Privacy Policy
Effective Date: Septempber 13, 2022
Hippo E-Learning Program (Hippo School) (together
with its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and directors, as applicable (each
individually, or collectively “Hippo E-Learning Program (Hippo
School)”,
“Company”, “we” or “us”) is a regional mobile
ed-
tech company that provides its users (“Students”) with an E-Learning platform for the purpose of delivering video
lectures to
individuals (“user(s)”) who download, use or otherwise interact with our app,
site or our services (“Digital Assets”), as defined
below (collectively, “Video Content“).
Hippo E-Learning Program (Hippo School) respects your
right to privacy and designed in this privacy policy (“Privacy
Policy”) to explain to you its data
collection, processing and retention practices. This Privacy Policy will set forth our
privacy practices with regards to:
● Information we collect
from visitors of our website available at: https://www.hippo.school (“Site”) and our Android
Mobile App available at Google Play Store with name
Hippo E-Learning Program developed by Hippo School.
● Information we collect
from users who interact with our App which are using our mobile app.
In This Privacy Policy You Will Learn About
● Our
lawful basis for data processing (as required under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and
applicable for European Economic Area (“EEA”) residents).
● Types
of data we collect and why (the purpose)
● How we
collect data and categories of the data source
● What
are cookies and how we use them
● Sharing data with third parties
● Our
data retention policy (meaning, for how long and how we retain
personal information, and when will we delete the
data we collect)
● How we
protect data
● User
choices and controls (including opt out information)
● User
rights
● Changes to this Privacy Policy
● How do
we transfer data internationally
● Children Privacy Online
● “Do
Not Track” disclosure
● Special Jurisdictions (if you are a California resident, you should not skip
this section)
● How to
contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy
or our privacy practices, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
In This Privacy Policy You Will Learn About
● Our
lawful basis for data processing (as required under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and
applicable for European Economic Area (“EEA”) residents).
● Types
of data we collect and why (the purpose)
● How we
collect data and categories of the data source
● What
are cookies and how we use them
● Sharing data with third parties
● Our
data retention policy (meaning, for how long and how we retain
personal information, and when will we delete the
data we collect)
● How we
protect data
● User
choices and controls (including opt out information)
● User
rights
● Changes to this Privacy Policy
● How do
we transfer data internationally
● Children Privacy Online
● “Do
Not Track” disclosure
● Special Jurisdictions (if you are a California resident, you should not skip
this section)
● How to
contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy
or our privacy practices, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Lawful Basis
If you are a resident of any member state of the EU,
EEA or UK, this section applies to you.
As required under GDPR, the lawful basis for our
data collection and processing is as follows:
● When we use IP address
for fraud detection and prevention, or, when we use it to detect country and language, we are
based on legitimate interest.
Hippo School acts as a Processor of certain Personal Data, as
defined under the GDPR, such as the data processed from our
users using our Hippo E-Learning Program.
Types Of Data We Collect
If you are a visitor of our Site, or our Android
Mobile App available at Google Play Store with name Hippo E-Learning Program
Hippo School collects limited types of data, which
can be mainly classified as follows:
● “Non-Personal Data”: non-identifiable or non-personal information which is
not identifiable to or associated with a specific
individual. This category also includes any
deidentified data (defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, “CCPA”),
or irreversibly anonymous data.
● “Personal Data”: individually identifiable information, namely information
that identifies an individual or may with
reasonable effort lead to identifying an individual.
In the event we combine Personal Information with
Non-Personal Information, the combined information will be treated as Personal
Information for as long as it remains combined.
For your convenience, we have arranged the types of
data we collect according to your interaction with us, meaning, the first table
below will detail the data we collect from users of
our user who have downloaded our Hippo E-Learning Program app which serves
our video lectures. The tables below will also
explain the purpose of the data collection and how we use each type of data.
Data We Collect From Our App:
Students’ Registration Data – if you are or wish to be
our Student, when you create an account with in our Mobile App Named
Hippo E-Learning Program available in Google Play
Store, you will be required to provide us with certain information such as: full
name, email address. Further, during the
registration process you will be required to create a username and password.
Contact Information – For the
future event when you need to contact us for support, feedback, meeting set up or other
inquiries, by sending us an email or by other means
of communications you will be required to provide your mobile number,
that then will need to be required to verify with
the help of OTP.
