Spectrum Privacy Policy
At spectrummedicine.com (“Spectrum”, “We”, or “Our”), we are committed to the protection of your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Policy is to describe what information we will collect, how we process and share it, and how you can manage and control the information we collect through Spectrum that is owned and controlled by us. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service carefully before using Spectrum and services. By continuously using Spectrum, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and trust us with your personal information. Policies regarding rights and obligations of Instructors will be based on the separate Instructor Agreement.
What Information We collect
When you visit or use Spectrum, we may collect below personal information from you:
- Personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, Email address, cellphone no., Facebook or Google account information);
- Personal description (e.g. date of birth, gender, place of birth);
- Financial identification (e.g. no. of your bank account and name);
- Financial transaction (e.g. transaction amount, payment methods, transaction record);
- Safety details (e.g. password);
- Device information (e.g. unique device identifiers, IP address, Cookies, browser type and geolocation information);
- Miscellaneous (e.g. questions, memos, other miscellaneous files, reports, messenger, comments.);
Spectrum abides by the privacy policies and advertising policies of Facebook and Google. The personal information collected from you is only used for services provided by Spectrum.
When you make a purchase on Spectrum, your billing data is provided directly to our payment processing partners, including but not limited to Stripe, ECPay, LINE Pay and Razer. We do not collect or store cardholder information.
If you participate in sweepstakes or promotions through services on Spectrum, the personal data you provide, such as contact information, will only be used to administer the promotion.
Cookies
Spectrum uses Cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser or mobile device. They store certain information which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our website.
There are different functions of the cookies:
- Strictly Necessary cookies: Those are cookies enable you to move around Hahow and use our features. Without these cookies, we are unable to provide certain features.
- Security cookies: Those are cookies we used to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
- Function cookies: Those are cookies allow our website to remember your preference, your language, the type of your mobile device and other information to provide the best user experience.
- Analytics cookies: Those are cookies we used to understand how you engage with our website, how we can improve our website to provide better service.
- Advertising cookies: Those are cookies we used to provide accurate marketing, for example, based on your previous interactions with Hahow and provide you most relevant classes information for your reference.
How We Use the Information
Spectrum uses your personal information to provide and maintain Spectrum and our services together with the technical support and security of our service.
When you are using our service, we will collect, process, and utilize your personal information for academic management, performance analysis, and research purposes, including but not limited to submitting assignments, recording attendance, and interacting with instructors.
To achieve the aforementioned purposes, we combine data collected from different sources or obtained from third parties to provide you with a smoother, consistent, and personalized experience, as well as other legitimate purposes. We process personal data based on these purposes, including automated and manual (human) processing methods. Automated methods include artificial intelligence (AI), which we consider a set of technologies that enable computers to perceive, learn, reason, and assist in decision making in a way similar to humans. In order to construct, train, and improve automated processing methods (including AI) accuracy, we manually review some of the predictions and inferences generated by the automated methods based on the underlying data.
Spectrum uses a third-party browser and mobile analytics service called Hotjar, which helps us analyze the user experience on Spectrum. The data collected by Hotjar includes clicks, taps, keyboard and scrolling behavior. This information is only used for optimizing our user experience and performance. No sensitive information is collected.
The collected data is transmitted and stored in Hotjar’s servers. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country), preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar uses third-party services like Google Analytics and Optimizely, which may collect your browsing information. To learn how Google Analytics and Optimizely use the data, please refer to the privacy policies on their websites. For further information, please visit Hotjar’s Privacy By Design (https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/). You can opt out from Hotjar’s tracking procedure to use your data for analytics or enrichment, by visiting: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002735873-How-to-Stop-Hotjar-From-Collecting-your-Data.
Confidentiality and Security of Personal Information
Spectrum will not disclose your personal information to any third party, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, or unless such disclosure is necessary as permitted by applicable law or to save you or others from potential threat. Where Spectrum cooperates with a third-party service, the third party’s privacy policy will apply.
If Spectrum is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Spectrum will use industry standard security measures to keep your personal information confidential. However, no methods of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
Shared Content
The information collected by Spectrum will be stored in the host and country where we operate. Parts of user activity and services will allow you to share content publicly. By participating in these activities, you agree that such content be publicly viewable by others. Users who enroll in courses and submit assignments agree to share these contents publicly.
Privacy Policy Update
Spectrum may update this Privacy Policy from time to time . Unless otherwise stated, all revised terms will automatically take effect from the posting date, please check back periodically.
Your Personal Information Rights
You can access your personal information at any time and make possible correction. If you would like to exercise any of your rights (including but not limited to delete any personal information, provide you a copy of the personal information we obtained from you or restrict our usage to the extent practicable), please contact us at [email protected]. However, if such requests are impracticable or are against applicable regulations, we will have to suspend or discontinue our services.
We will keep your information as long as we are still in business, or until you send us a request to delete your account.
Third Party Links
Spectrum may contain third-party links. If you click on any third-party links, the collection, use, and sharing of your data will be subject to the privacy policies and other agreements of that third party, therefore, you should review the privacy policies on the third party’s website accordingly. We are not responsible for the privacy practice of third-party’s websites.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected].