Welcome to Accredicity and thank you for visiting our https://accredicity.com/ website (the “Site”). The Site is comprised of various web pages operated by Accredicity, Inc. dba Accredicity (“Accredicity”). Your use of the Site is conditioned upon the acceptance (without modification) of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Please read the Terms carefully. They contain important information regarding your use of the Site and related services. Your use of the Site constitutes your agreement to the Terms. If you do not agree to the Terms, do not access or use the Site.
Your use of the Site is subject to Accredicity’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which informs users about our data collection, use, sharing and retention practices.
You consent to receive electronic communications from Accredicity when you request information from, or sending emails to, to Accredicity. You agree that all notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
If you use the Site, or any other websites owned or operated by Accredicity, you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password and for restricting access to your computer. You hereby accept sole responsibility for any and all activity conducted through your account. You acknowledge that Accredicity is not responsible for any third party access to your account that is the result of theft or misappropriation of your password or otherwise. You may not sell, rent, assign, sublicense or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity, without the express permission of Accredicity (which can be withheld in Accredicity’s absolute and sole discretion). Accredicity reserves the right to refuse or cancel any services to anyone, or remove or edit any account content, at any time, in its absolute and sole discretion.
Accredicity believes that it is extremely important to protect children’s personal information. As a result, we never collect or retain information from those we actually know are under the age of sixteen, and the Site is not designed to attract any users under the age of sixteen. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least sixteen years of age or older. If you are under the age of sixteen, you may not use the Site or provide any information to Accredicity in any manner, including through the Site. If you’re between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, you may only use the Site with parental consent.
The Site may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). Unless specifically noted, the Linked Sites are not operated or controlled by Accredicity, and Accredicity is not responsible or liable for the content on any Linked Sites, including (without limitation) any content at any links contained in Linked Sites. Accredicity provides Linked Sites to you only as a convenience. You agree that accessing such Linked Sites is at your sole and own risk. Accredicity shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through any Linked Sites.
The Site uses Google (Google Workspace, Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts, Google Analytics) and YouTube Data API.
YouTube Data API is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows an API Client to incorporate functions normally executed on YouTube so that Users can watch, find, and manage YouTube content directly on this Site. Through this Site, this Application may collect Data directly or indirectly on or from Users’ devices, including by making use of trackers. Users may restrict such access to their Data via the security settings page provided by Google. Users may ask the Owner for further information about these privacy settings at any time through the contact details provided on this page. Learn more about YouTube’s Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), Google Policies & Terms (https://policies.google.com/), and Google Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/).
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, term-limited and revocable right to access and use the Site solely for your own personal, non-commercial use and strictly in accordance with the Terms. As a condition of your use of the Site, you represent and warrant to Accredicity that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Terms or any applicable rules, regulations or laws. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site, or interfere with another party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site. The software, trademarks, logos, service marks, trade names, graphics, page headers, button icons, scripts and other marks, works, inventions, or designs that are used in connection with the Site and/or Accredicity’s services (the “Intellectual Property”) are the property of Accredicity or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto. You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. Accredicity content may not be licensed or resold to third parties. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You agree that you do not have any ownership rights in any protected content by reason of your use of the Site or otherwise. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, in and to the Intellectual Property of Accredicity or our licensors, except as may be expressly authorized by the Terms. You shall not challenge, or assist or encourage others to challenge, even in the event of a dispute between the parties, the ownership, status as a trade secret, copyrightability, enforceability or validity of Accredicity (and/or its affiliates’ or third-party licensors’) trademark, copyright or other non-patent rights in or to Intellectual Property, and you shall not attempt to register, file, or claim, any, patent, trademark, copyright or other rights in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world which are similar to, infringe upon, dilute, or unfairly compete with, Intellectual Property.
