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Effective as of March 23, 2020.
This Privacy Policy was posted on March 23, 2020. It is effective immediately for new users, and on March 23, 2020 for all other users.
This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how Strada Education Foundation and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Strada,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), the owner and operator of the Archways to Careers mobile application (the “Application”), handles your personal information when you use the Application.
The Application helps users identify career opportunities within McDonald’s and featured industries, increase their understanding of educational pathways that may lead to career advancement, and for McDonald’s employees, engage with certain employee benefits provided by McDonald’s that can move you closer to your long-term career goals.
Strada is committed to protecting your privacy, and we only use, collect, and disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy or when we have obtained your consent. You can learn more about how we share your information and your choices for limiting the information we share here.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share personal information we collect if you use the Application. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Application and any information collected offline by Strada directly related to your use of the Application, such as when you use our coaching services. It does not apply to any other Strada or third party websites, services, applications, or offline activities.
Information you give us. Personal information we may collect from you through the Application or offline related to your use of the Application includes:
Information automatically collected. Our servers and third party service providers may automatically record certain information about how you use the Application and devices you use to access the Application. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address and information about the device, such as: device identifier, model and device type, name and version of the operating system, mobile carrier, settings and language of the device, Internet service provider, referring links, approximate geographic location, precise geographic location (if you consent through your device settings), the pages or features of the Application that you browse and the time you spend on those pages or features, the frequency with which you use the Application, and the actions you take in the Application. We collect this information in server logs, within the Application, and using third party service providers who operate their own Privacy Policies. Device and usage information will be shared with Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Apple Analytics, and Crashlytics (Fabric, a Google Company) for analytics and crash reporting.
Information collected from third party services. The Application may allow you to log into the Application with your credentials from a third party service (e.g., Google). If you connect to the Application with your third party service account, you authorize us to access and use the information that you agreed the service could provide to us based on your settings for that service. We will access, use and share that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In most cases you can use the service’s settings to revoke our access to your information in it.
Information collected from third party companies. We may receive personal information about you from our business partners, our parent, affiliate, or subsidiary companies or from other third party sources. We may combine this information with the information we have already collected through the Application and will handle it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
To operate the Application. We use your personal information:
For research and development. We analyze use of the Application to study trends and users’ movements related to the Application, gather demographic information about our user base, improve the Application and develop new products and services.
To send you marketing communications. We may send you marketing communications but you may opt out of receiving them as described in the Opt out of marketing section below.
To create anonymous data. We may create aggregated and other anonymous data from our users’ information. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties to understand and improve the Application, promote our business and for other lawful business purposes. When in aggregate form, this information can no longer be used to personally identify you.
For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may use your personal information and share it with government officials, law enforcement or private parties, as we believe appropriate to:
To send notifications.
Notifications may be delivered to you by email at the address you provided when you created your account or as later updated. We will not ask you for your personal information, account username, and password, or any of your credit or debit card information via email. We will have no responsibility for any misuse of such information if you provide such information via email.
We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as described in this Privacy Policy:
Strada Companies. We may share your personal information with our parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates for use consistent with this Privacy Policy. You can learn more about Strada and our affiliates here. If you elect to use our coaching services, we will share your information with our affiliate InsideTrack. In addition to complying with the practices described in this Privacy Policy, InsideTrack also has a privacy policy governing its use of your information, which you can read here. If there is a conflict between the terms of this Privacy Policy and the InsideTrack privacy policy, this Privacy Policy will apply to your information.
Service providers. We may share your personal information with third party companies and individuals as needed for them to help us provide the Application or support our business activities (such as application analytics, email delivery, payment processing, marketing/advertising, IT providers, technical support, and legal and other professional advice).
For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.
Business transfers. We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business deal (or potential business deal) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.
Opt out of marketing. You may opt out of marketing-related emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email or by contacting us at mcdonalds-support@stradaeducation.org. After you opt out of our emails you may continue to receive Application-related and other non-marketing emails from us.
Opt out of text messages. If you ask us to communicate with you via text message or consent to receive text messages, you can always opt out of future text messages by replying “STOP” to one of the messages received.
Changes to your personal information. You may update your email address at any time by editing the information in your profile.
Closing your account. If you wish to close your account with the Application, please send your request via email to mcdonalds-support@stradaeducation.org, and, if applicable, we will remove your personal information and profile from the active databases for the Application you request. Even after deletion, your personal information may remain in our backups or archive records, and we may retain certain information relevant to the training, compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above. All retained personal information will continue to be subject to this Privacy Policy.
California residents can request and obtain from us once a year and free of charge a list of all third parties to which Strada has disclosed certain information during the preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us at mcdonalds-support@stradaeducation.org. For all requests, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the message field of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Please note that we will not accept these requests by telephone, email or fax, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.
Third party sites and services. The Application may contain links to other websites and services operated by third parties. In addition, features, widgets or portions of the Application may be integrated on other sites and applications. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control third party websites, applications or services, and are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding their collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to learn more.
Security practices. The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. If you have a user account for the Application, you are solely responsible for maintaining and protecting the confidentiality of your account username, password and other account information in your possession.
User Generated Content. We may make available on the Application, or link to, features that allow you to share information online (for example, through messages or feedback). Please be aware that, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online or to others, the information may become public and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over, and take no responsibility for, the use, storage or dissemination of any such publicly-disclosed personal information.
We may display user testimonials on the Application along with the user name, but we will only do so only with the user’s prior consent or, if a user is under the age of 18, a parent’s prior consent. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial that we have displayed, you can contact us via email at mcdonalds-support@stradaeducation.org.
Use of Application by visitors outside of the United States. The Application is intended for users in the United States and are not intended to be used by users in other countries. Any information we obtain about you in connection with your use of the Application may be processed and stored in, and subject to the laws of, the United States or other countries. If you use the Application from a location outside the United States, you: (a) acknowledge that the data protection laws of other countries, including the United States, may provide a less comprehensive or protective standard of protection than those in your country, and (b) consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws.
Children. The Application are not directed at, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, anyone under the age of 13.
Changes to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post them on the Application and indicate the effective date of the change. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or through the Application.
Please direct any questions or comments about this Policy to:
Archways to Careers c/o Strada Education Foundation 10 West Market Street, Suite 1100 Indianapolis IN 46204 mcdonalds-support@stradaeducation.org