This “Privacy Policy” describes the privacy practices of Q3 Student Partners, LLC, (“Q3 Student Partners”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) in connection with the https://q3studentpartners.com website, the Q3 Student Success platform and the Q3 Student Partner mobile application (the “Student Partner App” and “Q3 Student Partner App,” respectively and, collectively the “Apps”); our coaching services; and any other website or mobile application that we own or control and which posts or links to this Privacy Policy. Collectively, we refer to all of the above as the “Service.” This Privacy Policy further describes the rights and choices available to individuals with respect to their information. Q3 Student Partners may provide additional or supplemental privacy policies to individuals for specific products or services that we offer at the time we collect personal information. These supplemental privacy policies will govern how we may process the information in the context of the specific product or service.
This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we process as a data controller, that is, as the party that determines what personal data to collect and for what purposes. As explained in more detail below, you provide some of this data directly and we get some of it by collecting information about your interactions, use and experiences with the Service. Q3 Student Partners’ processing of personal information on behalf of its educational, institutional or other Customers in connection with their use of the Student Tracker Platform, Q3 Student Partner App or other service as defined in the relevant agreement is governed by the relevant agreement with such Customer.
Table of Contents
- Personal Information We Collect
- How We Use Your Personal Information
- How We Share Your Personal Information
- Your Choices
- Other Sites, Mobile Applications and Services
- Security Practices
- International Data Transfers
- Children
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- How to Contact Us
Personal Information We Collect
Information you provide to us
Personal information you provide to us through the Service or otherwise may include:
- Personal and business contact information, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses, and phone number.
- Academic institution information, such as your institution name, and school-issued student identification number (including an image of an identification card).
- Content you choose to upload to the Service, such as text, images, audio, and video, or any other information you may share through the Apps, on our website or otherwise with us, along with the metadata associated with the files you upload.
- Any information you voluntarily share with Q3Student Partners, such as by text message, email, through the Apps, or through live discussion.
- Profile information, such as your username and password that you may set to establish an online account with us, your photograph, interests, and preferences.
- Registration information, such as information that may be related to a service, an account or an event for which you register.
- Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us online including in response to quizzes and surveys.
- Demographic Information, such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, and age.
- Financial information, such as your financial account numbers or payment card information.
- Precise geolocation information, such as when you authorize our Service to access your location.
- Usage information, such as information about how you use the Service and interact with us, including information associated with any content you upload to the websites, our Apps, or otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Service.
- Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications.
- Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
Please keep in mind that we may not collect all of this information in connection with each aspect of our Services. For example, information that you share with a Q3 Student Partners coach will only apply if you engage with our coaching services.
Information we obtain from social media platforms
We may maintain pages for Q3 Student Partners on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and other third-party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you choose to login to the Service via a third-party platform or social media network, or otherwise connect your account on the third-party platform or network to your account through the Service, we may collect information from that platform or network. For example, this information may include your Facebook username, user ID, profile picture, cover photo, and networks to which you belong (e.g., school).You may also have the opportunity to provide us with additional information via the third-party platform or network, such as a list of your friends or connections and your email address. You can read more about your privacy choices in the “Third party platforms or social media networks” portion of the “Your Choices” section of this privacy policy.
Information we obtain from other third parties
We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner may share your contact information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our products or services, or the types of products or services we offer. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly available sources and data providers.
Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means
We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Service, including but not limited, your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; information about your use of and actions on the Service, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access; and other personal information. Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications.
On our webpages, this information is collected using cookies, browser web storage (also known as locally stored objects, or “LSOs”), web beacons, and similar technologies, and our emails may also contain web beacons.
A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor‘s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. Browser web storage, or LSOs, are used for similar purposes as cookies. Browser web storage enables the storage of a larger amount of data than cookies. A “web beacon,” also known as a pixel tag or clear GIF, is typically used to demonstrate that a webpage was accessed or that certain content was viewed, typically to measure the success of our marketing campaigns or engagement with our emails and to compile statistics about usage of our websites.
Web browsers may offer users of our websites the ability to disable receiving certain types of cookies; however, if cookies are disabled, some features or functionality of our websites may not function correctly. Please see the “Targeted online advertising” section for information about how to exercise choice regarding the use of browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising.
