Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how Academia de Comunicação collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your information when you use our site or services. By using this service, you agree to the terms of this policy.

Data Controller:
Academia de Comunicação, located at 1189 Rua da Consolação, 10th Floor, São Paulo, São Paulo, 01301-100, Brazil, is the data controller responsible for processing your personal data collected through this service.

Information We Collect:
We collect personal information that you provide to us directly when you register for courses, enroll in programs, subscribe to newsletters, fill out forms, or otherwise interact with our site or services. This information may include your name, contact details (such as postal address), academic history, payment information, and other details necessary to provide our educational and training services.

We may also automatically collect certain information when you visit our site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. This usage data helps us understand how users interact with our service and improve its functionality.

Legal Basis for Processing:
We process your personal data based on several legal grounds:
- Performance of a contract: When you enroll in a course or program, we process your data to fulfill our obligations under the contract with you.
- Legal obligations: We may process your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
- Legitimate interests: We process data for our legitimate interests, such as improving our services, communicating with you about your studies, preventing fraud, and ensuring the security of our site, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Consent: Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before processing certain types of data, such as for sending marketing communications.

How We Use Your Information:
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our services, including managing your enrollment and access to courses.
- Process transactions and manage payments for services.
- Communicate with you about your account, enrollment, progress, and updates related to our services.
- Send you newsletters, marketing materials, and promotional information that may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such communications.
- Improve our site and services, develop new programs, and enhance user experience.
- Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the service.
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, and other illegal activities.

Sharing Your Information:
We may share your information with third parties in certain circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your data with trusted third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service. These parties are contractually obligated to use your data only to perform services for us.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with your explicit consent.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Data Retention:
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The specific retention period will depend on the nature of the data and the purpose of processing. When we no longer need your data, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Your Data Protection Rights:
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us in writing at the address provided below.

Data Security:
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data transmission over the internet.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising. For more information about how we use cookies and your choices regarding cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy (if available, otherwise integrate cookie information here).

International Data Transfers:
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If we transfer your data outside of your jurisdiction, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses, to ensure a similar degree of protection.

Children's Privacy:
Our service is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Academia de Comunicação
1189 Rua da Consolação, 10th Floor,
São Paulo, São Paulo, 01301-100,
Brazil