iED and each Member that provides courses through the BevTour Platform care  about the confidentiality and security of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that BevTour collects through the BevTour Platform when you interact with BevTour, with Members, with other users, and generally with the BevTour Platform. Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) as the sole controller of data process in BevTour implements the appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure conformity with Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

Your information is received and controlled by BevTour according to this Privacy Policy when you sign up for an BevTour account or otherwise use the BevTour Platform.

BevTour is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for BevTour’s privacy practices.

If you enroll in a course offered by a Member through the BevTour Platform, information about you and your activity in the course is received and controlled also by that Member as described in this Privacy Policy.

Each Member is solely and independently responsible for its own privacy practices. No Member is responsible for another Member’s privacy practices. Also, BevTour is not responsible for any Member’s privacy practices.

If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, then please do not access, browse, or register for the BevTour Platform or enroll in any courses. If you choose not to provide certain information required to provide you with various products and services offered on the BevTour Platform, then you may not be able to establish a user account or obtain those products or services.

Any version of this Privacy Policy in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language version will control if there is any conflict.

This Privacy Policy is organized as follows:

• Information that BevTour collects from you (including Personal Information)
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies on the BevTour Platform
• How your information is used
• How your information is shared
• How to manage your Personal Information
• Storage & Security
• Privacy Policy updates
• Contact information
• Glossary

INFORMATION THAT BevTour COLLECTS FROM YOU (INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION)

BevTour directly collects information when you:

• sign up for an BevTour user account and create an BevTour user profile;
• enroll and participate in online courses;
• purchase a product or service (for example, Verified Certificates);
• send email messages to BevTour (including messages to learner support);
• participate in user surveys; and
• participate in public forums, webinars, and other interactive experiences on the BevTour Platform.

BevTour also indirectly collects usage information about your visit to the BevTour Platform, as explained in the section below titled Cookies and Tracking Technologies.

BevTour does not itself collect or store financial account numbers or identification issued by a governmental entity, employer, or other authority. Instead, if you choose to make a purchase on the BevTour Platform, for example a Verified Certificate, you will be directed to BevTour’s third-party payment processor and BevTour’s third-party ID verification service provider. If you do not wish to submit the required authentication or payment information, then you will not be able to obtain a certificate via the BevTour Platform.

BevTour requires your Personal Information only in limited circumstances when you:

• sign up for an BevTour user account (name, username, email address);
• purchase a Verified Certificate (so that BevTour’s third-party vendor can authenticate your identity) or other product or service (so that BevTour’s third-party vendor can process payment);
• participate in remote proctoring or other course facilitation processes (so that BevTour’s third-party vendor can monitor and assess the integrity of your course activity); or
• earn a Verified Certificate (the certificate will have your name on it).

To the extent that BevTour associates the information that BevTour collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your account profile.

You may voluntarily choose to share additional Personal Information on the BevTour Platform, for example:

• in your BevTour account profile (and you may display a limited or full profile to other BevTour Platform users);
• in applying for financial assistance; or
• when participating in a course, forum, webinar, or other interactive experience on the BevTour Platform (noting that in some cases, this information is shared with a third party that provides tools or other assistance for the BevTour Platform or a course).

BevTour encourages you to use discretion before voluntarily sharing additional Personal Information on the BevTour Platform. (If you later choose to delete your BevTour account, deletion of your Personal Information will be subject to the process and limits outlined below.)

Members do not receive your Personal Information unless and until you enroll in a course. If you enroll in a course, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information from your BevTour account profile plus the information that BevTour collects about your activity and performance in the course in which you enrolled.

COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES ON THE BevTour Platform

Like many companies, BevTour uses Cookies and other common Tracking Technologies on the BevTour Platform and in email communications to help BevTour better understand your use and needs of the BevTour Platform, current and future BevTour-related products and services, and how BevTour and Members can improve. For example:

• based on your cookie settings, BevTour tracks information indicating, among other things, which pages of the BevTour Platform were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks and other user interface controls were used;
• BevTour may log the IP address, operating system, and browser software (including mobile use and device type when you use BevTour native mobile apps) you used when accessing the BevTour Platform, and BevTour may be able to determine from an IP address your Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of your point of connectivity; and
• BevTour may track and collect information from emails that BevTour sends to you, for example whether you opened the email or clicked on any links from the email.

