Updated: January 8, 2025
At Lakeside Educational Network (hereinafter “Lakeside Learning”), accessible from https://learn.lakesidetraining.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Lakeside Learning and how we use it. This policy is effective as of July 18, 2023.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. Lakeside Learning may be contacted at: 1350 Welsh Road, Suite 400; North Wales, PA 19454; Phone: 215-654-9414; Fax: 215-654-9523.
This Privacy Policy applies only to online activities and is valid for visitors to Lakeside Learning’s website with regard to the information shared by users and/or collected by Lakeside Learning. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. Lakeside Learning collects all information identified in this policy in conjunction with your consent hereunder.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point Lakeside Learning asks you to provide your personal information.
If you contact Lakeside Learning directly, it may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, Lakeside Learning may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
Lakeside Learning uses the information collected in various ways, including to:
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
When you purchase from us, or create an account with us, we’ll ask you to provide an e-mail address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments, and/or essay submissions (if applicable).
We will also store comments on courses, lessons, topics, assignments, and essays if you choose to leave them.
Lakeside Learning records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.
The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context.
Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.
Lakeside Learning follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
If your account with Lakeside Learning is created through a group access link provided by and paid for an organization and/or group, then your information, including course progress, may be accessible by the purchasing organization and/or group.
Like any other website, Lakeside Learning uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors browser type and/or other information.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Lakeside Learning.
Lakeside Learning currently has no advertising partners.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Lakeside Learning, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Lakeside Learning has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Lakeside Learnings Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
If you make a purchase through Lakeside Learning, your information will be processed using Stripe. View their Privacy Policy here: https://stripe.com/privacy
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Videos within course content library may be embedded from various video hosting platforms such as bunny.net. Please refer to their privacy policy: https://bunny.net/privacy/
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Lakeside Learning does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
If you have any questions or complaints about this policy, please contact us.
If you are a user through a contracted account (i.e., an individual whose account was created through a group link provided by an organization and/or group), please refer to the privacy policy or notice of the contracting organization and/or group for information regarding the organization and/or group’s practices, choices and controls, or contact the contracting organization and/or group directly.
This policy may be modified at any time at teh discretion of Lakeside Learning. Notice of any modification to this policy will be provided to the user through the e-mail address provided at the time the user’s account is created.