Last Updated: September 23, 2024

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Your privacy is important to USPA, Inc. d/b/a USPA Live. This Website Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) explains the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you our website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Notice does not apply to information collected through any other means, including on any other website operated by a third party. Please read this Notice carefully. If any term in this Notice is unacceptable to you, please do not use our Website or provide us with any personal information. In this Notice, when we talk about “Personal Information,” we mean any information that is related to an identified or identifiable natural person.

This Notice does not apply to any products, services, websites, mobile applications, or content (including advertising) offered by third parties or that may be linked to or from the Website. Data collected by these third parties is covered by their own privacy notices.

Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information from you:

• Personal details: Name, email address, telephone number, country of residence, date of birth, job title, and company name;
• Account information: Account login credentials such as username and password;
• Device and other automatic information: IP address, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with a website, application, or advertisement. For more information, see “Information We Collect Automatically About You” below; and
• Communications: We may record our communications including chat messages and phone calls, such as when you utilize our chatbot or provide us with feedback.

Information We Collect Directly From You
We may collect Personal Information that you provide to us when you use our Website or interact with us. For example, we may collect information when you browse through the Website, register or create an account, make an information request, or when you otherwise interact with us and provide your information via our Website.

Information We Automatically Collect About You
As with many websites, when you interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect and log certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website (e.g., traffic data, logs, other communication data, and resources that you access and use on our Website), information about your computer, mobile device, and internet connection (including your IP address, operating system, and browser type), and location data, which we collect to ensure you reside in a jurisdiction in which you are eligible for using our Website, to comply with relevant laws, and for fraud prevention purposes.

Cookies
We use various types of cookies on our websites to provide enhanced functionality and improve the user experience. We may store cookies (e.g., locally stored objects) on your device when you use our Website. These technologies help us speed up your future activities and improve your experience by remembering the information that you have already provided to us. Third parties operating on our behalf, such as Google Analytics, may also use these technologies to provide us with anonymous data and information regarding the use of our Website. You may block or delete these technologies from your device. However, by disabling such technologies, you may not have access to the entire set of features of our Website. For more information about cookies, including links to web browser instructions for disabling and managing such technologies, please consult our Cookie Policy https://gouspa.org/cookie-policy and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/.

Information We Collect From Other Sources
We may collect Personal Information about you from our affiliates and our partners and their service providers and contractors. We also may obtain information you have made publicly available, including from websites and online services you use, consumer research platforms, and/or business contact databases.

We may collect Personal Information for the following purposes:

• Provide our Website and its contents to you;
• Provide or improve the services requested by you, including in the context of your relationship with us, and perform our contractual obligations;
• Fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information (e.g., to respond to your email or request for information);
• Communicate with you about our Website or to provide you with information or marketing materials, including promotional offers, that may be of interest to you;
• Send you transactional or relationship messages, such as account notifications, responses to your inquiries, and other administrative messages;
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Website;
• Comply with the law, and protect or defend our interests or the interests of users of our
• Website if permitted by law or required to do so by law, court order, or government regulations or where we believe such action is necessary;
• Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases, other technology assets, and business;
• System administration and to monitor the use of our Website; Any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent; and
• Disclose to third parties for the performance of services provided to us, including third party providers of services related to the operation and management of our Website, or in connection with the administration and support of the activities noted above

We may disclose information about you as follows and as otherwise described in this Notice or at the time of collection:

• With companies and vendors that perform services for us, including email service providers, fraud prevention vendors, analytics providers, advertising partners, and other service providers;
• To accountants, auditors, lawyers, and other outside professional advisors to USPA, subject to appropriate contractual obligations of confidentiality;
• Where required by law, court order, or subpoena if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law or legal process or where necessary to prevent, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses or to protect the rights, property, and safety of USPA Live or others;
• In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company;
• Between and among USPA and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership; and
• With your consent or at your direction.

We may also process and disclose information to third parties if the information has been de identified or aggregated in a way so it cannot be used to identify you.

We use reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Information. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet.

USPA is concerned about the safety and privacy of children online. We take reasonable efforts to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) as well as state specific laws that provide privacy protections for K-12 students.

The Website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under the age of 13, and we do not and will not knowingly contact or collect Personal Information from children under 13. The only Personal Information we receive about children under the age of 13 is information provided by the parent or legal guardian. By providing information to us about a child, a parent is consenting to the collection of that information.

It is possible that by fraud or deception by others we may receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If we are notified of the receipt of information under such circumstances, once verified, we will promptly obtain parental or guardian consent, and in the absence of such consent, will delete the information. If you want to notify us that we have inadvertently received information for a child under the age of 13, please do so by emailing us at dataprotection@inspiredonlineschools.com.

You can request to review, edit, or prohibit Personal Information of a child under the age of 13 from being used by USPA Live, its affiliates, schools, and service providers acting on behalf of

USPA by making a request in writing to dataprotection@inspiredonlineschools.com. Please note that if you make a request to prohibit Personal Information from being used by USPA Live, its affiliates, schools, and service providers acting on behalf of USPA Live, it will not be possible for your child to participate in an USPA Live program.

For information on our use of information covered by COPPA, please contact us using the methods described in Section 10 “How to Contact Us.”

The Website is operated from the United States and intended for users located in the United States. If you are located anywhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including Personal Information, will be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your Personal Information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. By using the Website or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage of your information in the United States.

The Website may contain content, services, advertising, and other materials that link to external websites. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content of any such external website. Please refer to the terms of use and privacy notices of the external website for more information.

