Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

SproutEd LLC, operating through its brands Attorney Credits, Attorney Wire, Affordable CLE, and I-Course (collectively, “SproutEd,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, stores, uses, retains, and discloses personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Policy applies to your access to and use of, and communications relating to:

• www.attorneycredits.com
• www.attorneywire.com
• www.affordablecle.com
• www.i-course.com
• www.sprouteducation.com (the legacy SproutEd Education address, which now directs to Attorney Credits) 

and the continuing legal education programs, newsletters, educational materials, webinars, professional research, and Attorney Credits Teams organizational accounts (including any co-branded or firm-specific access points) offered through those services (collectively, the “Services”).

As described in our Terms of Use, SproutEd Education (www.sprouteducation.com) is a SproutEd LLC brand that has been consolidated into Attorney Credits, effective September 16, 2026; this is a rebrand only and involves no change of legal entity. Information previously collected under the SproutEd Education brand continues to be handled under this Policy.

SproutEd is based in the United States and primarily provides services to professionals located in the United States. Information collected through our Services is processed and stored in the United States.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1. Information you provide. Name, email, phone, mailing address, state bar number, employer/law firm information, login credentials, and information from questionnaires and surveys, used for account creation, purchases, CLE credit reporting, and marketing communications. Your account login credentials (username and password) are used only to authenticate you and secure your account.
2. Payment information. Payment processors — Stripe, PayPal, and Affinipay — handle payment information. We do not store or receive your full credit card number or CVV. Processors retain payment credentials for transactions, renewals, and fraud prevention in accordance with their own privacy policies and PCI-DSS.
3. Automatically collected information. IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, pages visited, referring URLs, login activity, purchase activity, video/audio streaming activity, course participation, and certificate generation data.
4. Cookies and tracking technologies. Our websites may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies for functionality, login sessions, traffic analysis, newsletter engagement measurement, advertising, and service improvement. Our websites display a cookie notice on your first visit; that notice is informational, and the ways to opt out of advertising-related use of your information are described in Section 14. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, although some features of the Services may not work without them. Because there is not yet a universally accepted standard for responding to browser “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals, we do not currently respond to them; the opt-out methods in Section 14 are available to everyone regardless of browser settings.
5. Email tracking. Newsletters and Attorney Wire communications may contain tracking pixels or similar technologies that let us understand how recipients interact with them.
6. Third-party email service providers. Platforms such as Mailchimp, HubSpot, and SendGrid process email addresses and engagement metrics for distribution and performance measurement.
7. Digital advertising and measurement. Third-party advertising and analytics partners collect device identifiers, browser information, IP addresses, geographic location, and ad-interaction data to measure effectiveness and improve relevance. Our current partners include Google (Google Analytics and Google Ads), Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn, and OpenAI (a measurement pixel that attributes conversions from advertisements shown in ChatGPT). See Section 14 regarding the sharing of information for cross-context behavioral advertising and how to opt out.
8. Professional information. Publicly available professional information — such as professional affiliation, jurisdiction, practice area, and law firm or employer — obtained from directories, law firm websites, court filings, regulatory filings, or user submissions, may be combined with other collected data for research, analytics, benchmarking, editorial content, and product development.
9. Attorney Credits Teams (organizational) data. Where an individual is added to a Team by an Organization Admin, we collect and maintain the Member’s CLE compliance and completion records so the Admin can view them for the Organization. See Section 4a.
10. Live webinar recordings. We record the broadcast of live webinars — including presenter audio, video, and presentation materials — for course delivery, on-demand access, quality assurance, and CLE compliance recordkeeping. We do not record attendees’ own audio or video during a live webinar. If you submit a question during a live webinar, the presenter’s response may be included in the recording; your identity and the specific wording of your question are not included.
11. Text messages (SMS). If you provide a mobile phone number, we may use it to send you transactional or marketing text messages, including using automated technology, if you have separately consented to receive them. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not required as a condition of purchasing any goods or services. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of marketing texts at any time by replying STOP, or reply HELP for help. We do not currently send text messages; if we introduce text messaging, we will collect your consent through a separate, conspicuous opt-in at the point your mobile number is collected for that purpose, not merely through acceptance of our Terms of Use or this Policy.

