<p>This is the policy that explains how Bloom Lessons responds to allegations of unauthorized use of copyrighted text, images or links. These might be materials that are allegedly infringing under the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act" alt="Digital Millennium Copyright Act">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a>&nbsp;(“DMCA”). [<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf" alt="Summary of Act, Full Text">Summary of Act, Full Text</a>]</p><h2>The DMCA</h2><p>As outlined in the&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c105:1:./temp/~c1053bFCe7:e57590:" alt="Section 512 of the DMCA">Section 512 of the DMCA</a>, the statutory requirements for one to formally report copyright infringement are clearly defined, in addition, the section also explains how to challenge a notification of claimed infringement by submitting a counter-notice.</p><p>In case you are not sure if you have rights in a copyrighted work, ensure you consult an attorney before submitting a copyright notice to us. (Unfortunately, Bloom Lessons will not give you legal advice)</p><h2>How Do You File a DMCA Notice?</h2><p>In the cases where you believe that Author or Writer content residing and accessible through Bloom Lessons Services infringes a copyright, please ensure you send us a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information.&nbsp;</p><p>A physical or electronic signature (use your full name if sending it via email) of the copyright owner or an individual authorized to act on their behalf.</p><p>Identification of the copyrighted content that is being claimed to be infringed for instance: a copy of a link to your original work or a clear description of the materials allegedly being infringed upon.</p><p>Identification of the material or information that infringes the copyright, sufficient to permit Bloom Lessons to locate the material on our Services for example a link to the infringing post.</p><p>Your correct contact information, must include your physical address, telephone number and an email address<br>A personal statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of material in the manner claimed is not authorized by the copyright owner, agency or law; and<br>A personal statement that the information given in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.</p><p>You can send a report of the alleged copyright infringement by emailing the above information to support@bloomlessons.com.</p><h2>How Does Bloom Lessons Process a Copyright Claim?</h2><p>All copyright claims are processed in the order they are reported or received. In cases where you submit a duplicate DMCA, your claim might delay being processed.&nbsp;</p><p>Bloom Lessons’ response to a copyright notice of an alleged copyright infringement may include removal or restriction of access to the allegedly infringing material.&nbsp;</p><p>Before Bloom Lessons restricts access to an author's content in response to a notice of alleged infringement, Bloom Lessons will make a good-faith effort to contact the affected account holder. We will provide information concerning the removal or restriction of access, this will include a copy of the takedown notice, along with instructions for filing a counter-notification.</p><p>Bloom Lessons will suspend and warn violations that occur repeatedly, and if the cases are more serious, permanently delete the author’s account.</p><h2>What To Do When You Receive a DMCA Notification?</h2><p>In case you receive a DMCA notice linked to your Bloom Lessons account, this means that the content described in the notice has been removed from public access on Bloom Lessons or the content has been fully removed from Bloom Lessons Services. Carefully read our notices to you, since they include information about the notification Bloom Lessons received as well as instructions on how to file a counter notice.</p><h2>Filing a Counter-Notice?</h2><p>In case a DMCA notification about your content was misidentified and you believe it was wrongly filed and that your content has been removed by mistake, you should file a counter notice using the instructions given below.</p><p>Do not repost removed material in response to a DMCA notice. This will automatically result in your account being permanently suspended. If you believe your content was wrongfully removed, please file a counter-notice instead of reposting or recreating the same content.</p><p>To submit a counter-notice you must provide Bloom Lessons with the following information:<br>Physical or electronic signature - typing your full name will represent your digital signature.</p><p>Identification of the content that has been removed or restricted access and the date and time at which the material appeared before it was removed or its access disabled. Make use of the description from the DMCA notice which will suffice.</p><p>Prodded statement of good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the content removed or disabled; and<br>Your correct name, physical address, and a valid telephone/mobile number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the Kenya, for any judicial locations in which Bloom Lessons may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the copyright notification or an agent of such person.<br>In order to submit your counter notice, please respond to our original email notification of removal and include all the above mentioned information to the body of your reply. Only valid responses will be considered.</p><h2>What Then After Submitting a Counter-Notice?</h2><p>Whenever Bloom Lessons receives a valid counter notice, we promptly forward a copy to the individual who filed the original copyright infringement notification. If we do not receive a notice back from the claiming party within 12 business days that the original reporter is seeking a court order to prevent further infringement of material, we may replace or stop restricting or disabling your content.</p><h2>Great Note:</h2><p>Please make sure that you have had time to think carefully before sending us a claim or a counter notice especially if you are not clearly sure whether you are the actual rights holder or authorised to act on a rights-holder’s behalf. There are legal and financial penalties for fraudulent and/or bad-faith claims. Please always confirm and ensure that you understand the repercussions of submitting a false claim.<br></p>