This Notice is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Notice. We may change this Notice from time to time. Your access of the Website after such change will be deemed acceptance of the new Notice.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or about exercising your rights, you may send an email to dataprotection@inspiredonlineschools.com or call us at 202-996-0713. You may also write to us at: USPA Live, 1775 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 5200, Tysons, VA 22102.

Promotional Emails. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails or by logging into your account and managing your contact preferences. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

Marketing Phone Calls/Text Messages. With your consent, we may engage in marketing and other automated communications, which may include phone calls and text messages made using an automatic telephone dialing system or artificial prerecorded voice. You are not required to consent to such communications as a condition of purchasing products or services, and you may revoke consent at any time by contacting us via the methods described in Section 10 “How to Contact Us.”

Push Notifications to Mobile Devices. With your consent, we may send promotional and other push notifications to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (Civil Code Section 1798.100, et seq.) (“California Law”), provides eligible California residents with specific rights with respect to our collection, retention, disclosing, selling, sharing, and use of Personal Information. This section on Additional Information for Residents of California supplements this Notice and applies solely to eligible residents of the State of California. Any terms used but not defined in this section have the same meaning as defined in California Law.

Collection of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have collected categories of Personal Information as discussed in Section 1 “Your Information We Collect” from the sources of Personal Information as discussed in Section 2 “How We Collect Your Information.” The business or commercial purpose for collecting that information is disclosed in Section 3 “How We Use Your Information.”

Disclosure of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have disclosed your Personal Information for a business or commercial purpose described in Section 3 “How We Use Your Information” to the categories of third parties described in Section 4 “With Whom We Disclose Your Information.”

Sales and Shares of Personal Information

We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary profit. However, we engage in certain information disclosure activities that may be considered “sales” or “sharing” under California Law. In the last twelve (12) months, we have sold or shared the following Personal Information:

We do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of consumers under 16 years of age.

California Privacy Rights
California Law provides consumers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. The following section describes your California Law rights and explains how to exercise those rights. Your California Law rights include the:

• Right to Know or Access: Request that we disclose to you your Personal Information that we collected, used, disclosed, shared, and sold.
• Right to Delete: Request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Identity Verification”), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
• Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: Request that we correct any of your Personal Information that we maintain about you that is inaccurate.
• Right to Opt Out of Sales or Sharing of Personal Information: We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary profit. However, we may engage in certain information disclosure activities that may be considered “sales” or “sharing” under California Law. If we sell your Personal Information to or share such information with third parties, you may have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of such information. To exercise the right to opt out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by visiting the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information https://gouspa.org/consumer privacy-request-form link on the homepage.If you have an opt out preference signal enabled (e.g., the Global Privacy Control), you will automatically be opted out of the sale or sharing of your information, but we may ask you to confirm your preference if you have previously consented to the sale or sharing of your Personal Information. To download and use a browser supporting the opt-out preference signal, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to you the opt-out preference signal, you will need to enable it for each supported browser or browser extension you use.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for choosing to exercise any of your rights. If you exercise certain rights, understand that you may be unable to use or access certain features of the Website.

Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your California privacy rights, please submit a request by using the interactive form described in this section, available at https://gouspa.org/consumer-privacy-request-form or by contacting us via the methods described in Section 10 “How to Contact Us.”

Identify Verification
We may require you to prove your identity to exercise certain rights. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, your telephone number, email address, and/or date of last communication with us. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity. We will only use Personal Information provided in your consumer request to verify your identity or authority to make the request.
Only you, your parent, guardian (if you are under 13 years or age), conservator, a person to whom you have given power of attorney, or an authorized agent may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may, however, make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child if necessary. Your verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative. We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for your right to access twice within a 12-month period.

Data Retention
We retain your Personal Information so long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed. When determining the retention period, we take into account criteria, such as the type of services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, use of our Website, and the impact on the Website functionality if we delete your Personal Information.

Your Rights Under “Shine the Light”
In addition to your rights under California Law, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request information regarding our disclosure, if any, of their Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If this applies, you may obtain the categories of Personal Information disclosed and the names and addresses of all third parties that received Personal Information for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2024 will receive information about 2023 sharing activities). To make such a request, please provide sufficient information for us to determine if this applies to you, attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may make this request in writing by contacting us via the methods described in Section 10 “How to Contact Us.”

The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) provides eligible Texas residents with specific rights with respect to the Personal Information, also known as personal data, that we collect about you. This section on Additional Information for Residents of Texas supplements this Notice and applies solely to eligible residents of the State of Texas. Any terms used but not defined in this section have the same meaning as defined in the TDPSA.

Your TDPSA rights include the:

• Right to Know/Access. You have the right to confirm whether we process your Personal Information and access such Personal Information. You also have the right to obtain your Personal Information in a portable, and to the extent reasonably feasible, readily usable format that you can transmit without hinderance.
• Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information you have provided to us or that we have otherwise obtained about you.
• Right to Correct. You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing of your Personal Information.
• Right to Opt Out. You have the right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for the purposes of (i) targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of your Personal Information and (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
• Right to Appeal. You have the right to appeal our decision with regard to your request to exercise any rights described herein.

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your TDPSA rights. To exercise the rights described in this section, please submit a consumer request to us by using the interactive form, available at https://gouspa.org/consumer-privacy-request-form, or by contacting us via the methods described in Section 10 “How to Contact Us.”