Privacy Policy & Disclaimers

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Privacy Policy

1 Introduction

Learn Innovation Law LLC and our affiliated entities (together “Learn Innovation Law”, “we” or “us”) provides this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) to inform users about our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, processing, deletion, security, and disclosure of personal data and information that is subject to protection under applicable data protection, data privacy and data security laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended, the “CCPA”) and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) (such data and information collectively, “Personal Data”) received from users of the websites owned and operated by us, including those found at christalaser.com, learninnovationlaw.com, and learnailaw.com (collectively, the “Website”) and received from other persons or entities that have entered into written agreements with us that expressly reference this Privacy Policy (as applicable). We are committed to ensuring that we process your Personal Data in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and privacy and data security laws. Your use of the Website means that you accept and understand this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the Website or provide us with any Personal Data if you do not accept this Privacy Policy.

Learn Innovation Law LLC may from time to time update this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version of the Privacy Policy to the Website. The date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated is set forth above. Your use of the Website after any updated version is posted means that you accept and understand such updated Privacy Policy. In addition, the Website makes use of cookies as described in further detail below.

We may also process additional categories of Personal Data which we receive from our clients during our legal representation of such clients. However, such processing is on a case-by-case basis at the direction of our clients, subject to our client agreements and professional responsibilities, and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

2 Information collected

We may collect the following Personal Data when you visit the Website or otherwise provide us with Personal Data in connection with the Website:

(a) Personal Data you provide when you complete forms available on the Website;

(b) Personal Data you provide when you contact us;

(c) Details of visits to the Website, including the volume of traffic received, logs and the resources that you have accessed and the devices you have used to access such information;

(d) Personal Data you provide in connection with your requests for partnerships or opportunities with Learn Innovation Law LLC;

(e) Personal Data related to your attendance at a Learn Innovation Law LLC event and/or online course or education; and

(f) Personal Data relating to you or your employees and officers that you provide to us to enable us to provide services to you and to comply with our legal obligations (including with respect to know your customer requirements and anti-money laundering screening).

The categories of Personal Data we have collected from individuals pursuant to this Privacy Policy over the last twelve (12) months include the following:

Identifiers, such as name, contact details and address (including physical address, telephone number, email address and Internet Protocol address, which we may use to identify your geographic location);
Professional information, non-public education information and certain information related to protected classification characteristics (e.g., age, race and gender) collected in connection with our events, products, or educational offerings;
Professional information (such as the business you are in)
Financial account information (such as your credit card information if you have entered or provided it when purchasing services)
Biometric data, if you elect to provide us with a photo or video of yourself such as through your participation in events or recorded video events which constitutes biometric information under applicable privacy laws
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of the Website (e.g., cookies, browsing history and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to your inquiries.

If you don’t want us to collect this type of personal information, please don’t provide it. This means you shouldn’t participate in the activities on our online and mobile resources that request or require it and you may want to communicate with us by other means instead. Participation is strictly your choice. Not participating may limit your ability to take full advantage of the online and mobile resources, but it will not affect your ability to access certain information available to the general public on the online and mobile resources.

3 How we obtain your Personal Data

In connection with operating the Website, we obtain your Personal Data from the following sources:

Information from your communications with us in connection with the Website or other services, events, publications or programs that we are offering, including any updates to such information provided by you;
Information captured on the Website, including information provided by you through online forms and any information captured via cookies;
Information that you provide us at the start of our engagement with you, or during the course of us providing services to you;
Information that you provide us in conjunction with your request for partnership or opportunities; and
Information that we collect from publicly available sources. This will generally include information collected in an online or offline context.

Here are some more specific examples of times when you might provide Personal Data and how we use it:

Emails and Online Forms – When you send us an email or fill out an online form, such as to contact us, your email address and any other personal information (e.g., home address or phone number) that may be in the content of your message or attached to it, are retained by us and used to respond back directly to you and to process your request. Depending on the personal information provided, communications from us may be in the form of emails, telephone calls, and/or text messages. We may also send you information about any of our products or services we think may be of interest to you.

Registering for an Account – When you register for an account, you submit personal information to us such as your name and email address which we then retain. We use that information to create and manage your account and, in some cases, establish a password and profile to communicate with you via email and provide services to you on the Website.

Registering for Events – When you register for services, webinars, events, conferences, or programs we ourselves may host (rather than outsourced to a third-party event manager with its own privacy policies), you will be submitting the types of identifiers described above. If the event requires a fee, we may also ask you to submit credit card or other financial information. We use this information to register you for the event and send you communications regarding the event.