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<p>From this Privacy Policy, you will get to learn how Bloom Lessons (“Bloom Lessons”, “we,” or “us”) gathers, makes use of and discloses your personal information. The Privacy Policy stated in here applies to you whenever you make use of Bloom Lessons Services via websites, mobile platforms, other online channels, contact us via our customer service channels, engage with us via social media platforms, or interact with Bloom Lessons in any other way not mentioned in this paragraph.</p><p>We may change or update this policy from time to time. If that happens, we will ensure that you get notification through your account email and we will also update the effective date at the top of this document. As a Bloom Lessons user, we encourage you to frequently review this page so that you may stay up to date about our information practices and the choices we have made available to you.</p><h2>COLLECTION OF INFORMATION</h2><h3><strong>The Information You Provide to Bloom Lessons</strong></h3><p>We collect all the information you provide to us via our services or our contacts both physical and electronic. A good example will be when you sign up for an account, fill out our surveys or forms, create or post any content via our platforms and Services, purchase a service membership plan, send us communication using a third-party platform, request customer service support, or otherwise make any communication with Bloom Lessons.<br>The types of the information we collect from you include your name, username, bio/profile introduction, email address, your contact information, location info if provided, your content, including your profile avatar image, photos, posts, responses, and series published on your account and any other information you choose to provide to us.</p><p>In some cases Bloom Lessons may also collect any information provided by you about other authors, such as when you purchase a Bloom Lessons plan as a gift for another user. We will also use this information to fulfill your requests and will not send communications to any of your contacts unrelated to your requests, unless they separately consent to receive communications from us or if they have engaged with us.</p><p>All your payment information will not be collected via our services. We use third party services to process any payments connected to our Services. Any information given to fulfill such a request is subject to the third-party payment processing privacy policy, and you are highly encouraged to review their privacy policy first before giving your payment information to their service.</p><p><strong><br></strong></p><h3><strong>Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us</strong></h3><p>Sometimes we may automatically collect information form you, including:</p><p>Activity information: this includes information about your activities while using our Services, this may include your reading history, view history, shared links, followed authors and liked posts.</p><p>Device and Usage Information: this is information on how you access our Services which includes data about your device, network you use,you hardware model, operating system and its version, IP address, browser types, and app version. We may sometimes collect information about your activity while you are using our Services, such as access times, pages viewed, linked clicked and pages you visited before to our Services.</p><p>Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use cookies to collect information about you. Sometimes we may make use of web beacons. Cookies represent small data files that are stored on your device that help us improve our services and your experience while using them, see which areas and features of our Services are popular and count visits. We also work with third party analytics providers who use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services, websites and apps.The information will also include your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages you visited, time you spent on each page you visited or on the mobile apps. To learn more on cookies and how to disable them, check out the information below.</p><h3><strong>Information We Collect from Other Sources</strong></h3><p>We get information from third-party sources, for instance information about you from social networks and data analytics providers. Whenever you create or login to Bloom Lessons services using your third-party platform i.e. Facebook, Google, Apple, we will obtain certain information about you from such platforms including your name, list of friends or followers, birthdays and profile pictures in accordance with the authorization procedures specified by such platforms.</p><h3><strong>Information We Derive</strong></h3><p>We may use your information to derive information or draw inferences about you. For example we may infer the type of topics you like from the kind of posts you read frequently.</p><h2>USE OF INFORMATION</h2><p>Bloom Lessons the information collected to provide, maintain and improve our Services. This will include publishing and generating distributed user content and personalizing the content you see.&nbsp;</p><p>We also may use the information you provide to:</p><p>Create and maintain your Bloom Lessons account;</p><p>Process transactions and send related information, such as confirmations, receipts, and user experience surveys;<br>Send you technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;</p><p>Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service;</p><p>Communicate with you about new content, products, services, and features offered by Bloom Lessons and provide other news and information we think will interest you (see Your Choices below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);</p><p>Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;</p><p>Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of Bloom Lessons and others;</p><p>Debug to identify and repair errors in our Services;</p><p>Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and</p><p>Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.