Privacy Policy

EDA Academy provides online learning, instructor publishing, memberships, certifications, and support for the VLSI and semiconductor community. We collect and use information to operate those services, secure the platform, process purchases, support users, and improve the learning experience.

We do not sell personal information. We only share information as described in this policy, with your direction, or where required to provide the service or comply with law.

The information we collect depends on how you use EDA Academy.

• Account data, such as name, email address, password credentials, roles, account settings, and communication preferences.
• Profile data, such as profile photo, biography, organization, education, job title, technical interests, and instructor profile details.
• Learning data, such as enrollments, progress, viewed lectures, completed modules, quiz or assessment activity, certificates, reviews, notes, and support interactions.
• Purchase data, such as checkout selections, payment status, billing details, receipts, subscription status, promotions, refunds, and tax-related records.
• Instructor data, such as submitted course materials, verification details, payout information, tax information, revenue share records, and content review history.
• Device and usage data, such as IP address, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, pages viewed, search terms, clicks, timestamps, and approximate location.

We may use cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure usage, protect against abuse, improve performance, and understand how users navigate the platform.

You can adjust cookie settings in your browser. Some account, checkout, security, or learning features may not work correctly if required cookies or storage are disabled.

We may receive limited information from service providers or partners when needed to provide EDA Academy.

• Payment processors may confirm payment, refund, subscription, dispute, billing, or fraud-screening events.
• Authentication, email, hosting, analytics, and support providers may send service status or user interaction data.
• Partner institutions, employers, certification providers, or training sponsors may provide program eligibility or completion information.
• If social login or external account connection is offered, the connected provider may share account identifiers and profile details you authorize.

• Create and secure accounts, authenticate users, and manage roles for learners, instructors, admins, and partners.
• Deliver courses, memberships, certificates, downloads, assessments, support, and other platform features.
• Process payments, subscriptions, promotions, refunds, tax records, payout operations, and fraud prevention.
• Personalize learning recommendations, search results, support content, reminders, and account communications.
• Review instructor submissions, moderate platform activity, enforce terms, and investigate abuse or security issues.
• Analyze reliability, product quality, content performance, and business operations.
• Comply with legal obligations, respond to valid requests, and protect EDA Academy, users, instructors, and partners.

We share information only when needed for the purposes described in this policy.

• With instructors or learners when needed for course delivery, questions, reviews, certificates, or collaboration features.
• With payment, hosting, analytics, email, support, security, storage, and infrastructure providers that help operate the platform.
• With partner organizations for sponsored programs, institutional training, certifications, or enterprise learning arrangements.
• With professional advisers, auditors, payment networks, tax authorities, courts, regulators, or law enforcement when legally required or necessary to protect rights.
• With another organization if EDA Academy is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or transfer of assets.
• With your consent or direction.

We keep information for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain account records, support learning history, process payments and instructor payouts, comply with law, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect platform integrity.

Some data may remain in backups, audit logs, financial records, certificate records, or security records for a limited period after account closure.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No online service can guarantee absolute security, so users should also protect passwords, devices, and account access.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or request a copy of certain personal information.

• You can update many account and profile details in account settings.
• You can unsubscribe from marketing emails through unsubscribe links or available preference controls.
• You can request account, privacy, or data help through support@eda-academy.com.
• We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.
• Some records may be retained where required for legal, security, tax, payment, certification, or dispute reasons.

EDA Academy is intended for users who can lawfully use online learning services in their jurisdiction. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child without required consent, we will take appropriate steps to delete or restrict that information.

EDA Academy may process information in Australia, the United States, and other countries where our service providers, instructors, partners, or infrastructure operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from your location.

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect product changes, service providers, legal requirements, or operational practices. Material updates may be communicated on the website, through account notices, or by email when appropriate.

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact EDA Academy Support at support@eda-academy.com.