Last Updated: October 28, 2026
This Privacy Policy for SparkED.net, LLC (“we”, “us”, or “our”), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:
- Visit our website, SparkED.net
- Visit our Learning Management System, the SparkED learning space, at learn.sparked.net and on the learning sites we run for our partner organizations
- Sign in with your SparkED account at login.sparked.net
- Use SparkED.net online & virtual instructor-led training and professional development services for sex educators, including training courses, resources, assessments and other tools.
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing or training events.
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at Info@SparkED.net.
1. What personal information do we process?
Personal information you disclose to us. When you visit, use or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for Services.
Personal information provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- Names
- Email addresses
- Usernames
- Passwords
- Your orders: what you bought, when, and the amount paid
- Your course enrollments, progress, completions and certificates in the SparkED learning space
- Messages you send through our contact form: your name, email address and message
- Requests you send through our Request information and Schedule a consultation forms: your name, work email, phone number if you give it, your organization and its type, and what you asked
- Only if you need New York State CTLE credit for a course: your name as it appears in New York’s TEACH system, the last four digits of your Social Security number, and your date of birth
Sensitive information: We process sensitive information only for learners who need New York State CTLE credit. If you need CTLE credit, New York requires your CTLE certificate to show your name as it appears in TEACH, the last four digits of your Social Security number and your date of birth, so we may ask you for these. We ask for them only in our learning space for New York courses, and only from learners who need that credit. We use them only to issue CTLE certificates and to keep the attendance records New York requires for CTLE credit.
If you give us the last four digits of your Social Security number and your date of birth, they are encrypted as soon as you submit them. Only the SparkED staff who prepare New York certificates and records, and the administrators of our learning space, can see them, and every time anyone views them is recorded. They are never sent by email, and certificates showing them are created only when they are downloaded.
If you give us these details, we keep them until a SparkED administrator removes them. Nothing is deleted automatically. You may ask us to remove them by contacting us at Info@SparkED.net.
Payment Data. Card details are entered in Stripe’s own secure payment form on our checkout page and go directly to Stripe; we never see or store your card number or security code. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe. You may find their privacy notice here: https://stripe.com/legal/privacy-center
To link a payment to your SparkED account, we give Stripe a random account identifier. It is not your name or your email address.
Newsletter
When you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address and, if you choose to give them, your first and last name, your state, and your organization or school. We send these to Mailchimp, the service that keeps SparkED’s newsletter list. Once they have been sent, this site keeps no copy of your name, state or organization. It does keep a record of your agreement to receive the newsletter: your email address, where you agreed (the newsletter form, the box at checkout or on the contact form, or our previous platform), the order or message it came with, and when. We keep this record so that we can show when and how you agreed.
The emails we send you about your account, your orders and your courses record when they are opened and when a link in them is clicked. They are sent through Mailchimp Transactional, Mailchimp’s service for account and order emails.
2. How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested services.
- To fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
- To issue New York State CTLE certificates. If you need New York State CTLE credit, we process the details New York requires to issue your CTLE certificate and keep attendance records.
- To respond to your messages and requests. We may process the information you send through our contact, Request information and Schedule a consultation forms to reply to you.
- To send you our newsletter. With your consent, we send you our newsletter; you can unsubscribe at any time, from the link in every newsletter.
3. When and with Whom do we share your Personal Information?
We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Service Providers: We share information with the companies that provide services to us, and only as they need it to provide those services:
- Stripe, which processes our payments (https://stripe.com/legal/privacy-center)
- Mailchimp, which keeps our newsletter list and sends our emails (https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/)
- Zoom, which hosts our live trainings (https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/privacy/privacy-statement/)
- Backblaze, which stores our encrypted off-site backups (https://www.backblaze.com/company/policy/privacy)
- our hosting provider, whose servers our websites and learning space run on
Our sign-in service, at login.sparked.net, runs on our own servers: your SparkED account and password are not held by an outside company.
We do not sell your personal information or share it for targeted advertising.
4. How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
We keep your account, your learning and certificate records, your orders and payments, and the messages and requests you send through our website’s forms until a SparkED administrator removes them. Nothing is deleted automatically.
Records transferred from our previous platform are kept the same way.
Web access logs are kept for 90 days. Records of payment events from Stripe are kept for 6 months.
If you gave us the New York CTLE details described in section 1, they are kept the same way, until a SparkED administrator removes them.
When a SparkED administrator removes your information, copies of it may remain in our encrypted backups for the period we keep backups. After that period, they are removed when our old backups are cleaned up.
5. How do we keep your information safe?
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable organizational and technical measures to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
6. Do we collect information from minors?
We do not knowingly collect data or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at Info@SparkED.net.
7. What are your privacy rights?
You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your state of residence. Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at Info@SparkED.net.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable laws allow, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on the lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Your SparkED account
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Log in to your account settings and update your user account
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
If you have any questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at Info@SparkED.net.
8. Controls for Do-Not-Track features.
Most browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
9. Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. We use them to run the Services. We do not use advertising cookies, and no outside analytics service tracks you on our sites.
- Signing in: SparkED.net, the SparkED learning space and our sign-in service at login.sparked.net each set cookies that keep you signed in and protect your sign-in from misuse. The learning space may also remember your username for its sign-in form.
- Shopping cart and checkout: our store sets cookies that remember what is in your cart and keep it through checkout, and one that returns you to checkout after you sign in.
- Payments: when you pay, Stripe’s payment form may set its own cookies, which Stripe uses to prevent fraud. See Stripe’s cookies policy: https://stripe.com/legal/cookies-policy
- Videos: embedded YouTube videos load from Google only when a visitor plays them.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings, but you will not be able to sign in or buy a course without them.
10. Do United States Residents have specific privacy rights?
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we may maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information within the past twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name. | YES |
| B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute | Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history, and financial information. | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law | Gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital status, and other demographic data. | YES (date of birth, only from learners who need New York State CTLE credit) |
| D. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information. | YES |
| E. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements. | YES (whether you open our emails and click their links) |
| G. Geolocation data | Device location | NO |
| H. Audio, electronic, sensor, or similar information | Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities. | YES |
| I. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us. | YES (business contact details sent through our Request information and Schedule a consultation forms) |
| J. Education information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from collected personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics. | NO |
| L. Sensitive personal information | Last four digits of Social Security number | YES (only from learners who need New York State CTLE credit) |
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:
- Category A – kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
- Category B – kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
- Category C – a date of birth given for New York State CTLE credit: kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
- Category D – kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
- Category F – kept by our email service, Mailchimp Transactional, for as long as it keeps its sending records
- Category H – 6 months
- Category I – kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
- Category L – the last four digits of a Social Security number given for New York State CTLE credit: kept until a SparkED administrator removes it
Your Rights. You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of your personal data you previously shared with us
- Rights to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:
- Right to access the categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)
- Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law)
- Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s and Oregon’s privacy law)
- Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)
- Right to opt out of collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by contacting us requesting a data subject access request at Info@SparkED.net. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.
Request Verification. Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your behalf.
Appeals. Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at Info@SparkED.net. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
California “Shine The Light” Law. California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at Info@SparkED.net.
11. Do we make updates to this notice?
Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. How can you contact us about this notice?
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at Info@SparkED.net or contact us by post at:
SparkED.net, LLC
3029 26th Ave. West
Seattle, WA 98199
13. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?
You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request to Info@SparkED.net