This Privacy Policy explains how B4MBA.com (“Basics for Management and Business Administration.com”, “Eightb Limited”, “we” or “us”) collect, use and share personally identifiable information of visitors of our web site and users of our products and services (the “Services”). Please note that the primary purpose of our site and the Services it to allow you to enroll and take online courses on a variety of courses and lessons. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, information that you provide through the site can be in one of two categories: information relating to your use of the Site or the Services, including, without limitation, enrollment information for lessons and/or courses, is referred to as “Site Information,” while information relating to taking the Courses, including, without limitation, correspondences with an instructor(s), other students (“Users”), answers, discussions, chats, essays and other items submitted to satisfy lessons/course requirements, is referred to as “course Information.” When this Privacy Policy uses the generic term “information” it is intended to address the general use of information, and not your specific site information or course Information. By using the Site, Services, lessons, or courses you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personally identifiable Site Information and lesson/course Information, as applicable, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

1. Information Collected and How it is Used.

You can browse (“visit”) the site without sharing any personal identifiable information about yourself. The site does not collect personal information from its visitors (“browsers”) without the visitor providing us with this information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

If you wish to receive information about “us”, request information about specific services, or provide comments about a Service(s), you will be asked to provide relevant information so that we can contact you and attend to your request. We will use this site Information to accomplish your request. We can also use this Site Information to send you any supplementary information about our services; lessons or Courses on the Site that we think may be of interest to you.

Some of our services may require that you are a registered user and will need to create a valid (non-malicious) user account. This will require that you provide certain personally identifiable information; that may include (but not limited to) your (and if you are enrolling as part of a group/bulk subscriber or purchaser) account holder, school or company’s name, valid e-mail address, as well as telephone and address information.

You allow us to use this personally identifiable site Information to register you to gain access to course resources, associated services, enroll for lessons, and otherwise provide you with the services; check and verify your authority to enter the site and access the lessons, courses, and services; notify you of any updates; improvements or additions made to the content and general administration of the Site and the Services; provide you with notices regarding the Services and other services that you have purchased or those you may subscribe to (or purchase) in the future.

You also consent to our providing this personally identifiable information to any learner support, the site supports, or instructors (where applicable) as part of the lesson/course Information when you enroll. Learner support, site supports, or instructors (where applicable) will only use this course Information to fulfill the course requirements you purchased. Learner support, site supports, or instructors may have other reasonable uses for your course Information. It is your responsibility when you enroll for a lesson or course to approve what uses learner support, site supports, or instructors will make of your personally identifiable Course Information.

2. Apart from personal information, other types of information we Collect and How We May Use It.

We may also automatically collect and analyze information about your general usage of the Site, Services, and Courses. We may use cookies (a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive). Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. We might track your usage patterns to see what features of the Site, Services, and Courses you commonly use, Site traffic volume, frequency of visits, type and time of transactions, type of browser, browser language, IP address and operating system, and statistical analysis information about how you use the Services and Courses. We only collect, track, and analyze such Site Information in an aggregate manner that does not personally identify you. Our intention is to use this aggregate data to assist us in operating the Site and the Services and provided to other third parties to enable them to better understand the operation of the Services and improve the offerings stated on the Site, but such information will be in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable data.

Learner support, site supports, or instructors may collect non-personally identifiable Course Information in an attempt to link your engagement in lessons and courses. This Course Information may include (but not be limited to), all/any interaction with learner support, site supports, instructor(s) and/or other Users, comments you leave on course forums, answers or essays you submit to satisfy Course requirements, and so forth. As noted above, it is your responsibility to review the relevant policy associated with all lessons or Course Information and decide whether or not you want to provide such information.

3. Users and Learners.

B4MBA.com requires its users and learners to be at least 13 years old before they can create an account to purchase and access our content (learning resources). Our courses are targeted at users (learners) that are adults with a reasonable level of legal capacity to enter a contract (browse a list of courses, decide which meets their needs, and authorize payment/make a purchase). This process will involve collecting information from a user/learner. But, we recognize that the information age encourages all inquisitive minds regardless of age especially Non-Adults (“children”). So, we take the privacy interests of Non-Adults (children) seriously and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. We do not knowingly collect personal information from Non-Adults. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a Non-Adult, we will delete such information. Children under the age of 13 may not register for an account or register for or purchase Courses. Individuals under the age of 18 may only use the Services with the involvement, supervision, and approval of a parent or legal guardian.

