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Brainstorm59 Website Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 18, 2025
Brainstorm59 is owned by Life in Clay & Art, LLC. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. By this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”), we describe how we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal data when visiting and using our services (“Services”) through our websites (https://www.Brainstorm59.com/ and https://www.lifeinclay.com/).
Other products and services provided by us may operate under their own privacy policy tailored to specific features and data processing practices. Please review their privacy policies unless these policies are integrated with this Policy. Additional privacy-related information for specific Services can be found below:
Web Solutions, which includes:
• our websites at https://www.brainstorm59.com/ and https://www.lifeinclay.com/ and its subpages,
Data management which includes:
• our website.
• In addition, some of our products and services may process your data in aggregate form. We do not sell any information collected on our website.
Summary of this Policy
What data do we collect about you? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process your personal data depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the features you use. We may also collect information from third parties, such as when you use third party accounts to log-in.
Do we process any sensitive personal data? We do not process sensitive personal data.
We use cookies and other technologies to track the use of our Services so we may use this information to improve our website or products.
How do we process your personal data? We process your data to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process personal data for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal data? We may share your personal data in specific situations and with specific third parties (e.g., technology services and business support). We may also be required to disclose certain personal data about you in response to any legal procedures or requests from regulatory authorities, for audit purposes, in the event of mergers, acquisitions, sale of assets, or transfer of services.
How do we keep your personal data safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal data. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
How do we protect minors? We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information data directed at children under 16, other than the limited (name and/or email and current grade) information required during enrollment.
What are your rights regarding the processing of your personal data? Depending on where you access Services, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal data. For more information, please refer to local and state laws. For example, certain states have individual rights for processing personal data. If you are a California resident, certain state data privacy legislation may entitle you to additional rights.
Changes to this Policy and Contact Us. We recommend that you regularly check the latest version of this Policy through our Services. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Policy and/or other privacy practices, and want to exercise any rights you may have, please contact us at support@Brainstorm59.com. If any major changes are made to this policy throughout the year, we will contact you via the email on file and provide those details.
Table of Contents
- Personal Data We Collect
- How We Use Your Data and the Legal Bases for These Uses
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
- How We Share Your Personal Data
- Data Security and Retention Process
- International Transfers of Personal Data
- Children
- Your Privacy Rights
- Additional U.S. State Disclosures
- Third Party Services
- Update To This Policy
- Contact Us
- Personal Data We Collect
Depending on the relevant circumstances and applicable local laws and requirements, we will collect some or all the data listed below to enable us to provide our Services to you. To the extent applicable, such information may include:
1.1. Personal data that you provide to us
(1) Account Information. When you create an account, we will collect information including your email address. We automatically generate a unique, unified Brainstorm59 ID for you, to utilize during learning labs. Such Brainstorm59 ID is utilized for login to software and technology services, and students will set up their own passwords, and should be kept private.
(2) Feedback Information. This includes your feedback on complaints and communications with our customer service. We are dedicated to offering efficient response, ensuring that your issues are promptly resolved. If you refuse to provide the feedback Information, it will not affect your use of our Services.
(3) Payment Information: In order to provide Services you purchased, we will collect information including your email address, billing address, type of learning you purchase, and the amount you paid to complete your order.
(4) Other Data you voluntarily provide to us.
1.2. Personal data that we automatically collect or generate about you
(1) Usage data relating to your use of the learning labs, which reveals your preferences, interests, or manner of use of our Programs and the times of use, including your click, browsing, and editing activity. We collect usage data via cookies and similar technologies to help improve our products.
(2) Device and network data that may be associated with your device or browser, including device identification information (such as IMEI, Android ID, and OAID), network connectivity status, device ID, model, and IP address may be collected for online learning.
1.3. Personal Data provided to us by third parties
(1) Account Information. If you choose to register or log in through social media or other third-party services (such as Google, Apple and Facebook), we will collect the corresponding account information based on your authorization. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, and profile picture.
