TEXAS COFFEE SCHOOL PRIVACY POLICY

LAST MODIFIED: December 5, 2024

The previous version of our Privacy Policy can be located here.

Protecting your personal information is our priority. As such, Texas Coffee School (“us,” “we” or “our”) has created this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) in compliance with applicable law and in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of your information. This Policy describes how Texas Coffee School collects, uses, discloses, transfers, stores, retains or otherwise processes your information when you (whether in your individual or business capacity) access or use our Internet domain(s) owned or operated by Texas Coffee School, including, but not limited to texascoffeeschool.com or other similar means (each a “Website”). We operate our Website primarily to market, administer and provide our coffee related classes and courses (our “Services”).

When we refer to “you” or “your,” we mean the person about whom we collect personal information or data. If the person accessing the Website does so on behalf of, or for the purposes of, or benefit of, another person, including a business or other organization, “you” or “your” also means that other person, including a business organization, if applicable.

Please read this Policy carefully. Our Policy includes:

1. General Disclosures
2. What Information We Collect And Disclose And For What Purposes
3. Cookies Policy
4. Personal Information Relating To Children
5. How Long We Retain Your Information
6. Marketing And Promotional Communications
7. Integrations And Links To Other Websites
8. Security
9. Your Privacy Rights
10. How To Submit A Request
11. Changes To This Privacy Policy
12. Contact Us

GENERAL DISCLOSURES

This Website is hosted in the United States.  If you are visiting this Website from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your information it is being transferred to, stored or processed in the United States where our data center and servers are located and operated. The United States may not have privacy laws that are as strong or comprehensive as the privacy laws in your own country. If you are outside the United States and do not wish to allow the transfer of your personal data to the United States, you should not use this Website and you should opt-out of the collection of cookies by following the guidelines in our section titled How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies. For more information about how we utilize cookies, view our Cookies Policy.

This Policy applies only to Texas Coffee School’s Website and Services, and not to other companies’ or organizations’ websites, mobile applications and services to which we link. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or the content of other websites, including any websites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with us (such as co-branded pages or “in cooperation with” relationships). To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the companies with whom you engage.

We take your privacy and the protection of your personal data seriously. We will only store, process and disclose your personal data where we have your consent or in accordance with the law. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.  We do our best to protect your privacy through the appropriate use of information security measures.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND DISCLOSE AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES

In the course of performing our Services, we collect a variety of different kinds of personal information from a variety of different individuals. What information we collect and the purposes for which it is collected will depend on the context of our activities or the Service that is being performed. Therefore, just because this Policy lists a particular data collection practice does not mean that we have necessarily collected that data from you. Instead, please review the applicable disclosures below to learn about how we may have collected personal information from you depending on how you have interacted with us.

When you visit or use the Website, we may collect your:

• Online identifier information, such as your internet protocol (IP) address and other unique identifiers (like cookies);
• Geolocation information;
• Internet activity information, such as the sub-pages you look at and how you interact with our Website; and
• Device information, such as your operating system, browser and other technology on the devices that you use to access the Website.

We collect this information in order to:

• Provide you with access to the Website;
• Secure our networks, systems and databases against external threats;
• Perform general Website analytics and monitor Website usage;
• Advertising and market our Services; and
• Develop, maintain and enhance our Website.

We may disclose this information to our:

• Our service providers (marketing services vendors and providers, security monitoring providers, data analytics providers, database and hosting vendors); and
• Entities that operate plug-ins or social media features on our Website.

If you sign-up for our Services through our Website, we may collect your:

• Identifier information, such as your full name;
• Payment information, such as your payment card information; and
• Contact information, such as your billing address, phone number and e-mail.

We collect this information in order to:

• Develop, maintain and enhance our Services;
• Communicate with you about our Services (such as requested cost estimates);
• Enroll you and provide you our Services;
• Process transactions with you;
• Contact you with information about our Services; and
• Market our Services as well as related services and products by sending our newsletters, updates, marketing communications, and other information that may be of interest to you.

We may disclose this information to our service providers (course and class review providers, marketing services vendors, security monitoring providers, data analytics providers, payment processing vendors, database and hosting vendors, e-mail communication vendors).

We may disclose your identity and contact information to our sponsors and our product and services partners.

If you apply for a position with Texas Coffee School through our Website, we may collect your:

• Identifier information, such as your full name;
• Contact information, such as your physical address, phone number and e-mail; and
• Professional and prior employment information, such as your resume, CV, educational background and professional background.

We collect this information in order to evaluate you for employment or partnership with Texas Coffee School.

We may disclose this information to our service providers (human resource platform and providers and database and hosting vendors).

