Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for the Diversity Science LMS (www.diversityscience.institute) website. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected while you are on the LMS website. This policy will inform you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data
What security procedures are in place to protect the misuse of your information
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
How you can contact us

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you either are required to provide or voluntarily give us during registration, via email, or from other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. The data that we collect includes:

First and last name
Email address
Organization (usually your employer)
Your organization’s state
Profession
Job title
Birthday (only as required for certain accreditations)
License or other information required for certain accreditations)
Account activity data (when you log in, what courses you took, completion dates, and other account activity)
Information on your computer, device, or browser as part of technical or user support
Any information you volunteer or provide as part of a learning activity, survey, test, assignment, or forum

To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.
To manage your account and your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
For the performance of the contract. The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.
To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To attend and manage your requests to us.
We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our eLearning experiences, and to evaluate and improve your experience.
For processing payments. We use a third-party payment processor to assist in securely processing your payment information. If you pay with a credit card, the payment information that you provide through the service is encrypted and transmitted directly to the payment processor. We do not store your payment information, nor do we control or are responsible for the payment processors or their collection or use of your information. You may find out more about how the payment processors store and use your payment Information by accessing the payment processor's privacy policy.

Access to our users’ information is restricted to only those employees or agents, contractors, or subcontractors who have valid reasons to access this information to perform any service you have requested or authorized, or for any other purpose described in this Privacy Policy. The information you provide will not be sold or rented to third parties. Other than with your consent, or as described above, we share your data in the following cases:
If your employer or other organization enrolled you in a course or courses. In some cases, organizations contract with Diversity Science to provide educational services. They then provide Diversity Science with lists of employees or members who they wish to enroll in courses. They may request information on course completion status. We provide that information. The information we provide is limited to completion status for courses in which you were specifically enrolled by your employer. If you also self-enroll for other courses, that information remains private and will not be shared without your consent. We will use your information to track your progress, manage your account, and provide support. Some of the information we collect is needed to provide you with the credits offered through our accredited courses. We will not share any of your personal information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request or legal obligations.
When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed.
With your consent, we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose.
To support receiving accreditation for our courses, we may need to share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with third parties.
We use aggregate, non-personally identifiable usage data for this website for the purposes of evaluating performance, system health, and identifying problems or improvements to our technology.
Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: 1) comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal processes, including from law enforcement or other government agencies, upon valid and enforceable request thereof; 2) operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; 3) protect your vital interests or of another natural person (for example, if you express an intent to harm yourself or another).
We may contact you regarding important security changes, or relevant account updates.

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website.

See what data we have about you, if any
Change or correct any data we have about you
Have us delete any data we have about you
Express any concern you have about our use of your data

We take precautions to protect your information. This website uses encryption and all interactions are transmitted securely. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address on the website page. We also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, user support, billing, or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers where we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. Passwords are stored in an encrypted format on disk for further security. Backups and records are stored in an encrypted location with restricted access.

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to enter a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site. If you would like to learn more about how we use cookies, please read our Cookie Policy.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 612-524-5841 or via email at help@diversityscience.org.

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