Edventures (“We”, “Us”, “Our”, “Edventures”) is a provider of software and content designed to improve your business idea(s) and project(s), your knowledge about entrepreneurship and related topics as well as to support teachers and coaches in their work with helping entrepreneurs by offering insights and analytics.

At Edventures, the importance of your privacy is obvious to us. We understand that you entrust Us with certain private information to help Us provide various functionalities and services that helps you grow and learn as an entrepreneur. That’s what Edventures is all about – making your dreams come true. To do so, we need to handle a lot of data, and some of that data will be coming from you. It is therefore essential that you understand what kind of personal information We collect and why. For purpose of clarity, We have users and customers that use different functionalities of our Services, but both adhere to this Privacy Policy. Under no circumstances will Edventures sell or share any personal information about you to, or with, any person or organisation except: (i) it is necessary to provide the Edventures services you are requesting, (ii) you have given your consent to the processing, (iii) we are otherwise authorised to do so under the data protection laws, or (vi) as otherwise set forth herein. By using or accessing the Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and that you consent to that We will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways. Remember that your use of the Services is at all times subject to the Terms of Service (“Terms”), which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms We use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in Terms, which you’ll find here. The Privacy Policy below describes the standards We live up to in handling information about you and any personal information you submit through the Services and sets out the various purposes for which We may process your personal data. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If such changes are material, a notice of the changes will be posted along with the revised Privacy Policy, prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to visit this page from time to time for the latest on our privacy practices.

There are different legal grounds on which we rely on to use your personal information. The use of your personal information described herein may be necessary to perform the agreement you have with us. For example, to give you access to the Services, to register and maintain your account, to enable advisory guidance and help, to help with support issues and to make sure that the Services performs as intended or to respond to your requests. We may also use your personal information for Our legitimate interests. For example, we rely on Our legitimate interest to analyse and improve the Services, to send you notifications about software updates or information about the Services or to use your personal information for administrative or legal purposes.

There are several areas on the Services where you may be asked to enter both personal and non-personal information. To use the Services, you'll need to provide certain personal information which may include, without limitation, your name, password, address and email address. We may also collect certain sensitive information from you including date of birth, gender, personal identification number, business idea(s) and personal needs, interests and goals as well as other User Generated Content. If a user connects to the Services using credentials from a third party (e.g. Google, Facebook or LinkedIn), the user will provide Us with authentication information such as encrypted access credentials. We may also collect other information available on or through the user’s third party account, including, for example, name, profile picture and email address. Please note that We will never steal or try to execute any idea(s) submitted by you through the Services. Your idea is your idea, and Our business is to support your idea. Remember that execution of an idea is what makes the difference, which is what the Services can help you with. In order for Us to ensure that We are providing the best possible consumer experience through the Services, We collect and track certain user and customer information, without limitation, such as IP address, geographic location as indicated by the IP address and Device information. We collect certain information from and about the Devices that you access the Services from and We combine this information across different Devices you use. The device information also helps us conduct user research across our customer demographics, interests and behavior. None of this information may identify you personally. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe Our Services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes. When you access the Services, Our web servers send a cookie to your Device. This cookie stores a limited amount of information about your site visit and tracks aggregate information on how the Services are being used. This includes, without limitation, session counts, navigation patterns, pages visited and geographic location as indicated by your IP address. If you choose to set your web browser to not accept cookies, we can’t guarantee that the Services will work as intended due to this lack of information required. We also utilise web logs to track aggregate information about how the Services are being used. Web logs track anonymous user information, including the number of visitors to the Services, operating systems, IP address (if publicly available), and browser type. Unlike cookies, web logs are maintained only on Our servers and do not store or place anything on your computer.

We use data to, without limitation, provide, operate, support and improve the Services, to ensure that you and third parties get the best experience possible and to respond to customer enquiries, diagnose the Services problems and provide other customer care and support services. This processing is necessary for the performance of the agreement we have with you, as well as to serve our legitimate interest, and aims to benefit you in both the long and short run. We use data to protect the security and safety of, without limitation, Our users, customers and the Services, to detect and prevent fraud, to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. In addition, We may disclose account or other personal information when We have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with Our rights or property, other users or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interest. We use the data we collect to deliver and personalise our communications with you. For example, we may contact you by email or other means of electronic communication (including through the Services) to, without limitation, inform you about feature, security or software updates. This processing is necessary to serve our legitimate interest. Your User Generated Content created while using the Services will not be shared with any third party, with the exception of summaries and excerpts generated from your User Generated Content which might be shared with user(s) you’re affiliated with, through the profile sharing feature. This might only happen if you have any affiliations in the Services and We will never sell your personal data or conversation history to any third party not affiliated with you. We collect only information you intentionally provide through the Services (such as your profile information, business idea(s) and goal(s) that you provide to Us upon registration), as well as some technical information coming from your Device. We do this to support both entrepreneur and admin users to improve their chances of creating viable businesses together. We use aggregated information to make the Services better, to conduct research and for marketing and sales purposes. By understanding how Our users use the Services and by conducting research on the aggregated information, We aim to help more budding entrepreneurs. For these purposes, We only use information at an aggregated level, never on an individual level. In short, we use the unidentified aggregated information and categorise it. For example, if you submit to the Services that you "have a good business idea" and what the idea is, we only categorise that event as "business idea" and what kind of business idea. This categorisation means that the Services can ask relevant supplementary questions. By first processing your information so that it can no longer be linked to you, which happens automatically and without interference by any person, and then merge your information with other users' information, We get something called aggregated information. The aggregated information never contains images, personal names and phone numbers or email addresses, information that otherwise could be linked to you.

