Privacy Policy

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information.

This information is primarily needed to:

• Maintain the security and operation of our Services
• Optimize the user experience and content delivery
• Analyze usage patterns and improve our Services
• Develop new products, services, and features

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find out more about this in our Cookie Policy section.

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We use the information you provide to create and manage your account with us.
• To deliver services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service, including course delivery, progress tracking, and certification.
• To respond to user inquiries and offer support. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
• To send administrative information. We may use your personal information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To send marketing and promotional communications. We may use your personal information for marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
• To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
• To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
• For other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience.

We may share your data with third parties in the following situations:

• 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.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts.
• Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
• Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Depending on where you reside, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal information.
• 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.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• 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.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Additionally, you can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing emails we send you.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

We will do our best to protect your personal information. Transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

Our Services are primarily operated and managed on servers located in Ethiopia. If you are accessing our Services from outside Ethiopia, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information, in Ethiopia and other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

When we transfer your personal information internationally, we implement appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable data protection laws to ensure your personal information is adequately protected.

Our Services are not directed to children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, please do not provide any personal information on our Services. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. 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. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Services and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
• Preferences Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.
• Statistics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized.
• Marketing Cookies: These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Services.

For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: privacy@jedancodeacademy.com
• By phone: +251 11 661 2345
• By mail: Jedan Code Academy, Bole Road, Friendship Building, 4th Floor, Suite 401, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia