Privacy Policy

Owner and Data Controller:
Lsat-Explained, LLC
418 Broadway, Suite N
Albany, NY 12207
info@lsat-explained.com

Introduction and Scope

Lsat-Explained, LLC (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share personal data from users of our website https://www.lsat-explained.com/ (the “Site”) and any other services we may provide (the “Services”). By accessing the Site or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Types of Data Collected

Among the types of personal data that this application collects, by itself or through third parties, are: cookies, usage data, unique identifiers, email address, first name, last name, username, password, session statistics, and precise location.

Complete details on each type of personal data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the data collection. Personal data may be freely provided by the user, or, in the case of usage data, collected automatically when using this application. Unless specified otherwise, all data requested by this application is mandatory, and failure to provide this data may make it impossible for this application to provide its services. Users who are uncertain about which personal data is mandatory are welcome to contact the owner.

Cookies and Tracking Tools

This application uses cookies and other tracking tools to provide the service required by the user, in addition to any other purposes described in this document and in the Cookie Policy.

User Responsibility

Users are responsible for any third-party personal data obtained, published, or shared through this application and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the data to the owner.

Mode and Place of Processing the Data

Methods of Processing

The owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the data. The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the owner, in some cases, the data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as data processors by the owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the owner at any time.

Place of Processing

The data is processed at the owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Depending on the user’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the user’s data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred data, users can check the section containing details about the processing of personal data.

Retention Time

Personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. Therefore:

  • Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the owner and the user shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
  • Personal data collected for the purposes of the owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the owner.
  • The owner may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the owner may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

Purposes of Processing

The data concerning the user is collected to allow the owner to provide its service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: analytics, managing support and contact requests, commercial affiliation, content commenting, registration and authentication provided directly by this application, contacting the user, displaying content from external platforms, hosting and backend infrastructure, infrastructure monitoring, tag management, handling payments, managing contacts and sending messages, advertising, registration and authentication, and location-based interactions.

For specific information about the personal data used for each purpose, the user may refer to the section “Detailed Information on the Processing of Personal Data”.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

This type of service allows user data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this application, possibly based on user interests. This does not mean that all personal data is used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below. Some of the services listed below may use trackers to identify users, behavioral retargeting i.e., displaying ads tailored to the user’s interests and behavior, or to measure ads performance. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.

Google Ads Conversion Tracking (Google LLC)

Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this application. Personal data processed: trackers, usage data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

The services contained in this section enable the owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of user behavior.

Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) (Google LLC)

Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this application, to prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal data processed: cookies, usage data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

Contact Form (This Application)

By filling in the contact form with their data, the user authorizes this application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes, or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header. Personal data processed: email address.

Content commenting services allow users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this application. Depending on the settings chosen by the owner, users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the personal data provided by the user, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments. If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use the content commenting service.

Comment System Managed Directly (This Application)

This application has its own internal content comment system. Personal data processed: cookies, email address, first name, last name, usage data, username.

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this application and interact with them. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when users do not use it.

YouTube Video Widget (Google LLC)

YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal data processed: cookies, usage data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Payment processing services enable this application to process payments by credit card, bank transfer, or other means. To ensure greater security, this application shares only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction. Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the user, such as emails containing invoices or notifications concerning the payment.

Stripe (Stripe Inc.)

Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe, Inc. Personal data processed: various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Non-continuous Geolocation (This Application)

This application may collect, use, and share user location data to provide location-based services. Most browsers and devices provide tools to opt out of this feature by default. If explicit authorization has been provided, the user’s location data may be tracked by this application. Personal data processed: precise location.

By registering or authenticating, users allow this application to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services. In this case, this application will be able to access some data, stored by these third-party services, for registration or identification purposes.

Google OAuth (Google LLC)

Google OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Google LLC and is connected to the Google network. Personal data processed: various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

Direct Registration (This Application)

The user registers by filling out the registration form and providing the personal data directly to this application. Personal data processed: email address, first name, last name, password, username.

The personal data collected are used to provide the user with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery. The personal data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of data collected by this application depends on the payment system used.

Further Information for Users in the European Union

Introduction and Scope

This section applies to all users in the European Union, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), and, for such users, supersedes any other possibly divergent or conflicting information contained in the privacy policy.

Legal Basis of Processing

The owner may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:

  • Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
  • Provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the owner is subject.
  • Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the owner.
  • Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the owner or by a third party.

Further Information about Retention Time

Personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the users’ consent.

Therefore:

  • Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the owner and the user shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
  • Personal data collected for the purposes of the owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the owner.
  • The owner may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the owner may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to fulfill a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The Rights of Users Based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their data processed by the owner. In particular, users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:

  • Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.
  • Object to the processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
  • Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data is being processed by the owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing, and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
  • Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
  • Restrict the processing of their data. Users have the right to restrict the processing of their data. In this case, the owner will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.
  • Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right to obtain the erasure of their data from the owner.
  • Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance.
  • Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority. Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis for data transfers abroad, including to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the owner to safeguard their data.

Details about the Right to Object to Processing

Where personal data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the owner, or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the owner, users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their personal data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time, free of charge and without providing any justification. Where the user objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes. To learn whether the owner is processing personal data for direct marketing purposes, users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to Exercise These Rights

Any requests to exercise user rights can be directed to the owner through the contact details provided in this document. Such requests are free of charge and will be answered by the owner as early as possible and always within one month, providing users with the information required by law. Any rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing will be communicated by the owner to each recipient, if any, to whom the personal data has been disclosed unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. At the users’ request, the owner will inform them about those recipients.

Additional Information about Data Collection and Processing

Legal Action

The user’s personal data may be used for legal purposes by the owner in court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this application or the related services. The user declares to be aware that the owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional Information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this application may provide the user with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of personal data upon request.

System Logs and Maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this application (system logs) or use other personal data (such as the IP address) for this purpose.

Information Not Contained in This Policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of personal data may be requested from the owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

The owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its users on this page and possibly within this application and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible – sending a notice to users via any contact information available to the owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the user’s consent, the owner shall collect new consent from the user, where required.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

International Data Transfers

Personal data may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States of America and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to United States of America and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Data Breach Procedures

In the event of a data breach, we will notify affected users as required by applicable law. We will take all necessary steps to mitigate the breach and prevent future incidents.

Consent

By using this Site, you consent to our Privacy Policy. If you no longer consent to the use or disclosure of your personal data as outlined herein, please contact us at info@lsat-explained.com

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

By email: info@lsat-explained.com
By mail: 418 Broadway, Suite N. Albany, NY 12207
By phone: +1 (716) 222-3578

Feedback

Any comments or suggestions that you may have and which may contribute to a better quality of service will be welcome and greatly appreciated. You may contact us at info@lsat-explained.com

Legal Information

This privacy policy relates solely to this application unless stated otherwise within this document.