Privacy Policy.

BlockTrain’s mission is to connect current and future trades professionals to address the skilled worker shortage while meeting the needs of local industry. Central to this mission is our commitment to transparency, including the data we collect about you and how it is used. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services. 

The BlockTrain service is a cloud and blockchain platform and mobile application (collectively, “BlockTrain Service”) provided by BlockTrain LLC that allows skilled trades businesses to offer micro-incentives to career seekers for taking steps toward career readiness and advancement.

BlockTrain partners with community-based organizations, High Schools, post-secondary institutions, labor, and corporations, to offer career seekers 16 years of age or over with incentives and guidance.

INTRODUCTION

Our registered users (“Members”) share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, view relevant content, learn and develop skills, and find training and career opportunities. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”). 

SERVICES

This Privacy Policy applies to Blocktrainapp.com, BlockTrain-branded apps, and other BlockTrain-related communications and services, including off-site services. 

DATA CONTROLLERS AND CONTRACTING PARTIES

BlockTrain will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with, our Services. As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy, as well as updates. 

CHANGE

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review it frequently. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes to the Site and other places in the Applications we deem appropriate. If we make any material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our Site prior to such changes taking effect. If required by law, we will also provide notification of material changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you.

DATA WE COLLECT

  1. Data You Provide to Us

    1. Registration: to create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address, and zipcode. If you register for a paid Service, you will need to provide payment and billing information. 

    2. Profile: you have choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area, and endorsements. 

    3. Uploading: we collect personal data from you when you provide, post, or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, respond to a survey, or submit a job application on our Services. 

  2. Data From Others

    1. Partners: we receive personal data (for example, a reference) about you when you use the services of our customers and partners, such as employers and training providers. 

  3. Service Use 

    1. We log data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content or respond to emails, perform a search, install or update our mobile app, or apply for training or jobs. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use. 

  4. Cookies and Similar Technology

    1. We use cookies and similar technologies to collect data to recognize you and your device(s) across different services and devices when you have engaged with our Services. 

  5. Your Device and Location

    1. When you visit or leave our Services, we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device. If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. 

  6. Policy for Children

    1. Neither our Site nor our Services are intended for use by children under 16 years of age.

  7. Other

    1. Our Services are dynamic and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy. 

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA 

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use your personal information as follows:

  1. Service delivery, including:

    1. To fulfill a specific request by you.

    2. To operate, maintain, and improve our Site and Services.

    3. To manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your account.

    4. To respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service.

    5. To send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.

  2. Marketing and advertising. We may send you emails about upcoming events, promotions, and other news as permitted by law. Please note that even if you opt out from receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails, which include emails about your account with us and in connection with your use of the Services.

  3. Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate (i) to comply with applicable laws; (ii) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iii) to enforce our Privacy Policy; and (iv) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others.

  4. Research, Development and Services improvement. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services.

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We may share your personal information as follows:

  1. Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have provided your consent to do so.

  2. Our Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your personal information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as information technology, auditing, email delivery, and other similar services. These third parties are only permitted to use your personal information to the extent necessary to enable them to provide their services to BlockTrain.

  3. Corporate Restructuring. We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.

  4. Other Disclosures. We may share personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others.

YOUR CHOICES AND OBLIGATIONS 

  1. Data Retention

    1. We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. 

  2. Rights to Access and Control Your Data 

    1. We provide choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data. For personal data, you can: delete data, change or correct data, limit the use of data, and ask us for a copy of your personal data. 

  3. Account Closure

    1. If you choose to close your BlockTrain account, your personal data will stop being visible to others on our Services. 

    2. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. 

OTHER

  1. Security

    1. We seek to use commercially reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Internet. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information to us via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Applications, or third party websites. Additionally, you must keep your account password confidential and not disclose it publicly or to unauthorized individuals.

  2. Lawful Bases for Processing

    1. We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent, and where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you  and “legitimate interests.”

  3. Direct Marketing

    1. We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. 

  4. Contact Information

    1. If you have any questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact BlockTrain by email at admin@skillarc.com