Our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and GDPR
Overview
bobology is strongly committed to safeguarding consumer privacy
We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:
1. The only information we obtain about our members is information needed to process transactions whenever a purchase is made.
2. That information is never sold, swapped or traded for any commercial purpose
3. That information would only be disclosed if required to do so by a court-ordered authority (eg police)
4. Some clients allow us to list their sites on our Active Sites list
5. CCPA
bobology does not fall under the purview of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
This is because we do not meet any one of the three requirements needed by the Act:
- have an annual gross revenue exceeding $25 million,
- derive 50% or more of your annual revenues from selling consumers' personal information,
- buy, receive, sell, or share the personal information of 50.000 or more California residents, households or devices a year
Please click on the sections below to read, understand and exercise your data rights
Data Categories
At bobology we have 3 categories of Membership required to provide our services:
- Visitor
- Guest
- Client
This section is provided to help you understand your rights and make an informed decision about the consent needed to collect, store and process data at each level
Visitors are people who have navigated to our site
The only consent required from Visitors is consent for our cookies
Our cookies enable us to manage your visit and remember and preferences made - eg: to remember whether a visitor consented to cookies and so disable the pop-up notice
We use Google Analytics to tell us which pages are more popular and we use that to guide our content
Visitors can contact us using the Contact Form provided
Visitors can join the site as Guest Members
Either action will escalate the Visitor to "Guest" status
Guests are Visitors who have taken an extra consent step:
- Completing the Contact Form
As this requires an email to reply to, Guests give consent to the message being sent to us using secure transmission.
Guests consent to us responding to that message
The thread is kept to ensure continuity of correspondence
All emails are retained to protect our company in the event of litigation - Completing the Student Guest Membership form
The form requires the Guest to provide 'Member Data': name, email, username, strong password and a siteurl
Member Data is stored, securely in our Members Database
Member Data is needed to allow the Guest tologin and access privileged content in the Members Area
Member Data allows the Guest to participate in private forums
Member Data is also used to provide access to the Demonstration Site
Student Guest Membership is based on the term provided in the student class workbook.
The contact name and email address is copied to our email service
The email service will send a confirmation message for permission to follow-up with the Guest
We do not sell, swap or trade email addresses
Emails are used to help Guests progress their interest the class they attended.
Each message sent via our email service includes an unsubscribe link
Clients are Guests who have taken an extra consent step:
Complete a subscription form to order a paid membership program.
The subscription form requires consent from the Client to provide address and payment information
This data is used to verify the subscription and process the transactions
The data is transmitted over secure channels to the card processing Gateway (Stripe.com)
We never know your full card data - it is encrypted and sent directly to Stripe
The expiry date and last four numbers are stored to allow Clients to check their accounts - as per credit card rules (
Clients can access their records at any time by clicking on the Manage Your Account link in the footer
Clients can unsubscribe at any time and the service will be terminated accordingly
Transactional data is retained for accounting and legal requirements
Right of Access - Members can verify their information at any time using the Manage Your Account link in the Members Area footer
Data Protection
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizen's data privacy, and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy
bobology Privacy Policy already complies with GDPR standards
For clarification:
Lawful Basis for Processing:
(a) Consent: Each member must give clear consent for us to process their personal data to subscribe or purchase products and services from bobology
(b) Contract: As an eCommerce site the processing of personal data is necessary for the contractual delivery of products and services
(c) Legal obligation: The processing of data is necessary for bobology to comply with the law
How We Use Your Data:
1 Personally identifiable data is requested to process subscriptions and other payments
This is encrypted and held securely by our authorized payment gateway: Stripe.com
We do NOT hold credit card information
2 Personally identifiable data sent to us via forms on our site is always secured using the latest encryption - currently TLS 1.2
3 Personally identifiable data is stored on our secure database and is used to allow us to identify, service, and support our subscribers and buyers
4 Personally identifiable data is retained to meet legislative and tax reporting and investigation requirements
5 Subscribers can instantly and at any time access and manage their personally identifiable record by navigating to 'Manage Your Account' link on the footer of every page.
Your account history is portable as it can be exported in a CSV format
6 Subscribers have the right to withdraw permission which they can do by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our communications or using the Contact Page
7 Subscribers have the right to be forgotten, which they request by email using the Contact Page
(Data will be deleted as permitted by legislative requirements)
If you cannot meet these requirements, then DO NOT SUBSCRIBE
To protect your personal data, you have to do your part:
1 You must not share your login credentials with ANY third party
2 You must use a 'strong' and 'unique' password
3 You must secure your email account at all times
4 You must tell us if someone hacks your email account, so we can take immediate action to protect your data
5 You must be over 18
Terms of Use
We invite our Guests, Members and Subscribers to enjoy all the features this site has to offer. But we must require that everyone abides by certain rules so that no one's rights are stepped on.
