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POLÍTICA DE PRIVACIDADE

Start Educação's Privacy Policy explains your data protection rights on the site, and describes our approach to managing your data. This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions, and any documents referenced therein) lists the personal data we collect from you, where we use it, and how you can control and access the data.

 

We have restructured our policy, with effect from September 25, 2018, to reflect best practices, as established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and we intend to comply with all the conditions listed therein, with respect to our members and visitors.

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The policy covers the following areas:

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  • Information we collect from you

  • How we use the information collected

  • How you can access and control your data

  • Cookies

  • Important privacy information

  • Changes to the Privacy Policy

  • Contact

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

Start Educação collects various pieces of information when registering and browsing the website. This information can be:

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Personal information for registration and use of the website:If you register as a member of the Start Educação blog, you will provide information that makes your account unique and private - this may include your name, email address, age or social media login details. You can also give information about your level of learning and interests. This information is used to improve your experience at Start Educação, through relevant suggestions about material and learning groups.

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Details about your visits to Start Educação:We will also collect information about your visit from your browser. This may include IP address and device type. This information will be used to provide you with a better experience based on your location and for diagnostic purposes. The information will also be transmitted to Google Analytics for reporting purposes. All information transmitted to Google Analytics is anonymous and non-identifiable. This is statistical data about your browsing (eg use of our Service) and patterns, and does not identify you or any other individual.

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Cookies:Our Service uses cookies to store information about your visit. These cookies are stored by us to support the main purpose of the Service. In addition, our external partners may also store cookies on your browser for one or more reasons: to measure website performance, to collect non-user-identifiable statistics and analytics, to provide targeted advertising. More information about the cookies we use is described below.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED

Providing the Start Education service

Information provided when you register with us allows you to manage your account and keep it private. It also allows us to customize certain elements.

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When you register, we ask for information about your level of learning and topics/interests. This allows us to make suggestions about learning material that we think might interest you. Likewise, we will suggest Learning Groups at Start Educação that we think will be beneficial for you.

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We will also track general (non-identifiable) usage and performance so that we can make improvements and introduce new functionality to the platform.

Communication

We will use the email address you provide to send you product messages about the platform in general, as well as more specific notifications about areas of interest to you.

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By registering at Start Educação, you authorize the sending of emails by Start Educação to the address you indicated. You are also aware that, in order to provide you with the best experience, we will put all your email preferences in the active state. You can easily change these by following the link in the following paragraph.

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You have full control over which emails you receive from us. You can manage your mail preferences in the account section.

Advertising

The majority of Start Educação members and visitors access and use the platform for free. In order to support this free service, we use advertising to generate profit that will be invested in the website and blog.

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Children and Advertising: Our website has not been created for users under the age of 13, therefore there are no advertisements aimed at this age group.

HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR DATA

Access your data processed by Start Educação

You may request a file with all personally identifiable information that has been processed by Start Educação associated with you.

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To do so, send an email tostarteducacao.contato@gmail.comrequesting your information. You will receive a response within 30 days. You will receive a link to download all the information that has been collected and processed by us.

COOKIES

Our Service uses "Cookies" to distinguish you from other users, and to anonymously track visiting and browsing patterns.

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A Cookie is a small text file placed by us and most website operators (or an advertiser on this website) on your computer's hard drive when you visit the website. Cookies may contain information about users of our Service like you, such as your names, address, email information, passwords and your user preferences.

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While cookies and the information they contain do not identify the real individual on their own, they may do so together with other information that we or an external partner has. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when browsing our Service and also helps us to improve our website.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

Login and Authentication: When you log in to your Start Education account using your account information, we store a unique ID and the time you logged in in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to browse pages within the website without having to log in again on each page.

 

Storage of your Preferences and Settings:Settings that allow our products to function correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device. For example, a partially completed survey will be stored with your responses in a cookie so that we can remind you of your progress when you complete it later.

 

Social media:Some of our pages include social media cookies, including those that allow users logged in to the social media service to share content through the service.

 

Interest-Based Advertising:Some of our third-party advertising partners use cookies to collect information about your online activity and identify your interests so they can serve you ads that are relevant to you. You may opt out of receiving interest-based advertising as described in the How You Can Access and Control Your Data section of this privacy statement.

 

Analytics:We use cookies and other identifiers to collect usage and performance data so that we can provide our products. For example, we use cookies to count the specific number of visitors to a website or service, and to develop other statistics about our products. This includes cookies from Start Educação and third-party analytics providers such as Google Analytics, Alexa and New Relic.

 

We prohibit analytics providers from collecting or accessing information that directly identifies you (such as your name or email address). You can choose to be excluded from the Google Analytics data collection here:tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (needs to install a browser extension).

 

Analytics and performance data collected through cookies are always anonymous and aggregated.

How to Control Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, however they provide tools for you to control or delete them. Information on how to block or delete cookies varies depending on the browser you are using, but instructions should be available in each browser's privacy or help files.

IMPORTANT PRIVACY INFORMATION

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Start Educação complies with the data protection laws in force in the European Economic Area, which may include the following rights:

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  • If personal data were processed with your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time in future processing;

  • You have the right to ask us, the "data controller" according to law, to access and correct your personal data;

  • You have the right to refuse the processing of your personal data; and

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When we process your personal data, we do so with your consent if/when necessary to provide the products you use, run our business, comply with our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers. , or comply with Start Educação's other legitimate interests, as described in the sections aboveHow we use the information collected.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. This page was last updated on July 25, 2020.

CONTACT

If you have any privacy concerns, complaints or concerns for the Data Protection team, please send an email to starteducacao.contato@gmail.com. We will respond to all questions or queries within 30 days.

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