Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

The Earn Way Youth Development Resource respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the information you provide when using our website, platform, courses, and related services.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use our services, we may collect account information such as your name, email address, phone number, profile information, and authentication information.

We may also process organization membership, roles, permissions, course enrollment, student records, applications, certificates, results, uploaded documents, and other information required to provide our services.

3. Technical Information

When you use our platform, we may collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, session information, and interactions with our services.

4. How We Use Information

We may use information to create and manage accounts, authenticate users, manage organizations and roles, provide courses and educational services, process applications and enrollments, maintain academic records, provide certificates and result verification, communicate with users, improve our services, and protect the security of our platform.

5. Authentication and Security

Our platform uses authentication and access-control mechanisms to manage accounts and secure user sessions. Authentication may involve account credentials, sessions, organization membership, roles, and permissions.

Passwords are handled through appropriate authentication mechanisms and are not intended to be stored by our application as readable passwords.

6. Organizations and Permissions

Some users access our services through an organization or branch. Depending on their assigned role and permissions, authorized users may be able to access information necessary to perform their responsibilities.

Access to organizational information is intended to be controlled according to the permissions associated with each account.

7. Uploaded Documents

Our services may allow users or organizations to upload documents, images, identification materials, academic records, or other files. These files may be processed and stored through our application and authorized infrastructure providers for the purposes for which they were submitted.

8. Information Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. Information may be shared with authorized service providers when necessary to operate our platform, including providers supporting authentication, hosting, storage, media processing, communications, and other technical services.

We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect our services and users, or to prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents.

9. Cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to maintain authentication sessions, provide essential platform functionality, improve security, remember preferences, and understand how our services are used.

10. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no internet-based service can guarantee complete security. Users should also take reasonable steps to protect their accounts and devices.

11. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, maintain appropriate records, fulfill legitimate operational purposes, resolve disputes, prevent misuse, and comply with applicable legal requirements.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to request access, correction, updating, or deletion of certain information.

Some information may need to be retained where required for legal, security, academic, or legitimate operational purposes.

13. Third-Party Services

Our platform may use third-party providers for authentication, hosting, storage, media management, analytics, communications, and other technical functionality. These providers may process information according to their own policies and applicable agreements.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, information practices, or legal requirements change. The latest version will always be published on this page with a revised last-updated date.

15. Contact

If you have questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact The Earn Way Youth Development Resource through the contact information provided on our website.