Privacy Policy

It is the policy of The Talent School ("we," "us," or "our") to deal with your personal information responsibly and in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws, including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Privacy Policy tells you how we do that. It applies to talentschoolnetwork.com, talentschoolnetwork.com, and any related services we operate, including our family learning portal known as The Fold, the Spark Fellowship, and our partner school and Talent Partner programs.

We do not sell your personal information.

The personal information that we process may include

• Basic identifying information, such as your name, address, the company you work for, and your job title or position.
• Contact information, such as your email address and phone number.
• Financial information, such as bank account information needed to process payments.
• Technical information from your visits to our website or in relation to electronic communications we send to you, including IP address, browser type, pages visited, and referring URLs.
• Account credentials and profile information for The Fold or other authenticated tools.
• Information you provide in connection with meetings and events we organize.
• Identification and background information we collect as part of our student application procedures.
• Personal information provided to us by or on behalf of our students, or generated by us in the course of providing educational services to them.

How we collect personal information

• As part of our student acceptance procedures.
• As necessary in the course of providing educational services.
• From monitoring use of our website, including cookies and similar technologies used to keep you signed in, remember preferences, and measure how the site is used.
• From monitoring email communications we send and receive.
• Directly from you, for example when you speak with our personnel or register to receive communications from us.
• From other sources, for example publicly available sources used to maintain the accuracy of contact details we hold for you.
• As part of our due diligence procedures when entering into contracts with suppliers or vendors.

How we use the information we collect

• To provide educational services to our students, including enrollment, advising, scheduling, and family communications.
• To manage our business and our commercial relationships with our strategic partners, students, suppliers, and vendors.
• To market our services. You may choose at any time not to receive marketing materials from us by using the unsubscribe link in any message or emailing us at talentteam@thetalentschool.org.
• To fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations.
• For the purposes of recruitment.
• To provide, secure, and improve this website, including auditing and monitoring its use.
• To provide information requested by you.

Grounds for processing

• For the legitimate business purposes described above.
• On the basis of consent from the relevant individual.
• To perform a contract, including a contract to provide educational services.
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

Children's privacy

We work with learners under 13 with parent or guardian consent, and we collect only the information needed to provide educational services. Parents and guardians can review their child's information, ask us to update or delete it, and withdraw consent at any time by contacting us through our contact form.

Sharing personal information

The Talent School has multiple locations in various states. Personal information given to one The Talent School location may be transferred to one or more of our other locations (including those we may open in the future).

We may also share your personal information with third parties in accordance with contractual arrangements in place with them, including:

• Service providers and other organizations involved in matters for our students, including technology service providers (for example, HubSpot for CRM), email and analytics providers, hosting and payment processors, and other suppliers or vendors who provide support services to us, under contracts that require them to protect the data and use it only for the services they provide to us.
• IT service providers.
• Organizations who assist us or work alongside us in hosting or organizing events or seminars.
• Our own professional advisers and auditors.
• Where a learner's family is also enrolled with or served by a partner school or Talent Partner, we may exchange information with that partner as needed to deliver the learner's pathway, with appropriate consent. Each partner school and Talent Partner is responsible for the personal information it collects and holds under its own privacy policy.

In some circumstances, we may also pass information to regulatory authorities, courts, tribunals, government agencies and law enforcement agencies, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or transfer of all or part of our operations. We may be required to disclose your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. Where possible, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you before disclosing your information, but we may be legally restricted from doing so.

Social network widgets

Our Services may include social network sharing widgets that may provide information to their associated social networks or third parties about your interactions with our web pages, even if you do not click on or interact with the plug-in or widget. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where the widget appears. If you use social network tools or visit social networking sites, you should read their privacy disclosures to learn what information they collect, use, and share.

Protecting personal information

We use a variety of technical and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your rights

Applicable data protection laws — which, depending on where you live, may include the GDPR (EEA/UK), the CCPA/CPRA (California), or the VCDPA (Virginia) — provide certain rights for data subjects. Broadly speaking, you have, or may have, the right:

• To request details of the information we hold about you and how we process it.
• To have your personal information rectified if it is inaccurate, or deleted.
• To restrict our processing of your personal information.
• To withdraw a previously provided consent to processing of your personal information.
• To stop unauthorized transfers of your personal information to a third party.
• To have your personal information transferred to another person.
• To complain about our processing of your personal information to a supervisory authority.

These rights may not be absolute. For example, if you withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information, we may be able to continue to process it to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.

Keeping personal information

We retain personal information of different types, or relating to different categories of people, for different periods, taking into account its business purpose. For example, information about individuals who have applied for employment with us will be retained for a shorter period than information about individuals who have actually worked for us. The periods for which we retain information are based on the requirements of applicable data protection laws and the purpose for which the information is collected and used. We also take into account legal and regulatory provisions which require information to be retained for a minimum period, and best practices in our industry. When we no longer need information, we delete or anonymize it.

International users

We operate in the United States. If you access our services from outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to and processed in the U.S., which may have different data protection laws than your country.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we'll update the effective date above and, for material changes, provide additional notice (for example, by email or a notice on the site).

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