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PRIVACY POLICY (GDPR COMPLIANT)

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 1, 2024

At St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc (“St. Louis Podiatry Seminar” or “we” or “our”), we want you to be familiar with how and why we collect, use and disclose information about you.  This includes information we collect through our website, https://centerforpodiatriceducation.com (the “Site”) and in connection with the operation of our business and the offering of our products and services.  Some of this information may individually identify you. This Privacy Policy explains our information practices with respect to the information collected and the choices you can make about the collection, access and use of your information.

This Privacy Policy also applies to our targeted content, including online offers and advertisements for our products and services, which we (or a service provider acting on our behalf) may send to you on our third party websites, platforms and applications (collectively, “Third Party Sites”) based on your use of the Internet. These Third Party Sites may have their own privacy policies and terms and conditions. We encourage you to read each such privacy policy and terms and conditions before using those Third Party Sites. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, please visit http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ or http://optout.aboutads.info to manage your preferences. Alternatively, if you are located in a European country, you may visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. Please note that you may continue to receive generic ads.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal data collected from or about any of our employees or employees. [Personal information collected from any such employees will be protected by our employment policies and handbook.]

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy, ensuring that your personal data is protected and complying with with applicable data privacy or data protection laws and/or regulations, including, as applicable, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), the European Union retained law version of the GDPR (as adopted by the United Kingdom (the “U.K.”)) and the U.K. Data Protection Act 2018 (c.12) (collectively, the “U.K. Data Protection Laws”), Switzerland’s Federal Act on Data Protection (“FADP”) and/or the standard contractual clauses for controller to processor transfers and/or for controller to controller transfers, all as set out in the European Commission Decision of 5 February 2010 (2010/87/EU), or any variation thereof that is required, as a result of any change or difference in applicable data protection law(s) or regulation(s) or a change in a decision of a competent authority under any applicable data privacy or data protection law or regulation, to allow such transfers to be made (or continue to be made) without breach of any applicable data privacy or data protection law or regulation, (collectively, the “Standard Contractual Clauses”).  As part of this commitment, we train our employees about the importance of privacy and how to handle and manage personal data appropriately and securely.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE USE IT?

We collect information: (i) by which you may be personally identified, such as name, birthdate, age, postal address, e-mail address telephone number, veteran status, personal preferences, credit card information, including billing address, or any other identifiers by which you may be contacted online or offline, such as medical license number, title, and employer; (ii) that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as IP address or other online identifiers; and/or (iii) about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site and usage details (collectively, “Personal Data”).

St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc collects and processes Personal Data solely to the extent (i) that it has a legitimate, lawful basis for processing and (ii) that such Personal Data is relevant to the purposes for which it was collected or disclosed. 

In particular, we process Personal Data for the specific purposes listed below. The following explains which Personal Data we collect for each purpose, the exact nature of the purpose, the length such data is stored, the basis for collection, and any further relevant information. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for additional purposes without providing you notice. We do not retain Personal Data for longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

  • [Surfing on our Website – with or without Cookies
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [information about the type of browser you use, the size of the browser window, the screen resolution, the URL of the page that you are viewing, the title and other details of the web pages you have viewed, your location from IP address (not the IP address itself), your device address, your Cookie ID, hyperlinks that you have clicked, whether or not your browser has Java enabled, what version of Flash software your browser uses, the language settings from your browser and any other information you choose to share when using Third Party Sites (such as when you use the “Like” functionality on Facebook or the +1 functionality on Google+), and the websites you visited before arriving at our relevant Site.]
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We (and third party service providers acting on our behalf or on their own behalf) use cookies and similar technologies to process data about you when you visit our Site. Cookies are files that store information on your computer hard drive or browser that mean that we can recognize that you have visited us before. We use cookies and similar technologies to improve our products and your experience on our Sites by evaluating the use of our Site, products and services to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic.  You can view more information on the cookies used and adjust your cookie preferences via the Cookie Consent Tool on our Site.  

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers.  When our Site receives a DNT code, except in the case of certain scenarios where a user actively and knowingly provides Personal Data (e.g. contact forms), our Site will not track your use across multiple websites, but other websites (including, without limitation, websites of certain of our affiliates and third party providers, such as our career portal) to which we link, or to which you visit, may continue to track you.  When our Site receives web requests from a user who enables DNT by actively choosing an opt-out setting in the user’s browser, we will also take reasonable efforts to disable tracking cookies/scripts (e.g. Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Facebook, Twitter and/or other third party scripts).

