Bagel Institute

Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 17, 2023

This privacy notice for Bagel Institute (“Bagel Institute”, “we”, or “us”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and process personal data.

Bagel Institute has two types of users: “teachers,” a who have the ability to create classes, ask questions of their classes, and receive questions from the students in their class; and “students,” who have the ability to join classes, ask questions of their teachers, and receive questions from the teachers in their class to gauge their understanding of material.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

The personal information we collect may include the following:

We do not process any sensitive information (as per the GDPR Article 9), and you should not input such information into Bagel Institute. We do not rent, buy, or sell personal information.

As a user, you may create classes as a teacher or join classes as a student. When a student asks a question, answers a question, or otherwise inputs information into a class, their identity is associated with this information, regardless of the anonymity settings of the class. Depending on the anonymity settings of the class, a student’s identity may not be revealed to classmates, the teacher, or both. We make a “best effort” to anonymize student identities when the class’ settings are such, but we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so in all cases.

How We Process Your Information

We process personal data for a variety of reasons.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your information with trusted parties in order to deliver our products and services to you. These parties include:

We require these parties to agree to take reasonable steps to keep the Personal Data that we provide to them secure. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your Personal Data except in connection with providing their services.

We do not sell your information to any third parties or disclose it in exchange for money or other valuable consideration. We do not share your Personal Data with others except as indicated within this Notice, or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Data shared.

In the event of a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our company, we may share or transfer your information to the acquiring company.

Transfer Of Data Internationally

Our application and database servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing Bagel Institute from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information in the United States, and other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK), then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law.

Your Privacy Rights

You have the right to:

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with these laws. If you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. However, we encourage you to reach out to us first so we can work to resolve the matter with you.

Your Account

In order to keep your Personal Data accurate and complete, you can log in to review and update your account information, including contact and billing information, via your account settings page. We will do our best to honor your requests subject to any legal and contractual obligations. If you would like to make a request, cancel your account or request we delete or no longer use your account information to provide you our Website, contact us at [email protected].

Cookies

You may also refrain from providing or may withdraw your consent for Cookies via your browser settings. Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all Cookies, to notify you when a Cookie is issued, or to not receive Cookies at any time. Please keep in mind that Cookies are required to authenticate Bagel Institute users, so in order to use the Website, some Cookies are often required. For further information, see our Cookie Policy.

Security Measures

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. For example, your information is stored on secure servers that have extremely limited access by staff of Bagel Institute. We also use encryption when transmitting your information between your system and our servers.

We take the security of your personal information very seriously. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from Bagel Institute is at your own risk. You should only access Bagel Institute within a secure environment.

Policy Regarding Children

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. The Website is meant to be used by college students of age 18 and older. By using Bagel Institute, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of Bagel Institute. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at [email protected].

Changes to this Notice

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by a revised “Last updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information. If you continue to use Bagel Institute after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised Notice.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Notice or any other matters, please contact us at [email protected].