Who We Are
We are Rizmax Inc., the company behind the Need for Cloud initiative. Our website addresses are https://rizmax.com and https://needforcloud.com.
Data Collected to Manage Your Membership
At checkout, we collect:
- Your name, email address, and location to set up your account.
- Your billing address and phone number to confirm your credit card and prepopulate future checkout forms. This also allows us to contact you about your order if needed.
- Your credit card number, expiration date, and security code, which are passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are stored by our payment processor for reference and to notify you if your card will expire before the next recurring payment.
When logged in, we use cookies to track your activity, including logins, visits, and page views.
We collect information during the course purchase process (PayPal, Stripe, and/or 2Checkout) and about your course progression and quiz performance.
What We Collect and Store
When you purchase from us, we collect your email address to:
- Send information about your account and orders.
- Create your account for our LMS.
We store your information as long as your account exists, including:
- Course progress, completion status, quiz scores, and any assignments or essay submissions.
- Comments on courses, lectures, topics, assignments, and other learning content if you choose to leave them.
Security and Auditing
For security and auditing purposes, a record of your logged-in actions and changes within the learning platform will be recorded in an activity and audit log. This log also includes the IP address from which you accessed this site.
Who on Our Team Has Access
Members of our team, such as Administrators and Program Leaders, have access to:
- Order information like enrolled courses, course progress, and your username/email address.
- Any additional information added to your User Profile can also be visible to the administrator(s).
What We Share with Others
We may share appropriate data with services such as analytics/reporting tools, marketing services, payment gateways, gamification programs, and third-party embeds. This helps us provide our services to you.
Payments
We accept payments through Stripe, PayPal, and Wise. Some of your data will be passed to these services, including the purchase total and billing information.
Training Platform
Our training platform provides sandbox environments for hands-on practice labs, which may require interaction with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Any personal data manually uploaded to AWS is subject to the AWS privacy policy at https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.
Processing of Your Personal Data
Generally, you can visit our website without providing personal data. However, to access some parts of our websites or request specific information or services, we may need to collect personal data for purposes such as:
- Answering requests, queries, or inquiries submitted on our website.
- Enabling login to restricted parts of our website.
- Managing your participation in online contests.
- Maintaining and improving the website and ensuring its security.
- Conducting customer satisfaction surveys.
- Managing forums.
- Recruitment purposes when you submit a resume or job application.
- Compiling aggregate statistics regarding website use.
These purposes are justified by our legitimate interest in ensuring a good experience when visiting our website and interacting with us.
With your prior express consent, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, including providing personalized offers.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need, such as maintaining your account, providing requested products/services, maintaining business records, protecting legal interests, resolving disputes, or complying with legal/regulatory requirements. When we no longer need to process your personal information, we may delete or archive it per regulatory compliance requirements.
Sharing of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal information with:
- Third-party suppliers, partners, and service providers for payment processing, reselling services, support portals, cloud hosting, video conference services, marketing automation platforms, project management tools, registration services, learning management services, collaboration and communication tools, data backup services, and professional services.
- Compliance with laws, subpoenas, or reasonable law enforcement requests.
- Prospective or actual purchasers in the event of business reorganizations.
Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. You can exercise these rights by emailing us at legal@rizmax.com. We may need to verify your identity or your authorized agent’s identity to protect your personal information.
Third-Party Websites
Our website may provide links to third-party websites. We do not make representations or warranties regarding these websites. The owners and operators of third-party websites may collect, use, or transfer personal data under different terms and conditions than Rizmax. You should review the privacy policies of third-party websites when linking to them.
Cookies
We may use cookies to improve your website experience and employ third-party companies and individuals for specific tasks. These third parties may set cookies to track you across other websites using the same service. You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website, but this may impact your experience.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business and practices. Please review this page periodically. If we make any material changes, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent as required by applicable law.