(2) Payment Information. We utilize third-party payment services (such as Google Pay and Apple Pay, PayPal) to process transactions. The payment details such as credit card information you provide during the purchase process will be collected by these services. For the completion of the transactions, we may collect some information related to your payment, such as payment status, payment account ID and other information provided by these third-party payment processors.
1.4. Prohibited data
To better protect your privacy, we do NOT process the following information otherwise specified in the individual privacy policies:
(i) personal health data (e.g. medical records or an individual’s health care claim information); (ii) government-issued ID numbers (e.g. driver’s license numbers, Social Security Numbers); (iii) personal financial data or financial account numbers; (iv) personal data of children under 16; (v) genetic and biometric data such as your facial image.
How We Use Your Data and the Legal Bases for These Uses
Legal Bases in General
We will only use your personal data when the applicable laws allow us to. Our legal bases for collecting and using the personal data described in this Policy depends on the personal data we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
• We need to perform a contract with you;
• You have given us consent to do so;
• In specific jurisdictions, processing your personal data is in our legitimate interests, including
-providing, maintaining and marketing our Services;
-detecting, preventing and enforcing violations of our Terms of Use including misuse of
Services, fraud, abuse, and other trust and safety protocols; and
-protecting our legal rights and the rights of others.
If legitimate interest is not an available legal base in a particular jurisdiction, we will engage in the processing activities described above on a legal base that is available in that particular jurisdiction;
• We will comply with legal obligations under the applicable laws.
Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing
The purposes for which we process personal data, subject to applicable laws, and the legal base on which we perform such processing, are as follows:
Purpose Type of Personal Data Legal Bases
To provide you with functions related to user account management, such as account registration, account deletion, account login, and modification of account information • Account Information Contract
To provide and facilitate the Services with you • Account Information
• Feedback Information
• Usage data Contract
To facilitate the enrollment and process your payment request • Account Information
• Payment Information Contract Contract
To communicate with you for non-marketing purposes including by sending you Service-related notices, push notifications, and other messages. • Account Information
• Device and network data Contract
To send you marketing communications, where you have signed up to receive them. • Account Information
• Device and network data Consent
To identify the abnormal status, ensure the stability and security of our Services, and to meet governmental and institutional policy obligations. • Account Information
• Usage data
• Device and network data Legitimate interests & Legal obligations
To investigate and resolve security issues, and to enforce our Terms of Use • Account Information
• Usage data
• Device and network data Device and network data Legitimate interests & Contract
To analyze your use of, and any other interaction or interest in our Services, and to improve our Services. • Usage data
• Device and network data Legitimate interests
To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback or questions • Account Information
• Feedback Information
• Usage data
• Device and network data Contract & Legitimate interests
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored by your web browser when you use websites. You can control how websites use cookies by configuring your Cookie Preferences at the bottom of our Website . Note that if you disable cookies entirely, our Services may not function properly.
We and our third-party partners, such as analytics and advertising partners, may collect information about you via cookies. The information collected may include information such as unique identifies, system information, IP address, web browser, device type, your system preferences, and the web pages that you visit, and where you have clicked.
3.1 Types of Cookies
We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our Services. We and/or our third-party partners may place the cookies under one of the following purposes:
• Function cookies: These cookies are essential for the core functionality of the site and related services. Without them, the site cannot function properly, so they cannot be disabled.
• Marketing cookies: These cookies allow us and our partners to deliver ads that are more relevant to your interests for marketing purposes. Without them, you will still see ads, but they may not be as tailored to your preferences.
• Measurement cookies: These cookies are used to analyze site usage, helping us measure and improve site performance. Without these cookies, we wouldn’t be able to understand which content is most valued or track how often unique visitors return, making it difficult to enhance the information we provide to you.
How We Share Your Personal Data
We will only share your personal data for lawful, legitimate, necessary, specific, and explicit purposes, and we will only share the personal data required to provide the Services. We require our partners and services providers, through agreements, to retain your personal data only for the necessary period and to implement adequate security measures to protect data security.
4.1. Affiliates and corporate partners
We disclose the categories of personal data described above in Section 1 between and among our affiliates and related entities, for legitimate business purposes and the operation of the Services, in accordance with applicable laws.