Becoming a Subscriber to Our Service – We use any information provided from our customers to perform our contractual obligations and provide the products and services purchased to them, to manage their accounts and communicate with them.

Social Media and Community Features – Some of our online and mobile resources may offer social media-like community features letting users post messages and comments, and/or upload an image or other files and materials. If you choose to make use of these features, the information you post, including your screen name and any other personal information, will be in the public domain and not covered/protected by this statement.

4 How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data for one or more of the following business purposes and pursuant to the corresponding legal bases:

To understand your needs and provide you with better service

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you

To improve the Website and to notify you about changes to the Website

Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you and other clients

To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through the Website or to notify you of services we provide, events that we are hosting, opportunities, or publications that may be of interest to you

(a) Consent provided by you in opting into such communications (where relevant)
(b) Performance of a contract with you
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you

To keep a record of your relationship with us

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To evaluate and respond to your requests for partnerships and opportunities

(a) Steps taken prior to entering into a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing partnerships and opportunities

To research and analyze users’ demographic characteristics, interests and behavior in an aggregated form in order to better understand and serve our users and improve the Website and its offerings

Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you and other clients

For ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of the Website, services and compliance

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you and other clients
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To process transactions, such as purchases and subscriptions.

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests in providing a service to you and other clients
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity

Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To generally comply with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations

Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

We may also use your information for the following commercial purposes: to send you marketing and promotional emails; to target prospective customers with our services (such targeting is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law).

We may also use information you provide to us for other purposes as disclosed at the time you provide your personal information or otherwise with your consent.

Please note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one legal basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your Personal Data.

You may opt-in to certain kinds of marketing communications by contacting us and you may unsubscribe to receiving further communications by clicking on the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link provided in all our marketing emails or by using the contact details in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy.

5 With whom we share your Personal Data

We do not sell or rent any of the Personal Data we collect about you to third parties.

We do not disclose any Personal Data about you to third parties, except: (i) as permitted or required by law or regulation or pursuant to any legal process; (ii) in response to governmental, regulatory, law enforcement or judicial inquiries; (iii) to affiliates; (iv) to third party suppliers and service providers (including vendors providing hosting, database management and development services related to the operation of the Website, outsourcing providers of our back-office and internal functions, technology service providers, and/or email marketing services related to events we are hosting, our publications or other communications we may send to you); (v) our lawyers, auditors and other professional advisors; and (vi) entities to whom we may transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets in a restructuring or in connection with a corporate transaction. If a change happens to our business, then the successor entity may use your Personal Data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.

When you visit our online and mobile resources, basic information is passively collected through your web browser via use of tracking technologies, such as a “cookie” which is a small text file that is downloaded onto your computer or mobile device when you access the online and mobile resources. It allows us to recognize your computer or mobile device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

Within the last twelve (12) months, we have shared with affiliates and service providers each of the categories of Personal Data collected in connection with the Website with affiliates and service providers that are set forth above. Please contact us using the details in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy for more details on the third parties with whom we share your Personal Data.

6 Transfer of Personal Data Under the GDPR
The Personal Data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") where a third party identified in Section 5 (“With whom we share your Personal Data”) is located outside of the EEA. Where such transfers take place, they are made in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. Usually, any such transfer will be made on the basis of the model clauses approved by the European Commission for transfers from EU controllers to non-EU controllers, which may be found at the European Commission's website at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32004D0915. For more information about the safeguards we rely on to make such transfers, please use the contact details in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy.

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7 Links to third party websites

We may provide links to third party websites for your information or convenience. Such websites are independently operated and are not under our control, and the privacy practices of such third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such third party websites or any products or services offered through them or the confidentiality, use, processing and security of any Personal Data that you provide to such websites.

We maintain a presence on one or more external social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. We may further allow features of our online and mobile resources to connect with, or be viewable from, that external social media presence. Similarly, our online and mobile resources may contain links to other websites or apps controlled by third parties.

We are not responsible for either the content on, or the privacy practices of, social media platforms, or any third-party sites or apps to which we link. Those apps, sites and platforms are not controlled by us and therefore have their own privacy policies and terms of use. If you have questions about how those apps, sites and platforms collect and use personal information, you should carefully read their privacy policies and contact them using the information they provide.