Accredicity considers any unsolicited ideas, suggestions, proposals, feedback, or any other materials submitted to Accredicity via the Site (“Ideas & Feedback”) to be non-confidential and non-proprietary. You acknowledge and agree that Ideas & Feedback provided to Accredicity are non-confidential and non-proprietary. Any communication by you to Accredicity is subject to the Terms, and Accredicity can freely use and disseminate Ideas & Feedback for any purpose whatsoever without acknowledgment or compensation to you. Accredicity shall not be liable for the disclosure or use of any Ideas & Feedback. You acknowledge and hereby grant to Accredicity a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, sublicensable and transferable right and license to freely incorporate, use, modify, publish, display and exploit such Ideas & Feedback for any purpose of Accredicity, commercial or otherwise, including but not limited to incorporating Ideas & Feedback in future products or services, without notice or compensation to you and without further recourse by you.
The Site is controlled, operated and administered by Accredicity from our offices within the United States. If you access the Site from a location outside the United States, you are solely responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the Accredicity’s content from the Site in any manner prohibited by any and all applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.
On May 25, 2018, a new European Union (EU) data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), took effect. The GDPR gives individuals in the EU more control over how their data is collected, used and processed. Please review our revised Privacy Policy regarding the GDPR.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Accredicity, its officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys from and against any and all losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to, or arising out of, your use of the Site, the Terms, any content posted by you, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Accredicity may elect to (but is not required to) assume the defense and control of such claim and, in such case, you agree to cooperate with Accredicity in the defense of such claim and to reimburse Accredicity for all expenses and fees incurred in the course of defending such claim.
The information, software, products, and services included in, or available through, the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Accredicity may make improvements and/or changes to the forgoing or the site at any time. Accredicity makes no representations or waranties about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics available on the site for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided “as is” without any warranty or condition of any kind. International Accredicity and/or its suppliers hereby specifically disclaim any and all warranties, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, to the information, software, products, services and related graphics, including (but not limited to) any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, or the continuous, uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, or secure access to or operation of the site and/or related services. If you are dissatisfied with any information, software, products, services and related graphics available on the site, or with the terms, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site or related services. In no event shall Accredicity be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary damages, or damages for loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of use, loss of data, or intangible losses, arising out of, or in any way related to, the information, software, products, services and related graphics available on or through the site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Accredicity or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. To the extent that any warranty or limitation of liability cannot be excluded, Accredicity’s liability for breach for such warranty is limited (at Accredicity’s election): (a) in the case of goods, a refund, repair, or replacement of the goods or payment equal to the cost of repair or replacement of the goods; (b) in the case of services, the resupply of the services or payment of the cost of the resupply of the services. You agree to take reasonable action to mitigate your damages.
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement on the website should be sent to the designated copyright agent below. All inquiries not relevant to, or not complying with, the following procedure will not receive a response. Accredicity respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users and visitors to do the same. Accredicity will process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying with the DMCA, Accredicity will act to remove or disable access to any material found to be infringing or found to be the subject of infringing activity and will act to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is found to be infringing. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Accredicity with the following information. Please be advised that to be effective, your notice must include ALL of the following:
By Mail: 3113 Diamond Head Road, Suite D Honolulu, HI 96815, USA Attn: Copyright Agent for Accredicity By Email: copyright@accredicity.com (Please include “Notice of Copyright Infringement” in the subject line.) The preceding information is provided exclusively for notifying Accredicity that your copyrighted material may have been infringed. All other types of inquiries will not receive a response through this process.
Accredicity reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which the Site and its services are offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Accredicity encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
Accredicity reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and any related services (or any portion thereof) at any time, without notice.
