Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through OregonDrive.com and through Oregon Drive's online course registration, course-access, payment, customer-support, and course-completion processes.

This Policy applies to information that you provide directly to Oregon Drive as well as certain information collected automatically when you interact with our website.

Information You Provide

Depending on how you interact with Oregon Drive, we may collect information such as:

• First and last name;
• Email address;
• Telephone number;
• Course registration information;
• Course participation and completion records;
• Assessment or course-status information;
• Information needed to prepare or verify a Certificate of Completion;
• Information you provide when contacting Oregon Drive for support;
• Other information you voluntarily submit to us.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, our website, hosting provider, security services, or other service providers may automatically collect technical information such as:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• Browser type and version;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Pages viewed;
• Date and time of access;
• Referring website or page;
• Website performance or security logs;
• Cookie or similar technology information.

Oregon Drive may use personal information for legitimate educational, administrative, operational, security, and legal purposes, including to:

• Process course registrations;
• Process or confirm payments;
• Create and administer student course access;
• Deliver course content;
• Track required course participation;
• Administer assessments;
• Document successful completion;
• Issue Certificates of Completion;
• Communicate with students regarding their enrollment or course;
• Respond to customer-service requests;
• Prevent fraud or unauthorized access;
• Maintain website and account security;
• Troubleshoot technical problems;
• Maintain business and regulatory records;
• Comply with applicable law, legal process, or regulatory requirements.

When you register for an Oregon Drive course, the information you provide may be associated with your enrollment and course-completion record.

We may use registration information to verify your identity, communicate with you, provide course access, maintain required records, and produce accurate course-completion documentation.

Course payments may be processed through a third-party payment processor such as Stripe.

When you submit payment information, your payment details may be transmitted directly to the applicable payment processor in order to authorize and process the transaction.

Oregon Drive may receive payment-related information such as transaction status, transaction identification numbers, amount paid, payment date, and limited information relating to the payment method.

OregonDrive.com and services used to operate the website may use cookies, local storage, session technologies, or similar technologies to support website operation and functionality.

These technologies may be used for purposes such as:

• Maintaining website sessions;
• Supporting registration forms;
• Processing secure transactions;
• Remembering certain preferences;
• Maintaining website security;
• Detecting fraud or abuse;
• Measuring website performance;
• Understanding general website usage.

Most browsers permit users to control or delete cookies through browser settings. Disabling certain essential cookies may prevent portions of the website or course from functioning properly.

Oregon Drive may use third-party companies and technology providers to assist in operating the website and providing services.

Depending on the services being used, these providers may include:

• Website hosting providers;
• WordPress-related technology providers;
• Website form providers;
• Payment processors;
• Email-delivery providers;
• Website-security providers;
• Data-backup services;
• Analytics or website-performance services;
• Other vendors necessary to operate the course or website.

These providers may receive information only as reasonably necessary for the services they perform, subject to their own legal and contractual obligations.

Oregon Drive may disclose information when reasonably necessary or legally required in connection with course administration, regulatory requirements, legal proceedings, court requirements, or government requests.

Depending on applicable requirements, this may include disclosure of limited information to:

• Oregon courts;
• The Oregon Department of Transportation or other appropriate governmental authorities;
• Law-enforcement agencies when legally required;
• Other parties when disclosure is required by subpoena, court order, law, or valid legal process.

Oregon Drive may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, security, or property of Oregon Drive, its students, or others.

Oregon Drive does not sell students' personal information in exchange for money.

Personal information collected for course registration and administration is intended to be used for educational, operational, payment, security, recordkeeping, legal, and related business purposes as described in this Policy.

If Oregon Drive's practices materially change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any privacy choices required by applicable law will be provided.

Oregon Drive retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which the information was collected and as appropriate to satisfy operational, legal, regulatory, recordkeeping, tax, fraud-prevention, and dispute-resolution requirements.

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods depending on their purpose and applicable requirements.

Information may be deleted, anonymized, or securely archived when it is no longer reasonably necessary to retain it, subject to applicable legal and recordkeeping obligations.

Oregon Drive uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to safeguard personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

Such measures may include website-security technology, access controls, secure payment processing, software maintenance, and other reasonable safeguards.

Depending on your state of residence, applicable privacy law, and whether a particular law applies to Oregon Drive, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

Where applicable, such rights may include the ability to request:

• Confirmation that personal data is being processed;
• Access to certain personal data;
• Correction of inaccurate personal data;
• Deletion of certain personal data;
• A copy of certain personal data;
• Opt-out rights where required by applicable privacy law.

Certain requests may be limited or denied where retention or processing is required for legal, regulatory, security, fraud-prevention, contractual, or recordkeeping purposes.

We may need to verify your identity before processing a privacy request in order to protect your information from unauthorized access.

Oregon Drive may use the contact information you provide to send communications reasonably related to your registration, payment, account, course access, course progress, completion, certificate, or customer-support request.

Transactional and course-administration communications may be necessary for Oregon Drive to provide the service you requested.

Marketing communications, if any, will be handled in accordance with applicable law and any legally required consent or opt-out requirements.

OregonDrive.com is not directed to children under the age of 13, and Oregon Drive does not knowingly seek to collect personal information online from children under 13.

If Oregon Drive learns that personal information from a child under 13 was collected in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, reasonable steps will be taken to address the information as appropriate.

OregonDrive.com may contain links to third-party websites, government resources, payment platforms, or other external services.

Oregon Drive does not control the privacy practices of independently operated third-party websites or services. When you leave OregonDrive.com, the privacy policies and terms of the applicable third party may apply.

Oregon Drive may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, website features, course administration, business practices, legal requirements, or privacy regulations.

When this Policy is updated, the Last Updated date displayed at the top of the page will be revised.

Material changes will apply prospectively unless applicable law requires otherwise.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, the information Oregon Drive maintains about you, or a privacy-related request, please contact Oregon Drive through the website's Contact page.

When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to identify your request and the relevant account or registration. For security reasons, we may request reasonable identity verification before releasing, modifying, or deleting personal information.