Failure to abide by these rules can result in immediate termination of access to this site, without refund or recourse.
Terms of Use
- Do not share your
logon passwords anduser name .
Our system is designed to detect thisimmediately, and suspend any account where more than one person signs on using the same username and password. - Do not reprint, republish, repost, or otherwise distribute or transmit content or images presented on this site. Downloading is easy, but just because you may be able to copy our content doesn't mean you own it. Unauthorized use of or copying of our content, trademarks, and other proprietary material can subject you to civil or even criminal liability.
Please don't violate our copyright. - No advertising, trading of goods or services, or other commercial use is allowed except in classified ad forums. No bulk e-mail, junk mail or spam, chain letters, or repeat postings of the same message is permitted anywhere on the forums.
- Please use your own name when posting to the discussion forums. Do not impersonate anyone else.
- Treat other subscribers with courtesy and respect when posting messages to the discussion groups. No unnecessary name calling or abuse toward any subscriber is allowed.
- Please avoid shouting (using all capital letters) in the discussion forums.
- Do not use vulgarity, obscenity, profanity, ethnic slurs, hate speech, or sexually explicit language, or harass, abuse, or threaten other subscribers in the discussion forums. Do not libel or defame others. This site strongly disapproves flaming.
- When you post content in the discussion forums, you permit this site to display and distribute the
content, and to use it for advertising and promotion. You grant to this site the complete, perpetual, but non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, sub-license, etc. the content in whole or in part, throughout the world and universe, on a royalty-free basis.
We do not try to edit or to monitor messages posted on the discussion forums, but we reserve the right to edit or remove objectionable postings. The person posting a message is solely responsible for it, not this site. Violators may be permanently banned from using theforums, or even have their subscriptions terminated.
Copyright and Trademark Law
All editorial content and graphics on this site are protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties and may not be copied or re-used without the express written permission of this site, which reserves all rights
Privacy
Overview
We are strongly committed to safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:
The only information we obtain about our members is information we need to process credit card charges for membership fees.
That information is never sold, traded or bartered
Personally identifiable information provided by members (name, e-mail or home address, etc.) is never disclosed to anyone.
Login Cookie
Each time a member logs into our site, we store a temporary "cookie" in the browser files of the member computer.
This cookie is used during your online session to allow you secure access to the member's area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your username and password.
Whenever you log off or leave the site, the cookies file is automatically removed.
External Links
In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various
However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.
Private Forums
We provide our members with a multi-tiered message board that makes sharing information with other members easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages
However, remember that any information that you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other members, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
Our
Choice/Opt-In
Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose. This site also gives users the following options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service.
Limitation of Liability
THIS SITE PROVIDES THE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ON THIS WEBSITE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THIS SITE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT FOUND ON THIS SITE FORUMS AND THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE FORUMS AND ANY DOWNLOADING OF MATERIALS FOUND ON OR THROUGHOUT THIS SITE FORUMS IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER OR DATA THAT RESULTS.
ALL EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THIS SITE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE USE OF PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE TIMELY, UNINTERRUPTED OR FREE OF ERROR, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR ITS SERVER WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS SITE, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF THIS SITE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN THE EVENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PREVENTS THE EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SUCH EXCLUSION DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT LIMITED BY LAW.
If you have questions regarding our Terms Of Service, feel free to let us know, using our Contact Page
bobology uses cookies to enhance viewer experience, personalize viewer experience and to analyse our traffic
Here is a list of the cookies in use and their function
Each time a member logs into our site, we store a temporary "cookie" in the browser file of the computer, mobile or
This cookie is used during your online session to allow access to the member's area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your
You can remove these cookies at
Your consent applies to the following domains: bobology.com
In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various
However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.
We provide our members with a multi-tiered message board that makes sharing information with other members easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages
However, remember that any information that you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other members, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Our Website has multiple security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
We employ strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel
Our site offers the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us
You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any commercial purpose.
Each message we send includes the option for cancelling and removing your information
We invite our members to enjoy all the features this site has to offer. But we must require members to abide by certain rules so that no one's rights are infringed on.