BevTour also partners with third parties to help us track and understand your activity on the BevTour Platform, how you interact with BevTour’s social media, and how you find or may be referred to the BevTour Platform. Individual Members may separately use Tracking Technologies within their courses and email communications to understand your activity within a course and how you find or may be referred to a course on the BevTour Platform.

BevTour and Members use Cookies and other Tracking Technologies for the following purposes:

• when necessary for system administration, security, and integrity to ensure the BevTour Platform works properly for you. Without these technologies, the BevTour Platform may not function correctly;
• to enable analytics, performance and functionality, to help BevTour and Members gather information about how visitors use the BevTour Platform and monitor BevTour Platform performance, and to enhance your experience by recognizing and remembering whether you have visited the BevTour Platform before and may have any personal preferences; and
• to support marketing by enabling BevTour and Members to deliver content relevant to your interests on the BevTour Platform and third-party sites based on how you interact with BevTour or Member advertisements or content. BevTour and Members use “first-party” cookies, which means cookies served by BevTour or an individual Member, and also “third-party” cookies, which means cookies served by third parties that help BevTour and Members track this information.

You have some options for managing Cookies and other Tracking Technologies. These include:

• Modifying your browser settings: You should be able to control how and whether your web browser accepts Cookies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new Cookies, how to receive notification of new Cookies, and how to disable existing Cookies. If you reject BevTour’s Cookies, many functions and conveniences of the BevTour Site may not work properly.
•  Opting-out of certain third-party tracking and advertising: Some of the third parties used by BevTour or a Member for Cookies and Tracking Technologies offer the ability to opt-out from their tracking by following processes described on their websites. A list of some such third parties is maintained and available at the BevTour learner Help Center and includes, for some, links to applicable opt-out processes. Neither BevTour nor any Member is responsible for the effectiveness of any third-party opt-out options.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

BevTour and Members use information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:

• Operate and improve the BevTour Platform – This includes creating and improving features that support the BevTour community and enable BevTour Platform usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the BevTour Platform, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs.
• Create, administer, provide, and teach courses – This includes creating and improving the delivery of massive open online courses and programs on BevTour. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs, and assessing your performance and awarding certificates.
• Offer and improve products and services – This includes enabling you to navigate the BevTour Platform, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the BevTour Platform, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, and to purchase or obtain products and services on the BevTour Platform such as Verified Certificates.
• Develop and maintain the security and performance of the BevTour Platform – This includes tracking BevTour Platform outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the BevTour Platform.
• Communicate with you – This includes answering your course and platform questions, notifying you of course and BevTour Platform maintenance and updates, marketing to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of BevTour or BevTour affiliates, and as permitted under applicable law, sending you communications about products or services of selected business partners that may be of interest to you.
• Support scientific research including, for example, in the areas of cognitive science and education – This includes collaborating to enable and conduct research about how learners access and master course materials online, with the goal of improving course outcomes.
• Track BevTour Platform usage against goals and mission – This includes performing analytics to evaluate access to and performance in courses and course-related products and services and to report aggregate usage information (not Personal Information) to business partners and external audiences.
• Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations – This includes responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BevTour, Members, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law.

BevTour or a Member may also seek your consent for additional uses of information, including Personal Information, and will use it only for the purpose described to you. All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED

BevTour and Members share information, including Personal Information, with third parties for the following purposes:

• With service providers, contractors, and other third parties that help carry out the uses described above – BevTour requires third parties to: (1) abide by this Privacy Policy and applicable law; (2) handle Personal Information in a confidential manner and maintain adequate security; and (3) use Personal Information only as needed to fulfill the relevant purpose(s). In some cases, the BevTour Platform and individual courses are integrated with third-party services or contain links to websites published by third parties, including other content providers as well as service providers. These third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices, so you should pay attention anytime you are redirected to a third-party website and be sure to review its privacy policy.
• With other learners in courses that you take and with other visitors to the BevTour Platform, to create an interactive learning environment, support class participation, and share course information – This includes sharing comments, coursework, or other information or content that you submit to a portion of the BevTour Platform designed for viewing by other class members or for public communication. This also includes providing opportunities for you to communicate with other users who may have similar interests or educational goals, for instance, recommending specific study partners or connecting potential student mentees and mentors. In such cases, BevTour and each Member that offers a course in which you enrolled may use all information collected about you to determine who might be interested in communicating with you, but will only provide others your username (for clarity, no disclosure of your real name or email address).
• With employers, government programs, institutions, or other enterprises that sponsor your enrollment in a course for training or other educational purposes – If an entity pays for or otherwise sponsors your Verified Certificate or course participation, BevTour will share information with the entity as needed to confirm your enrollment, participation, progress, and completion status in that course.
• With affiliates of BevTour or a Member, or with successors in the event of a merger, acquisition, or reorganization, for their use consistent with this Privacy Policy.

BevTour or a Member may also seek your consent for additional disclosures of information, including Personal Information, and will share it only as described to you. In addition, BevTour or a Member may share with the public and with third parties, including but not limited to researchers and business partners, information and Personal Information that is de-identified or aggregated in a manner that does not personally identify you.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can manage your Personal Information through learner features on the BevTour Platform and requests to the BevTour learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, BevTour learner support will notify and coordinate with the appropriate Member to address your request. BevTour will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (for example, learners in the European Union) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion. BevTour will notify you in the event that BevTour is unable to meet a request that is not legally required. Similarly, Members will only be obligated to comply with requests to the extent legally required, but may choose to comply with other requests in their sole discretion.

Access and correct your Personal Information

Much of your Personal Information is available in your BevTour account. Your name, email address, and other identifiable profile information is editable through the profile settings in your BevTour account except as noted below. Your account dashboard lists all current and archived courses in which you have enrolled and includes links to any Verified Certificates you may have earned. The dashboard also contains copies of your answers and other participation and performance in courses. Please contact BevTour learner support to access and update this or other information. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, BevTour learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request.

Exceptions:

• Usernames cannot ever be changed. This is an BevTour system restriction. Because usernames identify you in courses and elsewhere on the BevTour Platform, BevTour encourages you to use discretion in choosing your username.
• BevTour does not track or index every time or every place on the BevTour Platform when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither BevTour nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. BevTour encourages you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the BevTour Platform.

Restrict or object to the processing of Personal Information

If you want to manage emails and other communications to you, you may update your preferences in your BevTour account dashboard, follow the steps described in links at the bottom of email messages, or contact BevTour learner support. You may object to, or request that BevTour or a Member stop, its use of your Personal Information for other purposes by contacting the BevTour learner support team. If your request involves information controlled by a Member, BevTour learner support will notify the appropriate Member of your request. Please note that if you choose to restrict BevTour’s or a Member’s ability to process Personal Information, and the processing is otherwise required to provide you with various services and products offered on the BevTour Platform, you may not be able to establish an BevTour user account or enroll for a course, and BevTour or a Member may not be able to provide you with those services or products.

Delete account and Personal Information

To request deletion of your BevTour account and Personal Information, you should click the button labeled “Delete my account” in your BevTour account settings. Because deletion on the BevTour system is a permanent action and cannot be reversed, BevTour may ask you to complete a process that aims to confirm your authority to manage the BevTour account affected by your request.

With respect to your BevTour account, BevTour will permanently:

• deactivate your BevTour account,
• remove the active profile,
• retire your username, and
• remove you from BevTour email lists.

With respect to your Personal Information, BevTour will permanently delete your BevTour account profile Personal Information from the BevTour Platform.

As noted above, to the extent that BevTour associates the information that BevTour collects directly or indirectly with an individual (for example, you), the association is based on Personal Information in your BevTour account profile. By erasing the Personal Information in your BevTour account profile, the remaining information about your activity on the BevTour Platform will no longer be associated with you, except as noted below.

These changes will be applied to data stores that are used for operation of the BevTour Platform including course administration by Members. If you enrolled in any courses on the BevTour Platform, the BevTour learner support team will share your request with the Members that offered those courses.

Exceptions:

• Deletion will not apply to historical activity logs or archives unless and until these logs and data naturally “age-off” the BevTour system.
• BevTour does not track or index every time or every place on the BevTour Platform when or where a learner may volunteer Personal Information, so neither BevTour nor Members will be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. BevTour encourages you to use discretion before voluntarily sharing your Personal Information on the BevTour Platform.
• BevTour will archive course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives are used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and Personal Information may not be deleted from research data packages retained by Members.
• BevTour and each applicable Member cannot always delete records of past interactions and transactions. For example, records relating to previous purchases on the BevTour Platform must be retained for financial reporting, audit, and compliance reasons.
• BevTour and each Member will retain and use Personal Information as necessary to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Data retention

BevTour will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services; to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; and to comply with BevTour’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you enroll in a Member’s course, such Member will also retain your Personal Information for as long as needed to provide you with services; to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting, audit, and compliance purposes; and to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Upon your request that BevTour deactivate your account and delete your information, BevTour will follow the process described above, including without limitation archiving your course data (in a manner and to the extent permitted under applicable law) to serve its mission to enable scientific research on cognitive science and education. These archives will be used to produce encrypted research data packages for Members, and each such Member may also keep and use course data for scientific research.

STORAGE & SECURITY

BevTour stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and also on servers of companies that BevTour hires to provide services. Each Member also stores information, including Personal Information, on its own servers and/or on servers of companies that the Member hires to provide services. In each case, information may be stored in Germany and in other countries where BevTour or a Member operates, and in countries where BevTour and each Member’s respective service providers operate. If you are in the European Union, Switzerland, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, you acknowledge that BevTour and each Member may transfer, process and store your personal information in Germany and other countries, the privacy laws of which may be considered less strict than those of your region.

BevTour controls its own copy of information collected through the BevTour Platform and has an information security program designed to protect information in its possession or control. This is done through a variety of privacy and security policies, processes, and procedures. BevTour uses administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information that it collects, receives, stores, or transmits. Nonetheless, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; and therefore, BevTour cannot guarantee its absolute security. While BevTour works hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, BevTour cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent “hackers” or other unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining information.

If BevTour learns of a security breach involving its copy of your Personal Information, BevTour may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the BevTour Platform or providing Personal Information to BevTour, you agree that BevTour can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the BevTour Platform. If a security systems breach occurs, BevTour may post a notice on the BevTour homepage (https://platform.bevtour.eu) or elsewhere on the BevTour Platform and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your BevTour account. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

If a Member learns of a security breach involving that Member’s copy of your Personal Information, the Member may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By enrolling in a Member’s course on the BevTour Platform or providing Personal Information to the Member, you agree that the Member can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your course enrollment and participation. If a security systems breach occurs, the affected Member may post a notice on the BevTour Platform and/or send an email to you at the email address associated with your enrollment in the Member’s course on the BevTour Platform. Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time. When changes are made, the Privacy Policy will be labeled as "Revised (date)," indicating that you should review the new terms, which will be effective immediately upon posting on this page, with an updated effective date. By accessing the BevTour Platform after any changes have been made, you accept the modified Privacy Policy and any changes contained therein. In case you miss the notification referenced above, be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have privacy concerns, have disclosed data you would prefer to keep private, or would like to access the Personal Information that BevTour maintains about you, please contact us at info@ied.eu.

Data Protection Officer:

Dimitrios Tsakiridis

Email: dpo@entre.gr

Phone.: 6979110820

You may also write to us at: ATTN: PRIVACY, Institute of Entrepreneurship Development, Valtetsiou & Tripoleos, Larisa 41336, GREECE. If your request involves a Member, BevTour will notify the appropriate Member of your request.

GLOSSARY

Cookies are unique identifiers usually in the form of small data files placed on your device that send certain information about your activity on the BevTour Platform or in an email communication back to BevTour or the authorized third party that served the cookie. BevTour or third parties may also use Flash cookies.

BevTour Platform consists of all content and pages located within the https://platform.bevtour.eu web domain and all BevTour mobile applications.

Member is each educational institution or other leading global institution or entity that provides courses through the BevTour Platform.

Personal Information is information that specifically identifies you or that, when combined with other information, could be used to identify you.

Tracking Technologies are web beacons, clear gifs, pixels, and similar technologies that are also unique identifiers used to track your online activity but are not stored on your device.

Verified Certificate is a virtual certificate that shows that you have successfully completed your BevTour course or program and verified your identity using your webcam and your acceptable form of photo ID.