LawTeacher.com Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 5, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to LawTeacher.com ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, and share your information when you use our website and services.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using LawTeacher.com, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices described in this policy. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions.

2. Data Controller

For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, LawTeacher.com is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

LawTeacher.com
Email: [email protected]

3. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

3.1. Personal Data

Personal data refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify you. We may collect the following personal data:

• Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and academic institution
• Contact Data: includes email address and, where provided, telephone number
• Profile Data: includes your username and password, preferences, feedback, and survey responses
• Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products, and services
• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website
• Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences

3.2. Special Categories of Personal Data

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, health data, and biometric or genetic data).

3.3. User Submissions

When you use our AI writing tools or submit content to our website, we collect the data you provide, which may include legal essays, research materials, or other academic content.

4. How We Collect Your Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you:

• Direct interactions: You may provide us with your personal data by filling in forms on our website, creating an account, subscribing to our service, using our AI writing tools, participating in discussion boards, or corresponding with us.
• Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this data using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
• Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.

5. How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
• Where you have provided your consent

5.1. Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data

We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data:

• To register you as a new user
• To provide and maintain our services, including the AI writing tools
• To manage your account and relationship with us
• To improve our website, products, services, and customer relationships
• To administer and protect our business and website
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you
• To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support

5.2. AI Writing Tools

When you use our AI writing tools, we process your submissions to provide the requested services. We may use anonymized aggregated data from these submissions to improve our AI systems. Your original submissions will never be shared with other users without your explicit consent.

6. Lawful Basis for Processing

For each purpose identified above, we rely on the following lawful bases for processing your personal data:

• Performance of Contract: Processing your data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing your data is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
• Compliance with Legal Obligation: Processing your data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• Consent: You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider:

• The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
• The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure
• The purposes for which we process your personal data
• Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means
• The applicable legal requirements

In general, we keep basic user data for up to 7 years after you cease being a customer for tax and legal purposes.

8. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookies Policy.

9. Data Sharing and Transfers

9.1. Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your personal data with the following categories of third parties:

• IT and system administration service providers
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers
• Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website
• Payment processors for managing subscription payments
• Cloud service providers who host our AI writing tools and related infrastructure

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

9.2. International Transfers

Some of our external third-party service providers may be based outside the UK or European Economic Area (EEA), so their processing of your personal data may involve a transfer outside the UK/EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data outside the UK/EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:

• Transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Government or European Commission
• Using specific contracts approved by the UK Government or European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK/EEA
• Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield or have entered into specific contracts approved for data transfers

10. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

11. Your Legal Rights

Under UK data protection laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• Right to be informed about how we use your personal data
• Right of access to your personal data and to certain supplementary information
• Right to rectification of inaccurate personal data
• Right to erasure (the 'right to be forgotten')
• Right to restrict processing of your personal data
• Right to data portability which allows you to obtain and reuse your data
• Right to object to our processing of your personal data
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 2. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data.

12. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

14. Complaints

If you have a complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact us directly so that we can address your concern. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer:

LawTeacher.com
Email: [email protected]