Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Hacktive Education ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your personal information and your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website hacktive.education and use our services.

2. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at:

hello@hacktive.education

3. Data We Collect

3.1. Information You Provide

• Consultation bookings: When you book a consultation through TidyCal (handled by our third-party partner), we receive name, email, and booking details.
• Waitlist signups: When you join our course waitlist via SendFox, we receive your email address.
• Contact inquiries: When you email us, we receive your name, email address, and message content.

3.2. Automatically Collected Information (Analytics & Consent)

• Analytics only with your consent: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Analytics is disabled by default and only activated after you accept in the consent banner. If you decline, no analytics cookies are set and no analytics data is collected.
• What is collected: When enabled, Google Analytics collects anonymized information such as IP address, browser type, device information, and browsing behavior. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
• Essential local storage: Your consent choice is stored in your browser (localStorage key "he-consent"). No other tracking storage is used.
• Withdrawing consent: You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the "Cookie settings" link in the site footer.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Providing training services and responding to inquiries
• Scheduling and conducting consultations
• Sending course updates and waitlist notifications
• Analyzing website usage to improve our services
• Complying with legal obligations

5. Third-Party Services

We share your information with the following trusted third-party service providers:

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us at hello@hacktive.education.

7. Your Rights (GDPR & Quebec Law 25)

Under applicable privacy laws, you have the right to:

• Access: Request a copy of your personal data
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data
• Portability: Request transfer of your data
• Objection: Object to processing of your data
• Restrict: Request restriction of processing
• Withdraw consent: Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

To exercise these rights, contact us at hello@hacktive.education.

8. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

9. International Data Transfers

Some of our third-party service providers (including Google) may be located outside of Canada and the European Economic Area. When we transfer your data to these providers, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place.

10. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on our website and updating the "Last updated" date.

12. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Canada and the province of Quebec, and any applicable international laws including GDPR.