Privacy Policy

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a. 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.

b. 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.

c. 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.

d. 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.

e. Email tracking.

Newsletters and Attorney Wire communications may contain tracking pixels or similar technologies that let us understand how recipients interact with them.

f. Third-party email service providers.

Platforms such as Mailchimp, HubSpot, and SendGrid process email addresses and engagement metrics for distribution and performance measurement.

g. 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.

h. 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.

i. 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.

j. 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.

k. 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.

a. 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.

a. 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.

b. Regulatory and legal requests.

We disclose information when required by law or regulatory authority, including state bars, courts, and CLE commissions or boards.

c. 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.

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.