VeDA Privacy Policy
Last Updated September 1, 2020
Who is VeDA
VeDA is a global consulting, training, coaching, assessment, and research enterprise, facilitating vertical development in individuals, teams, and organizations. We apply our Leadership Maturity Framework in concert with our Harvard-tested Maturity Profile to support our clients in all phases of life-long development. We also train and certify leaders and coaches to work with their teams or clients, using a sophisticated and nuanced developmental coaching approach. VeDA has the largest global database of developmental assessments for leaders using the MAP instrument, administered by highly trained certified raters.
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") will help you understand how VeDA ("us", "we", "our") uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use veda.thinkific.com ("Website").
This Policy is an integral part of the Terms and Conditions under which you may use this Website and how VeDA may use your information. We encourage you to review the following information carefully.
Changes
VeDA reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Policy. VeDA will notify users of changes to this Policy via a notice on the website. It is your responsibility to check this Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Policy constitutes acceptance of those changes. VeDA may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Policy.
What User Data We Collect
The data we collect can include the following:
Name and contact data. Your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
Demographic data. Data about you such as your age, gender, country, and preferred language.
Payment data. Data to process payments, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number) and the security code associated with your payment instrument.
When you visit the Website, we may collect the following data:
Your IP address.
Data profile regarding your online behavior on our Website.
When We Record Meetings/Webinars
We record many programs and webinars to provide to attendees after the fact, and/or to create short training or promotional materials. If you do not want your video or audio recorded, you must alert the presenter before recording begins. We also record the chat messages and questions which are collected during programs and webinars. If you comment using the chat feature, your comments will be recorded. If you put a question in the Q&A panel, your question will be recorded. We will not use your video, audio, likeness, comments, or questions for any purpose unless we receive express permission from you for the intended usage.
Why We Collect Your Data (what we use it for)
We collect your data for several reasons:
To better understand your needs.
To improve our services and products.
To send you the details of programs for which you register.
To complete payment for programs that you buy.
To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.
Sensitive Personal Data
Certain types of personal information are considered ”sensitive” under applicable data protection laws and are subject to heightened protections. For example, personal data about an individual’s race or ethnic origin, sex life or sexual orientation, and physical or mental health are considered sensitive. VeDA does not collect any such sensitive personal data on the Website. When you engage in taking the MAP Assessment, your personal data is covered under a different agreement.
Data Security
VeDA has implemented measures designed to secure personally identifiable information emailed to it or received through its Website from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All personally identifiable information given to VeDA is stored on the secure wpengine platform, mailchimp campaign platform, Webconnex (Regfox), Thinkific, and Google Drive.
Unfortunately, transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure. Although VeDA does its best to protect personally identifiable information given to it, VeDA cannot guarantee the security of such information transmitted to VeDA through email. Any transmission of personally identifiable information to VeDA is at the risk of the party transmitting such information. VeDA is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on this Website.
Links to Other Websites
Our Website contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links VeDA is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this Policy. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you go to from our Website.
Your Rights Restricting the Collection of your Personal Data
You have the right to:
Request information about what personal data we are processing about you and request a copy of these records (right of access);
To get inaccurate or incomplete personal data corrected and in some cases request us to delete your personal information;
Receive personal data concerning you transferred to an another data controller (right to data portability);
Whenever you want, withdraw your consent;
To oppose the processing of certain personal data and request that the processing of personal data be restricted; and
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Please contact VeDA using the contact details provided on our Website if you wish to exercise your rights.
Do Not Track
VeDA does not track its customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Third parties do not have content embedded on VeDA’s Website Third parties cannot collect any other personally identifiable information from VeDA’s websites
For More Information
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact VeDA by sending an email to [email protected] or a letter to VeDA 14732 Skyline Blvd, Woodside, CA 94062