Welcome to adonicollege.com (hereinafter “the Website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our “students” (visitors and users). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Website. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
Our About Us page provides more information about who we are.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
- A. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) This is information that can be used to identify you personally. We may collect PII, such as your name and email address, and website URL (optional), when you voluntarily provide it to us, for example, when you:
- Leave comments on our articles.
- Contact us through our Connect With Us page or by direct email.
- Subscribe to newsletters or email updates (if offered).
- Participate in surveys or promotions (if offered). You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind; however, your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.
- B. Derivative Data / Automatically Collected Information Our servers automatically collect information when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
- C. Cookies and Tracking Technologies We use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. When you access the Site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to a separate “Cookie Policy” if you create one, or detail it further here (e.g., types of cookies: essential, performance, functionality, advertising if applicable).
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Operate and maintain the Website.
- Respond to your comments or inquiries submitted via our Connect With Us page or other channels.
- Send you newsletters or other updates, with your consent, if you have subscribed.
- Improve our website and content offerings through analytics.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Protect our Website from spam and security threats (e.g., IP addresses for comment moderation).
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (GDPR Users)
If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where:
- We need it to provide you the services, including to operate the services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the services;
- It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the services and to protect our legal rights and interests;
- You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose; or
- We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.
If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including data analysis (e.g., Google Analytics), email delivery (for newsletters), hosting services, customer service, and spam detection (e.g., for comments). These third-party service providers are obligated to protect your information.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For example, comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For newsletter subscriptions, we retain your email address until you unsubscribe.
6. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location (especially if you are in the EEA or California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- The right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our Connect With Us page.
8. Children’s Privacy
adonicollege.com is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in some jurisdictions), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us.
9. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or any privacy-related concerns, please contact us via our Connect With Us page.