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We take your privacy seriously. In order to provide access to this site, we need to collect and store personal information about you. 

What is collected?

We collect the data that you provide when creating an account, such as name and email. We also collect data about your activity on the site, including any contributions that you make.

To access the site, you will have an account created for, which will comprise the following basic personal information:

• Name
• Email
• Country of Residence
• Country of Nationality

There are then optional pieces of personal information which a user can add/edit about themselves:

• City/town
• Timezone
• Description
• Picture
• Impairment
• Gender identity
• Date of birth

There will then be course-specific information, such as which courses have been attended (including where and when) and whether the course was passed or not.

Within each course, certain personal information may be collected. For example within facilitated courses, medical information is requested that is accessible to the Facilitators on that course only.

Participants may be required to submit audio/video/documents as tasks. It is the participants’ responsibility to submit files free of any copyright claims including any claims of other participants.

We also collect data about your activity on the site including, but not limited to, course completion records, evaluation feedback, and any contributions that you make within courses.

Why do we collect this information?

In general, your data will be processed by WFDF Academy for the fulfillment of the following purposes:

• Management of your learning on the various courses offered by WFDF Academy and its partners.
• Sending notifications via emails regarding course activity. A user can manage their preferences regarding which emails they wish to receive at any time.
• Course submissions are for assessment purposes performed by Facilitators. Select submissions can be used as examples in other courses.

Who might we share your information with?

Contractors of WFDF Academy (facilitators, administrators, managers, etc.) and partners will be given access to your data should you be attending a course under their charge.

Select course submissions can be used as examples in other courses.

What do we do with your information?

This information is used to provide access to this site, including:

• Organization of services, events and activities;
• Performance information from services, events and activities;
• Results of education courses.

How long is my data stored?

Your personal data is stored as long as your account is active on this site.

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What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the site or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Essentially, cookies are a user’s identification card for the WFDF Academy servers.

Web beacons are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your use of our site and related functionalities. Cookies and web beacons allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our site.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.

How WFDF Academy uses cookies?

When you use and access the site, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.

WFDF Academy uses or may use cookies and/or web beacons to help us determine and identify repeat visitors, the type of content and sites to which a user of our site links, the length of time each user spends on any particular area of our site, and the specific functionalities that users choose to use. To the extent that cookie data constitutes personally identifiable information, we process such data on the basis of your consent.

WFDF Academy uses both session and persistent cookies on the site and we use different types of cookies to run the site:

• Essential cookies. Necessary for the operation of the site. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts, or offer site features.
• Analytical/performance cookies. Allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site when using it. This helps us improve the way the site works.
• Functionality cookies. Used to recognise you when you return to the site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. Record your visit to the site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the site more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Site and refine marketing efforts.

• Tracking cookies. Follow on-site behavior and tie it to other metrics allowing better understanding of usage habits.
• Optimization cookies. Allow real-time tracking of user conversion from different marketing channels to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Partner cookies. Provide marketing conversion metrics to our partners so they can optimize their paid marketing efforts.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use some or all of the features we offer. You may not be able to log in, store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.