These Terms (and all policies referred to herein) represent the entire agreement and understanding between you and Accredicity relating to your use of the Site and related services and supersedes any other agreement or understanding (written, oral or implied) between you and Accredicity. No other agreements, promises, representations, or understandings shall be binding upon Accredicity with respect to the Site or Accredicity’s services unless contained in these Terms, or separate writing and signed by an authorized representative of Accredicity. These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred, assigned, or sublicensed by you without Accredicity’s express written consent (which can be withheld in Accredicity’s absolute and sole discretion. Accredicity may freely assign, sublicense, or otherwise transfer any rights or licenses under these Terms, without restriction and without prior notice to you. No term or provision herein is meant or intended to benefit any third-party. Neither you nor Accredicity will be deemed to have any liability whatsoever to the other or to any third-party for any failure of performance hereunder occasioned by an act of God, force of nature, war or warlike activity, insurrection or civil commotion, labor dispute, transportation delay, pandemic, governmental regulatory action, whether or not with proper authority or other cause similar or dissimilar to the foregoing and beyond its reasonable control, provided the affected party gives prompt notice to the other party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, users are not excused under any circumstances from paying Accredicity all fees and monies owed when due. The failure of a party to insist upon strict and prompt performance by the other party of the terms and conditions hereunder, and the acceptance of such performance by the other party thereafter, shall not constitute a waiver or relinquishment of the party’s right to insist upon strict performance in the event of a continuous or subsequent default by other party. If any one or more of the provisions herein should be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such provision(s) shall be severed to the extent of its invalidity, illegality, and enforceability, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each party and their respective heirs, devisees, personal representatives, successors in trust, successors and permitted assigns. These Terms shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Hawaii without regard to conflicts of law principles. The courts of the State of Hawaii, and the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, and no other courts, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over all disputes relating to these Terms or your use of the Site. All provisions of these Terms that specifically state that they shall survive expiration or termination, or which by their nature should survive expiration or termination, will remain in effect after expiration or termination of these Terms. A printed version of these Terms and any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to these Terms to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that these Terms and all related documents be written in English.
Accredicity welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact us at: Accredicity 3113 Diamond Head Road, Suite D Honolulu, Hawaii 96815, USA Phone: (808) 212-9826 Email: support@accredicity.com Effective as of January 16, 2019 Last Updated: March 18, 2021
Our website address is: https://accredicity.com.
This amended privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”), including GDPR compliance, sets out how Accredicity, Inc. dba Accredicity (“Accredicity”, “us”, or “we”) collects, processes and holds your personal data if you visit our website(s) or otherwise provide personal data to us. Accredicity is the data controller of your personal data.
At Accredicity, nothing to us is more important than the success of our students and website users and the protection of their personal data. With users in nearly every country in the world, we adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR expands the privacy rights granted to individuals in the European Union (EU) and requires certain companies that collect and process personal data of these individuals to comply with a new set of privacy regulations. In particular, the GDPR may apply to companies that collect and process the personal data of individuals in the EU and have a presence in the EU (e.g. offices or establishments) and to companies that do not have any presence in the EU but target individuals in the EU (e.g. by offering goods or services to such individuals) or monitor the behavior of individuals in the EU.
In 2016, the EU approved a new privacy regulation called the General Data Protection Regulation commonly known as the GDPR. It applies to all companies that collect personal data and information on individuals in the EU and meet certain territorial requirements. The GDPR is designed to strengthen the security and protection of personal data of individuals in the EU, as well as provide businesses with a structured framework on how to collect, process, use, and share such personal data. Under the GDPR, the concept of “personal data” is very broad, and covers almost any information relating to an identifiable natural person.
This policy affects your legal rights and obligations, so please read it carefully. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@accredicity.com.
Accredicity collects and uses your personal data to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Accredicity may also use your personal data to inform you of other products or services available from Accredicity. Accredicity may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
We collect, process, store and use personal data, including your name, email address, physical address, phone number and educational and/or employment background, when you fill out our forms for more information.
When enrolling as a student with Accredicity, additional personal data will be collected and retained, including your photograph, dates of attendance, grade level, enrollment status (e.g., undergraduate or graduate, full-time or part time), credentials, honors and awards received, class rosters within the classroom, and the most recent educational agency or institution you attended. (Please see FERPA section for more details)
When you contact us by email or post, we may keep a record of the correspondence and may also record any telephone conversation we have with you.
All personal data that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate. If you provide us with inaccurate or false data, and we suspect or identify fraud, we will record this.