  • How long do we store your Personal Data? Please check our Cookie Policy (which can be found [here]) to learn about the storage periods for each cookie.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Your consent through our Cookie Consent Banner.
  • Additional Comments: It is always possible for you to visit our Site without disclosing your Personal Data. This requires that you have disabled cookies. You can opt out of the processing of such information via the Cookie Consent Banner displayed at the bottom of the relevant Site. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of our Site or online services.]  
  • Contact to Deal with Requests, Provide Information about Products, Services or Promotions, and Provide News Releases
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first and last names, your  phone number, your medical license number, your job title, your employer name, your course and webinar enrollments, and your email address].  
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We process your Personal Data whenever you contact us in order to respond to your inquiries and comments. We process your Personal Data that you enter when registering for our Site or products or that you subsequently update or amend in your user account. We process Personal Data to provide you with the information that you request from us, including responding to your queries or comments and sending you products or samples that you have requested. We look at the products you have viewed on our Site.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Performance of the contract with, or request by, you; if you provide to us Personal Data that is considered sensitive (e.g. information on your health or ethnic origin), your consent.  If you wish to discontinue receiving this information, [you may update your preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in the emails that we send to you or by contacting us at STLPODIATRY.SEMINAR@GMAIL.COM.
  • Consider Your Job Application and Communicate with You Regarding Your Job Application
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first, middle, and last names, your mailing address, including city, state, and zip code, your email address, your phone number, including primary and secondary phone numbers, your gender, your ethnic origin, your veteran status, your voluntary self-identification of disability, your work experience, including job titles, company names, and dates of employment, and your education, including the names of the schools you attended, your level of education, your degree, including majors and minors, and the dates of your school attendance.]
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We process your Personal Data in order to make employment decisions, in some instances, and to comply with applicable law.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Your consent.
  • Manage and Inform our Shareholders and Coordinate Investor Relations
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: your first and last names, your mailing address, and number of shares of St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc stock owned.  We or our processors may also have banking information for the purposes of depositing dividend checks and this information includes the shareholder’s bank account number, email address, employee identification number, social security number and/or other tax identification number.
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We process your Personal Data in order to record and manage our shareholders and to provide you with information about our stock, shareholder meetings, dividends, and operation and business of our company.  We also use this information for the payment of dividends.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for so long as we or our processors, including, without limitation, our transfer agents, are required by law to store the Personal Data or for such longer period of time that we may be required to keep the Personal Data in order to protect the public interest.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data?  Purchase of our stock and our legal obligations to you as a result of being a shareholder of our company and/or performance of a request by you to receive information about our stock and operation of our company and its subsidiaries.
  • Performance of Relevant Administrative Services Requested or Necessary to Facilitate our Relationship
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first and last names, your address, your credit card information, your medical license number, your job title, your employer name, your email address, your course and webinar enrollments, and your criminal or credit history.]
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We will process your Personal Data for the purposes of performing administrative services requested or necessary to facilitate our relationship (e.g., facilitating payments or deliveries of products, services, information or materials, reporting attending and performance for courses and webinars) or to fulfill requests you have made (e.g., registration).
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Performance of the contract with, or request by, you; if you provide to us Personal Data that is considered sensitive (e.g. information on your health or religious affiliation), your consent.
  • Respond to Consumer Complaints and Reports of Business Concerns
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first and last names, your mailing address, your phone number, your email address and relevant information about (i) the complaint or business concern, (ii) the situation or circumstances giving rise to the complaint or business concern and/or (iii) any other Personal Data that you volunteer in your report or follow up communications.]
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We will process your Personal Data for the purposes of responding to any consumer complaints or responding to reports from consumers about business concerns related to our businesses and operations.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless (i) we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law or (ii) unless we reasonably anticipate litigation with regard to the matter in which case we would retain relevant Personal Data until such time as the litigation is concluded or is no longer reasonably anticipated.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Our basis for processing is (i) your consent with regard to Personal Data you volunteer with regard to your complaint or business concern or (ii) a legal obligation to which we are subject.
  • Prevention of Harm to Us, Our Products or Services or a Person or Property (e.g., Fraud Prevention) or Defend Ourselves against Claims or Potential Claims
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first and last names, your address, your email address, your criminal or credit history and relevant information about (i) the harm or potential harm, (ii) the claim or potential claim or (iii) the situation or circumstances giving rise to harm, potential harm, claim or potential claim.]
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We will process your Personal Data for the purposes of preventing harm to St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc or any of its subsidiaries, their products or services or to any person or property (e.g., fraud prevention) and/or in the bringing or prosecution of a claim or potential claim against you.  In addition, we may process your Personal Data for the purposes of defending St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc against claims or potential claims made against one or more of them.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless (i) we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law or (ii) unless we reasonably anticipate litigation with regard to the matter in which case we would retain relevant Personal Data until such time as the litigation is concluded or is no longer reasonably anticipated.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data? Our basis for processing is (i) a legal obligation to which we are subject or (ii) the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests in protecting our business, products, services or a person or property or to defend ourselves against claims or potential claims.
  • Communicate with You regarding our Site and Privacy Policy
  • Which Personal Data do we collect about you? For this purpose, we process the following Personal Data: [your first and last names, your phone number, your email address, your medical license number, your job title, your employer name, your mailing address, and your course and webinar enrollments].
  • What is the Purpose of Processing your Personal Data? We process your Personal Data whenever there are material changes to our Site and Privacy Policy for the purposes of informing you of those material changes and obtaining your consent, if necessary.
  • How long do we store your Personal Data? We store your Personal Data for 5 Years after you provide the Personal Data to us, unless we are required by law to store the Personal Data for a longer period  in which case we store the Personal Data for the period required by applicable law.
  • What is the Basis for Processing your Personal Data?  Performance of the contract with, or request by, you. If your consent was initially required, then your consent is the basis for this processing.