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use information to: provide access to and operate the Services; deliver CLE programs and report credits to regulatory authorities; process purchases and manage accounts, including Team accounts; respond to customer service inquiries; send newsletters and publications; communicate about existing and new products or services; conduct marketing and measure its performance; analyze usage; develop and improve products and educational programs; and conduct research and analytics regarding the legal profession.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in those emails; you will continue to receive transactional or account-related communications. If you have consented to receive text messages, you may opt out of marketing texts at any time by replying STOP; you will continue to receive transactional or account-related text messages, if applicable.

4. SUBSCRIBER, AUDIENCE AND TEAM DATA

Our databases include subscriber contact information, professional information, and engagement data, used for newsletter delivery, service improvement, audience engagement measurement, advertising and sponsorship support, analytics product development, and new service development.

1. Team account data. When an Organization enrolls in Attorney Credits Teams, the Organization’s designated Admin(s) can view, for that Organization’s Members: CLE compliance status, completion records, and account activity needed for compliance tracking and reporting. This information is shared with the Admin as part of operating the Team account and is not treated as a sale of personal information. Members should be aware that their compliance and completion data is visible to their Organization’s Admin(s); other account details (such as billing information for purchases outside the Team account) are not shared with Admins.

5. PLATFORM DATA AND ANALYTICS

“Platform Data” includes website usage patterns, newsletter engagement trends, course participation analytics, and aggregated or anonymized professional engagement trends. Platform Data is typically aggregated or de-identified before use. We may use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data to develop research reports, benchmarking analyses, analytics products, industry insights, and other commercial offerings.

6. ANALYTICS & ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY

Third-party providers use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to collect browser type, device identifiers, IP address, geographic location, and interaction data, in order to measure audience engagement, evaluate advertising performance, and improve the Services. We may also provide contact information, such as a hashed email address, to advertising platforms (currently Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and OpenAI) to build website-visitor or customer-list-based audiences, or to match ad conversions to existing customers (sometimes referred to as “Enhanced Conversions” or “Customer Match”). This activity may constitute “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law, and “targeted advertising” under other state privacy laws; see Section 14 for applicable rights and how to opt out.

7. AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESTRICTIONS

We do not authorize third parties to use automated systems, bots, scrapers, or artificial intelligence systems to access or extract content, engagement data, or Platform Data from our Services — including for purposes of training artificial intelligence models — without our prior written permission. This applies to our websites, newsletters, publications, subscriber databases, and analytics datasets.

8. EDITORIAL CONTENT AND FAIR USE

Our publications, including Attorney Wire, may reference, summarize, quote, or link to third-party reporting, publicly available documents, regulatory materials, court filings, or other external sources for commentary, reporting, analysis, and education. This content is provided for informational and editorial purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

9. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

1. Service providers. Payment processors, hosting providers, analytics providers, email delivery platforms, marketing service providers, and customer support providers receive information as needed to provide the Services.
2. Regulatory and legal requests. We disclose information when required by law or regulatory authority, including state bars, courts, and CLE commissions or boards.
3. Corporate transactions. If SproutEd is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing transaction, or sale of assets, user information — including subscriber databases and analytics datasets — may be transferred as part of that transaction, and may be treated as a business asset. This describes a potential future change of ownership; it is distinct from the SproutEd Education brand consolidation described in Section 1, which does not involve a change of ownership or a transfer to a third party.

10. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

We may use artificial intelligence or machine learning to assist in creating, editing, summarizing, or analyzing editorial content, research materials, and professional information published through our Services, including Attorney Wire. Editorial content is reviewed and curated by us; AI tools also support analytics, research, product development, and service improvement.

11. DATA SECURITY

We implement commercially reasonable safeguards designed to protect personal information.

12. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information as long as necessary to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, and maintain regulatory records, including CLE compliance records that regulators may require us to retain for a set period. We determine specific retention periods based on the nature of the information, the purpose for which it was collected, applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and our legitimate business needs.

13. VIDEO PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT

For video-based educational content, we collect information about viewing activity, playback duration, and course participation, used to verify program completion, maintain CLE compliance records, improve streaming functionality, analyze engagement, and maintain system integrity. We do not disclose personally identifiable video-viewing information to third parties except as described in this Policy or as required by law. Live webinar broadcasts themselves — presenter audio, video, and materials — are recorded for these purposes; we do not record attendees’ own audio or video during a live webinar, as described in Section 2(j).

