Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy (Updated: August 24, 2022)

Thank you for joining Listenact. This privacy notice for Listenact Limited (“Company,” “Listenact,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:

  • Visit our website at https://listenact.ca, or any of our websites that link to this Privacy Policy

  • Engage with us in other related ways, including sales, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns?
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: contact@listenact.ca

Unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use Listenact Limited websites, mobile applications, APIs, or related services (the “Services”). It also applies to prospective customers of our business and enterprise products.

By using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Do not use the Services if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of the Services.


Summary of Key Points

This summary highlights key points from our privacy notice. For more details, click the link following each key point or use the table of contents below.


Table of Contents
  1. What Data We Collect

  2. How We Get Data About You

  3. What We Use Your Data For

  4. Who We Share Your Data With

  5. Security of Your Data

  6. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

  7. Jurisdiction-Specific Rules

  8. Updates & Contact Info


1. What Data We Collect

Personal Information You Disclose to Us : We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Register on the Services

  • Express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services

  • Participate in activities on the Services

  • Contact us directly

The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • Names

  • Email addresses

  • Phone Number


1.1 Data You Provide to Us

Payment Data:
We may collect information necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (e.g., credit card number) and the security code associated with it. All payment data is stored and processed by Stripe, WooCommerce, and PayPal.

You can view their privacy policies here:

Account Data:
To use certain features (like accessing content), you need to create a user account. We collect and store your email address, password, and account settings. For instructor accounts, we may also collect your name and additional settings. You may be prompted to provide more information as you use the platform.

Social Media Login Data:
We may offer the option to register using a social media account such as Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail. If you choose this method, we will collect data from your connected social media account.

Profile Data:
You may choose to provide profile details like a photo, biography, website, language preference, location, and links to social media accounts. This data may be publicly visible to other users.

Shared Content:
Some Services allow you to interact with others or share content publicly—such as uploading courses, posting reviews, answering questions, or sending messages. Shared content may be publicly visible depending on how and where it’s posted.

Learning Data:
When you access content, we collect data such as courses viewed, completed assignments, purchase history, certificates earned, communications with instructors and other learners, and any submitted coursework.

Student Payment Data:
If you make purchases, we collect relevant data such as your name, billing address, and ZIP code. Some payment and billing details are provided directly to third-party payment processors. We may receive limited payment information (e.g., last 4 digits of your card) but do not store sensitive payment data.

Instructor Payment Data:
Instructors may link PayPal, Payoneer, or other payment accounts. We collect the payment email, account ID, and other necessary info. We may work with third parties to collect legally required tax data. Listenact does not store sensitive bank account data.

Data From Other Accounts:
If your Listenact account is linked to another platform (e.g., Facebook), we may access information made available by that platform, such as your profile picture, account ID, and email. The data we receive depends on your settings and permissions.

Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys:
If you participate in a promotion or survey, we may collect details like name, date of birth, email, phone number, and mailing address. This data is used for administering the event and may be subject to additional terms and privacy policies.

Communications and Support:
If you contact us, we collect the information you provide (e.g., name, email, messages) and data related to the issue, such as your Listenact user ID or refund ID. We use this data to support you and maintain the quality of our services.

1.2 Data We Collect through Automated Means

When you access the Services (including browsing content), we collect certain data by automated means, including:

System Data: Technical data about your computer or device, like your IP address, device type, operating system type and version, unique device identifiers, browser, browser language, domain and other systems data, and platform types.

Usage Data: Usage statistics about your interactions with the Services, including content accessed, time spent on pages or the Service, pages visited, features used, your search queries, click data, date and time, referrer, and other data regarding your use of the Services.

Approximate Geographic Data: An approximate geographic location, including information like country, city, and geographic coordinates, calculated based on your IP address.

Legal Basis for Processing:

  • Performance of contract
  • Legitimate interests (service provisioning, customer and technical support, fraud prevention and security, communication, product improvement)

The data listed above is collected through the use of server log files and tracking technologies, as detailed in the “Cookies and Data Collection Tools” section below. It is stored by us and associated with your account.

1.3 Data From Third Parties

If you are a Listenact Business enterprise or corporate prospect, in addition to information you submit to us, we may collect certain business contact information from third-party commercial sources.

2. How We Get Data About You

We use tools like cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to gather the data listed above. Some of these tools offer you the ability to opt out of data collection.

