Privacy Policy

The Gentleman’s Academy International Privacy Policy

Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep Your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect Your privacy:

  1. We do not rent or sell Your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
  2. We do not share Your contact information with another User without Your consent.
  3. Any personally identifiable information that You provide will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.

We provide this Privacy Policy to inform You of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of the personal and other information we receive from Users of TheGentlemansAcademy Site.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will handle Your information in accordance with the version that was in place when You submitted it. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify You here, by email, or by means of a notice on the home page of the Site. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use. By continuing to use TheGentlemansAcademy Service after notice of changes have been sent to You or published on TheGentlemansAcademy Site, You are consenting to the changes.

The purpose of TheGentlemansAcademy Site is to provide its Users with access to online training courses.

You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow You to benefit from The GentlemansAcademyInternational Site and Services. If You have any hesitation about providing such information to us or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, You should not become a User of The Gentleman’s Academy International.

The GentlemansAcademy Site and Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy applies solely to The Gentleman’s Academy International Site. The Site may contain links to third party sites that are not owned or controlled by The Gentleman’s Academy International. The Gentleman’s Academy International has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party site. You agree that You are responsible for reviewing and understanding the privacy policies (if any) of any third party sites You may access through this Site. By using this Site, You release The Gentleman’s Academy International from any and all liability arising from Your use of any third party site to which this Site may be linked.

Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve the Service, the Site and the related features, to administer Your subscription and to enable Users to enjoy and easily navigate the Site. Below are the types and categories of information that we collect.

Personal Information Collected

We collect Your personal information in the following ways:

Account

Apart from the free use of the Services, Users of TheGentlemansAcademy Service have the opportunity of establishing TheGentlemansAcademy account. When creating your account You benefit from number of different Services we provide to help You take advantage of our unique online training courses.

In this respect You are required to provide the following contact information, which You recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including The Gentleman’s Academy International, to identify You: email address (i.e. username) and a password chosen by You. It is important that you must keep your TheGentlemansAcademy account password secure and confidential.

Log Data

When You visit the Site or use the Service, whether as a TheGentlemansAcademy Registered User or a non-registered User just browsing our servers TheGentlemansAcademy automatically records information about Your use of the Service and Your visit to the Site ("Log Data"). The Log Data may include information such as Your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, Your browser type, what Software You were using, the web page You were visiting immediately prior to visiting our Site, pages of our Site that You visited, the time spent on those pages, information You searched for on our Site, access times and dates, and other statistics. We use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Site and the Service and for the Site's technical administration, to improve our Site's functionality and User-friendliness, and to better tailor it to our visitors' needs. We also use this information to verify that Users of the Service meet the criteria required to process their requests.

Cookies

Like most Sites, TheGentlemansAcademy uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on Your computer which allows TheGentlemansAcademy to recognize You as a User when You return to TheGentlemansAcademy Site using the same computer and web browser. If Your browser settings do not allow cookies, You will not be able to use TheGentlemansAcademy Site. Like the information You enter at registration, cookie and log file data is used to customize Your experience on our Site.

One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once You’ve logged in to Your The Gentleman’s Academy International account. The next time You visit TheGentlemansAcademy Site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize You as an existing User so You will not need to log in before using the Service.

Additionally, if You log out of TheGentlemansAcademy Site You will need to re-enter Your password the next time You visit in order to log in to Your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to TheGentlemansAcademy Site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when You close Your web browser.

We use cookies to improve the quality of our Service by storing User preferences and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing Services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on Your browser. Any information provided to third parties through such cookies will not be personally identifiable. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but You can reset Your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Unfortunately, if Your browser settings do not allow cookies or You opt to refuse all cookies, You may not be able to use TheGentlemansAcademy Site or Services. The Gentleman’s Academy International does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies.

Log files, IP addresses and information about Your computer

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when You visit The Gentleman’s Academy International Site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which You came and the site to which You are going when You leave TheGentlemansAcademy. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of Your computer (or the proxy server You use to access the World Wide Web), Your computer operating system and type of web browser You are using, email patterns, as well as the name of Your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve TheGentlemansAcademy Service. The linkage between Your IP address and Your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without Your permission or except when required by law.

The Gentleman’s Academy International Communications

The Gentleman’s Academy International will communicate with You through email and notices posted on The Gentleman’s Academy International Site or through other means available through the Service, including text and other forms of messaging. The Gentleman’s Academy International may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major The Gentleman’s Academy International changes or for customer service purposes). If we send any communications to You via the carrier service with which You have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, You understand You will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text messaging charges for messages to Your mobile device). Please be aware that You will always receive certain emails from The Gentleman’s Academy International related to the proper functioning of Your account. You can change Your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into Your account and amending Your email notification choices. By clicking "Sing up" during the registration process, You also consent to receive commercial or marketing messages from The Gentleman’s Academy International and/or Partners in Your email.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Gentleman’s Academy International takes the privacy of Users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide Your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share Your personally identifiable information with third parties to carry out Your instructions or to provide specific Services or information. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these Services and they are bound by confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our Services to third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on The Gentleman’s Academy International.

Phishing

Identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great concern to The Gentleman’s Academy International. Safeguarding information to help protect You from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request Your credit card information, Your account ID, login password in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication.

Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information

We may share aggregated information that does not include personal Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain Your personal Information.

