Who we are
Our website address is: https://owlearn.org.
OWLearn provides an online interactive learning platform for taking management and business courses including a social platform to interact with other users and course instructors.
OWLearn was founded and is managed by Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos.
For contact, please use the contact form or our email address: owlearn.official@gmail.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Learning Management System (LMS):
We collect information about you during the course purchase process (PayPal and/or Stripe), as well as information relating to your course progression and quiz performance.
What we collect and store
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
–Send you information about your account and order
–Create your account for our LMS
If you register a free account then we will store your email address.
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments and/or essay submissions (if applicable).
We will also store comments on courses, lessons, topics, assignments, and essays if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Only Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos, founder of OWLearn.org, has access to the information you provide us.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you.
The company SWEET CODE CHEF SL. GamiPress (“Gamipress”) provides us services to offer leaderboards, points and awards for certain user activities on this platform. Gamipress may collect data related to users’ activities on the website, such as information about their points, ranks, achievements, badges and activities. This includes information about enrolled courses, course progress and activities within the social community for which points are rewarded. This also includes data such as usernames, email addresses, IP addresses.
Please see the Gamipress Privacy Policy for more details.
The company Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”) provides us services to offer webinars and livestreams on our platform. Zoom may collect data related to the participants of such webinars and livestreams, such as display name, picture, email address, stated locale, or other information provided by the participant. This may also include usage information regarding meetings, webinars and messaging.
Please see the Zoom Privacy Statement for more details.
The company Xecurify Inc (DBA miniOrange Security Software Private Limited) (“miniOrange”) provides us services to offer Social Login. Using Social Login, users can log in to our website using their social media accounts such as Google and LinkedIn. The company miniOrange may collect data related to users’ login to our website. This includes personal information for authentication purposes, such as email, first name and last name. This may also include device specific information. Personal data is passed on to Google and LinkedIn for authentication purposes.
Please see the miniOrange Privacy Policy for more details.
The company OneSignal, Inc., (“OneSignal”) provides us services to offer web push notifications. Users can sign up for push notifications. This is done via a visible opt-in popup or notification that asks the user to agree to push notifications. Once a user has agreed to push notifications, OneSignal generates a unique token for that user that is used to deliver notifications. This token is normally captured in the background and sent to the OneSignal server. Once user tokens are captured, notifications can be sent to those users. Push tokens are generally not considered personally identifiable information data since you can’t share a push token with someone else and have it be used to reach that person or to determine anything about that person. However, data is shared with OneSignal for the purposes of sending personalized or targeted notifications. This may include first session time, last session time, session count, total usage duration, device information, time zone and location, amongst others. Please see One Signal Data Collection details for more details. OneSignal does not handle personally identifiable information or EU and UK personal data. OneSignal will not collect IP addresses from all EU and UK users.
Please see the OneSignal Data Handling and Security Policies for more details.
The company Google Ireland Limited (“Google”) provides us the services “Google Analytics” and access to data such as our website’s visitor statistics, search queries, page views and other analytics-related information. We use web analytics to improve our website and Services for a better customer experience. Google may collect the following information: number of users, sessions statistics, approximate location information, browser and device information. This may include without limitations data related to user clicks (when a user clicks on a link to another domain), file downloads of ours users on our website if applicable, first visit of a user on our website, a user starts interacting with or submits a form, page views of a user, a user scrolls the website (a user reaches the bottom of the page for the first time, i.e., a vertical depth of 90% becomes visible), a user starts a session, search results (a user performs a search on our website), user engagement (web page is in focus for at least one second).
Please see the Google Privacy Policies for more details.
Our technological infrastructure and website is built on services provided by the company Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. (“Automattic”). Automattic provides us services for website design and feature creation. This company may collect information that our website visitors provide to our site, such as contact form submission, a search query, site registration, responses to surveys and other information that are required for a poll/survey response, like an e-mail address. Automattic may also collect technical data from our website visitors’ computers and location information, e. g. to tally how many people visit our website from certain geographic regions. We use the services of Automattic to, among other things, create and manage our website, sell our Services, flag and fight comments from spammers and collect information through polls and other surveys. Automattic may also use and share information that has been aggregated or anonymized, e. g., publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
Please see the Automattic Privacy Notice for more details.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
Anti-spam service:
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
H5P:
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We may process and store personal data about your interactions using xAPI. We use the data to learn about how well the interactions are designed and how it could be adapted to improve the usability and your learning outcomes. The data is processed and stored on our platform until further notice.
We may store the results of your interactions on our platform until further notice. The results may contain your score, the maximum score possible, when you started, when you finished, and how much time you used. We use the results to learn about how well you performed and to help us give you feedback.
We may store interactive content that you create on our platform. We also may send anonymized reports about content creation without any personal data to the plugin creators. Please consult the H5P tracking information page for details.
If you use interactive content that contains a video that is hosted on YouTube, YouTube will set cookies on your computer. YouTube uses these cookies to help them and their partners to analyze the traffic to their websites. Please consult Google’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use YouTube, because we we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with their video content features otherwise.
If you use interactive content that contains a Twitter feed, Twitter will set a cookie on your computer. Twitter uses these cookies to help them and their partners to make their advertizing more relevant to you. Please consult Twitter’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use Twitter, because we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with it otherwise.
If you use interactive content that contains speech recognition, Google Cloud will process your voice for converting it to text. Please consult Google’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use Google Cloud, because we we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with speech recognition features otherwise.