HOW DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA

We engage other companies (“Agents”), to perform certain services on our behalf.  We may share, and may internationally transfer, Personal Data with these Agents to perform the services or provide the products, and, in fulfillment of the services or products, these Agents may need to share Personal Data collected on our behalf with us. We do not sell trade, or rent your Personal Data to Agents without prior permission from you. Furthermore, we will not otherwise provide your Personal Data to Agents without prior permission from you, provided however, those Agents do not include our subsidiaries, affiliates, licensees, partners, hosting and educational partners, accrediting agencies, other parties who assist us in operating our products and services, third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you or organizations providing services to support our functions, such as our mail and e-mail processing companies, payment processing companies, market research firms, lead-generation and outreach companies, and other service providers. Also, St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc does not sell or share the Personal Data it collects to any unrelated third parties (who are not Agents) so that they may send you commercial promotions or unsolicited offers for unrelated products or services.  If you would like more information about our disclosure of your Personal Data to third parties, please contact us at STLPODIATRY.SEMINAR@GMAIL.COM.

Pursuant to written agreements with these Agents, which agreements afford appropriate, and all required, protections of your Personal Data, we use these Agents to provide the following services on our behalf:

  • [email services;
  • consumer relations, including consumer complaint response services;
  • legal representation, including with regard to prevention harm to our company, its subsidiaries, our products or services or a person or property (e.g., fraud prevention); 
  • shareholder record-keeping, notice, transfer agent and other investor relation services; and

All of our Agents are bound by contract to refrain from using your Personal Data for any purpose other than providing the applicable service to us. We are liable to you for our Agents’ appropriate processing of your Personal Data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable data privacy laws and regulations.

As described above, we use Agents to manage our advertising on other websites. These Agents may use cookies or similar technologies in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. Any personally identifiable information gathered by these Agents is not provided by the Agents to St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc.  It is only used by the applicable Agent pursuant to its own privacy policies.  If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, please visit http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ or http://optout.aboutads.info  to manage your preferences. Alternatively, if you are located in a European country, you may visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. Please note that you may continue to receive generic ads.  

In addition to disclosures described above, we may disclose or transfer Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, spin-off, sale of company assets, product lines or divisions, any financing or any similar transaction. We may also disclose Personal Data to prevent damage or harm to us, our services or any person or property, if we believe that disclosure is required to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or in response to a lawful request by public authorities.  Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not otherwise disclose Personal Data to any third parties unless you have been provided with an opportunity to opt in to such disclosure.

