Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 2024
Your privacy matters to us, and we've built our platform with that principle at its core. This policy explains how Kestinellia collects, uses, and protects your information when you engage with our online education services. We believe in transparency — you deserve to know exactly what happens with your data.
Our commitment goes beyond mere compliance. We've designed our systems to collect only what's necessary for delivering exceptional educational experiences while giving you control over your information.
Information Collection Practices
When you create an account or interact with our platform, we gather certain information to personalize your learning journey and maintain platform functionality. The data we collect falls into several categories, each serving specific purposes in supporting your educational goals.
We collect information through multiple channels — some you provide directly, while other data comes from your interactions with our platform. Understanding these collection methods helps you make informed decisions about your privacy.
Personal Information You Provide
Your account registration requires basic identifying information. This forms the foundation of your learning profile and enables us to deliver personalized content.
- Account credentials including your chosen username, email address, and encrypted password that authenticate your access to the platform. We store passwords using industry-standard encryption methods.
- Profile details such as your name, profile picture, educational background, and learning preferences that help us customize your experience. You control the visibility of this information through your privacy settings.
- Payment information when you purchase courses or subscriptions, though we process this through secure third-party payment processors who handle sensitive financial data. We retain only transaction records, not your full payment details.
- Communication content from your messages to instructors, forum posts, course reviews, and support inquiries. This information helps us improve services and facilitate community interactions.
Automatically Collected Data
As you navigate our platform, we automatically gather technical and usage information. This happens in the background without requiring any action from you, though you can manage some collection through browser settings.
- Device and browser information including your IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, and screen resolution. This data helps us ensure platform compatibility across different devices.
- Learning analytics tracking your course progress, quiz scores, video watch time, and interaction patterns with educational content. We analyze this to identify learning gaps and recommend relevant materials.
- Platform usage data recording which pages you visit, how long you spend on different sections, search queries, and click patterns. These insights guide our interface improvements and content organization.
- Location information derived from your IP address to determine your general geographic region. We use this for content localization, timezone adjustments, and compliance with regional requirements.
Cookies and Tracking
We use cookies and similar technologies to remember your preferences, maintain your login session, and understand how you use our platform. These small data files serve multiple purposes in enhancing your experience.
Different types of cookies operate on our platform — some are essential for basic functionality, while others help us analyze usage patterns and remember your preferences. You can control non-essential cookies through your browser settings, though this might affect certain features.
- Essential cookies that keep you logged in, remember your language preference, and maintain your shopping cart state. These are necessary for the platform to function properly.
- Analytics cookies that track how you navigate through courses, which features you use most, and where you might encounter difficulties. This helps us identify areas needing improvement.
- Preference cookies that remember your customization choices like playback speed, subtitle preferences, and interface theme. These enhance convenience during return visits.
How We Process Your Data
The information we collect isn't just stored — it actively powers your learning experience. Every piece of data serves specific functions in delivering, personalizing, and improving our educational services.
We process your information with clear purposes in mind, always balancing functionality against privacy. Here's how your data works behind the scenes to create a better learning environment.
Educational Service Delivery
Your data enables core platform functions. We use your account information to authenticate your access, track your course enrollments, and maintain your learning progress across sessions. When you complete a lesson or earn a certificate, your profile reflects these achievements.
Personalization depends on understanding your learning style. By analyzing which courses you complete, where you struggle, and what topics interest you, we recommend relevant content and adjust difficulty levels.
- Account management uses your credentials and profile data to maintain your identity on the platform, process your enrollments, and grant appropriate access to purchased content. We update your records as you progress through courses.
- Content personalization analyzes your learning history, preferences, and performance to suggest relevant courses, create customized learning paths, and adjust content presentation. This includes recommending similar courses or identifying prerequisite knowledge gaps.
- Communication delivery uses your contact information to send course updates, assignment reminders, instructor messages, and important platform announcements. You control the frequency and types of communications through notification settings.
- Performance analytics processes your quiz scores, completion rates, and engagement patterns to generate progress reports and identify areas where you might benefit from additional resources. Instructors may access aggregated class performance data.
- Platform improvement aggregates usage data to identify technical issues, understand which features users value, and guide our development priorities. We analyze navigation patterns to simplify confusing interfaces.
