Privacy Policy

How we use your data and your privacy rights

Last Updated Oct 6 2024

This Privacy Policy includes important information about your personal data and we encourage you to read it carefully.

To whom this policy applies

  1. "Mentor": Any entity or group registered as a "tutor", "educator", or "study group" that offers any form of mentorship. A Mentor may be a business or an individual.
  2. "Student": Any person that uses GuruFyre to search for a Mentor or use the services provided by Mentors on GuruFyre. A Mentor may also be a Student of other Mentors.

Welcome

We store information entered by our users concerning services they provide as Mentors, and Students that follow or register for courses or appointments. This includes the name, phone and email address you enter on your profile, appointment history, course enrollments, payments and any other actions you take on GuruFyre.

1. Browser Data

1.1 "Cookie" Data

Cookies are small text files that are stored in a computer's browser directory. They help site providers with things like understanding how people use a site, remembering a User's login details, and storing site preferences.

When you enroll in a course or book an appointment with a Mentor through the GuruFyre platform, we use the "Stripe" payment provider. Stripe will store a cookie on your computer as a means to prevent fraud. You can read more about how they use cookies on their website: https://stripe.com/legal/cookies-policy"

1.2. "Local Storage" Data

Local Storage is data storage on your computer that a website can put anything in. Only the website that stored the data can access the data. You can clear Local Storage data on your computer from any website from within your browser settings.

GuruFyre uses "Local Storage" to store your preferences and help you remember where you left off. It helps to resume searches from prior times you visited a page, or return you to a page you were visiting. GuruFyre also uses Local storage to store a token about you, which is used to keep you signed in.

2. Your Profile

On your profile page, you may enter your name, address and contact information.

We do not share your profile data with any third parties outside of the GuruFyre platform.

We only share with Mentors on the platform to fulfill actions you initiate, per the following sections.

2.1 Your Profile Photo and other photos

When you book an appointment, enroll in a course, post a message in QA then we use your photo adjacent to your registration or message.

When you are an owner of an Mentor profile, we display your photo in the leaders section of the Mentor dashboard page. You may upload a different image from the Mentor's member list page to either anonymize your photo or just to be different.

We keep all of your prior uploaded images as long as they are still associated to data, such as an enrollment, QA message, your profile, or any other location where you can upload an image. Any page where you can upload an image will offer an option to use a previously uploaded image. If you replace all locations where an image is used with a different image, then the now unused image will permanently be deleted within 30 days. The image gallery will show a count of how many places where you are using each image. An image counter may be out of date for up to 24 hours.

2.2 Your Name

The name you enter is used to share with an Mentor when you enroll, book appointment or "follow" them.

2.3 Your Phone Number and Email Address

These are both used at register and sign in to verify you only have one account. We do this to prevent spamming with fake or duplicate Mentor profiles or courses and fake appointments, QA messages and similar preventions.

An Mentor may upload their current Student list with contact information. If you sign up to GuruFyre and verify ownership of your email address to a matching member, you will be linked to that Mentor and become a member automatically. The Mentor will have access to your email address since they already had it.

You may "unfollow" a Mentor at any time, but if they already had your contact information prior to you joining, then they will still have your contact details. You will need to contact the Mentor directly to ask them to delete your information.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

2.4 Your Enrollment and Appointment history

When you enroll in a course or book an appointment on the GuruFyre platform, you must be logged in.

GuruFyre does not publically release the names or contact information of Students. We do release it to the Mentor to which you have enrolled in a course or reserved an appointment, or to which you followed.

3. Can you delete your data?

You may delete your name in your profile or anonymize your profile photo so that it is no longer used by GuruFyre for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy.

If you've already shared your data with an Mentor, you must reach out to that Mentor directly and follow their personal data policies.

GuruFyre cannot delete any of your purchase history except as US law permits, and will only do so as required by an order from a court of law with appropriate jurisdiction as determined by the registration of the recipient.

If an Mentor has banned you from their member list, GuruFyre will record that and never delete it as a means to allow a Mentor to prevent spam within their member list. Only the Mentor can reverse a ban to their service.