Who we are
Our website address is: https://workspace.thinklish.com.
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you how we gather, define, and use information that could identify you, such as your name, email address, address, other contact details, online identifiers or other information that you provide to us when using our websites or when relying on our services. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
This privacy policy (the “Policy” or the “Privacy Policy”) describes how ThinkLish LLP collects, uses, consults or otherwise processes an individual’s Personal Data. For the purposes of this policy, “ThinkLish Learning” and “ThinkLish” refers to ThinkLish LLP., a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), having its registered address at P. O. Box 3465 Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands email address info@thinklish.com. In all cases described in this Policy, ThinkLish Learning will process your personal data as a data Controller.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and customers. This Privacy Policy is especially directed at:
visitors and subscribers of the websites and Learner Management System of ThinkLish Learning;
natural persons contacting us through the contact or other forms available on the websites;
subscribers to our newsletter(s);
users signing in to use our services;
users signing in to download Free Course Information and Updates;
users signing in to participate in and/or watch online lessons
This policy is to be read as consistent with the Cookie Policy.
This policy includes a description of your data protection rights, including a right to object to some of the processing activities we carry out.
Purpose
The purpose of the Website is to provide language instruction to professionals working or interested in language learning who would like to improve their language competency and spoken fluency.
As part of our effort to instruct this online learning community, we receive and store information about you such as:
Content published on https://workspace.thinklish.com is accessible to all visitors. However, certain ThinkLish Learning features and services may require registration. Users may register (“sign-up”) on-site (for example, at https://workspace.thinklish.com/signup) or via our LMS site (https://thinklish.thinkific.com). Upon signing-up, an account is created for the user (“Account”). Users who sign-up on https://workspace.thinklish.com will be redirected to the LMS (https://thinklish.thinkific.com) to confirm their registration by clicking on an activation link which is sent to them via email. All active user accounts have the capability to write articles and reviews. Users will have the option to register for information or gain more capabilities by subscribing for lessons (for example, purchasing a set of Units that will give them access to multiple lessons on the LMS).
Users are required to provide part or all of the following information below, depending on the features or services they wish to access (some of which may be automatically retrieved directly from LinkedIn):
First and last name
Email address
Industry, job title, and area of interest
English level (based on CEFR or IELTs results)
Mobile phone number
Once activation is complete, you will be able to create your profile (“Profile”).
You may be required to provide us with additional information and consent to our terms as described here which are part of our general TOS and Privacy Policy.
- b) Other Information
Instructor Ratings
Because ThinkLish Learning instructors are compensated based on ThinkLish user feedback, you will be asked to provide information (collectively, “Instructor Rankings”) to be collected by ThinkLish support. Instructor Rankings posted on our Website or transmitted to us will remain the property of and confidential to ThinkLish management. Additionally, ThinkLish will not share or distribute Instructor Rankings outside of ThinkLish. However, users may choose to share Instructor Rankings outside of the ThinkLish website or LMS. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Instructor Rankings will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
User profiles are not public by default. However, to ensure that user lesson data are properly attributed to their owners, we require that users agree to set up a ThinkLish internal profile in order for their lesson results and lesson completion information to be evaluated in order to get feedback. It is your choice about what personal information to include on your profile. You should not add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be available on the ThinkLish website
Non-personal information
We automatically track and collect certain non-personal information such as Website navigation data, Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, timestamps and URLs. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interest, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and the ThinkLish community.
Correspondence information
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our Website, we may store such information on our servers.
Payment Information
To protect you against fraud, unauthorized transactions (such as money laundering), claims and other liabilities, we only collect an identification number and order details which enable us to match each user to the payments he makes. We do not collect credit card information.
We allow our third party payment vendor to collect information for the purpose of collecting fees from users on the Website. We do not have access to the payment information that you provide to our third party payment vendor and this information is subject to the privacy policy of the third party payment vendor. For more information regarding what payment information our third party payment vendor collects and how it uses this information, please see their privacy policy.
Use of Information
We use your information to provide, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our services and marketing efforts, to process your registration, your orders and your payments and to communicate with you on these and other topics. For example, we use information to:
- Resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote lesson content; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in Services; inform you about offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our TOS; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. We may compare and review your Lesson Information for errors, omissions and accuracy.