2.1 Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information – such as your internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to main the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find out more about this in our Cookie Notice: https://listenact.ca/cookie-policy/.

The information we collect includes:

  • Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and the other actions you take such as with features you use, device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called ‘crash dumps’) and hardware settings).
  • Device Data: We collect device data such as information about you computer, phone, tablet or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification number, location, browser type, hardware model, internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
  • Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device’s location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the services.
2.2 Why We Use Data Collection Tools

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purpose with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how interact with our Services, including:

§  To facilitate account creating and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.

§  To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.

§  To respond to user inquiries/offer support to user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.

§  To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.

§  To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.

§  For Marketing purposes. These Data Collection Tools are used to deliver relevant ads (on the site and/or other sites) based on things we know about you like your Usage and System Data (as detailed in Section 1), and things that the ad service providers know about you based on their tracking data. The ads can be based on your recent activity or activity over time and across other sites and services. To help deliver tailored advertising, we may provide these service providers with a hashed, anonymized version of your email address (in a non-human-readable form) and content that you share publicly on the Services.

You can set your web browser to alert you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, limit the types of cookies you allow, or refuse cookies altogether. If you do, you may not be able to use some or all features of the Services, and your experience may be different or less functional. To learn more about managing Data Collection Tools, refer to Section 6.1 (Your Choices About the Use of Your Data) below.

3. What We Use Your Data For

We use your data to do things like provide our Services, communicate with you, troubleshoot issues, secure against fraud and abuse, improve and update our Services, analyse how people use our Services, serve personalized advertising, and as required by law or necessary for safety and integrity. We retain your data for as long as it is needed to serve the purposes for which it was collected.

We use the data we collect through your use of the Services to:

  • Provide and administer the Services, including to facilitate participation in educational content, issue completion certificates, display customized content, and facilitate communication with other users (Account Data; Shared Content; Learning Data; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data);
  • Process payments to instructors and other third parties (Student Payment Data; Instructor Payment Data);
  • Process your requests and orders for educational content, products, specific services, information, or features (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; System Data; Communications and Support);
  • Communicate with you about your account by (Account Data; Shared Content; Learning Data; Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys; System Data; Communications and Support):
    • Responding to your questions and concerns;
    • Sending you administrative messages and information, including messages from instructors, students, and teaching assistants; notifications about changes to our Service; and updates to our agreements;
    • Sending you information, such as by email or text messages, about your progress in courses and related content, rewards programs, new services, new features, promotions, newsletters, and other available instructor-created content (which you can opt out of at any time);
    • Sending push notifications to your wireless device to provide updates and other relevant messages (which you can manage from the “options” or “settings” page of the mobile app);
  • Manage your account and account preferences and personalize your experience (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; Instructor Payment Data; System Data, Usage Data, Cookie Data);
  • Facilitate the Services’ technical functioning, including troubleshooting and resolving issues, securing the Services, and preventing fraud and abuse (Account Data; Student Payment Data; Instructor Payment Data; Communications and Support; System Data; Approximate Geographic Location);
  • Verify the identity of instructors (Account Data; Instructor Payment Data);
  • Solicit feedback from users (Account Data; Communications and Support);
  • Market products, services, surveys, and promotions (Account Data; Learning Data; Sweepstakes, Promotions, and Surveys; Usage Data; Cookie Data);
  • Market Subscription Plans to prospective customers (Account Data; Learning Data; Cookie Data);
  • Learn more about you by linking your data with additional data through third-party data providers and/or analyzing the data with the help of analytics service providers (Account Data; Data About Your Accounts on Other Services; Usage Data; Cookie Data);
  • Identify unique users across devices (Account Data; System Data; Cookie Data);
  • Tailor advertisements across devices (Cookie Data);
  • Improve our Services and develop new products, services, and features (all data categories);
  • Analyze trends and traffic, track purchases, and track usage data (Account Data; Learning Data; Student Payment Data; Communications and Support; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data; Cookie Data);
  • Advertise the Services on third-party websites and applications (Account Data; Cookie Data);
  • As required or permitted by law (all data categories); or
  • As we, in our sole discretion, otherwise determine to be necessary to ensure the safety or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, the public, or our Services (all data categories).
4. How do we process your information?

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

We share certain data about you with instructors, other students, companies performing services for us, Listenact affiliates, our business partners, analytics and data enrichment providers, your social media providers, companies helping us run promotions and surveys, and advertising companies who help us promote our Services. We may also share your data as needed for security, legal compliance, or as part of a corporate restructuring. Lastly, we can share data in other ways if it is aggregated or de-identified or if we get your consent.

