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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 18, 2021.

Our Commitment to Privacy

At Winnova Management Inc. (“Winnova“ or “we”), we respect your privacy and confidentiality regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. The privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. We are committed to keeping the personal information you share with us, whether over the Internet or on the telephone, confidential. We created this policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy and security. This privacy policy document describes the types of personal information that is received and collected by Winnova and how it is used. This Policy is designed to comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). We ask that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Your Acceptance of these Terms

By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Information Collected

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Like most website operators, we collect non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site and the date and time of each visitor request. Winnova’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Winnova visitors use its websites. From time to time, we may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of this website.

Potentially-Personally Identifying Information

We also collect potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Winnova’s blogs/website. Winnova only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/website where the comment was left.

Personal Information We Collect and How It is Used

We collect personal information for various reasons. Certain visitors to Winnova websites choose to interact with Winnova in ways that require us to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Winnova gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Why We Ask for Your Personal Information

We ask you for information to establish and serve you as our client. The information we ask for depends on the products or services you request. With your consent, we may use certain information to provide you with information about Winnova and its products and services. This consent is optional, and you can decide to withdraw your consent at any time.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

Winnova discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that: (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Winnova’s behalf or to provide services available at Winnova’s websites and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country. By using Winnova’swebsites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

We will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, we disclose potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when webelieve in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Winnova, third parties, or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a Winnova website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Winnova and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Registration

We may ask visitors who sign up at our website to provide a name, username and email address in order to access various parts of our websites and services. Those who engage in transactions with Winnova are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Winnova. We do not disclose personally identifying information other than as described above. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Private Information and Data Security

For your safety and protection, we do not store your credit card information on our servers. Our payment gateway provider keeps this information encrypted and secure on your behalf. Services and websites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third party hackers from illegally obtaining this information.

Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. It is Winnova’s policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore, we restrict our website to persons eighteen years or older.

YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEBSITE FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.

Public Comments

You may leave comments on forum posts. Please remember that any information you may disclose in any Member Directory, or other public areas of our websites or the Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas. The information can be viewed by anyone online including family, friends, the media, investigators and potential employers conducting background checks.

Log Files

Like many other websites, we make use of log files. The information inside the log files includes: internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to our websites. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally identifying information other than as described above.

Cookies

Winnova uses “cookies”, a standard technology that installs information on a visitor’s computer to permit our website to recognise future visits by that computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help Winnova identify and track visitors, their usage of Winnova websites and their website access preferences. Winnova visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Winnova websites, with the drawback that certain features of Winnova websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Winnova and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Your Right to Withdraw Consent

Although this is mentioned above, we want to emphasize that wherever we’ve asked for your consent to collect or process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you receive email messages from us, you can use the “unsubscribe” link in each message to withdraw consent and stop the mailings. Alternatively, you can contact Don Back at don@phdcareeracademy.com with your request.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact Don Back at don@phdcareeracademy.com with your request.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Winnova may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and in Winnova’s sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Winnova website account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. Therefore, we request that you consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.

Last Updated: June 18, 2021.