- Send you system e-mails about the functionality of our Website that you cannot opt out from and you will have to receive if you want to use our Website. If you want to stop receiving our system e-mails, you will have to de-activate your Account by contacting support@workspace.thinklish.com.
- Use your e-mail associated with your Account in order to send you newsletters and information in conjunction with your use of our Services. If you do not wish to receive course information updates or newsletters you may unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter e-mail. We may also send you information which includes third party’s offers. If you do not wish to receive these third party offers, you may unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter e-mail.
- Use your Lesson Information in order to provide benchmark analysis and aggregate statistics. This particular Lesson Information will be made anonymous, will not contain personal identification and will not be transferred or sold to third parties in any way or format that identifies you.
- Use Website navigation data to operate and improve the Website. We may also use Website navigation data alone or in combination with your Business Information to provide aggregated information about ThinkLish Learning.
- Collect the IP Addresses to track when you use our Website. We use IP Addresses to monitor the regions from which you navigate our Website and sign-up to use our Services. Your IP-address is also registered for statistical purposes and to better our advertising and layout of the Website. In specific, we use your IP Addresses for the following reasons:
- Send the most appropriate advertising based on geographic area or information derived from your IP address. Many IP addresses are commonly associated with Internet service providers, universities, or major corporations in specific regions or localities. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
- Estimate the total number of Internet users visiting our Website from specific countries or regions of the world.
- Assist third party advertisers to track effectiveness of the promotions they run on our Website, visits to and business at third party’s websites.
- For users other than those signing up for the online LMS lessons at https://thinklish.thinkific.com, we do not share your full name, e-mail, phone number or other information with third parties for their marketing purposes as a matter of course. However, if we decide to share such information, you shall be notified and shall have the option to opt-out from providing us with your personal information above for this purpose.
We do not transfer, sell or rent your Lesson or Personal Information to third parties for their marketing purposes other than what is stated in this Privacy Policy. We request only the information that we need to operate our Services and improve our Website’s user experience. We do not use your Information to create any advertising creative.
Use of Information by Third Parties
Use of Information by other third parties
- We partner with third-party advertising networks to either display advertising on our Website or to manage our advertising on other Websites. These ad network partners do not collect and do not have access to any Information. They may, however, anonymously track your internet usage by various means, for example, through the use of cookies.
- We make reasonable efforts to make sure that our users, who use our Services, will use the information available to them solely for eLearning-related purposes. However, we cannot control their use of that information outside this scope and we are not responsible for such unauthorized uses.
- ThinkLish Learning reserves its right to share your Information with a third party in case of sale merger, control changes, reorganization or liquidation of the Company. All actions will naturally be completed in compliance with applicable laws of personal data and privacy.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect and use it. We will normally collect personal information from you where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (for example to provide our services to you), where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights an freedoms (for example our direct marketing activities in accordance with your preferences), or where we have your consent to do so (for example, for you to participate in specific surveys and focus groups).
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example to prevent payment fraud or confirm your identity).
For questions about our use of your personal information (including legal basis and transfer mechanisms we rely on) please contact our Data Protection Office/Privacy Office by mail at : privacy@workspace.thinklish.com.
Information Management
We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised access, use and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your personal information. Indicatively :
- All our employees, independent contractors and agents have executed non-disclosure agreements, which provide explicit confidentiality protections. Any employee, independent contractor or agent who violates such privacy and/or security policies is subject to possible termination and civil and/or criminal prosecution.
- We do not make any of your Information available to third parties for their marketing purposes. ThinkLish Learning’s software runs on individual servers and no data given or collected is shared with other social media platforms.
If however, we share your Information with third parties, we will notify you. Please note that no transmission over the internet can guarantee confidentiality and non-disclosure, and as such, you transmit at your own risk.
- We use robust security measures to protect data from unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and help ensure the appropriate use of data. When the Services are accessed using the internet, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects your Information, using both server authentication and data encryption. These technologies help ensure that your Information is safe, secure, and only available to you and to whom you have granted access.
