PRIVACY POLICY
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our information practices, meaning how and why we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, store, and retain your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact Gigaplex, DPO or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint or request. We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. For California consumers, we are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), Illinois Privacy Act of 2006, Florida Data Privacy Law of 2024. We may be responsible as a “controller” or a “processor”, depending on the circumstances, of that personal information. We are responsible for your personal information that we possessor or control as a “business” under the CCPA/CPRA.
- Key Terms. These are some key terms used in this policy:
| We, us, our | Innoplex Design LLC, d/b/a Gigaplex Academy. (“Gigaplex Academy”, “We”, or “Us”)) |
| Our representative | Briskin Cross & Sanford- Attn: Byron Sanford, Esq |
| Our data protection officer | Chandan Gokhale |
| Personal information | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. |
| Special category personal information | Personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership; genetic and biometric data; and data concerning health, sex life or sexual orientation are not obtained by Gigaplex Academy. |
| Sensitive Personal Information | Personal information is limited to account information of Gigaplex Academy’s customers which includes name, phone number(s), email address of a student, behavior and personality analysis, students aspiration and goals of success in life, including Gigaplex Academy’s proprietary data analysis. Gigaplex does NOT collect sensitive personal information revealing a consumer’s social security number, driver’s license and passport numbers, account numbers and credentials, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or union membership, personal information concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation, contents of a consumer’s mail, email and text messages where the business is not the intended recipient, genetic data, biometric information, or citizenship and immigration status. |
| Biometric Information | We DO NOT collect information related to an individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individual’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that could be used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information. |
- Personal Information We Collect About You. We may collect and use the following personal information, that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonable capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular student and subscriber of the Gigaplex Academy’s services: :
- Student name and email address shared for purposes of online educational services;
- Student phone numbers;
- Student State of residence and domicile;
- Behavior based on personality analysis and training;
- Information related to students passions, interests, skills, dreams about ideal preferred employment;
- Personal Information collected is used for Gigaplex Academy Online Service, including to provide student technical support and for further development and improvement of Gigaplex Academy services;
- Information is shared in relation to Sponsoring Organization Services;
- Student information is shared with Gigaplex Academy’s coaches, teachers, school and other sponsoring organizations (with students consent with regard to sponsorship, including grades and related progress;
- Survey data and processed report data, and email data collected is stored and used for further development of online services of Gigaplex Academy.
| Categories of Personal Information | Specific Types of Personal Information Collected |
| Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) | Student, or a teacher school administrator or representative of the sponsoring organization on behalf of a student is provided a username, password after enrolling in the Gigaplex Academy. No Internet Protocol address, social security, driver’s license number, passport number or similar related identifiers are collected. |
| Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | Your (Student’s) Name, alias, e-mail address, phone numbers, postal address, unique personal identifier or other similar identifiers. The following information is NOT collected: security number, physical characteristics or description, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information Areas of interest for Gigaplex custom training for online courses with students; behavioral and related analytics; phone number, mobile numbers and information related to student passions, interest, skills and about students ideal preferred employment. |
| Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law. | None. |
| Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) | None. |
| Biometric information | None. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement) | None. |
| Geolocation data | None. |
| Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | None. |
| Professional or employment-related information | Publicly available information regarding your profession, current employer, and past employers. |
| Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) | We protect all PII information as required under FERPA. |
| Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes | Information related to professional identity blueprint using behavioral, analytics and aspirational data used to make suggestions about projects which the students are passionate about as entrepreneurs. The purpose of the educational data is only to curate a highly relevant career discovery through a self-discovery approach. Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your interest in Our educational services. |
If you do not provide all the above personally identified information required for Our services to you, it may delay or prevent us from providing our services to you.
- How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
- You, directly in person, by telephone, text, or email and addresses and while signing up for the Gigaplex online course:
- Advertising networks;
- Acquired a list for direct mail marketing and email marketing;
- Our IT and security systems, including: Automated monitoring of our websites and other technical systems, such as our computer networks and connections, communications systems, email, and instant messaging systems –and third party contracted website maintenance company backup data on a cloud offering–
- How and Why We Use Your Personal Information. Under data protection laws, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, for example:
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- For the performance of our online Gigaplex Academy service contract with you
- For our legitimate interests or those of a third party –or–
- Where you have given consent
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
| What we use your personal information for | Our reasons | |||
| To provide products AND/OR services to you |
For the performance of our contract with respect to the services of Gigaplex Academy’s online educational services. Information related to professional identity blueprint using behavioral and aspirational data used to make suggestions about passion projects for students. The purpose of the educational data is to curate a highly relevant career discovery through a self-discovery approach. Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your interest in Our educational services. We use data for registered users to take surveys with respect to Gigaplex Academy online course(s) which is further used for educational plans and development. For marketing as well as survey data and processed reports, data related to email communications with students and partners is utilized and for Gigaplex online courses. |
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| To prevent and detect fraud against you or Forward Solutions | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to minimize fraud that could be damaging for Us and for you. | |||
| Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity; Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal, and regulatory obligations that apply to our business or rules issued by our professional regulator | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
| Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, inquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
| Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you | |||
| Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price | |||
| Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
| Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our financial performance, student base or other efficiency measures | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price | |||
| Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for Us and for you ; To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
| Updating and/or enhancing customer records | For the performance of our Gigaplex Academy’s educational services contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a Gigaplex Academy’s educational services contract. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. Further, updates are made with a professional identity blueprint using behavioral and aspirational data and the data is used to make suggestions about passion projects for students. The purpose other than developing student records and indicating progress, would be to use the data as an indicator of career discovery through the self-discovery approach. | |||
| Statutory returns | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
| Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you. | |||
| Marketing our services and those of selected third parties to: • Existing and former students • Third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services • Third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to promote our business to existing and former students. | |||
| External audits and quality checks, e.g., for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts | For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, i.e., to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate that we operate at the highest standards to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | |||
For EEA Data Subjects: The above table does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.