Other disclosures of your personal information

In addition, any information you provide may be disclosed to other entities in the circumstances described below:

• To our auditors. We may be subject to audits from a number of entities as well as due to our own internal auditing policies. In order to accomplish an effective audit, we must provide information, which may include your personal information, to external auditors. We always ensure that your information is safely disclosed and stored and that auditors can only use your information for the purposes of completing an audit.
• To individuals or entities you authorize. We may disclose your personal information to individuals or entities at your direction.
• To our affiliates. We may share your personal information with our affiliates for the purposes of administering our business and providing our Services.
• In corporate transactions. We may share all or part of your personal information with other entities in connection with the sale, assignment, merger or other transfer of all or a portion of our organization or assets to such entities (including due to a sale in connection with a bankruptcy).
• For legal purposes. We may disclose all or part of your personal information to courts, litigants, regulators, arbitrators, administrative bodies or law enforcement when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to resolve actual or suspected claims. We may also disclose your personal information in order to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating any agreement with us, or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other users of the Website, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose information in response to a subpoena, search warrant, in connection with judicial proceedings, or pursuant to court orders, legal process or other law enforcement measures.

Further, we may collect personal information from you in the form of cookies. For information regarding how we collect, process and disclose personal information in the context of cookies, view our Cookies Policy.

Deidentified and Aggregated Information

We may process your personal information into aggregated, anonymized or de-identified form for any purpose. Aggregated, anonymized or de-identified information is information that can no longer reasonably identify a specific individual and is no longer “personal information.”

COOKIES POLICY

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.  There are several types of cookies:

• Session cookies provide information about how a website is used during a single browser session while a user is visiting a website. Session cookies usually expire after the browser is closed.
• Persistent cookies remain on your device between different browser sessions for a set amount of time in order to enable the website to remember user preferences, settings, or actions across other sites. A persistent cookie will remain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie.
• First-party cookies are cookies set by the operator of the website you are visiting.
• Third-party cookies are cookies set by third parties that are different from the operator of the website you are visiting.

Our collection of cookies

We may send a cookie which may be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive.  We use this information for the following purposes:

• Assist you in navigation of the Website;
• Improve the functionality of the Website;
• Store login details for our secure sites;
• System administration;
• Reporting information for research purposes; and
• Assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts for our Services.

We also may use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this Website, to improve the Website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our Website, and to personalize our Website for you.

Cookies and information captured through this Website is stored for a certain retention period, however, you can eliminate these cookies any time before the expiration date.

We, our marketing partners, affiliates, and analytics or service providers use cookies and other similar technologies. We group the cookies that we collect into the following categories based upon their function (note that all types of cookies, as described above, may be found in each category):

Third-party cookies

The Website allows third-parties to place cookies on your Internet-connected device in order to deliver advertisements based upon your web-browsing habits and history. Further, in order to provide interoperability and plug-ins from various social media websites (like Facebook), the Website allows these third-parties to place and collect cookies on your Internet-connected device. However, you can restrict the third-party collection of cookies through the instructions provided in the section How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies below.

Analytics

We may use service providers to provide site metrics and other analytics services. These service providers may use cookies (see above); web beacons (also called clear GIFs or pixels), which are small blocks of code that allow us to measure the actions of visitors using Texas Coffee School’s sites; and other technologies to collect information, such as your IP address, identifiers associated with your device, other applications on your device, the browsers you use to access our sites and Services, webpages viewed, time spent on webpages, links clicked and conversion information (e.g., transactions entered into). This information may be used by Texas Coffee School and its service providers on behalf of Texas Coffee School to analyze and track usage of our sites and Services to determine the popularity of certain content and to better understand how you use our sites and Services.

We use Google Analytics on the Website to analyze how individuals use the Website. We will package up information about how individuals interact with our Website and send it to Google Analytics to be processed into reports. This information includes basic pageviews and visit data such as device type, operating system, and browser type. When Google Analytics processes data, it aggregates and organizes the data based on particular criteria like whether a user’s device is mobile or desktop, or which browser they’re using. If, at any time, you choose not to participate in the use of analytics software, please use your web browser’s available opt-outs as described in the section How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies.

Advertising

We use remarketing with our service providers to advertise online. Their services may come from sites such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Adroll, and any other display advertising partner to advertise on third-party websites to previous visitors to our site. These vendors may show our ads on websites across the internet.

We also have partnered with third-party advertising networks that collect information about your online web browsing habits to serve you with interest-based advertisements. The information collected about you to serve these ads can include your IP address, unique online identifiers, your activity on our sites and information about your operating system, browser and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the sites.

For example, we use Google Analytics Advertising cookies to identify what advertisements you see when you browse the Internet and how you have interacted with them. We may use this information for our own advertising or it could be pooled together by Google from your interactions with other websites to determine what kind of advertisements you may see on the Internet.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking across websites. Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a website should respond to this signal, so we do not take any action in response to this signal. Texas Coffee School does not have a mechanism in place to respond to DNT signals. Instead, in addition to publicly available external tools, we offer you the choices described in this Cookies Policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.