Referrals
Users of the Service may have the opportunity to refer friends or other contacts to us. If you are an existing user, you may only submit a referral if you have permission to provide the referral’s contact information to us so that we may contact them.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
To operate the Service
We use your personal information to:
- provide, operate and improve the Service and our products or other service offerings;
- provide information about our products and services;
- establish and maintain your user profile on the Service;
- facilitate your login to the Service via third-party identity and access management providers, such as Facebook;
- enable security features of the Service, such as by verifying your account via email or SMS, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged in;
- facilitate social features of the Service, such as by identifying and suggesting connections with other users of the Service and providing chat or messaging functionality;
- communicate with you about the Service, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
- understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications;
- provide support and maintenance for the Service; and
- respond to your requests, questions and feedback.
For research and development. We analyze use of the Service to improve the Service and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Service.
To send you marketing and promotional communications
We may send you Q3 Student Partners-related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt out of marketing communications section below.
To comply with law
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety
We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
With your consent
In some cases we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.
To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data
We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.
How We Share Your Personal Information
Service providers
We may share your personal information with third-party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, and database management services).
Customers
We may share your personal information, including your school-issued student identification, with our Customers. Customers may include your academic institution or non-profit institutions such as entities engaged in student outcome and achievement objectives. Please review your associated academic institution or non-profit institution’s privacy policy to learn more about how it handles your personal information. We do not control how our customers use your personal information.
National Student Clearinghouse
We may also share your personal information with the National Student Clearinghouse. Please review the National Student Clearinghouse’s privacy policy to learn more about how it handles your personal information. We do not control how the National Student Clearinghouse uses your personal information.
Third-party platforms and social media networks
If you have enabled features or functionality that connect the Service to a third-party platform or social media network (such as by logging in to the Service using your account with the third-party, providing your API key or similar access token for the Service to a third-party, or otherwise linking your account with the Service to a third-party’s services), we may disclose the personal information that you authorized us to share. We do not control the third party’s use of your personal information.
Other Users of the Service and the Public
We may provide functionality that enables you to disclose personal information to other users of the Service or the public. For instance, you may be able to maintain a user profile with information about yourself that you can make available to other users or the public. You may also be able to submit content to the Service (such as comments, reviews, surveys, blogs, photos, and videos), and we will display your name, username, and a link to your user profile along with the content you submit. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to such users or the public.
Professional advisors
We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
For compliance, fraud prevention and safety
We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.
Business transfers
We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.
Your Choices
In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.
Access or Update Your Information
If you have registered for an account with us, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the account.
Opt out of SMS Communications
If you provide your phone number through the Service, Q3 Student Partners may send you notifications by SMS, such as to alert you of a problem with your account, or to communicate with you about our offerings. You may opt out of SMS communications from Q3 Student Partners by replying STOP to our SMS communications. If you receive an SMS or text message directly from a coach, you may opt out receiving such SMS or text messages by contacting us through the “Contact Us” information contained within this policy.
Opt out of marketing communications
You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at info@q3studentpartners.com. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails. If you receive marketing text or SMS marketing messages from Q3 Student Partners, you may opt out of receiving further marketing text or SMS messages directly from us by replying STOP to our marketing message.
Cookies & Browser Web Storage
We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Service and third-party websites. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the websites may not work properly. Similarly, your browser settings may allow you to clear your browser web storage.
Privacy settings and location data
We may make available certain privacy settings on the Service. Users of our Service may also choose whether to allow us to access your precise location data. Your device settings may provide the ability for you to revoke our ability to access location data.
Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Choosing not to share your personal information
Where we are required by law to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide the Service to you, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our services. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Service by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.
Third-party platforms or social media networks
If you choose to connect to the Service via a third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to the Service using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the third-party’s platform or service. For example, you may access and change your settings through the Facebook settings page for Apps and Websites. If you withdraw our ability to access certain information from a third-party platform or social media network, that choice will not apply to information that we have already received from that third-party.
Other Sites, Mobile Applications and Services
The Service may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites, mobile applications and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.
Security Practices
The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
International Data Transfers
We are headquartered in the United States and may have service providers in other countries, and your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, or country where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.
Children
The Service is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, anyone under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable. We encourage parents with concerns to contact us.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service. We may, and if required by law will, also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via email (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Service.
Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Service (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Service after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
Please direct any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or privacy practices to info@q3studentpartners.com. You may also write to us via postal mail at:
Q3 Student Partners, LLC
Attn: Legal – Privacy
6630 Surrey Street
Las Vegas, NV 89119