When St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc transfers Personal Data to countries other than the country where it was provided, we do so in compliance with applicable data privacy laws and/or regulations, including, as applicable, the GDPR. We will not transfer Personal Data subject to the GDPR and relating to you to a country outside EEA unless: (1) the country or recipient is covered by an adequacy decision of the European Commission under GDPR Article 45; (2) appropriate safeguards have been put in place which meet the requirements of GDPR Article 46 (for example using the European Commission’s Standard Model Clauses for transfers of Personal Data outside the EEA); or (3) one of the derogations for specific situations under GDPR Article 49 is applicable to the transfer. These include (in summary) if the transfer is necessary to perform, or to form, a contract to which we are a party; the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; you have provided your explicit consent to the transfer; or the transfer is of a limited nature, and is necessary for the purpose of our compelling legitimate interests. 

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Site may contain links to the websites of our affiliates (some of which do not fall under the jurisdiction of the GDPR, the U.K. Data Protection Laws and/or the FADP) and to websites that are owned and operated by third parties.  These other websites may have their own privacy policies and are not governed by this Privacy Policy.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites owned and operated by any such third parties. Other websites may collect and treat information collected differently.

YOUR RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

To the extent provided under applicable data privacy or data protection laws, you may have the following rights to obtain from us: (i) confirmation as to whether or not we process Personal Data from you and, where that is the case, access to the Personal Data; (ii) rectification of inaccurate Personal Data; (iii) erasure of Personal Data; (iv) restriction of processing of Personal Data; and (v) receive the Personal Data which you have provided to us and transmit those data to another data controller without hindrance. If you have such rights, you may exercise any of these rights by contacting us at  STLPODIATRY.SEMINAR@GMAIL.COM.  You may also have the right to lodge your complaints with the applicable legal authorities, including, without limitation, the applicable E.U. supervisory authority(ies), the U.K. Information Commissioner, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, and the California Privacy Protection Agency. 

St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc will respond to your requests in accordance with, and within the appropriate timeframe determined by, the applicable law and/or regulation governing the use of the given Personal Data. In most cases, St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc will respond to requests within one month; provided, however, if the request is complex, St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc may extend its response time in accordance with applicable law and regulation.

St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc will contact users to obtain prior affirmative express consent when the same is required when it is required by the scope of the GDPR, the U.K. Data Protection Laws, the FADP and/or the Standard Contractual Clauses.  For example, St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc will receive your affirmative express consent where we process your personal data for marketing purposes, use cookies or process your sensitive data. Where we process your data on the basis of your consent, we will ask for your consent explicitly but, in some cases and only where permitted by applicable law, we may infer in a transparent manner consent from your actions. We may also ask you to provide additional consent if we need to use your personal data for purposes not covered by this Privacy Policy or before sharing your personal data with affiliates or subsidiaries of St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc for the purposes of marketing.  If you wish to discontinue receiving this information, you may update your preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in the emails that we send to you or by contacting us at STLPODIATRY.SEMINAR@GMAIL.COM.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Site is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18.  If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Site or on or through any of its features/register on the Site, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at STLPODIATRY.SEMINAR@GMAIL.COM.

HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA

St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc maintains reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to help protect against loss, misuse, and alteration of Personal Data collected and processed by St. Louis Podiatry Seminar, Inc. However, information transmitted on the Internet and/or stored on systems attached to the Internet is not 100% secure. As a result, we do not ensure, warrant or guarantee the security or integrity of such information.

CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY

As we continue to provide additional services and as the privacy laws and regulations evolve, it may be necessary to revise or update this Privacy Policy.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, including, any material changes to how we collect, use, process, and/or share your information, we will prominently post a notice of such changes on the website(s) covered by this Privacy Policy. To the extent required by applicable law, we will contact you with regard to changes to this Privacy Policy.

YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND WHEN WE ASK FOR YOUR CONSENT

By using our Site, you acknowledge that we are processing your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  If you do not wish that we process your Personal Data in this way, please do not use our Site or otherwise provide us with your Personal Data.

We process your Personal Data as described above. In certain instances, we only process your Personal Data if you have consented (for example, in cases where we process your Personal Data for job applications or seeking employment). Where we process your Personal Data on the basis of your consent, we will ask for your consent explicitly but, in some cases and only where permitted by applicable law, we may infer in a transparent manner consent from your actions. We may also ask you to provide additional consent if we need to use your Personal Data for purposes not covered by this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

We are committed and required to respond to any of your inquiries on this issue within one month of receiving the inquiry. 

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