Privacy Policy

ATFA Academy Privacy Fundamentals

Our Privacy Policy is fueled by our commitment to these Privacy Principles:

  1. We’re deeply committed to creating a secure online environment for you.
  2. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We established ATFA Academy as a nonprofit organization so that your trust will not be in conflict with a for-profit motive.
  3. We strive to provide you with access to and control over the information you give us, and we take the protection of your information very seriously.
  4. We take extra precautions for our younger learners as described in our Children’s Privacy Notice, including restricting child accounts to automatically block features that would allow a child to post or disclose personal information.
  5. We do not display advertising on ATFA Academy. Our mission is to provide you with a world-class education, not to sell you products.

About Us

ATFA Academy, Inc. (“ATFA Academy”) is a US-based charitable nonprofit organization. As a Washington Registered nonprofit corporation, we use the information we collect to provide you with a better experience and fulfill our mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We established ourselves as a nonprofit organization so that a for-profit motive will not interfere with our mission of providing a trusted educational resource. We are committed to protecting your privacy. We understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to protecting your privacy and to creating a safe and secure environment for learners of all ages. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, shared, and protected by ATFA Academy when you use (or access) our website at www.atfaacademy.org, our coming soon mobile application, and online service.

Use by Children and Students

For specific information about how we collect, use, and process personal information when providing the Service to schools, school districts, and teachers, please review the School and Student Use. Our Children’s Privacy Notice describes how we collect, use, and process personal information from children under 13.

Information Gathering

We collect information in the following ways, depending on your use of the Service and your account settings:

  • We collect information from you directly, such as when you create an account, communicate with us, participate in courses, or events or otherwise provide information during your use of the Service.
  • We may collect information from others, such as your parent, teacher, or School, or third parties (meaning organizations outside ATFA Academy), such as third-party applications that you use to connect to the Service.
  • We collect some information automatically, such as information about your use of the Service and the devices you use to access the Service. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information as explained in our Cookies Notice. Examples of information we may collect includes:
  • Account registration information (username, birthdate, and email)
  • Information about your browser or device
  • Information you choose to include in your profile or post in public areas
  • Information you may grant in connection with specific features or special programs
  • Nonidentifiable information which may be related to your personal information, including Information about your use of our Service
  • Optional information about your location (country, timezone)
  • Information from Single Sign On (SSO) authentication services. If you decide to register for an account (or access your account) through an authentication service (such as Google Accounts, also known as a SSO) (“Authentication Service”), we may collect information from these third-party services, consistent with your privacy settings in your account with the relevant Authentication Service.

Additional information about our collection of Child and student data is provided in our Children’s Privacy Notice and Schools and Student Use. Further information about how ATFA Academy collects your information is provided under “Learn More”.

Information Utilization

ATFA Academy uses information collected for the purposes of:

  • Providing the Service
  • Personalization
  • Communicating with you about your account and our Service (including responding to inquiries and sharing information about new features and offerings that may be of interest)
  • Enabling your participation in special programs that we may offer in partnerships with third parties (if you choose to participate in such special programs)
  • Understanding and improving our Service, and developing new or improved educational offerings We may also use de-identified information for product development, research, analytics and other purposes, including for the purpose of improving or marketing our Service or demonstrating the impact of our Service, or educational research.

Sharing and disclosing of information

ATFA Academy takes great care to protect the personal information you provide to us. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. This section explains circumstances in which we may share personal information with third parties. We may share personal information:

  • With Vendors, consultants and other service providers working with us
  • With other users associated with your accounts, such as a parent, teacher, or coach.
  • With your school, if you are using our Service for school purposes
  • With your consent (including third-party applications that you choose to use, such as complementary services or an Authentication Service). If you choose to use a third-party application or service, the use of your information by the third party will be determined by that party’s privacy policy.
  • In connection with business transfers (due to mergers and acquisitions).
  • For compliance purposes, such as when reasonably necessary to protect the security and safety of our users or Service, or when permitted by law. We may also share de-identified or aggregated information that does not reasonably identify any individual.

Advertising and sponsorship

As a nonprofit organization, ATFA Academy relies on our sponsors and donors to provide the funding necessary to provide the free Service to our users. From time to time, we permit third parties to sponsor content displayed on our Service.