- Security monitoring examines login patterns, access locations, and behavior anomalies to detect unauthorized account access or fraudulent activity. Unusual patterns trigger additional verification steps.
Information Collected by Third Parties
Our platform integrates with various external services that enhance functionality — payment processors, video hosting providers, analytics tools, and communication platforms. Each of these partners may collect certain information when you interact with their embedded features.
While we carefully select partners who respect privacy, their data collection falls under their own policies once information leaves our platform. We maintain agreements requiring appropriate data handling, but you should review their privacy practices independently.
- Payment processors handle your financial transactions when you purchase courses or subscriptions. They collect payment card details, billing addresses, and transaction information necessary to complete purchases. We receive only confirmation of successful payments, not your sensitive financial data.
- Video hosting services deliver course content and may collect viewing data, playback preferences, and device information. This helps optimize video streaming quality and enables features like resume-from-where-you-left-off functionality across devices.
- Analytics providers help us understand platform usage through aggregated statistics about visitor behavior, popular content, and user flows. These services may use cookies to track your journey across our platform.
- Communication tools power features like live class sessions, discussion forums, and direct messaging. These services process your communications, usernames, and interaction timestamps to facilitate real-time collaboration.
- Authentication services enable social login options and single sign-on functionality. When you choose to log in through external accounts, these services verify your identity and may share basic profile information with us.
Data Security and Privacy
Protecting your information isn't optional — it's fundamental to how we operate. We've implemented multiple layers of technical and organizational safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse of your data.
Security evolves constantly as threats change. We regularly update our practices, audit our systems, and train our team on data protection principles to maintain robust defenses against emerging risks.
Technical Safeguards
Our infrastructure employs encryption both during data transmission and while information rests in our databases. Access controls ensure that only authorized personnel can view sensitive information, and even then, only when necessary for specific job functions.
- Encryption protocols protect data moving between your device and our servers using industry-standard SSL/TLS encryption. Stored passwords undergo one-way encryption, meaning we cannot retrieve your original password even if requested.
- Access limitations restrict employee access to personal data based on role requirements. Engineers maintaining the platform have different permissions than customer support staff, and all access is logged for audit purposes.
- Regular security audits examine our systems for vulnerabilities, test our defenses against common attack vectors, and verify compliance with security standards. We address identified issues promptly based on risk assessment.
- Data minimization guides our collection practices — we don't gather information we don't need. When data is no longer necessary for its original purpose, we either anonymize or delete it according to retention schedules.
- Incident response procedures prepare us to handle potential data breaches quickly. We maintain protocols for containing incidents, assessing impact, notifying affected users, and implementing corrective measures.
Your Privacy Rights
You maintain control over your personal information. Our platform provides tools for accessing, modifying, or deleting your data, and you can contact us for assistance with privacy-related requests.
- Access and portability rights allow you to request copies of your personal data in a structured format. You can download your course progress, profile information, and communication history through account settings.
- Correction capabilities enable you to update inaccurate information directly through your profile page. For data you cannot modify yourself, submit a correction request to our support team.
- Deletion options let you remove your account and associated data, though we may retain certain information where legally required or necessary for legitimate business purposes like fraud prevention.
- Communication preferences give you control over which notifications you receive and through which channels. Manage these settings in your account to reduce unwanted messages while staying informed about important updates.
Data Protection Compliance
We design our privacy practices to align with recognized data protection principles and frameworks. Our approach prioritizes transparency, user control, and lawful processing regardless of where you're located.
Different regions have specific privacy requirements, and we adapt our practices to meet applicable standards. This includes providing appropriate mechanisms for data transfer, respecting user rights, and maintaining records of processing activities.
Supplementary Guidelines
Certain platform features or user categories may involve additional privacy considerations. We maintain supplementary policies addressing specific scenarios like children's privacy, beta features, or integrations with external learning management systems.
Enterprise users or institutional partners might operate under separate agreements that specify additional data handling requirements. These arrangements typically provide enhanced controls over student data and clearer data ownership terms.
Questions and Feedback
Understanding privacy policies can be challenging — we're here to help clarify anything that seems unclear. If you have questions about how we handle your information, concerns about your privacy, or suggestions for improving our practices, reach out to our support team through the platform's help section.
We value your feedback on privacy matters and regularly review user concerns to improve our policies and practices.