8 Data subject rights under European data protection legislation

This Section 8 is relevant to you to the extent that your Personal Data is protected by the GDPR or equivalent European data protection legislation. For the purposes of applicable data protection laws in the European Economic Area, including the GDPR, each Learn Innovation Law LLC entity will be a data controller of any Personal Data collected by us. In simple terms, this means that we: (i) “control” your personal data, including making sure that it is kept secure; and (ii) make certain decisions on how to use and protect your Personal Data, but only to the extent that we have informed you about the use or such use is otherwise permitted by law. If this paragraph applies to you and you have any questions regarding our use of your Personal Data, or this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact details in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy.

Special Categories of Personal Data: We may collect special categories of Personal Data about you for which we act as a data controller when we collect Personal Data in this manner. Special categories of Personal Data may include certain demographic information about you such as race, ethnicity and gender. We may collect financial information such as credit card information and billing address when you purchase products or services. We may also collect information about prior criminal convictions and offences in connection with your request to be a client or partner of Learn Innovation Law LLC, and other special categories of Personal Data as part of background checks that we conduct on partners and/or clients and as part of providing services on behalf of our clients. If you provide us with, or we collect, any special categories of Personal Data, or criminal conviction data, on yourself, we will separately ask you for consent before we agree to the processing of such Personal Data.

Automated Decision-Making: No automated decision-making, including profiling, is used when processing your Personal Data, except automations for processing of newsletters or marketing communications which can be based on information such as whether you engaged with prior emails or have purchased or not purchased certain services or products.

Data Retention: We will retain your Personal Data only for so long as we need the Personal Data for the purposes it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required under applicable law or requested by you. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your Personal Data Rights: To the extent that your Personal Data is protected by the GDPR or equivalent European data protection legislation, you have the right to access the Personal Data we hold about you, and there are a number of ways you can control the way in which we store such Personal Data. We have explained these individual rights below. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy.

Access: You have the right to ask for a copy of the Personal Data that we hold about you free of charge, however we may charge a “reasonable fee” if we think that your request is excessive, to help us cover the costs of locating the Personal Data you have requested. We will respond to your request as soon as possible and (save for in certain circumstances) within one month.
Correction: If there are any inaccuracies in the Personal Data we hold about you, please contact us and we will correct them.
Deletion: If you think that we should not be processing your Personal Data any more, you may request that we delete it. Please note that this may not always be possible due to legal obligations.
Restrictions on use: You may request that we restrict our processing of your Personal Data (other than storing it), if: (i) you contest the accuracy of it (unless the accuracy is verified); (ii) you believe the processing is against applicable law; (iii) you believe that we no longer need your Personal Data for the purposes for which it was collected (and so may otherwise amend or delete your Personal Data), but you still need your data to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim; or (iv) you have objected to the processing (as set forth in the bullet immediately below) and we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds to process your Personal Data override your own rights. In such circumstances, we will only process such Personal Data based on your consent (including not deleting it). However, in certain situations, we may override this right to restriction, either with your consent, to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, to protect the rights of others, or for public interests purposes. We will inform you where such exemption applies or where the restriction is no longer available.
Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your Personal Data which override your rights and freedoms.
Request the transfer: If you wish to transfer your Personal Data to another organization (and certain conditions are satisfied), you may ask us to do so, and we will send it directly if we have the technical means. Please note that this right only applies to automated Personal Data which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the Personal Data to perform a contract with you.
Withdrawal of consent: If you previously gave us your consent to allow us to process your Personal Data for a particular purpose, but you no longer wish to consent to us doing so, you can contact us to let us know that you withdraw that consent. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Complaints to Supervisory Authorities: You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the competent data protection supervisory authority in your jurisdiction if you do not agree with the manner in which we have processed your Personal Data or responded to your requests in relation to your Personal Data. If you are based in: (i) the United Kingdom, this authority if the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/); (ii) Germany, this authority is Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (http://www.bfdi.bund.de/); and (iii) France, this authority is Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (http://www.cnil.fr/). We always appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach any such authority so please contact us in the first instance using the contacts in Section 14 (“Contact”).
If you consented to receive direct marketing from us, we provide you with the opportunity to opt out of our marketing communications or change your preferences by following a link in the footer of all non-transactional email messages from us or by emailing us at hello@christalaser.com. Some communications from us are considered transactional or service communications (for example, account notifications and billing information). To ensure you have accurate information about your account and purchases, you do not have the option to unsubscribe from these messages.