You do not need to provide us with any personal data to interact with our website(s) or social media accounts. However, we may still collect the information described under the Data We Automatically Collect section (below) and the Marketing Communications section (below) of this Privacy Policy.
When you visit our website(s), we, or third parties on our behalf, automatically collect and store information about your device and your activities. This information could include (a) your computer or other device’s unique ID number; (b) technical information about your device such as type of device, web browser or operating system; (c) your preferences and settings such as time zone and language; and (d) statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns. We collect this information using cookies in accordance with the Cookie section of this Privacy Policy and we use the information we collect on an anonymous basis to improve our website experience, our events and the services we provide, as well as for analytical and research purposes.
We also allow advertisers and advertising networks to collect information about your computer or mobile device, activities, and geographic location to enable them to display targeted ads to you and provide us with anonymous information about our users’ behavior. Again, this takes place through the use of cookies in accordance with the Cookie section of this Privacy Policy.
If you opt in to receive marketing communications from us, you consent to the processing of your data to send you such communications, which may include newsletters, blog posts, surveys and information about new events. We retain a record of your consent.
You can choose to no longer receive marketing communications by contacting us at datainquiries@accredicity.com or clicking unsubscribe from a marketing email. If you do unsubscribe to marketing communications, it may take up to five (5) business days for your new preferences to take effect.
We collect and use your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy on the basis of our legitimate interests (for example, providing educational offerings and evaluating your performance, conducting admissions research, or for website analytics); to process transactions requested by you and meet our contractual obligations (for example, registering you for an online education course, processing your application for admission, and to register you for events you wish to attend or contact you with requested information relating to the school); or on the basis of your consent, where applicable.
Accredicity does not sell, rent or lease to third-parties any personal data it collects.
Accredicity may share personal data with our third-party vendors to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide you with customer support. We may also share your personal data with third-party service providers, sub-contractors, and agents that we appoint to perform services on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, including (but not limited to) payment providers, email communication providers, IT service providers, accountants, auditors and lawyers. All such third-parties are prohibited from using your personal data except to provide their contracted services to Accredicity, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your personal data.
Under certain circumstances we may have to disclose your personal data if required under applicable laws and/or regulations, or to protect a third-party’s rights, property, or safety.
Some or all of your personal data may be stored outside of the European Union (the EU), including for example, if our email server is located in a country outside the EU or if any of our service providers or their servers are based outside of the EU. We shall only transfer your personal data to organizations that have provided adequate safeguards with respect to your personal data.
You have the right to obtain from us a copy of the personal data we collect in an easily accessible format, and to require us to correct or update the personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete. You also have the right, at any time, to require that we delete your personal data. To exercise these rights, or any other rights you may have under applicable laws, please contact us at datainquiries@accredicity.com.
If you withdraw your consent to the use or sharing of your personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, you may not have access to all (or any) of the related services, and we might not be able to provide you all (or any) of the services. Please note that, in certain cases, we may continue to process your personal data after you have withdrawn consent and requested that we delete your personal data, if we have a legal basis to do so. For example, we may retain certain data if we need to do so to comply with an independent legal obligation, if we still need the data for the lawful purposes for which we obtained the data, or if it is necessary to do so to pursue our legitimate interest in keeping our services and operations safe and secure.
Because we want to avoid taking action regarding your personal data at the direction of someone other than you, we will ask you for information verifying your identity.
We will respond to your request without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request, which can be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.
We reserve the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested, if your requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character.
If you have any complaints regarding our privacy practices, you have the right to make a complaint with your national data protection authority (i.e., supervisory authority).
We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy unless a longer period is required under applicable law, or is needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights or otherwise to comply with legal obligations.
Where we are processing personal data based on our legitimate interests, we generally will retain the data for a reasonable period of time based on the particular interest, taking into account the fundamental interests and the rights and freedoms of the data subjects.
Where we are processing personal data based on your consent, we generally will retain the information for the period of time necessary to carry out the processing activities to which you consented, subject to your right, under certain circumstances, to have certain of your personal data erased.
