Building Science for Architects uses the Thinkific platform to host classes. To sign up for a class you provide some personal information that Thinkific uses to actually deliver those classes to you online. Additionally, BSFC uses the information you provide to submit your information to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) so that you can receive continuing education credit if you have requested it.
For your reference, here is Thinkific's privacy policy regarding how they deal with the information students (you) provide them in signing up for Building Science for Architects:
In order to provide you with our product and services, we store information about your students so that you can administer your course(s). Here is some more details on what information we collect and why.
- We allow you to collect the name, email, and any other personal information from your customers. Name and email are needed to allow individuals to access our Services for processes such as processing enrolments, authentication, or otherwise administering your course. This information is given on a voluntary basis when a customer uses or accesses our Services, for example when a customer visits a Thinkific site, enrolls in a course, or signs up for an account on a Thinkific site.
- As a student progresses through your course(s) we collect information about how they interact with the course, including but not limited to, their progress through the course, quiz scores, survey results, discussion or forum contributions and other student activities.
- You may collect additional information about your learners in the course of administering your course. As a course administrator, it is your responsibility to ensure that information is being collected lawfully. You should consider using a Privacy Policy or even consulting with legal counsel to understand how to ensure you are appropriately protecting the privacy of your learners
While we technically process this information via the Thinkific platform in order to administer The Services, you have the ability to access and remove this information at any point. We do not access this information unless requested by a Thinkific customer.
- Some transactions between learners and our website or your courses or school may involve payment by credit card, debit card, checks, money orders, and/or third party online payment services. In such transactions, we will collect information related to the transaction as part of the course of doing business with you, including a billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.