Modification Date: March 28, 2023
Data Controller
Manuel Macias Martin
Calle Olivo 8
18220 Albolote (Granada)
Spain
You can contact us at any time by sending a message to manuel@herrprofessor.com.
A. What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?
Personal data is information that can be used to identify you such as your name, IP address, and email address. We process personal data from you in a number of ways including:
(1) Email Newsletter subscription: Your name and email address.
(2) Purchases: Your name, email address, and credit card information although we use a third party known as SamCart to collect and process this data.
(3) Log in: Your name, email address, and password when you log in to your account.
B. What Is The Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data?
We collect the information above for the following purposes.
(1) Email Newsletter Subscription: Your personal data is used to send you emails with free German lessons to help you improve your German and promotional emails to offer you premium paid courses you might be interested in to take your German to the next level.
(2) Purchases: Your personal data is used to process payment and provide you the premium paid courses.
(3) Log in: Your personal data is used to provide access to your account.
C. What Legal Basis Do We Have For Collecting and Processing Your Information?
Websites must have a legal basis for collecting information from individuals located in the European Union. Our legal basis for each of the ways we process your data is as follows.
(1) Email Newsletter Subscription: A legitimate interest exists for providing you with content (to improve your German) you expressed your interest when you subscribed to our newsletter.
(2) Purchases: We process your data as part of an allowed contractual transaction.
(3) Log in: A legitimate interest exists for allowing you to access your account. We consider the processing of your login information a legitimate interest because when you seek to login, you expect us to collect information to allow you access to the system and we have a legitimate interest in allowing customers access to their accounts.
D. Who Has Access To The Data We Collect?
We process and access your data as described above through the help of third parties that have the digital infrastructure that we do not and without whom we would be unable to provide the content on our homepage including:
- LeadPages for collecting your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter;
- HelloBar for collecting your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter;
- ConvertKit for email and customer management to send our newsletter emails;
- SamCart for process purchases of our paid courses;
- PayPal for process transactions;
- Stripe for billing your credit card;
- WishList Members for creating your student’s account
- Soundwise for creating your account on our app
These third parties have made contractual promises to not use your personal data in any manner we do not authorize.
E. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies to track you. This tracking is done to provide you with ease of use such as expediting the login to your account, as well as provide us with information on how people move about the site, what is of interest to them and what is not, and incidental items such as what percentage of users access the site from a personal computer versus a mobile phone. You may block most cookies by adjusting your browser settings as well as responding to the cookie consent notice that appears when you first visit this site.
F. How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
We keep your personal data for different periods of time depending on the reason it was gathered in the first place.
(1) Email Newsletter Subscription: We will hold customer service personal data for a period of four years which covers the statute of limitations should a legal dispute arise between you and us. At any time you can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button you can find at the bottom of each email we send.
(2) Purchases: We keep your payment data via a third party process for as long as you continue to be a paid user of our premium courses. Once this is no longer the case, we will hold your information for an additional four years as part of our tax records should an audit arise.
(3) Login: We will maintain your login data for as long as you are a paying user of our premium courses.
G. Your Right To Ask For Corrections, Erasure, And Other Actions
We want YOU to have control over your data. You have the right to see all the data we have for you, ask for the corrections to the data, ask us to erase the data, object to how we use your data, ask that the data be exported, and ask that we stop automatically processing the data in particular manners. Although we have certain rights to limit your control of data, we believe it is YOUR data so we will liberally comply with your requests whenever possible. We are not a data mining company trying to monetize your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at manuel@herrprofessor.com.
H. Your Right To Withdraw Consent
We want to emphasize that wherever we’ve asked for your consent to collect or process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent. You can contact us at manuel@herrprofessor.com.
I. Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints
You can contact us with any questions or requests you have about these policies or your personal data by contact us at manuel@herrprofessor.com. If, after contacting us, you feel a privacy issue has not be resolved, you have the right to file a complaint with a Supervisory Authority such as the Data Protection Commissioner of Spain.