Where we are processing personal data based on contract, we generally will retain the information for the duration of the contract plus some additional limited period of time that is necessary to comply with law or that represents the statute of limitations for legal claims that could arise from the contractual relationship.
We have designated a representative in the European Union for purposes of the GDPR. Our representative may be contacted by following the contact information located at the bottom of this page.
Accredicity (1) does not have annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars, (2) does not buy, receive, sell, or share for commercial purposes, alone or in combination, the personal information of 50,000 or more California consumers, households, or devices, and (3) does not derive fifty percent or more of its annual revenues from selling California consumers’ personal information. As such, Accredicity and this website are not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).
Accredicity adheres to the regulations and guidelines outlined in the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“FERPA” or the “Act”) which protects the privacy of student education records. Under FERPA, school officials may not disclose student education records, nor permit inspection of student education records, without written permission from the student (unless disclosure is allowed under certain exceptions covered in the Act), and students are permitted to inspect their education records. Accredicity may disclose, without consent, “directory information,”.
Under FERPA, education records are defined as records, files, documents, and other materials that contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a person acting for such agency or institution. The following are examples of student education records:
Under FERPA, students have the right to inspect and review their educational records within 45 days of Accredicity receiving a request for such an inspection. Students also have the right to request an amendment to their educational records if they are believed to be inaccurate or misleading, and the right to consent or revoke the disclosure of all or part of their education records, including directory information.
This website uses cookies as is common practice with almost all websites. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information cookies gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of this website’s functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this website. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your web browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
When you submit personal data to us through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by our third-party vendors. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this website.
This website uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web, to help us understand how you use the website and ways in which can improve your user experience. These cookies may track things, such as how long you spend on the website and the pages that you visit, so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the website is delivered. When we are still testing new features, cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the website while ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
Because we provide courses and program it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our website actually enroll as a students, and as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible user experience and tuition rates.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this website that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to buttons and/or plugins work, the following social media websites including; Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Vimeo, YouTube, and will set cookies through our website which may be used to enhance your profile on their website or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy (https://automattic.com/privacy/). After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We do track user data via our plugins and we securely store this information in your user profile on our encrypted server. We do store data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run absolutely on our site and store the data is in the database of our website.
We only collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data may includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.
Some plugin also depends on any third party service, they might track user data. This can happen in following two ways:
Some of our plugins have features to integrate embedded widgets as is, from third party services (like Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter Tweet official buttons).
Our plugins send request to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by web browser may include IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.
The Site uses Google (Google Workspace, Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts, Google Analytics) and YouTube Data API.
Learn more about YouTube’s Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms), Google Policies & Terms (https://policies.google.com/), and Google Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/).
If you are using social sharing feature of our plugins and you have enabled Linkedin Share official button, you can add following in the privacy policy of your website:
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our pages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy).
If you are using PayPal Standard or PayPal Reference transactions please see the PayPal Privacy Policy (https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full) for more details.
By making payments on this site, you may be storing personal data or sharing data with an external service such as Stripe. Learn more about Stripe’s Global Privacy Policy (https://stripe.com/gb/privacy).
We shall process your personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions are encrypted using SSL technology.
Where we have given, or you have chosen a password, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
You acknowledge that no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take these steps to secure your personal data, we do not represent or warrant that your personal data will always remain completely secure.
Some of our services may enable users to submit their own content. Unless otherwise indicated, please remember that any personal data you submit or post as user-generated content could become public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal, financial or other information in such submissions or posts. We cannot prevent others from using that information in a manner that may violate this Privacy Policy, applicable law or your personal privacy and safety. We will not be responsible or liable for any content you submit or post or for how such content may be used by others.
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be construed, as closely as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
We may update and change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy, so that you are aware of any updates or changes. By using our website(s), you are deemed to have accepted the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your use.
Accredicity welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy.
Please contact us at:
Accredicity
3113 Diamond Head Road, Suite D
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815, USA
Phone: (808) 212-9826
Email: support@accredicity.com
Effective as of January 16, 2019
Last Updated: March 18, 2021