Member Rules
- All members will treat other members with courtesy and respect when posting messages to the discussion groups. No unnecessary name-calling or abuse toward any member is allowed.
- No profanity shall be posted in messages to the discussion group. Members who post messages with profanity or obscenity will have their membership terminated.
- No sharing of member logon passwords and
user names . Our system is designed to detect thisimmediately, and suspend any account where more than one person signs on using the same username, password. - No reprinting, republishing reposting or redistribution of information, images, etc., presented on this site, to any other site. Doing so
is violation of our copyright.
Failure to abide by these rules can result in immediate termination of membership without refund and further legal action as required.
Data Breach Policy
- Every care is taken to protect personal data from incidents (either accidentally or deliberately) to avoid a data protection breach
- This Policy sets out the procedure to be followed to ensure a consistent and effective approach is in place for managing data breach and information security incidents
- This Policy relates to all personal and sensitive data held by bobology, a Cohen-Naglestad Enterprise LLC organization, regardless of format
- This Policy applies to all staff
- For the purpose of this Policy, data security breaches include both confirmed and suspected incidents
- An incident in the context of this Policy is an event or action which may compromise the confidentiality or integrity of personal data, either accidentally or deliberately
- An incident includes but is not restricted to, the following
- Loss or theft of personal data or equipment on which such data is stored (e.g. loss of
laptop , USB stick, iPad/tablet device, or paper record) - Equipment theft or failure
- Unauthorised use of, access to or modification of data
- Attempts (failed or successful) to gain unauthorised access to personal data
Unauthorised disclosure of personal data- Hacking
- Human error
- Phishing
- Loss or theft of personal data or equipment on which such data is stored (e.g. loss of
- All staff members are responsible for reporting data breach and information security incidents immediately to the Managing Director
- If the breach occurs or is discovered outside normal working hours, it must be reported as soon as is practicable
- The report will include full and accurate details of the incident, when the breach occurred (dates and times), who is reporting
it, if the data relates to people, the nature of the information, and how many individuals are involved - The Managing Director will first determine if the breach is still occurring and take the appropriate steps to minimize the effect of the breach.
- An initial assessment will be made by the Managing Director and with relevant staff members to establish the severity of the breach
- The Managing Director will determine the suitable course of action to be taken to ensure a resolution to the incident
- An investigation will be undertaken by the Managing Director immediately and wherever possible within 24 hours of the breach being reported
- The Managing Director will investigate the breach and assess its associated risks, for example, the potential adverse consequences for individuals, how serious or substantial those are and how likely they are to occur.
- The investigation will take into account the following:
- the type of data involved
- it's sensitivity
- the protections in place (e.g. encryptions)
- what's happened to the data eg, has it been lost or stolen
- whether the data could be put to any illegal or inappropriate use
- who the individuals are, number of individuals involved and the potential effects on those data subject(s)
- whether there are wider consequences to the breach
- The Managing Director will report the incident to the Information Commissioner's Office within 72 hours
- The Managing Director will report the incident to the bobology Client within 72 hours and will coordinate notification to the members affected
- Notification to the individuals whose personal data has been affected by the incident will include a description of how and when the breach occurred and the data involved. Specific and clear advice will be given on what action has already been taken to mitigate the risks
- The Managing Director must consider notifying third parties such as the police, insurers, bank and credit card companies
- Once the incident is contained, the Managing Director will carry out a full review of the causes of the breach; the effectiveness of the response(s) and instigate corrective action to systems, procedures and controls to minimize the risk of similar incidents occurring
License and Terms of Service
These "Terms Of Service" (TOS) apply "bobology" and form part of the License to use the bobology website and all resources contained in it.
Bobology operates as a training and learning organization.
To provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third-party Web sites. In no case is member information or 'cookies' provided to the third-party sites.
However, remember that many sites attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we cannot alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.
Bobology does not accept or allow users to post content that includes Hate, Racist, Porn, and other similar objectionable material.
Support for your user account is provided through email on our contact us page here.
There is no response time guarantee, but we will provide the best response possible.
Sometimes there is a problem with a user's personal computer or devices which we cannot resolve and requires third-party technical support.
Bobology only provides training and education materials for use people who use this website and the materials are provided for educational purposes only.
We do not provide phone or remote technical support.
bobology offers additional resources and services in the Shopping Cart
:: All cart sales are nonrefundable::
No Refunds
Any cart items are for the sale of education materials and consulting services available through bobology.com.
Consulting services are set at an hourly rate and are for the time provided. No results are guaranteed.
Other
If you have questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.