Last Updated: May 20, 2025
TangoSpanish (hereinafter “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, tangospanish.com (the “Website”), use our services, purchase our products, or interact with us in any way. This policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) for California residents, as well as other applicable data protection laws in the United States.
1. Who We Are (Data Controller):
The data controller is: LyCBA, LLC – 131 Continental Drive, Newark, DE 19713
2. Information We Collect:
We collect various types of information from and about you, including:
Personal Information: Information that directly or indirectly identifies you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, date of birth, payment information (processed by our payment platform), and any other information you provide through forms, during lessons, or in communications with us.
Account Information: Username, password, and other details you provide when creating an account on our Website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our Website and services, including the pages you visit, the links you click, the content you view, the duration of your visits, your IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, and referring URLs.
Payment Information: When you make a purchase, we collect necessary payment information, which is securely processed by our third-party payment platform (e.g., PayPal, Stripe). We do not directly store your full credit card details on our servers.
Communications Data: Records of your communications with us, including emails, chat logs, and any information you provide during customer support interactions.
User-Generated Content: Any content you post on our blog, forums, or other interactive areas of our Website, including comments and feedback.
Marketing Data: Your preferences for receiving marketing communications from us.
3. How We Use Your Information:
We use your information for various purposes, including:
- Providing and Maintaining Services: To deliver our online Spanish lessons, manage your account, process payments, and provide customer support.
- Personalization: To tailor your learning experience, recommend relevant content, and personalize our communications with you.
- Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide updates about our services, and send you administrative information.
- Marketing: To send you promotional emails and newsletters about our courses, books, and special offers (where you have provided consent or as otherwise permitted by law).
- Improving Our Website and Services: To analyze Website usage, understand user behavior, and improve our content, features, and functionality.
- Security: To protect our Website and users from fraud, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
- Blog and Forums: To enable you to post comments and interact with other users on our blog and forums.
4. Legal Basis for Processing (EEA Users):
For users in the EEA, our legal basis for processing your personal information depends on the specific context in which we collect it. We typically rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Consent: Where you have freely given us your explicit consent to process your personal information for specific purposes (e.g., marketing communications). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Contractual Necessity: Where processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., providing you with the agreed-upon Spanish lessons).
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing your personal information is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights and freedoms (e.g., improving our services, ensuring Website security).
- Legal Obligation: Where we are required to process your personal information to comply with a legal obligation.
5. Sharing Your Information:
We may share your information with certain third parties for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy:
Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us with various operations, such as payment processing, email marketing, website hosting, analytics, and customer support. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the services they provide to us.
Payment Platforms: Your payment information is securely transmitted to and processed by our chosen payment platform (e.g., PayPal, Stripe) in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
Analytics Providers: We use analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to understand how users interact with our Website. These tools may collect information such as your IP address and browsing behavior.
Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information to legal authorities if required to do so by law or in response to a valid legal request.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity. We will provide notice if your personal information becomes subject to a different privacy policy as a result of such a transfer.
6. Your Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA):
You have certain rights regarding your personal information, depending on your location:
For Users in the EEA (GDPR):
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we delete your personal information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence, place of work, or where an alleged infringement of the GDPR has occurred.
For California Residents (CCPA/CPRA):
- Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not currently engage in activities that are considered a “sale” under the CCPA/CPRA.
- Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to direct us to only use your sensitive personal information for specific necessary purposes.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA/CPRA rights.
- Exercising Your Rights: To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@darkred-scorpion-282214.hostingersite.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
7. Data Retention:
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to provide you with our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention period will depend on the type of information and the purpose of processing.
8. Security of Your Information:
We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include technical, administrative, and physical safeguards. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. International Data Transfers:
Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of your country of residence, including Argentina, where our primary operations are located. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. We will implement appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law, such as using Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for transfers of personal data from the EEA.
10. Third-Party Websites and Services:
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties before providing any personal information.
11. Children’s Privacy:
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 16 (or the applicable age of consent in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately, and we will take steps to delete such information.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy:
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Last Updated” date at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. If we make material changes, we will provide you with more prominent notice, such as by email or a notice on our Website.
13. Contact Us:
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: info@tangospanish.com