It is necessary for us to use third party services, such as Google Cloud Platform (“GCP”) servers to run the Services, XXXXX to understand the use of the app and develop it further, and YYYYYY to give us feedback directly on the Services. These third party services will need to process information about you. Please note that we are always responsible for your Personal Information and other information, and that no third party service is granted any additional rights than We obtain under this Privacy Policy. We use GCP servers located in ????. In cases where your personal data are subject to transfer outside the European Union and European Economic Area (“EEA”), we guarantee that security measures are taken for such transfer. Examples of such security measures under applicable data protection laws are the establishment of personal data agreement and certification (e.g. EU-US Privacy Shield for transfers to the United States) and the Standard Contractual Clauses as approved by the European Commission. The Services may contain links to other websites that are owned and operated by third parties that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave the Service to read the privacy statements of other websites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website and does not govern activities on linked websites or applications. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any other website or application you visit, download or access to understand its owner's practices on how it collects, uses and discloses your information. Please note that you may have cookies placed on your computer by third party websites that refer you to our Service. Although We do not share your personal data with these third party websites unless it is reasonably necessary to offer the Service, they may be able to link certain non-personally identifiable information we transfer to them with personal data they previously collected from you. Please review the privacy policies of each website you visit to better understand their privacy practices. In addition, We would like to inform you that anytime you click on links (e.g. advertising banners), which take you to third party websites, you will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies. Depending on your Subscription Plan, the Services may contain links to other sites operated by third parties. We do not control such other sites and are not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of personal data, including any personal or financial information collected by Our third party payment processor to process payments for subscription purchases. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such sites or of their owners or operators except as disclosed on the Services. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.

While no system is completely secure, We take precautionary measures to help prevent loss, theft, misuse and unauthorised access of any data and personal information. We will retain your personal information for as long as we deem it necessary to enable you to use the Services, to provide the Services to you, to comply with applicable laws (including those regarding document retention), resolve disputes with any parties and otherwise as necessary to allow Us to conduct our business. When you enter any information Our site, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We use 128-bit data security encryption so all information sent between your Device and the Services remains private and secure.

For purposes of clarity, you are entitled to terminate your Edventures account at any time. At that point all information connected to your account will be anonymised. However, binding legal requirements may require that We store certain information for various periods of time. In order to comply with these regulations, We may be unable to delete information from Our databases. You can always alter the User Account information you have submitted when creating your User Account, simply by visiting your profile on the Services. We may alter, modify or delete any information you submit to the Services if we believe, at our sole discretion, it is necessary or desirable to do so. We want you to be in control of how your information is used by Us. Subject to local law, you can do this in the following ways: • You can, at anytime, see and download a PDF of the information We hold about you by visiting your profile in the Services; • You can, by visiting your profile in the Services, correct any of the personal information We hold about you; • in certain situations, you can ask Us to erase, block or restrict the information We hold about you, or object to particular ways in which We are using your personal information; and • in certain situations, you can also ask Us to send the personal information you have given us to a third party. We rely on you to ensure that your personal information is complete, true, accurate and current and We are always using your personal information on the basis of your consent. You are entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. Moreover, where We process your personal information based on legitimate interest or the public interest, you have the right to object at any time to that use of your personal information. We are committed to handle any request, complaint or concern that you may have about Our use of your personal information in a fair and transparent way. If, however, you believe that We have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you may have the right to file a complaint with the data protection authority in your country (if one exists in your country) or supervisory authority.

Children are not eligible to use our Services and we ask that individuals under the age of sixteen (16) to not submit any personal information to Us or use the Services. Although visitors under the age of sixteen (16) are prevented from accessing the Services, we cannot guarantee that individuals under the age of sixteen (16) might still access the Services by providing inaccurate and false information upon registration. We do not knowingly collect or request personal information from those under the age of sixteen (16) without parental consent. If, following a notification from a parent, guardian or discovery by other means, a child under sixteen (16) has been improperly registered on our Services by using false information, we will cancel the child's account and delete the child's personal information from our records. Other age restrictions may be set forth in our Terms from time to time

Occasionally we may make changes to our Privacy Policy, for example to reflect changes in the Services or regulatory requirements. When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the last update date at the top of the page. If there are major changes to the Privacy Policy or in how We uses your personal information, We will inform you either by posting a notice of such changes, prior to them taking place, or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Policy to learn more how We are using and protecting your information.

If you have any questions about the use of your personal information, please send us an email to hello@edventures.ai.