Effective on May 16th, 2023
This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how SpeedyTutor, Inc. and our affiliates (“SpeedyTutor”, “we” or “our”) collect, process, store, and share personal information about our Users. It also explains what controls you have on how SpeedyTutor collects and processes your information. The term “you” or “User” refers to students, tutors or any person or entity who views, uses, accesses, browses or submits any content or material to the Service (defined below).
Providing your personal information is voluntary and your use of the Service after the effective date of this document constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, do not use the Service.
This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information we collect via the website www.SpeedyTutor.com (“Site”), online and mobile applications (“Apps”), email, telephone, electronic devices and other interactive services (collectively “the Service”).
You don’t have to create an account to use some of our service features, such as searching and viewing public tutor profiles or searching and viewing questions and video answers in Ask an Expert. If you do not create an account, we do collect information about your browser and device (IP address, browser version, etc.) but we cannot link that information to an identifiable person unless and until you create an account.
If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal information so that we can provide the Service. This includes information you provide to us, such as:
We may also collect personal information related to your documentation of and payment for tutoring sessions; tutoring questions related to homework or your studies; school information; teacher feedback of a student (once the parent provides consent for submission); and content you upload for the purposes of transmitting it to another user or for public display on the Site or Apps.
We may also collect your Social Security number (SSN) or Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) date of birth and address, for tax purposes or to complete a background check; we also collect content you upload for purposes related to transmission to other users or public display on the Site or Apps. We also collect bank account information to facilitate payment.
If you elect to pay for tutoring lessons with a credit card, we will collect your name, credit card number, expiration date, and address information associated with the account. All financial information, other than credit card numbers, is stored and encrypted in our System in full compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. We do not store credit card numbers. We collect bank information from tutors who list their services on the platform for the purposes of transmitting payment to them.
If you are a tutor and elect to pay for a background check, we will collect credit card information to order a background check on your behalf. Payment information entered into our System solely to procure a background check will not be stored on our servers.
We also gather additional personal information when you use the Service, including type of browser you use, access time, pages viewed, IP address, and, if enabled, geolocation; and we collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access the Service, including without limitation operating system and unique device identifiers and mobile network information. This data is used to better understand and enhance Users experience with the Service and on the Site and Apps. SpeedyTutor may publish aggregate User statistics or share them with third parties.
SpeedyTutor may use your personal information for various purposes, including:
If you choose to use our referral service, to tell a friend about our Service, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the Site and up to two reminders. SpeedyTutor stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and reminders and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may click Unsubscribe at the bottom of any email, or contact us at support@SpeedyTutor.com to request removal from our database.
Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our Site, apps and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Most web browsers let you choose whether to accept cookies and let you delete cookies already set. The choices available, and the mechanism used, will vary from browser to browser, but are typically found in the “options”, “tools” or “preferences” menu. There also are online tools available for clearing all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices and www.allaboutcookies.org.
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services to help us understand the use of our services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal data with such service providers for business purposes such as to verify transactions and prevent fraud or identity theft, subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions (service providers may use other non-personal data for their own benefit). We share your payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards.
Please note, if you consented to recording a video answer from the “Ask an Expert”, on the Resource page of the Site, the Service uses YouTube API Services as a service provider, and if you use these services through the Service, you are subject to the Google Privacy Policy, located at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data or other safety data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we removed certain accounts from our Services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our Services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
SpeedyTutor uses industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption when collecting and transmitting your information through the Site and the SpeedyTutor network. Once information has been collected, we encrypt sensitive data in our database for added security. SpeedyTutor also uses firewalls and hardware monitoring across our system to protect against unauthorized access. Unfortunately, even with these measures, SpeedyTutor cannot guarantee the security of personal information. By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that SpeedyTutor makes no such guarantee, and that you use the Service at your own risk.
If you have an account with us, you can access, correct, delete, or modify some of the personal information you provided to us in your account settings.
Your browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services that you do not want them to track your online activities. The Service does not currently support Do Not Track requests at this time.
You have the right to know and see what data we have collected about you over the past 12 months, including:
You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights listed above.
To request access to or deletion of your personal information, or to exercise any other data rights under California law, please write us at Privacy@SpeedyTutor.com. Please include your full name, email address, and phone number associated with your use of the Site, along with why you are writing, so that we can process your request in an efficient manner.
We aim to respond to a consumer request for access or deletion within 45 days of receiving that request. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
This Service is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age.
SpeedyTutor does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide your contact information or any other personally identifiable information to SpeedyTutor. If you are the parent or legal guardian of someone under the age of 13 who may have provided us with information without your knowledge or consent, please contact us to have this information removed. All contact, including tutoring sessions, between a tutor and any minor should, of course, take place only in a supervised setting.
SpeedyTutor reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes here and indicate the new effective date of the Privacy Policy at the top of the document. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy for any updates while you are an active User of the Site.
The Site is hosted in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are using the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located, and our databases are operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Site, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in our Privacy Policy.
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to help@speedytutor.com or to the mailing address below:
SpeedyTutor, Inc.
6101 N Keystone Ave
Suite 100 #1052
Indianapolis, Indiana 46220