</p><h2>SHARING OF INFORMATION</h2><p>We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:</p><p>We share personal information with other users of the Services. For example, if you use our Services to publish content, post comments or send private notes, certain information about you will be visible to others, such as your name, photo, bio, other account information you may provide, and information about your activities on our Services (e.g., your followers and who you follow, recent posts, claps, highlights, and responses).</p><p>We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.</p><p>We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to a legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our Services that we believe are improper.</p><p>We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Bloom Lessons, our users, the public, or others.</p><p>We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.</p><p>We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.</p><p>Personal information is shared between and among Bloom Lessons and our current and future parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership.</p><p>We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.</p><p>We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.</p><h2>THIRD-PARTY EMBEDS</h2><p>Bloom Lessons does not host some of the content displayed on our Services. Users have the ability to post content that is actually hosted by a third party, but is embedded in our pages (an “Embed”). When you interact with an Embed, it can send information about your interaction to the hosting third party just as if you were visiting the third party’s site directly. For example, when you load a Bloom Lessons post page with a YouTube video Embed and watch the video, YouTube receives information about your activity, such as your IP address and how much of the video you watch. Bloom Lessons does not control what information third parties collect through Embeds or what they do with the information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through Embeds. The privacy policy belonging to the third party hosting the Embed applies to any information the Embed collects, and we recommend you review that policy before interacting with the Embed.</p><h2>TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES</h2><p>Bloom Lessons is headquartered in the United States, and we have operations and service providers in the United States and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction. For example, we transfer personal data to Amazon Web Services, one of our service providers that processes personal information for us in various data center locations across the globe, including those listed here. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.</p><h2>YOUR CHOICES</h2><h3><strong>Account Information</strong></h3><p>You may access, correct, delete and export your account information at any time by logging into the Services and navigating to the Settings page. Please note that if you choose to delete your account, we may continue to retain certain information about you as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.</p><h3><strong>Cookies</strong></h3><p>Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.</p><h3><strong>Communications Preferences</strong></h3><p>You may opt out of receiving certain communications from us, such as digests, newsletters, and activity notifications, by following the instructions in those communications or through your account’s Settings page. If you opt out, we may still send you administrative emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.</p><h3><strong>Mobile Push Notifications</strong></h3><p>With your consent, we may send push notifications to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.</p><h2>ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN EUROPE</h2><p>If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under applicable law regarding the processing of your personal data, and this section applies to you.</p><h3><strong>Legal Basis for Processing</strong></h3><p>When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:<br>To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., providing the products and services you requested).</p><p>When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain, and improve our products and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).</p><p>To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted out of non-administrative communications).</p><p>When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you opt in to receive non-administrative communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.</p><h3><strong>Data Retention</strong></h3><p>We store personal data associated with your account for as long as your account remains active. If you close your account, we will delete your account data within 14 days. We store other personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.</p><h3><strong>Data Subject Requests</strong></h3><p>Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing.&nbsp;</p><p>To exercise your rights:</p><p>If you sign up for a Bloom Lessons account, you may at any time request an export of your personal information from the Settings page, or by going to Settings and then selecting Account within our app.</p><p>You may correct information associated with your account from the Settings page, or by going to Settings and then selecting Account within our app, and the Customize Your Interests page to update your interests.</p><p>You may withdraw consent by deleting your account at any time through the Settings page, or by going to Settings and then selecting Account within our app (except to the extent Bloom Lessons is prevented by law from deleting your information).</p><p>You may object at any time to the use of your personal data by contacting <strong>support@bloomlessons.com</strong>.</p><h3><strong>Questions or Complaints</strong></h3><p>In cases where you have a concern about our personal data processing that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority.</p><h2>CONTACT US</h2><p>If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at <strong>support@bloomlessons.com</strong>.<br></p>

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