Privacy Policy for Bloom

1. Introduction

Welcome to Bloom! We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our platform.

One of our core goals of Bloom is to help people flourish in the areas that they have personally identified as areas important to them. We invite members and platform users to leverage Bloom to help them in those areas, and to share the data that might help them in areas that are important to them.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us at: support@bloom.pm

2. Company Overview

Bloom is an education technology startup focused on quantified skills development for high school students, university students, corporates, professionals, and job-seekers. Our platform includes self-diagnostic skills assessments, setting skills development priorities, earning badges, and accessing a library of activities. We also support program facilitators in formal educational settings and independent workshops.

3. Data We Collect

We collect the following types of personal data:

• Personal Identification Information: Names, email addresses.
• Demographic Information: Age, gender, location.
• Assessment Data: Self-assessment results, skills development priorities.
• Activity Logs: Interaction with platform features, earned badges.

4. Purpose of Data Collection

We collect and process personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide personalized learning experiences.
• To enhance user engagement through gamification and leaderboards.
• To generate high-level data visualizations.
• To support the administration and effectiveness of learning programs.
• To communicate with users about their progress and updates on the platform.

THINGS WE WILL NEVER DO:

Sell or trade your personally identifiable information to any third party without your consent

5. Tiered Pricing

We are working to make Bloom affordable for everyone, and so have a tiered pricing system

Choose your country's base of operations.

6. Data Sharing

We share personal data with third-party service providers for the following purposes:

Hosting Services: To host our platform and store data securely.

Data Analytics: To analyze user interactions and improve our services.

Email Communication: To send updates, notifications, and promotional materials.

We ensure that these third parties comply with relevant data protection laws and use data solely for the purposes specified by Bloom.

All payment processing, credit card services, and credit card storage are done via Stripe.com. Bloom does not maintain any credit card or private payment information in our database or servers.

Data that users submit is also shared with people on their teams, and if they’re in a program, with the program managers, mentors, advisors, and others who are also involved in providing support to the people and teams in programs.

If users want to take an assessment or otherwise leverage the Bloom platform in a way that is not shared with other team members or program managers, they should start a separate team to keep that information private.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We also retain data to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Specific retention periods depend on the nature of the data and the purposes for which it was collected.

Users can delete personally identifiable information from within a team, though information that has team relevance will not be deleted when a user deletes their account, to maintain access for the ongoing team. That information will be deleted however, if the team is also deleted.

8. User Rights

Under GDPR, CCPA, and UK data protection laws, users have the following rights:

• Right to Access: You can request access to your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You can request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Erasure: You can request deletion of your personal data.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You can request restriction of processing of your data.
• Right to Data Portability: You can request to receive your data in a commonly used format.
• Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at: support@bloom.pm.

9. Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal data, including:

• Encryption of data in transit and at rest.
• Access controls to limit access to your data to authorized personnel only.
• Regular security assessments and updates to our security practices.
• All payment processing, credit card services, and credit card storage are done via Stripe.com. Bloom does not maintain any credit card or private payment information in our database or servers.

10. Legal Basis for Processing

Our legal bases for processing personal data include:

• Consent: When you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data.
• Contract: When processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
• Legal Obligation: When processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations.
• Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided your rights and interests do not override those interests.

11. Children’s Privacy

We believe that privacy of children deserves special protection. At this point we do not have special parental safeguards or controls in place, and so we only accept users who are 16 years old or older, or who are above the minimum legal age that does not require parental consent in whichever jurisdiction they are in. If you are under 16 years old or whatever is the minimum legal age that requires parental consent in your jurisdiction, please do not create an account on Bloom or use Bloom at this time. We will work to build in the additional child-friendly safeguards soon to enable direct participation on Bloom by people who are below the minimum legal age needed for parental consent.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on our platform and updating the effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us via email at support@bloom.pm.