Privacy notice

Our statement

Last updated: September 17, 2024

Please read the following statement of our intentions and commitments to our users regarding personal information. If you wish to contact us regarding this policy or our use of your personal information, please call or write using the information below.

Soomo Learning
1200 Ridgefield Boulevard, Suite 225
Asheville, NC 28806
(888) 834-7223
info@soomolearning.com

Personal information we collect and why

Instructors

• Name: This allows your students to correctly identify you in a list of courses offered.
• Email address and password: These make up the personal credentials you’ll need to sign in to our site.

Students

• Name: This allows your instructor to identify you in the class roster.
• Email address and password: These make up the personal credentials you’ll need to sign in to our site.
• Credit card info: For purchase, we collect credit card and billing address information. Our secure form communicates directly with our CC authorizing service, Authorize.net. Your information is not stored on our servers.

Shopping at webtexts.com

You can shop at www.webtexts.com with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to accept credit cards and electronic check payments safely and securely for our customers.

The Authorize.net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See how payments work.

The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions,
• industry-leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information, and
• compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.net Privacy Policy.

Our site, www.webtexts.com, is registered with the Authorize.net Verified Merchant Seal program.

We will not sell or share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties.

How we use your personal information

• Your email address and password will be used to identify you as an authorized user of our services.
• Your email address may be used to transmit your password to you upon request or to communicate with you about access to your course.
• The contact and financial information you provide when you purchase a subscription will be used to complete that order.
• We may also use or disclose information to resolve disputes or investigate problems. We may disclose or access information whenever we believe, in good faith, that the law so requires.

Anonymous information

We use non-identifying information to better design our service and to share with third parties for the purposes of product development, research, or statistical analysis. This is information that does not personally or specifically identify you but is derived from your use of our site.

Log files

We automatically receive and record certain technical information from your browser as you use our platform, including your IP address, to improve the functionality of our platform and provide customer support.

When we collect your IP address, we combine it with other information submitted by your web browser, such as the identity of the documents you request from our servers. This information is stored in access logs, which we analyze to determine trends, identify and address harmful behaviors, perform troubleshooting, and comply with applicable laws.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer to maintain an uninterrupted transaction with our services. Usage of a cookie by our website is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If you reject the cookie, you will not be able to use our web-based services.

Legal disclosure and information

Soomo Learning may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Soomo Learning, or (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Soomo Learning.

Links

Our website contains links to other sites. Soomo Learning is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

Children under 13

We have no means of determining the age of individuals who access our website, and so we implement the same privacy policy for individuals of all ages. If a child has provided us with personally identifying information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information.

Notification of changes

Soomo Learning reserves the right to modify any of our policies at any time. We will post a notice of any changes on our website. As a result, you will always be apprised of what information we collect, why we collect the information, and how we use the information.

Your consent

By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information in the manner described.

Questions

Should you have questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at info@soomolearning.com.