We may share your data with third parties under the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

  • With Your Instructors: We share data that we have about you (except your email address) with instructors or teaching assistants for educational content you access or request information about, so they can improve their content for you and other students. This data may include things like your country, browser language, operating system, device settings, the site that brought you to Listenact, and certain activities on Listenact, like enrolled courses and course review. We will not share your email address with instructors or teaching assistants. (Account Data; System Data; Usage Data; Approximate Geographic Data)
  • With Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: We share your data with third-party companies who perform services on our behalf, like payment processing, fraud and abuse prevention, data analysis, marketing and advertising services (including retargeted advertising), email and hosting services, and customer services and support. These service providers may access your personal data and are required to use it solely as we direct, to provide our requested service. (All data categories)
  • For Advertising: If we decide to use an advertising-supported revenue model in the future, we may use and share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users. We may also allow advertisers to collect System Data through Data Collection Tools (as detailed in Section 2.1), to use this data to offer you targeted ad delivery to personalize your user experience (through behavioral advertising) and to undertake web analytics. Advertisers may also share with us the data they collect about you. To learn more or opt out from participating ad networks’ behavioral advertising, see Section 6.1 (Your Choices About the Use of Your Data) below. Note that if you opt out, you’ll continue to be served generic ads. (System Data)
  • For Security and Legal Compliance: We may disclose your data (all data categories) to third parties if we (in our sole discretion) have a good faith belief that the disclosure is:
    • Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding;
    • Reasonably necessary as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other legally-valid request;
    • Reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements;
    • Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues;
    • Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of Listenact, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services;
    • We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy; or
    • Required or permitted by law.
  • During a Change in Control: If Listenact undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition or in contemplation of a transition (including during due diligence). (All data categories)
  • After Aggregation/De-identification: We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.
  • With Your Permission: With your consent, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy. (All data categories)
5. Security

We use appropriate security based on the type and sensitivity of data being stored. As with any internet-enabled system, there is always a risk of unauthorized access, so it’s important to protect your password and to contact us if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.

Listenact takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal data that we collect and store. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, however, no system can be 100% secured, so we cannot guarantee that communications between you and Listenact, the Services, or any information provided to us in connection with the data we collect through the Services will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Your password is an important part of our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with any third party, and if you believe your password or account has been compromised, you should change it immediately and contact us with any concerns.

6. What are your Privacy rights?

You have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. There may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information. (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information and (iv) if applicable to data portability.

In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object the processing of your personal information. You can make such request by contact us through contact@listenact.ca.

You also possess the ability to opt out of promotional emails, cookies, and collection of your data by certain third parties. You can update or terminate your account from within our Services, and can also contact us for individual rights requests about your personal data. Parents who believe we’ve unintentionally collected personal data about their underage child should contact us for help deleting that information.

6.1 Your Choices About the Use of Your Data

You can choose not to provide certain data to us, but you may not be able to use certain features of the Services.

  • To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism in the promotional communication you receive or by changing the email preferences in your account. Note that regardless of your email preference settings, we will send you transactional and relationship messages regarding the Services, including administrative confirmations, order confirmations, important updates about the Services, and notices about our policies.
  • You can manage your cookie setting on Cookie Policy page.

If you have any questions about your data, our use of it, or your rights, contact us at privacy@Listenact.com.

6.2 Withdrawing your consent

You can withdraw your consent to process your personal information by deleting   your account, you may not be able to our services. You will lose the access to the enrolled courses and we will delete you from our system. To delete your account completely, you can write to us at contact@listenact.ca.

6.3 For Minors

We recognize the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Individuals younger than 18 years of age, but of the required age for consent to use online services where they live (for example, 13 in the US or 16 in Ireland), may not set up an account, but may have a parent or guardian open an account and help them access appropriate content. Individuals younger than the required age for consent to use online services may not use the Services. If we learn that we’ve collected personal data from a child under those ages, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents who believe that Listenact may have collected personal data from a child under those ages can submit a request that it be removed  by contact us via email at contact@listenact.ca

 
7. Jurisdiction-Specific Rules

If you live in California, you have certain rights related to accessing and deleting your data, as well as learning who we share your data with. If you live in Australia, you have the right to make a formal complaint with the appropriate government agency. Users outside of the United States should note that we transfer data to the US and other areas outside of the European Economic Area.

