Last Updated: October 9, 2026
School of Climate ("School of Climate", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, process, and protect your information when you visit or use the School of Climate website, courses, learning resources, newsletters, community features, and other services provided through our website.
By accessing or using our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
School of Climate is an online climate education and learning platform providing educational content, courses, resources, and related services.
For the purposes of applicable data protection and privacy laws, School of Climate acts as the entity responsible for processing your personal information collected through our website and services.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, you can contact us using the details provided above.
We may collect different types of information depending on how you interact with School of Climate.
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
This information may include:
We only request information that is reasonably relevant to the purpose for which it is collected.
When you create an account or enroll in a course, we may collect information relating to your learning activity, such as:
This information helps us provide and improve our educational services.
If you purchase a course, product, membership, event ticket, or other paid service, payments may be processed through third-party payment providers.
Depending on the payment provider used, we may receive limited transaction information such as:
We generally do not store complete credit card, debit card, banking, or other sensitive payment credentials on our own servers.
Payment information is processed by the relevant payment provider according to its own privacy policy and security practices.
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through standard web technologies.
This may include:
We use this information to understand website usage, maintain security, troubleshoot technical issues, and improve our services.
School of Climate may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We may use cookies for purposes such as:
These cookies may be necessary for certain website functions, including:
We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use our website, including:
These may remember settings or preferences to provide a more convenient experience.
Where applicable, we may use advertising, remarketing, or tracking technologies to understand campaign performance or display relevant communications.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of parts of the website. For further details, please review our Cookie Policy.
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
To:
We may use your contact information to:
We may analyze information to:
We may process information to:
We may process information where necessary to:
If you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise provide consent to receive marketing communications, we may use your email address to send:
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the relevant communication or by contacting us.
Certain transactional or service-related communications may continue after you unsubscribe from marketing communications because they are necessary to provide services you have requested.
We do not sell your personal information as a standalone product.
We may share information with selected third parties where necessary to operate School of Climate and provide our services. These may include:
We may use third-party providers for services such as:
These providers may process information on our behalf and are expected to use it only for the purposes for which it has been provided or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
We may disclose information where required or permitted by law, including in response to:
If School of Climate or substantially all of its assets are acquired, merged, reorganized, or transferred, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable privacy laws.
Our website may contain links to websites, platforms, tools, social networks, payment providers, educational platforms, or other third-party services.
Examples may include links to:
When you leave the School of Climate website, the third party's privacy policy and terms may apply.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites and services.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.
School of Climate may maintain profiles or pages on social media platforms.
Interactions with our social media profiles may be visible to other users depending on your privacy settings and the policies of the relevant platform.
Social media platforms may collect information about your interactions with our profiles according to their own privacy policies.
We encourage you to review the privacy settings and policies of the social media services you use.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The length of time we retain information may depend on:
When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal requirements.
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Depending on the nature of the information and services involved, security measures may include:
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should use appropriate caution when sharing information online and protect your account credentials from unauthorized access.
Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
Some rights may be subject to legal limitations or exceptions.
To exercise your rights, contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
School of Climate's services are intended for individuals who are legally able to use the relevant services under applicable law.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us.
If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child in circumstances where collection is not permitted, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
School of Climate may use service providers located in countries other than the country where you live.
As a result, your information may be processed or stored outside your country of residence.
Where required by applicable law, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that international transfers of personal information are carried out with appropriate safeguards.
By using our services, you acknowledge that your information may be processed in jurisdictions where our service providers operate, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Where applicable, we may process personal information based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent, subject to legal or contractual limitations.
You are responsible for ensuring that information you provide to School of Climate is accurate and up to date.
If you create an account, you are also responsible for:
You should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal information through public forms, comments, community discussions, or other publicly accessible areas of the website.
Certain School of Climate services may allow users to submit comments, feedback, testimonials, questions, discussions, or other content.
Please exercise caution before posting personal information in publicly accessible areas.
Information that you voluntarily make public may be viewed, copied, or used by other people.
School of Climate cannot guarantee the privacy of information that you voluntarily publish in public areas of the website or community.
Where permitted and where appropriate authorization has been obtained, we may publish testimonials, learner feedback, interviews, or other information provided by users for promotional or educational purposes.
You may contact us if you would like to request changes to or removal of a testimonial or similar content that identifies you, subject to applicable circumstances and legal requirements.
We maintain reasonable security procedures designed to protect personal information.
If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we may take appropriate steps to investigate, contain, remediate, and notify affected individuals or relevant authorities where required by applicable law.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
When we make changes, we may update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
Your continued use of our website after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective may constitute acknowledgment of the updated policy, subject to applicable law.
If you have questions, concerns, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us.
For privacy-related requests, please include sufficient information for us to identify your account or interaction with School of Climate and understand your request.
We will review and respond to requests within the timeframe required by applicable law.
By using the School of Climate website and services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand how your personal information may be collected and processed as described above.
Where applicable law requires specific consent, we will request that consent separately.