Latest Update: February 14th, 2023
Hello there! We are Intuitic Inc. (“Intuitic”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
This Privacy Policy applies when you:
(collectively, the “Services”)
Our Apps have different user interfaces designed specifically for student users (“Student Users”), for their teachers & school administrators (“Teacher Users”) and, on the Studyo App, for their parent and/or guardian (“Parent Users”) (collectively, the “Apps Users”). For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, individuals who are navigating our Website will be referred to as “Website Users” (together with the Apps Users, the “Users”).
This Privacy Policy is intended for Parent Users, parents and/or guardians of Student Users and Website Users, as applicable, and provide comprehensive information on how we process personal information, and what are your rights as a user and/or as a parent. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms and Conditions.
Our Services may contain links towards external services which are not part of the Services. For instance, a Teacher User may provide a Student User with a link to a website to learn more about a certain topic. These external services and content are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
If you want to reach out to us regarding our privacy practices, to exercise your rights, for any concerns or questions, you can do so by e-mail at info@studyo.co, or by mail at the following address:
Intuitic Inc.
201-50 Saint-Charles W
Longueuil (Québec)
J4H 1C6 Canada
This Privacy Policy also covers the use of Teacher Users’ and Parent Users’ data for interest-based advertising. We do not conduct interest-based advertising on personal information of Student Users when they use our Apps.
As a participant of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”), we adhere to DAA’s interest-based advertising principles by providing you with an enhanced notice, transparency and control of our digital marketing practices as stated on this web page.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information. We consider that “personal information” means any information which allows us to identify you directly or indirectly, including “cookies” and other electronic data. Some information may not be personal on its own but may become personal information if associated with other information or if the sum of the information allows us to identify individuals.
A “cookie” is an information that a website puts on a computer’s hard disk so that a website or web application can remember something about individuals at a later time. In this Privacy Policy, when we refer to “cookies” we also include other technologies with similar purposes, such as pixels, tags and beacons. For more information on cookies, you can refer to websites such as https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
This Privacy Policy is for transparency purposes and some of the data that we identify in this Privacy Policy as personal information may not be protected as personal information under applicable laws.
We collect personal information to provide you with our Services for the purpose of conducting marketing and to obtain analytics.
Applicable privacy laws may require us to disable by default, and seek your permission to activate, technological functionalities that enable us to locate, identify or profile you. To the extent applicable, and notwithstanding the explanations that follow in this section 3, we will endeavor to comply with these requirements.
Cookies are small text files that are stored in a computer’s web browser memory. When we use the term cookies in this policy, we also imply similar tracking technologies such as pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs). We also collect mobile advertising identifiers which are then used to serve our ads.
We use both first-party cookies (installed by us) and third-party cookies (installed by our partners and service providers). We use four (4) types of cookies: essential, analytical, functionality and marketing.
Most of the students who are using our Apps cannot consent to the processing of their personal information under applicable laws, and a verifiable parental consent is required. The educational institutions which retain our Services are responsible for obtaining such consent from Parent Users in accordance with applicable laws.
We offer hosting in Canada and the United States depending on where the educational institution which retains our Services is located. However, we use third-party service providers which may be in other countries than where education institutions are located.
We seek to implement controls that are proportional to the risks to protect the privacy of Student Users and other users. For instance, we use multi-factor authentication, SSL encryption, physical access controls to files and buildings and secure file transfer protocols with encryption. Our cloud service provider, Google Cloud Platform, maintains several independent verifications of its security, privacy and compliance control, such as ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27001.
We also expect and require our service providers to provide adequate level of security for personal data.
We retain personal information as long as required to comply with legislations, or as required for our business purposes.
We do not sell your personal information to data brokers. We conduct digital marketing using marketing partners and perform analytics with other IT service providers. We may transfer ownership of your data in the case of a merger and acquisition, or other corporate transactions. We may share your personal information with the authorities if justified and required by applicable laws.
This section does not apply to Student Users personal information. Please see the next section which covers this topic.
The Services may provide the ability to connect to other websites and applications. If you click on links towards third parties or on advertising, these third parties are not our suppliers, and they process your personal information based on their own privacy policies, which you should review. We are not responsible for the content and privacy practices of these third parties.
We may also share your personal information with our auditors and consultants if they are under a confidentiality obligation, and if they reasonably need to access such information as part of their engagement with us.
We do not sell any personal information of our Student Users, and we do not use personal information for any other purposes than to provide the Services, which means that we do not use Student Users personal information to conduct marketing, to conduct interest-based-advertising or retargeting using cookies in the Student User interface and we do not use Marketing Cookies within the Student User interface of the Apps. We are subject to the same conditions on use and redisclosure of education records that govern school officials under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act known as FERPA. This means that we only share personal information if required for the Services and with third parties that have legitimate educational interests unless otherwise authorized or required by law.
If we receive a request to access personal information by the authorities, we will transfer this request to educational institutions. If we are prevented by law from doing so or forced to respond, we will first validate that the request is legitimate and disclose only the minimum required with the help of a legal counsel.
Any personal information of Student Users collected through the Apps is available to teachers and may be reviewed by teachers.
