pronunciationworkshop.com.

Foreign Jurisdictions; Personal Data Transfers

The data that you provide to us, or we obtain as a result of your use of this Site will be collected, stored, and processed in a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) that may not be subject to equivalent data protection laws, including the United States. We may transfer your personal data outside the EEA in order to store it and enable us to provide advertising, products or services to you. Where your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, including the US, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is subject to appropriate safeguards and ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using this Site and/or providing us with your personal data, you (a) consent to the transfer and/or processing of any personal data outside the EEA, including to the U.S., (b) acknowledge that U.S. law may not be equivalent to the data protection laws of your location and (c) understand that we will collect, transfer, store, process and/or deal with your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Policy Changes

PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP® reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect, among other things, changes in the law or our data collection and use practices and such modifications shall be effective upon posting by PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP®. Your continued use of the Site after an updated Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, as determined in our sole discretion, we may or may not post such changes on its website, so it is important that you review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any general questions about this Privacy Policy or other aspects of the Site or would like to correct, update or erase data provided to us, please email us at info@pronunciationworkshop.com.