4.2. Services providers
We may share any personal data listed in Section 1 with our Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
• Hosting and technology vendors. For instance, we use a cloud-based hosting provider to power the infrastructure for our Services.
• Support and customer service vendors. We may use third-party providers to provide you with customer support services.
• Payment processors. We use qualified payment processors such as Apple and Google. Please check their terms of service and privacy policy for information on their use and storage of your personal data, as applicable.
4.3. Law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other judicial bodies and organizations
We disclose personal data if we are legally required to do so, or if we have a good faith belief that such use is reasonably necessary to:
• comply with a legal obligation, process or requests; or
• enforce our terms, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation; or
• detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or
• protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, a third party or the public, as required or permitted by applicable laws (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection).
4.4. Change of corporate ownership
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization, partnership, asset sale or other transaction, we may disclose your personal data as part of that transaction. Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your personal data becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.
Data Security and Retention Process
How we secure your personal data
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, and other unlawful or unauthorized processing, in accordance with applicable laws.
Your student account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and personal data by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. If you have any concerns that your account or personal data has been put at risk, for example if someone could have found out your password, please contact us from the Contact page.
While we use reasonable commercial efforts to protect the data, no technology, data transmission, or system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In the event of a breach of security leading to accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to your data, we will notify you according to the applicable laws.
How do we retain your personal data
We adhere to retention policies for the personal data we collect to ensure that it is not retained longer than necessary for the intended purpose. If you deactivate your account, delete personal data, or the retention period is expired, we will delete or anonymize your personal data, except in the following cases:
• Compliance with legal requirements regarding data retention according to the applicable laws.
• Extension of the period for financial, audit, dispute resolution, or other legitimate purposes.
When assessing how long your personal data is retained, we consider criteria such as: (i) the nature of the personal data and the activities involved; (ii) when and for how long you use the Services; and (iii) our legitimate interests and our legal obligations.
International Transfers of Personal Data
We use cloud services to process and back up your Personal Data. Currently, we use the data centers that are in the United States and EU. Based on where you are, we will store your Personal Data in the nearest data center. For example, if you are within the European Economic Area, your Personal Data will be processed and stored on the server in EU; if you are located in the U.S., your Personal Data will be processed and stored within the U.S. We also rely on service providers around the globe to support our operations. Consequently, your data may be accessed by our affiliates or transferred to third-party service providers and business partners in various locations, to fulfill the purposes set forth in this Policy.
In the event of an international transfer of personal data, when required by applicable laws, we will provide an adequate level of protection for your personal data using various means, including implementing Standard Contractual Clauses or data transfer agreements that comply with applicable laws between our affiliates and third parties or any other lawful approach that permits the lawful transfer of personal data from those countries.
Please find below the relevant information on transfer across national borders:
- Brainstorm59 payment processing affiliates may transfer your payment information to payment processing companies outside the US to process transactions;
- Brainstorm59 may use third party cookies and tracking tools (such as AdWords, Bing, Facebook, FireBase, Google Analytics, or Quora) to track the information on how Users find and use our Sites and products. This data may include Sites usage data and product usage data, which may be sent to and stored in third party servers located outside the US. Such third-party cookies and tracking tools may send the tracking data or analysis report to Brainstorm59 for our above-mentioned purpose. The third-party cookies and tracking tools process your Personal Data anonymously;
- Brainstorm59 may transfer your email address and other necessary information such as your name to email delivery service providers outside the US to deliver emails to you;
- Brainstorm59 may store the Personal Data on the servers leased from server service providers;
- Brainstorm59 may transfer your relevant Personal Data to marketing platforms and service providers outside the US to complete relevant service;
- Brainstorm59 may transfer your relevant Personal Data to fraud monitoring and prevention providers outside the US to complete relevant service.
You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside of your country by contacting us.
Children
While our Services are intended for children under the age of 16, we do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children for any other reason than to attend one of our learning labs.
If we learn that personal data from users less than 16 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 16, is not in relation to our programs, please contact us.
Your Privacy Rights
Subject to applicable law and depending on where you reside, you may have some rights regarding your personal data, as described below. If you have any other requests relating to the access of your personal data, please contact us.