14. CALIFORNIA RESIDENT PRIVACY RIGHTS (CCPA/CPRA)

This section supplements the rest of this Policy for California residents and describes our practices during the twelve (12) months preceding the “Last Updated” date above.

Categories collected: identifiers (name, email, phone number, mailing address, IP address, device identifiers), commercial information (purchases/subscriptions), internet/network activity (browsing, course, video-viewing, and email-engagement activity), geolocation data (general location derived from IP address), professional information (bar number, employer), account login credentials (which are “sensitive personal information” and are used only to authenticate and secure your account), and inferences drawn from engagement.

Sources: you; your devices and browsers; our payment processors, email platforms, and advertising and analytics partners; Organization Admins (for Teams Members); and publicly available professional directories and filings.

Purposes: the business and commercial purposes described in Section 3.

Categories disclosed: to service providers including payment processors, hosting providers, analytics providers, email service providers, customer-support and chat providers, and regulatory authorities.

Sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising. We use third-party advertising and analytics technologies — including Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising website-visitor audiences, Enhanced Conversions, customer list matching, the LinkedIn Insight Tag, and the OpenAI advertising measurement pixel — that may involve the disclosure or use of personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising. The categories shared with these advertising partners are identifiers, internet/network activity, and commercial information. This activity may constitute “sharing” of personal information under the CPRA and similar state laws. We do not sell personal information for money. This description is illustrative, not exhaustive: it applies equally to any other advertising, analytics, or audience-building technology we may adopt in the future — including advertising or sponsored-content features offered through AI or chat-based platforms — to the extent that technology involves disclosing or using personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not it is specifically named in this Policy. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age, and we do not offer financial incentives in exchange for personal information.

Retention: as described in Section 12.

Your rights: California residents may request to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and share, access, correct, or request deletion of personal information, opt out of the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, receive information about the categories we collect, and exercise these rights without discrimination. Because we use sensitive personal information only for the limited purposes permitted by law, the right to limit its use does not currently apply.

How to opt out of targeted advertising. To opt out of our advertising partners using your information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, email help@attorneycredits.com (or call 760-434-1885) and we will exclude you from our remarketing audiences and customer-list uploads within fifteen (15) business days. You can also use the industry opt-out tools at optout.aboutads.info and optout.networkadvertising.org, adjust the ad-settings pages offered by Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and OpenAI, and block advertising cookies in your browser settings. Opting out does not affect analytics or advertising that does not involve sharing your personal information across contexts, and it does not stop our own transactional or marketing emails, which you can manage as described in Section 3.

15. HOW TO EXERCISE PRIVACY RIGHTS

You may submit a request to access, correct, or delete your personal information, or to exercise other applicable state privacy rights, by emailing help@attorneycredits.com, by calling 760-434-1885, or by writing to the address in Section 20. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding, such as matching the information in your request against the information in your account or asking you to confirm the request from the email address on file. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; we may require proof of the agent’s authority and may still verify your identity directly. We will respond to verifiable requests within 45 days, and may extend that period once by a further 45 days where reasonably necessary with notice to you. If we deny a request in whole or in part, we will explain why; residents of states whose privacy laws provide an appeal right may appeal by replying to our decision, and we will respond to the appeal within the period required by that state’s law, including information on how to contact your state Attorney General if the appeal is denied.

16. NEVADA RESIDENT PRIVACY RIGHTS

Nevada residents may request confirmation that their personal information is not sold. We do not sell personal information as defined under Nevada law.

17. OTHER STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on your state of residence, you may have additional rights under that state’s privacy law, which may include the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, to opt out of certain processing (such as targeted advertising, the sale of personal information, or profiling used in certain decisions), and to appeal a denied request. We do not sell personal information as defined under any applicable state privacy law. To exercise any state privacy right, contact us using the information in Section 20. Because new state privacy laws take effect on an ongoing basis, this section is intended to cover residents of any state whose law applies to our processing of your information, whether or not that state is separately named elsewhere in this Policy.

18. CHILDREN UNDER 16

Our Services are intended for professionals and are not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 and will delete such information if discovered.

19. CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time; changes will be posted on this page with a new “Last Updated” date. If we make material changes to how we use or share personal information already collected, we will provide notice by email or by a prominent notice on the Services before the changes take effect.

20. CONTACT INFORMATION

SproutEd LLC
P.O. Box 15774
Chattanooga, TN 37415
Phone: 760-434-1885
Email: help@attorneycredits.com