9 Cookies
We allow third party vendors to use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time following your use of the site. For example, we may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how you use the online and mobile resources and enhance your experience when you visit the online and mobile resources. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can learn more about how to opt out of Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We also may use MailChimp to assist with newsletter administration. Mailchimp has its own privacy policy here governing use of data transmitted using MailChimp: https://mailchimp.com/legal/ . You may opt out by clicking “unsubscribe” on our newsletter or contacting us at the contact information below.

The internet activity information collected through cookies and other similar means includes such things as: the domain name and IP address from which you accessed our online and mobile resources; the type of browser and operating system you use; the date and time and length of your visit; the specific page visited, graphics viewed and any documents downloaded; the specific links to other sites you accessed from our online and mobile resources; and the specific links from other sites you used to access our online and mobile resources.

Additionally, if you access our online and mobile resources from a phone or other mobile device, the mobile services provider may transmit to us uniquely identifiable mobile device information which allows us to then collect mobile phone numbers and associate them with the mobile device identification information. Some mobile phone vendors also operate systems that pinpoint the physical location of devices and we may receive this information as well if location services are enabled on your device. If you do not want us to collect and use geolocation data, disable location services through your device settings.

Regardless, we use both automatically collected information and mobile device information to compile generic reports about popular pages on our online and mobile resources, and to see how our customers and followers are accessing our online and mobile resources. We then use that data to administer the online and mobile resources and make them better, make your activities more convenient and efficient and to enhance the functionality of our online and mobile resources, such as by remembering certain of your information in order to save you time.

We use and retain your personal information in accordance with applicable law and as long as necessary to carry out the purposes described above in accordance with our internal data retention procedures.

10 Choice

We will not use or share the Personal Data you provide to us on or through the Website in ways that are unrelated to the uses described in this Privacy Policy without first obtaining your consent.

As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us.

11 Our commitment to data security

We consider the protection of Personal Data to be a sound business practice, and to that end we employ commercially appropriate organizational, physical, technical and procedural safeguards and measures to protect your Personal Data in our possession or under our control, to the extent possible, from unauthorized or accidental access and improper use.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to or through the Website; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will use the procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorized access of your Personal Data.

12 Notice to California residents of certain rights under the CCPA

This section outlines specific rights granted under the CCPA to individual California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This section is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their Personal Data that is not set forth in this section is otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this Privacy Policy, references to Personal Data in Section 8 (“Data subject rights under European data protection legislation”) of this Privacy Policy and in sections that are specific to rights under the GDPR are deemed to include references to “personal information” as defined under the CCPA.

Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Data that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing and provide an explanation if we cannot comply with a specific request.

Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of Personal Data specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:

the categories of Personal Data we collected about you;
the categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected;
our business or commercial purpose for collecting such Personal Data;
the categories of third parties with whom we share the Personal Data;
the specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about you; and
whether we disclosed your Personal Data to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of Personal Data that each recipient obtained.

No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.

How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request on your behalf using any of the methods set forth in Section 14 (“Contact”) of this Privacy Policy below.

13 Our commitment to children's privacy

We do not seek to collect or maintain information (including Personal Data) on the Website from those we know are under the age of 18, and no part of the Website is structured to attract anyone under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from an individual under the age of 13, we will delete that Personal Data.

14 Contact

For any questions regarding our processing of your Personal Data, or requests relating to the exercise of your rights under the GDPR, CCPA or other applicable data protection laws, please submit (or have your authorized representative submit) a request using any of the methods set forth below.

Email us at the following email address: hellow@christalaser.com

If you are submitting a request pursuant to the GDPR, CCPA or other data protection laws, we will contact you to confirm receipt of your request and request any additional information necessary to verify your request (which may include verification of the requestor’s identity ourselves or using a third party service). We verify requests by matching information provided in connection with your request to information contained in our records. Depending on the sensitivity of the request and the varying levels of risk in responding to such request (for example, the risk of responding to a fraudulent or malicious request), we may request further information in order to verify your request. We also reserve the right to verify your request through a third party verification service. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, provided that you satisfy certain requirements set forth in the CCPA for such authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may verify such authorized person’s identity using the procedures above.

Updates

This Policy may be amended from time to time. The latest policy shall apply to any dispute.

Last update: March 11, 2024

Contact

Questions and concerns regarding this Policy should be directed to hello@christalaser.com

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