- Promotional Communications. We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, or post) about our products AND/OR services including exclusive offers, promotions or new products AND/OR services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above “How and why we use your personal information”). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly. We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and will only share it with those product and service providers whom we represent or work with to provide you with products AND/OR services. You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
- Contacting us at [chandan@gigaplex.academy]
- Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” number in texts or email
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further information of services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
- Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We routinely share personal information with:
- Our affiliates, including companies within the Gigaplex Academy,
- Third parties like teaching and administrative staff in the school system and educational organizations like Career Technical Student Organizations.
- Third parties like local business communities and interested members of the general public wanting to support students through activities like crowdfunding.
- Service providers we use to help deliver our products and/or Gigaplex services to you, such as online deliverables for purposes of online teaching courses offered to students
- Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies or website hosts
- Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
- Personal Information We Have Not Sold or Shared. In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold or disclosed to one or more third parties the following categories of personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
- Identifiers (e.g., email address, contract phone numbers and related similar identifiers);
- Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a student reflecting the student’s preferences;
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her signature, education as applicable or information obtained while providing Gigaplex online services;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California, Illinois, Florida or federal law;
- Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); and
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, personal address, personal telephone number, personal email address, education;
- Information related to identity blueprint using behavioral and aspirational data used to make suggestions about student projects, and what they are passionate about, student information related to analytics, including future goals and objectives of a student;
- Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a student reflecting the student preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, aptitudes and Gigaplex student progress and related records
- Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose, unless You do not grant consent. In the preceding 12 months, we have or may have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
- Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, online identifier, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers)
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, address, telephone number and mobile numbers,
- How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products AND/OR services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
- To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf
- To show that we treated you fairly –or–
- To keep records required by law
We will not retain your personal information for longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information. Routinely, out data retention period is thirty-six (36) months in active status, after which data is archived. When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.
- California. Illinois & Florida : Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, including Illinois Privacy Act of 2006, Florida Data Privacy Law of 2024 as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
| Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You | You have the right to know, and request disclosure of: • The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including personal information and sensitive personal information as applicable • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, marketing, selling or sharing personal information • The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, if any –and– • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you | Please note that we are not required to: • Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained • Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information –or– • Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period | |
| Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose | In connection with any personal information we may share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: • The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was shared –and– • The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose | You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for the purpose of targeted behavioral advertising and development on online services of Gigaplex. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or sharing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for sharing of your personal information. | To opt-out of the sharing of your personal information, visit our homepage and click on the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link here: https://gigaplex.academy/opt-out-of-sharing/. |
| Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information | You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your personal information to the use which is necessary to: • Perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer or student who requests those goods or online educational services • To perform the following services: (1) Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the student’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes; (2) Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a student’s current interaction with the business, provided that the Student’s personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the student or otherwise alter the student’s experience outside the current interaction with the business; (3) Performing Gigaplex online services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders for Gigaplex online teaching courses , verifying student information, providing storage, or providing Gigaplex online similar services on behalf of the business; and (4) Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a Gigaplex online service or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service controlled by the business –and– • As authorized by further regulations | You have a right to know if your personal information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes. | To limit the use of your personal information, visit our homepage and click on the “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” link here: https://gigaplex.academy/limit-use-of-information/ |
| Right to Deletion | Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: • Delete your personal information from our records –and– • Direct any service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records • Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort | Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to: • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or service for Gigaplex online products conducted in accordance with federal law, provide service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us • Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the student’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Illinois Privacy Act and Florida Data Privacy Law. • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us • Comply with an existing legal obligation –or– • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information | |
| Right of Correction | If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information. | ||
| Protection Against Retaliation | You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, Illinois Privacy Act, Florida Data Privacy Law. This means we cannot, among other things: • Deny Gigaplex services to you • Charge different prices or rates for services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties • Provide a different level or quality of services to you –or– • Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for services or a different level or quality of services Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of [services] to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information. |
- How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, you can do so here by contact us: https://gigaplex.academy/contact/
You could also call us at 678-641-0650, or EMAIL us at support@gigaplex.academy.
If you choose to contact us directly by email to support@gigaplex.academy (DPO), you will need to provide us with:
o Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number) o Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill) –and– o A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
- We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
- Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
- Keeping Your Personal Information Secure. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
- Changes to This Privacy Notice. This privacy notice was published on [date] and last updated on [date].
We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you via [mechanism for informing the data subject of changes to the notice, e.g., our website or other means of contact such as email].
- How to Contact Us Please contact us by mail, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are shown below:
| Our contact details: Data Protection Officer: Mr. Chandan Gokhale | |
| 1210 Longpointe Pass, Alpharetta, GA 30005 | |
| support@gigaplex.academy | |
| Contact phone number : 678 641 0650 |
- Do You Need Extra Help? If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see “How to contact us” above).
- Governing Law
These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with and governed by law of Untied States and State of Georgia You hereby irrevocably consent to the laws where the disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Service takes places 16(b). Mediation/ Arbitration/ Litigation. All disputes between the parties will he mediated to the fullest extent unless litigation form an essential parts of the claim which needs to be adjudicated and the dispute cannot be resolved through Mediation first and then an arbitration process.