Third-Party/Embedded Content

These cookies are set by third parties whose content is embedded in Texas Coffee School’s websites (e.g., video). They may track your online activity in order to enhance your experience or assess the success of their application. We have no direct control over the information these cookies collect. Please review the third party’s privacy policy and privacy settings before clicking on embedded content in our site.

Social Media Plug-ins

These plug-ins allow us to integrate social media functions into Texas Coffee School websites and may also be used for advertising purposes by those social media companies. If you visit our Website while logged into your social media accounts, information about your visit to our Website, your social media identifier and information about your browser may be provided to those third-party social media companies. You should review the privacy policy of any social media entity with whom you have an account to learn about how they may use your data.

How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies

You can opt-out of the tracking of your online behavior by:

• Visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website opt-out page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices;
• visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) opt-out page: http://www.aboutads.info/; and
• downloading and installing the Google browser plug-in from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings through the following:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Opera
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)
• Chrome for Android

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of the Website. Additional general information about cookies, including how to be notified about the placement of new cookies and how to disable cookies, can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org. Alternatively, you may visit the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s website www.consumer.ftc.gov to obtain comprehensive general information about cookies and how to adjust the cookie settings on various browsers.

PERSONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILDREN

It is our policy to refrain from knowingly collecting or maintaining personal information relating to any person under the age of 18. The Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) regulates online collection of information from persons under the age of 13. Therefore, if you are under the age of 18, please do not supply any personal information through the Website. If you are under the age of 18 and have already provided personal information through the Website, please have your parent or guardian contact us immediately using the information provided under Contact Us so that we can remove such information from our files. Please delete all Texas Coffee School related cookies and restrict further collection of cookies using the methods outlined in the section How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies in our Cookies Policy.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION

We may retain your personal information for a period of time that is consistent for us to perform our Services, as well as to comply with applicable law, applicable statute of limitations and our data retention practices. We may also retain your personal information as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process or governmental request, to detect or prevent fraud, to collect fees owed, to resolve disputes, to address problems, to assist with investigations, to enforce other applicable agreements or policies or to take any other actions consistent with applicable law. Cookies are stored on your own device. You can find out more information about the retention of cookies in our Cookies Policy.

MARKETING AND PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

You may opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional messages from us, if those messages are powered by us, by following the instructions in those messages. If you decide to opt-out, you will still receive non-promotional communications that are necessary in the performance of our Services.

INTEGRATIONS AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES

This Policy applies only to our Website, and not to other companies’ or organizations’ websites to which we link from our Website. Texas Coffee School is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites or organizations, including any websites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with us (such as co-branded pages or “powered by” or “in cooperation with” relationships). Other linked websites may collect personal information from you that is not subject to our control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the websites you may visit.

SECURITY

We take reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We hold information about you at our own premises and with the assistance of service providers. Further public disclosure here of our security measures could aid those who might attempt to circumvent those security measures. If you have additional questions regarding security, please contact us directly using the information provided under Contact Us.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Your California Shine-The-Light Privacy Rights

Residents of the State of California may ask us to provide them with a list of the types of personal information that we have disclosed during the preceding year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and the identity of those third parties. If you are a California resident and would like such a list, please contact us at the addresses provided in the Section How To Submit A Request.

For all such requests, please indicate “CA Shine the Light” in the subject field of your request and include the name of the Texas Coffee School Service with respect to which you are requesting the information.

Information Sharing With Our Sponsors and Partners

If you would like to request that Texas Coffee School no longer share you identity and contact information with our sponsors or partners, please contact us at the addresses provided in the Section How To Submit A Request. For all such requests, please indicate “Opt-Out” in the subject field of your request and include the name of the Texas Coffee School Service with respect to which you are submitting the requesting.

To opt-out of online tracking, see How To Opt-Out Of Tracking And Restrict Cookies in our Cookie Policy.

HOW TO SUBMIT A REQUEST

You can submitting a written request by mailing us or sending us a message through the Website. Please be as specific as possible in your request so that we may respond appropriately and timely.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may amend this Policy at any time by posting revisions on our Website. We display an effective date on this Privacy Policy at the top of this Privacy Policy so that it will be easier for you to know when there has been a change. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your use of the Website constitutes acceptance of the provisions of this Privacy Policy and your continued usage after such changes are posted constitutes acceptance of each revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised Privacy Policy, please exit the Website immediately. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Website, or your dealings with the Website, you can contact us.

CONTACT US

Please submit all complaints or other inquiries regarding personal information and this Privacy Policy by contacting us.