IP address and Technical Non-Personal Data – when you use our app, we will collect certain data such
as IP address as
well as technical Non-Personal Data (such as viewing
and usage analytics that relates to your interaction with the app, the
amount of time you spend viewing certain portions of
the App, etc.).
How Do We Use It?
We will use this data for the purpose of performing
our interaction with you, meaning
provide the right educational Services,
and designate your account. Your contact details
will be used in order to send you needed information related to our
Services and our business engagement (e.g., send you
a welcome message, notify you regarding any updates to our
Services, send applicable invoices, , and similar
notifications) and additional occasional communications and updates related
to the Advertising Services, as well as provide you
with tips related to our Service, promotional and marketing emails
regarding Hippo School’s tools and services. We will
may also use the information in order to verify your identity.
We will use this data in order to send you the
information related to our Services and to keep you up to date regarding new
services, as well as provide you with tips related
to our Service, promotional and marketing emails (offers, events and
discounts).
We use this data for our legitimate interests of (i)
operating, providing, maintaining, protecting, managing, customizing
and improving our app and the way in which we offer
it; (ii) enhancing your experience; (iii) our legitimate interests of
auditing and tracking usage statistics and traffic
flow; and (iv) protect the security of the App, as well as our and third
parties’ rights (subject to applicable law
requirements).
If we use third party cookies on our App we will
obtain your consent.
How We Collect Data And Category Of The Data Source
We will use this data in order to send you the
information related to our Services and to keep you up to date regarding new
services, as well as provide you with tips related
to our Service, promotional and marketing emails (offers, events and
discounts).
We may collect the data detailed above in two
different ways:
● Data
you provide to us. When you voluntarily provide us with such data – meaning, for example, if you download
app
through google Play Store and you register to our
Services and create an account through our App.
● Data
collected automatically.
Meaning, if you are using our services through our mobile application which integrates our
Services), we may use our app, Cookies and other
similar tracking technologies (as detailed below) to gather information
automatically, such as your usage, IP address, data
that is made available for us via the app usage information, all as
detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may also acquire
information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the data
that we collect automatically.
Please note that, whenever required under applicable
law, we will obtain your consent prior to the collection of Personal Data, in
which case, you will have the option opt-out of
personalized usage of your data.
Sharing Data With Third Parties
Generally speaking, we do not
share any Personal Data collected from you
with third parties or any of our partners except in the
following events, and solely to the extent needed:
● If the Company
reasonably believes that you have breached our terms of use, or abused your rights to use the
Services, or
performed any act or omission that the Company
reasonably believes to be violating any applicable law, rules, or regulations;
● If the Company is
required, or reasonably believes that it is required by law or law enforcement agencies to share or
disclose
your information;
● In any case of dispute,
or legal proceeding of any kind between you and the Company or between you and other users with
respect to, or in relation with our Services;
● If the Company organizes
the operation of the Services within a different framework, or through another legal structure or
entity, or if the Company is acquired by, or merged
into or with another entity, provided however, that those entities agree to be
bound by the provisions of this Privacy Policy, with
respective changes taken into consideration;
● We may disclose Personal
Data to our trusted agents and service providers so that they can perform requested services on
our behalf, for example for security, fraud
detection, server and data storage providers, etc.
● We may share your
information in order to prevent harm to the rights (including any legal rights), property (including
intellectual
property) or other or safety of us, our users or any
applicable third party;
● We may share certain
identifiers and demographic data (as detailed above), including IP addresses collected by us (as
detailed above) through our mobile application, for
the purpose of operating and improving our business, providing the
Education Services, as well as to detect fraud,
security or technical issues in connection with the our video content. Sharing of
Personal Data for personalization purposes is
performed according to the data regulation of the jurisdiction in which our
Services are enabled..
Data Retention Policy
The table below details our data retention practices
– meaning , when will we delete data we collect and process:
Data Sets Retention Period
Online Identifiers /
demographics
Deleted immediately following the completion of use
according to the purpose. Save for exemptions,
those are being deleted within 7 days.
Contact Details Kept for
the period you choose to use our services, deleted immediately following the cancellation of
services.
Saved for exemptions for a period of 30 Days.
Usage Information
According to applicable laws.
Technical Information For
as long as needed to provide and improve our Services.