7.1 Do California residents have specific Privacy rights?

In short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. California Civil Code1798.83, also known as the ‘Shine The Light’ law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us via email contact@listenact.ca

Users who are California residents have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, (“CCPA”). If you are an eligible California user, included in these rights are:

  • “Right to Know” — You have the right to request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you and access a copy of your personal information.
  • “Right to Correction” — You have the right to have inaccurate personal information about you corrected.
  • “Right to Deletion” — You have the right to request deletion of personal information that we have collected about you.
  • “Right to Non-Discrimination” — If you choose to exercise any of your rights under CCPA, Listenact will treat you like all other users. In other words, there is no penalty for exercising your rights under CCPA.
  • “Right to Opt-Out” – You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.

CCPA has a specific definition of a “sale” and while Listenact does not, in the traditional sense, sell your personal information or the personal information of any of our users, we do use cookies that make non-personally identifiable information available to select third-parties. To opt out of such a “sale,” click on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link at the bottom of this page.

For your protection, we may require that the request be sent through the email address associated with your account, and we may need to verify you and/or your agent’s identity before fulfilling your request.

Additionally, for more information about the personal information we collect and how we collect it, please see the sections above entitled “What Data We Get” and “How We Get Data About You.”

To learn about the business and commercial purposes for which your personal information is collected and the categories of service providers who have access to your personal information, please see the sections above entitled “What We Use Your Data For” and “Who We Share Your Data With.”

As a California resident, you also have the right to request certain details about what personal information we share with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To submit your request, send an email to privacy@Listenact.com with the phrase “California Shine the Light” and include your mailing address, state of residence, and email address.

Since there is no widely accepted standard for the browser-initiated Do Not Track signal, we do not currently recognize or respond to Do Not Track signals.

7.2 Users in Nevada

Listenact does not sell its users’ personal information or personal data. Nonetheless, Nevada residents have the right to submit a request that we do not sell your covered personal information, which you can do by emailing contact@listenact.ca.

7.3 Users in Australia

If you are an Australia resident and you have a complaint, you may refer it to the office of the Australian Information Commissioner (“OAIC”). You can contact OAIC by visiting www.oaic.gov.au; forwarding an email to enquiries@oaic.gov.au; telephoning 1300 363 992; or writing to OAIC at GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001. You may contact our privacy team at contact@listenact.ca to make a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles which will be responded to within 30 days.

7.4 If you are located in the EEA or UK, this section applies to you.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. If you are located in the EEA or UK, you have the right to request access to your data in a portable format and to request the rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, or objection to processing of your personal data. You also have the right to obtain a free copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses referenced in Section 7.5. You may use the information in Section 6.2 to submit your request. Additionally, if you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.

Personal data is also administered outside of the UK, Switzerland, and the EEA by Listenact, or our service providers, including to process transactions, facilitate payments, and provide support services as described in Section 4. We use the Controller-to-Processor Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission to facilitate transfers of personal data from the EEA to third countries and have entered into data processing agreements with our service providers and Listenact to restrict and regulate their processing of your data. By submitting your data or using our Services, you consent to this transfer, storage, and processing by Listenact and its processors.

7.5 Users Outside Canada.

In order to provide the Services to you, we must transfer your data to the Canada and process it there. If you are using the Services from outside Canada, you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your data in and to Canada or other countries.

8. Updates & Contact Info

When we make a material change to this policy, we’ll notify users via email, in-product notice, or another mechanism required by law. Changes become effective the day they’re posted. Please contact us via email with any questions, concerns, or disputes.

8.1 Modifications to This Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. If we make any material change to it, we will notify you via email, through a notification posted on the Services, or as required by applicable law. We will also include a summary of the key changes. Unless stated otherwise, modifications will become effective on the day they are posted.

As permitted by applicable law, if you continue to use the Services after the effective date of any change, then your access and/or use will be deemed an acceptance of (and agreement to follow and be bound by) the revised Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy supersedes all previous Privacy Policies.

8.2 Interpretation

Any capitalized terms not defined in this policy are defined as specified in Listenact’s Terms of Use. Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience. If there is any conflict with a non-English version, you agree that the English language version will control.

8.3 Questions

If you have any questions, concerns, or disputes regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact our privacy team (including our Data Protection Officer) at contact@listenact.ca.