- We do not tolerate Spam. To report ThinkLish Learning-related spam, please contact us at support@workspace.thinklish.com. You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our TOS. We may check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content of the Website, but we will not permanently store messages sent through these tools.
- ThinkLish Learning does its utmost to secure communications and data storage in order to protect confidentiality of your Information against loss and interception by third parties. However, it is important to know that there is no zero-risk against loss or interception by others of your Information. You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your Account’s username and password.
- Storage of Information
We save your Information in our database in order to improve our Website’s and user experience and in accordance with our TOS. If you wish that your Business Information be permanently deleted from our database when you stop using our Services, please notify us at support@workspace.thinklish.com.
ThinkLish Learning is a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company. If you are located outside the BVI and choose to provide information to us, ThinkLish Learning transfers your Information to our servers in the EU. The EU may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the Information. When we transfer your Information to the EU, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy. By visiting our Website or providing ThinkLish Learning with your Information, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your Information in the US.
Information and Rights
Once you have provided your Personal Data, you have several rights, which you can in principle exercise free of charge, subject to statutory exceptions. These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal Personal Data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. To exercise any of your rights, you can file a request here info@thinklish.com.
Should you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority where you live or where you believe a breach may have occurred. We encourage you to come to us in the first instance but, to the extent that this right applies to you, you are entitled to complain directly to the relevant Supervisory Authority.
- Right to withdraw consent
Wherever we rely on your consent, you will be able to withdraw that consent at any time you choose and at your own initiative by logging into your account on our website (if you have one) or by contacting us at support@workspace.thinklish.com. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the collection and processing of your data based on your consent up until the moment where you withdraw your consent.
- Right to access and rectify your data
You have the right to access, review, and rectify your Personal Data. You may be entitled to ask us for a copy of your information, to review or correct it if you wish to rectify any information like your name, email address, passwords and/or any other preferences, you can easily do so by logging into your account on our website (if you have one) or by contacting us here info@thinklish.com. You may also request a copy of the Personal Data processed as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Right to erasure
You have the right to erasure of your Personal Data processed by us as described in this Privacy Policy in case it is no longer needed for the purposes for which the Personal Data was initially collected or processed or in the event you have withdrawn your consent or objected to processing as described in this Privacy Policy and no other legal ground for processing applies. Should you wish to have your Personal Data erased, please file a request at info@thinklish.com.
- Right to restriction of processing
Under certain circumstances, you may ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data. This is for example the case when you contest the accuracy of your Personal Data. In such event, we will restrict the processing until we can verify the accuracy of your data. Should you wish to have your Personal Data restricted, please file a request here info@thinklish.com.
- Right to object to processing
Under certain circumstances you may object to the processing of your Personal Data, including where your Personal Data is processed for direct marketing purposes. If you no longer want to receive certain communications from us via email, simply click the unsubscribe link in any of our emails.
- Right to data portability
Where you have provided your data directly to us and where the processing is carried out by automated means and based on your consent or the performance of a contract between you and us, you have the right to receive the Personal Data processed about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and request portability of your Personal Data.
Other Websites
ThinkLish Learning’s website may contain links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of information may differ from ours. These websites and platforms have separate and independent privacy or data policies, privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. In addition, you may encounter third party applications that interact with ThinkLish Learning’s services.
Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18.
In the event we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a child under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, steps will be taken promptly to remove that information. If you believe that we have or may have information from or about a child under 18 years of age, please contact us at info@thinklish.com.
Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will bring these changes to your attention should they be indicative of a fundamental change to the processing or be relevant to the nature of the processing or be relevant to you and impact your data protection rights.
Data Retention
We retain your Personal Data for as long as is required to fulfill the activities set out in this Privacy Policy, for as long as otherwise communicated to you or for as long as is permitted by applicable law.
Appliable Law
The validity and interpretation of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the British overseas territory of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), without regard to BVI’s choice of law principles.
For the purposes described in this policy, your personal data will be transferred to the EU. When such transfer happens, we ensure that it takes place in accordance with this policy. For any complaints that cannot be resolved with us directly and fall within the scope of EU legislation, we have chosen to cooperate with the relevant Data Protection Authority of the EU.