  • For example, for-profit organizations may wish to sponsor all content related to a particular educational topic
  • Sponsored content will be labeled (e.g., “Sponsored by ___”).
  • ATFA Academy does not share any of your personal information with these sponsors without your consent. We do not provide these sponsors with the ability to track or collect information about our site visitors or users. ATFA Academy does not display third-party advertisements on our Service. We may incorporate content or link to content provided by third parties that may be of interest to you and relevant to the educational context of our Service. Some of these materials or websites may include branding or advertisements as permitted by the third-party owner or operator. Please note that we use our best efforts and take steps to avoid the collection of information for targeted advertising purposes when we believe the Service is being used by Students or Children.
  • For example, we take steps to inhibit third-party advertising networks from collecting information for targeted advertising purposes on webpages with child-directed content or when a Child User logs into the Service.
  • ATFA Academy uses the available privacy functionality on YouTube to display video content on YouTube
    Please review our Children’s Privacy Notice for more information.

Your account preferences

We want you to have access to your information, so that you can help keep it as accurate as possible. If you register and provide ATFA Academy with information, you may update your account information at any time by reviewing your profile information and preferences on your account settings page. Further information about how you can access your account in the account settings is provided here.

Protection of your personal information

ATFA Academy is committed to securing your personal information. Some of the ways in which we protect your personal information include:

  • We encrypt your personal information when it is stored at rest
  • We protect your personal information with encryption during transmission over the Internet
  • We use reasonable organizational and technical safeguards designed to protect the privacy of your personal information Some of the ways in which we encourage you to protect your personal information include:
  • We encourage you to create a username that does not reveal your identity
  • We encourage you to create (and keep) a strong password
  • We encourage you to be thoughtful about what you post We use reasonable safeguards to protect our Service and your personal information, but no security measures are perfect.

Links to Third Parties

The Service may link to and may be linked by websites operated by other entities. If we include links to third parties, and you click on that link, you will be leaving ATFA Academy and the privacy policy of that third party applies. Similarly, if you see a link to ATFA Academy on a third party website, then the privacy policy of that third party applies.

  • For example:
    • If you click on a link to our social media platforms on our website, then you will go to the named social media’s website, and then that social media privacy policy applies.
    • If you are on the ATFA Academy Instagram page, the privacy policy of Instagram applies to that ATFA Academy Instagram page.
  • This ATFA Academy Privacy Policy does not apply to (and we cannot control the activities of) such other third party websites.
  • You should consult the privacy policies of those third-party websites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

ATFA Academy may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. ATFA Academy will notify users of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy with an updated date of revision on our Service. If we change this Policy in a material manner, we will do our best to notify you of the changes by posting a notice on our website. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Service to stay informed of our privacy practices. We will not make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that relate to the collection of Student Personal Data without first giving notice to the School and providing a choice before Student Personal Data are used in a materially different manner than was disclosed when the information was collected.

Contact ATFA Academy

Please contact ATFA Academy with any questions. By email: Sahir Tandon at tandon.sahir@gmail.com By mail: ATFA Academy, 773 Kohler Rd, Burbank, WA 99323 You may also reach out to the contact information provided here attached on our Homepage Website.

Children’s Privacy Notice

This privacy notice supplements our Privacy Policy and provides additional information about how we collect, use and share personal information from children under the age of 13 (a “Child”). ATFA Academy is committed to Children’s privacy. Protecting the privacy of Children is especially important to ATFA Academy. For that reason, we created certain features designed to help protect personal information relating to Children (“Child Users”). When a Child creates an account, we seek the consent of a parent or guardian (“Parent”) for that account. When ATFA Academy is used by a School in an educational setting, we rely on the School to provide the requisite consent, on behalf of the Parent, for ATFA Academy to collect information from a School User under the age of 13. No Third Party Tracking and No Targeted Advertising.

Donor information

This Donor information notice supplements our Privacy Policy in connection with donors. If you donate to ATFA Academy and do not donate anonymously, we obtain information such as your name, email address, and mailing address.. Please note that information collected by these payment processors is subject to their own privacy policy. We may use donor information to communicate with you about your contribution and to send fundraising updates and information regarding the advancement of our mission. We do not share personally identifiable donor information except with your consent as required by law. If you have registered for an account with us, then you may update your preferences in the donation message. If you do not, then you may opt out by emailing any of the ATFA team personnel asking to be removed.

Regional information

This Regional information notice supplements our Privacy Policy. In certain regions, you may have additional rights. This may include the right to request access your information, request that it be deleted, or object/restrict ATFA Academy from using it for certain purposes. If you wish to exercise a right, please Contact ATFA Academy. Our ability to respond to specific requests may be limited by applicable law and the functionality of our Service. International Data Transfer: Our Service is operated and managed on servers located within the United States. If you choose to use our Service from Europe or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that differ from United States law, then you acknowledge that ATFA Academy will transfer, store, and process your personal information to the United States for the purpose of performing the Service according to our contract and for any other purpose which you provide explicit consent.