8.1. Data Access
You may have the right to know what personal data we process about you or your student, including the categories of personal data, the business or commercial purposes for collection, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it and other information according to the applicable law.
You may have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal data in accordance with the applicable laws. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
8.2. Data Correction
You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data that we retain about you, or your student, subject to certain exceptions.
8.3. Data Deletion
You have the right to delete your account and erase your personal data. Upon deleting your account, all your personal data will be deleted. Additionally, you may also request deletion of the personal data you provide by contacting us.
Please note that we reserve the right to retain some data where there are valid grounds for us to do so under applicable laws.
8.4. Withdrawal of Consent
Where we process your personal data with your consent, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
8.5. Objection to the Processing
Subject to applicable laws, you may object to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your student by contacting us. Please note that we may have an overriding legitimate interest for processing your personal data, but we will let you know if, or where, this is the case.
8.6. Restriction to the Processing
If you would like to restrict our processing of your personal data, you may contact us. You have the right to restrict the processing of your data where one of the following applies:
• the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of relevant personal data;
• for the purpose of establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, you request us to retain your personal data that we were supposed to delete;
• your objection regarding the accuracy of your personal data is pending our verification;
• your request to object to the processing of your personal data is pending our verification.
8.7. Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
Subject to applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to submit your complaint to the local data protection authority where you reside if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes any applicable data protection laws.
8.8. Other Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be entitled to additional rights in relation to your personal data. If you would like to contact us to exercise one or more of these rights, to ask a question about these rights or any other provision of this Policy or about our processing of your personal data, or to file a complaint about how we process your personal data, you may use the contact details provided on the Contact page.
When submitting a Right request, please specify the scope and basis of your request and provide us with your name, email, and phone number to verify your identity. We may contact you to confirm your identity in order to handle your request. We will respond to your request or complaint under the applicable laws.
- Additional U.S. State Disclosures
We collect personal data from and about you in the preceding 12 months as described in Section 1 above.
We disclose personal data with third parties for business purposes in the preceding 12 months as below:
Categories of personal data Disclosed to which categories of third parties
Device and Network Data
Usage Data Analysis provider
Service provider
Payment Information Payment processors
Account Information
Feedback Information Customer service vendor
To the extent provided by local law and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the following rights:
• Opt-out of marketing communications. We provide marketing notifications to promote BrainStorm59 products and services, and to announce schedules and other important notices relating to the program. If you do not wish to receive these notifications, you can disable them in your device settings.
• Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Data. You also have the right to request limitation of use and disclosure of your sensitive personal data, subject to certain exceptions. For sensitive personal data, please review the individual privacy policies associated with certain Services.
• Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Data. As defined by relevant state laws, we do not “sell” or “share” your personal information. However, as explained, your Device and Network Data and Usage Data for purposes of serving you based on your activity across sites and services is shared with third-party vendors. If you would like to opt out of the sharing of your personal data, please contact us
• Appeal. If we are unable to stop the sharing of this data, you may appeal our inability to take action on your request by contacting us.
• Direct Marketing. We do not disclose personal data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Contact Us
For more information about your data subject rights, or how we process your personal data, please contact us:
Contact Person: Brainstorm59 Privacy Team
Contact Details: support@Brainstorm59.com
Third Party Services
When our Services incorporate other services and functions provided by third parties, such as software utilized in the labs, Brainstorm59 may share information with such third-party services, including text, and other information. Third-Party Services are not owned or controlled by Brainstorm59 and may have their own policies and practices for its collection, use, and sharing of your information. Please check the permissions, privacy settings and privacy notices of these third-party services or contact the provider for any questions.
Update To This Policy
The Services and our business may change from time to time. We recommend checking this page to stay up to date with the latest changes. If there are any substantial changes to this Policy, depending on the nature of such changes, we will notify you in advance through pop-ups, push notifications, and other appropriate means.
. Contact Us
For more information about your data subject rights, or how we process your personal data, please contact us:
Contact Person: Brainstorm59 Privacy Team
Contact Details: support@Brainstorm59.com