4. Disclosure of Information.

We reserve the right to share personally identifiable site Information gathered with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. These include (but not limited to), sharing site Information with our service providers, learner support, site supports, or instructors to allow them to fulfill your requests. We may also share (where applicable) your personally identifiable site Information with your account owner (e.g. school, employer, or the like) if you are enrolled through a group/bulk subscription as an employee or part of a student cohort. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Please refer to the sections above on personally identifiable and other lesson/course Information for how lesson/course Information may be used.

We may also disclose your personally identifiable information:

• if we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an investigation of governmental authority,
• to enforce our “Terms of Use“, or
• to protect the safety of other Users (learners) of our site.

We also reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor (partner) entity in the evidence of a merger, consolidation, or legal reorganization of the business operations. Our Site, your use of the Site, and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

B4MBA.com aims to provide you with outstanding service and make your experience (when using our resources) as close as possible to your expectations. We use vendors and service providers. We share information, including nonpublic Personal Information, with third parties that perform services on our behalf so we can provide and improve our services. For example, we may disclose Personal Information for customer support by third parties. These third parties must abide by this Privacy Policy and keep nonpublic information confidential and use it only for its intended purpose.

5. Data Retention.

We retain Site Information and the personal data we process on behalf of our learners (“Users”) for as long as needed to provide any of the Services we offer. We will hold and use this personal site Information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements with our Site Users, and/or the period required by laws as applicable in the United Kingdom. Our company is registered in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland – the registration number is 07203833. Please see the sections above for how we use Information gathered from the lesson(s)/course(s) you purchase or access on our website.

6. Users’ choice to Request Information, Opt-out, Update, make Corrections, and/or Delete your Information.

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the site, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information used by anybody but our site for direct marketing purposes
• if you have previously permitted the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please send us your request with an appropriate subject line (see link below).

If you believe that B4MBA.com holds any incorrect or incomplete Information (Site and/or Course) that was provided as part of our Services, you may use the Services to make corrections or delete that information. Please contact us as soon as possible. We can only alter the Course Information that was initially provided to us. From time to time, we may send our Users e-mail regarding new or modifications to lessons, courses, and/or Services that we believe might interest you. You may opt-out from receiving these messages, you can do this by following the unsubscribe process provided in the email.

7. Security and Information Safety

We are committed to ensuring that your personal information (which is important to us) is secure. We employ practical and technological measures to protect your personally identifiable information. These measures are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We may use software; secure socket layer technology (SSL) encryption, password protection, firewalls, internal restrictions, manual authorization process, and other reasonable security measures to assist and prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. Nonetheless, B4MBA.com cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties (malicious, denial of service, and the like) will never be able to undermine these measures or use your personally identifiable information for improper purposes. Therefore, you should be aware that when you voluntarily display or distribute personally identifiable information, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for the unauthorized use by third parties of information you post online, which you did not secure or otherwise readily available to the public.

8. Links to Other Websites.

The Site, Services, and in particular the lessons/courses, may provide hyperlinks to other websites or resources not associated with us and over which we do not have control (“External Sources”). Such hyperlink(s) is not an endorsement by us of any External Sources, the content displayed within it, or the entities (legal or otherwise) associated with it. Thus, you acknowledge that we are only providing these hyperlinks to make your learning more convenient, and cannot be responsible for the content of any External Sources.

9. Changes to Content on the Site.

We reserve all right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on this Site located and will either send a notice to the e-mail address that you provided to us during your registration process and/or post notice of the change(s) visibly when learners/users log-on for the first time prior to said changes taking effect so that you are always aware of what personal information we may collect and how we may use this information. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us.

We welcome all your feedback, comments, or questions concerning our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy, click here.