Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 1, 2025

This Privacy Notice describes how edCount collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes personal information. This Privacy Notice applies to personal data processing that occurs on our corporate website, https://edcount.com/ (our “website”). This Privacy Notice is addressed to our website visitors (“visitors”).

For individuals who interact with us online, we collect information that may be collected from your use of our website, including from your device. We use that information to operate our business and for purposes set forth below. Below, we also describe the choices we offer with respect to your information.

This Privacy Notice does not apply to information for which edCount does not determine the purpose and means of processing. This Privacy Notice does not apply to information that cannot be identified to any individual, household, or their devices, such as de-identified or anonymized information.

By using the edCount website, the visitor agrees to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What Type of Personal Data Does edCount Collect?

Usage Data–If you are an edCount website visitor, your browser or device may be subject to our collection of logging and other automatically collected information. This includes information collection via cookies, web beacons, and other automatically collected information. The information we automatically collect may include your IP address, date and time you access our website and the pages and content you access during your visit, language preferences, websites that you link to or from, information from your mobile device or your computer about how you interact with our website, including unique device identifier, mobile network information, the type of device used and the operating system on that device, browser type, a list of files downloaded or pages viewed, and any errors encountered (collectively, “Usage Data”).

If you are a visitor on our website, please note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites and online services. These third parties may provide us with information in connection with content, widgets, components, cookies, or other tools offered on our website. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content, and for other purposes. We may not control personal information once collected by these parties.

We do not respond to “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.

For What Purposes Does edCount Use Personal Data?

edCount may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • Maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience on our website and in relation to our Services.
  • Support business development, research, marketing and promotional purposes, press inquiries or aggregate statistical analysis, and site customization.
  • Comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance obligations. Additionally, we may use information we collect to support compliance efforts on behalf of others and ourselves.
  • Provide a personalized experience. Automatically collected and device information may also be used to help us estimate our audience size, usage patterns, analyze trends, administer our Website and Services, and for research and marketing purposes.
  • Help detect and prevent fraudulent use of our Website and Services and other prohibited, illicit, or illegal activity. We may use information to compare information for accuracy and to verify identity.
  • Monitor information security, manage and protect our technical infrastructure (servers, networks, etc.), and protect the rights and vital interests of you, others, and ourselves.
  • Address existing or anticipated disputes and protect our legal interests.
  • Otherwise operate our business, including support for transactions impacting our company (such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, underwriting, or asset purchases).
  • Other purposes permitted by law or to which you consent.
  • We may also retain and use your information in an anonymized or de-identified format where your identity is not recognizable. Such information is not subject to the same usage restrictions as personal information and can be used to improve our products and Services, conduct research, or for our other business purposes.
  • As permitted by law, we may combine the information we gather about you in identifiable form, including information from third parties. We may use this information, for example, to improve and personalize our Services, content, and advertising.

How Does edCount Retain and Secure Personal Data Collected?

We are committed to maintaining measures to protect the security of your personal information maintained in our systems. However, no network or system is ever entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of networks and systems that we operate or that are operated on our behalf. If we face a security breach, we may notify you as required by law via email or conspicuous posting on our website.

With Whom Do You Share Personal Data and Under What Circumstances?

We may share information with third parties as reasonably necessary to operate our business (including for the purposes described above), to provide the Website and Services to you and others, as permitted or required by law, or as directed or authorized by you. For example:

Third Party Sharing. We work with third parties to help us provide our Website and Services and to support internal operations. In some cases, they may use your information subject to their own privacy policies and to comply with their own legal and regulatory obligations. We work with different types of third parties, presently including:

  • Data hosting, storage, and cloud service providers.
  • Website, platform, and/or application security service providers.
  • Technical and client support providers.
  • Marketing and analytics providers; and
  • Other third parties.

Professional Advisors, Law Enforcement, and Regulators. We share information with our professional advisors who provide legal, compliance, auditing, accounting, banking, consulting, or other professional services, and with regulators, law enforcement, or government agencies to:

  • Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those compliance obligations of federal, state, or local regulators.
  • Protect our interests, property, or legal rights, or those of our customers or third parties.
  • Respond to a subpoena, court order, or similar law enforcement request or government demands, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of this Privacy Notice or other applicable terms; and
  • For other legal purposes, such as to enforce our terms and conditions, or to exercise or defend legal claims.

Transaction Impacting the Organization as a Whole. In the event of a transaction or reorganization impacting us as an entity or organization, we may share your personal information. We may share your information in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring, divestiture, or dissolution of all or a portion of our business, or other similar event.

Other Disclosures. In addition to the above disclosures, we may disclose personal information if we believe such disclosure is (i) necessary to provide our Services or operate our business; (ii) in accordance with purposes we describe when you share it with us; (iii) permitted by law; or (iv) with your consent or at your direction. We may disclose aggregated or de-identified information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

What Choices Do I Have?

You have choices regarding certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser’s settings to notify you of cookie placement or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our website may not function properly or at all as a result.

edCount is not responsible for any practices employed by websites linked to or from our website, nor their information or content. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website not controlled by edCount, this Privacy Notice is no longer in effect.

Do You Collect Information from Children?

We do not intentionally or knowingly collect information from minors under 13 for our own business purposes or on our own behalf or determine the purpose or means of such collection.

How and When is the Privacy Policy Updated?

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we make changes, we will revise the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Notice. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective once they are posted unless otherwise indicated. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Notice to be sure you are familiar with the current version.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, email business@edcount.com.