Notwithstanding the above, in some circumstances we
may retain the information we collect for longer periods, for
example, when we are required to do so in accordance
with legal, tax and accounting requirements. In addition, we may
also retain your Personal Data for longer periods if
we reasonably believe, at our discretion, that we need to obtain an
accurate record of your correspondence or any
dealing with us, for example, in the event of any complaints, all, in
compliance with applicable laws.
How We Protect Data
We use security techniques to prevent your
information from being accessed without authorization, improperly used or
disclosed, unlawfully destructed or accidental loss.
If you believe that your privacy was treated not in accordance with this
Privacy Policy, or, if you have a reasonable concern
that any person attempted to abuse our Service, please contact us at:
Further, in the event of a security incident, in
which we discover your Personal Data may be at risk, we will take reasonable
efforts to notify you and the applicable authority
(if required, subject to applicable laws).
User Choices And Controls
You may opt-out of the personalized use of your data
collection and sharing process related to our Site or Advertising
Service, as detailed below.
Options To Opt Out:
● Mobile opt-out
If you use an Android device and you dont agree to
our privacy policy, please uninstall our app.
User Rights
Data protection and privacy laws provide you with
the ability to exercise certain rights regarding your Personal Data that we hold
(which might be different in each jurisdiction) such
as; right to access your Personal Data; right of rectification; the right
to
erasure of your Personal Data;
right to restrict processing of
your Personal Data; the right to object to processing of your
Personal Data; data portability; the right to file a complaint to a supervisory authority (in the
event you are an EEA resident);
and, the right to withdraw
consent. If you are a California resident, please send us an
email for further clarification.
If you wish to exercise any or all of the above
rights, please send an email to our Data Protection Officer at:
Where we are not able to provide you with the
information for which you have asked, we will endeavor to explain the reasoning
for this and inform you of your rights, where and
if they are applicable, including the right to complain to the supervisory
authority, when applicable (EEA residents). We
reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we
provide you with any such information in accordance
with applicable law. In addition, the process of locating and deleting the
data may take up to one (1) month (following the
receipt of the validation proof we require) in accordance with applicable law.
Data privacy and related laws in your jurisdiction
may provide you with different or additional rights related to the data we collect
from you, which may also apply.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and
we will post the amended terms on the Site and make reasonable
efforts to notify you by email of major changes. The
last revision will be reflected in the “Last Updated” date above. Amended
terms will take effect immediately, or, in certain
cases as of a certain date, as will be specified in the Privacy Policy. Hence,
you should review the Privacy Policy periodically to
remain informed of any changes. You agree to accept the posting of a
revised Privacy Policy as actual notice to you.
Your continued use of our Mobile App after any
changes to this Privacy Policy have been posted as of the “Last Updated” date
above signifies your acceptance of those changes. If
you do not agree to the revised Privacy Policy, please refrain from using
our Site or Services and contact us by sending an
email to: [email protected]
International Transfer Of Data
We may store or process your information in the EU
or in other countries. If you are a resident of the EEA we will take
appropriate measures to ensure that your
information receives an adequate level of data protection upon its transfer outside of
the EEA. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction
where the transfer of your personal data requires your consent, then your consent
to this Privacy Policy includes your express
consent for such transfer of your data.
Children Privacy Online
You represent and warrant that: (i) if you are
located in the US (save from California), you are at least 13 years of age; or if you
are located in the EU, you are at least 16 years of
age; or if you are a resident of any other jurisdiction, you are above the age
defined as “child” under applicable laws
(collectively “Child” or
“Children”); and (ii) you are of legal competence to enter into
this Privacy Policy. If you are under 18, please be
sure to read the terms of this Privacy Policy with your parents or legal
guardians. The Site or App are not directed or
intended for Children, as defined under applicable law, and we do not knowingly
collect or solicit information from Children. If we
become aware that a Child under that age has provided us with Personal Data,
we take steps to seek consent from parents or legal
guardians. If you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal
Data, please contact us at [email protected].
When applicable, Company implements measures to
comply with applicable Children Online Privacy regulation, including the
US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). If we
become knowledgeable of user that is considered a Child under
applicable laws, we make sure to seek consent from
parents and/or legal guardians.
If you become aware or have any reason to believe
that a Child has shared any Personal Information with us who was not
supposed to do that, please contact us at:
[email protected]
Comments And Questions
If you have any comments or questions about our
privacy policy, please contact us at: