Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 8/18/2026
Last Updated: 8/18/2026
S.A.V.E. YOURSELF ACADEMY (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of our customers, course participants, website visitors, and organizational clients.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, purchase or participate in our online training courses, communicate with us, or otherwise use our services.
By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following types of information:
Information You Provide
This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Employer or organization
- Job title or department
- Billing information
- Account username or login information
- Course registration information
- Communications you send to us
- Customer service inquiries
- Survey or feedback responses
Course and Training Information
When you participate in one of our online courses, we may collect information such as:
- Course enrollment
- Course access dates and times
- Course progress
- Modules completed
- Quiz or assessment results
- Completion status
- Certificates earned
- Account activity
- Login information
- Other information necessary to administer and document training
If your employer or another organization purchased your Course access, certain training and completion information may be made available to that organization.
Automatically Collected Information
When you use our website or online training platform, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Course access activity
- Date and time of access
- Referring website
- General geographic information derived from an IP address
- Cookies and similar technologies
This information may be used for security, system administration, analytics, troubleshooting, fraud prevention, and enforcement of our licensing requirements.
2. How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Create and manage user accounts
- Process course registrations and purchases
- Provide access to training
- Track course progress and completion
- Issue certificates of completion
- Provide customer support
- Communicate about accounts, purchases, or training
- Respond to questions and requests
- Maintain and improve our website and training platform
- Protect our intellectual property
- Identify suspected account or credential sharing
- Verify compliance with Course seat and licensing requirements
- Prevent fraud or unauthorized use
- Maintain security
- Comply with legal obligations
- Enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements
- Maintain appropriate business and transaction records
Where permitted by law, we may also use contact information to communicate about additional training opportunities, products, services, or Company updates. Recipients may opt out of promotional email communications using the unsubscribe method provided in those communications.
3. Organizational Customers
Businesses, educational institutions, government entities, nonprofit organizations, houses of worship, and other organizations may purchase Course access for their employees, students, members, volunteers, contractors, or other authorized users.
When an organization purchases or administers your training, we may provide authorized representatives of that organization with information reasonably related to its training program, including:
- Enrollment status
- Course progress
- Completion status
- Completion dates
- Assessment or quiz results, where applicable
- Certificates of completion
- Other training administration information
Organizations may also provide us with personal information about individuals they wish to enroll in training.
The organization’s own privacy practices may also apply to information it collects or receives. We are not responsible for an organization’s independent use of information after it has been provided to that organization.
4. Payment Information
Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors.
Depending on how our payment system is configured, we may not directly receive or store complete credit or debit card numbers. Payment processors may collect and process payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.
We may retain transaction information such as purchaser name, billing contact information, transaction amount, purchase date, invoice information, and payment status for legitimate business, accounting, tax, and legal purposes.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website and training platform may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep users signed into their accounts
- Remember preferences
- Maintain website functionality
- Understand website usage
- Measure performance
- Improve our services
- Maintain account and platform security
- Detect unauthorized access or account sharing
Some cookies may be provided by third-party technology or service providers.
Where required by applicable law, users will be provided appropriate choices regarding nonessential cookies.
6. How We May Disclose Information
We do not sell personal information for money.
We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to operate our business, including to:
Service Providers
We may use third-party companies to provide services such as:
- Website hosting
- Learning management systems
- Cloud storage
- Payment processing
- Email delivery
- Customer relationship management
- Analytics
- Cybersecurity
- Technical support
- Accounting and business administration
These providers may receive information necessary to perform services on our behalf.
Organizational Customers
As described above, when an organization sponsors, purchases, or administers your training, we may provide appropriate training and completion information to authorized representatives of that organization.
Legal and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or legal process
- Respond to lawful government requests
- Protect the rights or property of the Company
- Investigate suspected fraud or unauthorized use
- Enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements
- Protect the security of our systems or services
- Protect the rights, safety, or security of users or others where permitted by law
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
7. Course Access and Account Sharing
Each Course seat is intended for the individual user assigned to that seat unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing.
To protect our intellectual property and enforce our licensing terms, we may use account, login, device, IP address, and Course activity information to identify suspected unauthorized account sharing or access.
Information collected for this purpose will be used in a manner reasonably related to security, fraud prevention, license enforcement, and protection of our intellectual property.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, internet transmission, electronic storage system, or security method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account credentials and should notify us promptly if they believe their account has been compromised.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide our services
- Maintain training and completion records
- Administer customer accounts
- Maintain financial and transaction records
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Protect our legal rights
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory obligations
Different types of information may be retained for different periods depending on the purpose for which the information was collected and applicable legal requirements.
10. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate authorization or as otherwise permitted by law.
If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, we will take appropriate steps to address the information.
Organizations using our training with minors are responsible for ensuring that their use of the Course complies with applicable privacy, education, consent, and parental-notification requirements.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you reside, applicable law may provide you with certain rights concerning your personal information.
These rights may include the ability to request:
- Access to certain personal information we maintain about you
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of certain personal information
- Information regarding how personal information is used or disclosed
- A copy of certain personal information
- Withdrawal of consent where processing is based upon consent
These rights are subject to applicable exceptions and legal requirements.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at andrew@sheehansolutions.com.
We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.
If your account was created or administered by your employer or another organization, certain requests concerning organization-controlled training records may need to be directed to that organization.
12. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website or Course may contain links to third-party websites or integrate with third-party platforms.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites or services that we do not control.
Users should review the privacy policies of those providers before providing personal information.
13. Email Communications
We may send administrative or transactional communications concerning:
- Account registration
- Course access
- Purchases
- Password resets
- Course completion
- Certificates
- Customer support
- Important service or policy changes
Because these communications may be necessary to provide the service, users may not be able to opt out of all administrative messages while maintaining an active account.
Users may opt out of promotional marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in those messages.
14. United States Operations
Our services are operated from the United States.
If we later offer services to individuals outside the United States, additional privacy notices, rights, or requirements may apply depending upon the jurisdiction.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business, technology, services, or legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Policy.
When required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.
16. Contact Us
Questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:
S.A.V.E. YOURSELF ACADEMYPO Box 2547
Sioux City, IA 51102
andrew@sheehansolutions.com
712-251-5822
thesaveyourselfacademy.com