International Transfer

Your information may be transferred to "and maintained on" computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to such transfer.

Links to Other Sites

Our Site contains links to other web sites. If You choose to visit an advertiser by clicking on a banner ad or other type of advertisement, or click on another third party link, You will be directed to that third party's web site. The fact that we link to a web site or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party web sites. These other web sites may place their own cookies or other files on Your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from You. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information You submit to them. We encourage You to read the privacy policies or statements of the other web sites You visit.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the information You provided us and make any desired changes to them, or to the settings for your TheGentlemansAcademy account including Your email at any time by logging in to Your account on The Gentleman’s Academy International Site. Please be aware that even after Your request for a change is processed, The Gentleman’s Academy International may, for a time, retain residual information about You in its backup and/or archival copies of its database. We take Your rights seriously and encourage You to use them if You deem this to be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by emailing us at support@thegentlemansacademy.com

Deleting Your Account

You can also delete Your account through The Gentleman’s Academy International Site, in which case you can still use The Gentleman’s Academy International, but The Gentleman’s Academy International may not be able to provide certain Services to you. If You delete your TheGentlemansAcademy account, we may retain certain data contributed by You if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. In order to delete your account please visit “Delete Account” section associated with Your account.

Your Obligations

As a User, You must, at all times, respect the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. This includes respecting all intellectual property rights which may belong to third parties.

Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of Your account by The Gentleman’s Academy International, as we take these principles seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to The Gentleman’s Academy International Site and the Services which it offers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Gentleman’s Academy International may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about You and Your account.

If You use The Gentleman’s Academy International Service after notice of changes have been sent to You or published on our site, You hereby provide Your consent to the changed practices.

Security

We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of Your unencrypted electronically stored "personal data" (as defined in applicable laws related to security breach notification) to You via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

Data Retention Policy

The Gentleman’s Academy International may retain Your account information indefinitely, regardless of whether You have disabled Your The Gentleman’s Academy International account on the Site. The Gentleman’s Academy International will retain Log Data consistent with applicable legal requirements. Generally, at a minimum, The Gentleman’s Academy International will retain the Log Data collected from You in its active, internal company databases for six months, at which point it will migrate such Log Data to its offline archival systems, where The Gentleman’s Academy International will retain the Log Data for a period of three years (together, the "Retention Period"). After the Retention Period, The Gentleman’s Academy International will purge the Log Data from its systems. In the event of an investigation by law enforcement or a response to claims or legal process, we may retain the Log Data until such investigation or process is completed, which may be longer than the Retention Period.

The administrator of your personal data is The Gentleman’s Academy International, a company incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg, with its registered office in Luxembourg, 5, Rue Jean-Monnet, L-2180 Luxembourg, Tax identification number: VAT LU 24917867.

Statement

The Gentleman’s Academy International hereby declares as follows:

  1. All data provided in the Register Form will be processed in order to allow the use of The Gentleman’s Academy International Site.
  2. All personal data transferred to TheGentlemansAcademy will be stored by TheGentlemansAcademy in The Gentleman’s Academy International’s database.
  3. The Gentleman’s Academy International shall ensure the safety of Users’ personal data and he has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures, in particular to protect the personal data to be processed against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing. These measures ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected having regard to the state of the art.
  4. You have the right to verify, review and correct your personal data processed by The Gentleman’s Academy International, which also requires you notify The Gentleman’s Academy International any changes thereof. The right can be exercised by you independently introducing changes in the Register Form of your account or by sending a relevant request to the following address support@thegentlemansacademy.com
  5. You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data, giving The Gentleman’s Academy International a notice to that effect. Though you provide your personal data to The Gentleman’s Academy International voluntarily, refusal to provide them renders entry into the agreement with The Gentleman’s Academy International and access to The Gentleman’s Academy International Site impossible.
  6. The Gentleman’s Academy International shall have the right to disclose the personal data only to the authorities entitled under the provisions of the law in force (e.g. a court, the police), in cases specified in the Terms and Conditions and resulting from the law in force.
  7. After reviewing the above Privacy Policy, by using TheGentlemansAcademy Site, especially by clicking "SIGN UP" during the registration process, you hereby:
    • Consent to the processing and use by The Gentleman’s Academy International all the personal data provided to The Gentleman’s Academy International, including data obtained as a result of your use of The Gentleman’s Academy International Site, for the following purposes:
      1. registration in the Site (possibility of using the functionalities offered by the Site; a User is a party to the agreement of a Site provided by electronic means);
      2. processing complaints;
      3. replying to correspondence sent by contact form or an e-mail;
      4. technical operation of the Site;
      5. maintaining the Site statistics;
    • Consent to transfer of your personal data abroad, and in particular to The Gentleman’s Academy International affiliated companies or associated entities, with their registered office outside Luxembourg, for the purposes of processing in computer systems belonging to The Gentleman’s Academy International and its business partners. You understand that the above entities may be located in countries that do not guarantee the same level of personal data protection as the level guaranteed in Luxembourg.
    • Agree that your consent remains valid for the entire period of your use of TheGentlemansAcademy Site.
    • Declare and confirm that you have read Terms of Use, you understand them and you will comply with them, both in its current wording and with any later amendments.

How to contact us

If You have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please email us at contact@thegentlemansacademy.com