Here are the categories of recipients with whom your personal data is shared so that we can provide you with the functionalities within our Services. Each service provider is bound by an agreement with us which limits their rights to use your personal data for other purposes:
Our Services can be integrated with other learning management platforms through Single Sign-On and APIs, such as Google Classroom. Integration Partners are not our suppliers or service providers. Educational institutions enter into separate agreements with integration partners to which we are not party, and plug-ins, APIs or other accesses to Integration Partners are only activated at educational institutions’ request. This allows educational institutions to integrate our Services with other educational technologies and services relevant to students such as to simplify education. If required to do so to comply with the instructions of educational institutions, we may share personal information with such integration partners. Educational institutions have full control over which personal information they share.
Applicable privacy laws may require us to disable by default, and seek your permission to activate, technological functionalities that enable us to locate, identify or profile you. To the extent applicable, and notwithstanding the explanations that follow in this section 10, we will endeavor to comply with these requirements.
When you navigate our Services, both we and certain third parties collect information about your online activities over time and across different sites to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to our individual interests. This is called “Interest-based advertising” or “IBA”. These third parties may place or recognize a unique cookie or other technology on your browser (including the use of pixel tags). Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent prior to processing your information for the purpose of IBA. We do not allow IBA to be perform when Student Users are using our App.
You may see our ads on other websites or mobile apps because we participate in advertising networks. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to users based on a range of factors, including demographic data, users’ inferred interests and browsing context (for example, the time and date of your visit to our Website, the pages that you viewed, and the links that you clicked on). This technology also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and understand if you have seen one of our advertisements.
We may display interest-based ads to you when you are using social media, such as through Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel, and Facebook’s Custom Audience Tool. This allows us to personalize our ads based on your behaviour with us, such as if you did not complete your registration, and to record how efficient our advertisements are for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remains anonymous. We do not share any of your personal information, including your behaviour, with Facebook. Custom Audience Tool lets us convert your email address to a unique number that Facebook uses to match to unique numbers it generates from email addresses of its users as part of advertising network. Depending on the permission you gave Facebook, it may use your data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with its privacy policy, which you can find here.
We work with Google AdWords, and other advertising networks. To learn how to opt out of behavioural advertising delivered by Network Advertising Initiative member companies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance. You may download the AppChoices app to opt out in mobile apps. If you opt out from interest-based advertising, you may see advertising that is not relevant to you. At present, there is no industry standard for recognizing Do Not Track browser signals, so we do not respond to them.
The extent of your rights depends on the laws that apply to the processing of your personal information, so your rights may vary. Most legislations minimally provide you with these rights:
You may also withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information by contacting us at the address provided below. Please note, however, that withdrawing your consent may prevent us from providing you with all or part of our Services.
We are currently not in-scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we do not respond to “Do Not Track Signal”. However, if you have a legitimate request about your personal information, we will try our best to assist you.
You can send your request by e-mail at info@studyo.co, or by mail at the address provided at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Prior to respond to your request, we will need to confirm your identity.
We may also refuse to respond to your request if the applicable laws do not allow for the exercise of certain rights or for other valuable and legal reasons. If we cannot respond, we will inform you of the reasons. We will respond to your request within 30 days, or within the legal delay prescribed by the law.
If you are not satisfied with our we handled your request, you can lodge complaints to your local authorities. For instance, in Canada, you can lodge your complaint at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner by consulting the information available here.
We only require Student User to disclose the personal information that is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity. You have the right to review the personal information that we collect about your Student Users, and you can monitor their accounts with us at all time, including by imposing spending limits. You can direct us to delete it, and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the Student Users’ personal information.
Most of the students who are using our Apps cannot consent to the processing of their personal information under applicable laws, and a verifiable parental consent is required. The educational institutions which retain our Services are responsible for obtaining such consent from Parent Users in accordance with applicable laws.
You can send your request by e-mail at info@studyo.co, or by mail at the address provided at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Prior to responding to your request, we will need to confirm your identity. We will respond to your request within 30 days, or as required by applicable laws.
Depending on your location, different rights may be applicable. However, students may not be able to exercise their rights on their own and may need a parent to do. For instance, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act known as FERPA in the United States gives rights to eligible students (i.e., over 18 years old) or parents to request that a school correct records which they believe to be inaccurate or misleading. In many cases, the educational institutions where the student is registered is the best entity to contact to exercise privacy rights, as they have the complete records of students. We may be prevented by law from responding to requests to exercise some privacy rights, such as access to records of students, without the authorization of the relevant educational institution.
If you are not satisfied with our we handled your request, you can lodge a complaint with your local authority. For instance, in the United States, you can contact the Federal Trade Commission by visiting ftc.gov or call the toll-free number 1-877-FTC-HELP. You can also watch this video on how to file a complaint.
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Yes, you can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link if our e-mails. You can also write to us directly at info@studyo.co.
Yes, you can delete your account entirely by reaching out to us at info@studyo.co. You can delete a Student Users accounts at any time, however, once you do so, all your data relating to this Student User will be lost.
Yes. We plan on adding many functionalities and on continuing to develop our Services. As a result, we may need to change this Privacy Policy to reflect how we process personal information over time. We may also change this Privacy Policy to reflect new legislations, new technologies or as reasonable required. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will advise our users by email. If you continue to use our Services, you will be deemed to accept these changes. You can refer to the latest update date above to know when we last updated our Privacy Policy.