Privacy & GDPR Policy
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 25th, 2026.
Thank you for joining the IAOTH. We at IAOTH (“IAOTH”, “we”, “us”) respect your privacy and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share data about you. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes your rights regarding your personal data.
Unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use the IAOTH website. It also applies to prospective customers of our business and enterprise products.
By using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You shouldn’t use the Services if you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of the Services.
1. What Data We Get
We collect certain data from you directly, like information you enter yourself. We also collect some data automatically, like information about your ip address. All data listed in this section is subject to the following processing activities: collecting, recording, structuring, storing, altering, retrieving, encrypting, erasing.
1.1 Data You Provide to Us
We may collect different data from or about you depending on how you use the Services. Below are some examples to help you better understand the data we collect.
When you create an account and use the Services, including through a third-party platform, we collect any data you provide directly, including:
| Category of Personal Data | Description | Legal Basis for Processing |
| Account Data | In order to use certain features (like accessing content), you need to create a user account, which requires us to collect and store your email address, password, and account settings. As you use certain features on the site, you may be prompted to submit additional information including occupation, photo, date of birth, and phone number. Upon account creation, we assign you a unique user name. |
(service provisioning, identity verification, fraud prevention and security, communication) |
| Profile Data | You can also choose to provide profile information like a photo, headline, biography, language, website link, social media profiles, country, or other data. Your Profile Data will be publicly viewable by others. |
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| Shared Content | Parts of the Services let you interact with other users or share content publicly, including by uploading articles and other educational content. Such shared content may be publicly viewable by others depending on where it is posted. |
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| Payment Data | If you make purchases, we collect certain data about your purchase (such as your name, billing address, and ZIP code) as necessary to process your order and which may optionally be saved to process future orders. You must provide certain payment and billing data directly to our payment service providers, including your name, credit card or paypal information, billing address, and ZIP code. We may also receive limited information, like the fact that you have a new card and the last four digits of that card, from payment service providers to facilitate payments. For security, the IAOTH does not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as full credit card numbers or card authentication data. |
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| Communications and Support | If you contact us for support or to report a problem or concern (regardless of whether you have created an account), we collect and store your contact information, messages, and other data about you like your name, email address, messages, IAOTH user ID, transaction IDs, and any other data you provide or that we collect through automated means (which we cover below). We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. |
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The data listed above is stored by us and associated with your account.
1.2 Data We Collect through Automated Means
When you access the Services we collect certain data by automated means, including:
| Category of Personal Data | Description | Legal Basis for Processing |
| System Data | Your IP address. |
(service provisioning, customer and technical support, fraud prevention and security, communication, product improvement) |
| Usage Data | Usage statistics about your interactions with the Services, including date and time, use of the Services. |
(service provisioning, user experience improvement, product improvement) |
| Approximate Geographic Data | An approximate geographic location, including information like country, city, and geographic coordinates, calculated based on your IP address. |
(user experience improvement, fraud prevention and security, compliance) |
The data listed above is collected through the use of server log. It is stored by us and associated with your account.
2. Data Collection Tools
The IAOTH uses the following type of Data Collection Tool for the purposes described:
- Strictly Necessary: These Data Collection Tools enable you to access the site, provide basic functionality (like logging in or accessing content), secure the site, protect against fraudulent logins, and detect and prevent abuse or unauthorized use of your account.
3. What We Use Your Data For
We use your data to do things like provide our Services, communicate with you, troubleshoot issues, secure against fraud and abuse ,and as required by law or necessary for safety and integrity. We retain your data for as long as it is needed to serve the purposes for which it was collected.
We use the data we collect through your use of the Services to:
- Provide and administer the Services.
- Process your requests and orders for products, specific services, information, or features
- Communicate with you about your account by:
- Responding to your questions and concerns;
- Sending you administrative messages and information
- Sending you information, such as by email, about new services, new features, promotions, newsletters (which you can opt out of at any time);
- Manage your account and account preferences and personalize your experience
- Facilitate the Services’ technical functioning, including troubleshooting and resolving issues, securing the Services, and preventing fraud and abuse
- Improve our Services and develop new products, services, and features
- As required or permitted by law or
- As we, in our sole discretion, otherwise determine to be necessary to ensure the safety or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, the public, or our Services.
4. Who We Share Your Data With
Your personal data is not shared with or sold to any third party except in the following circumstances:
- For Security and Legal Compliance: We may disclose your to third parties if we (in our sole discretion) have a good faith belief that the disclosure is:
- Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding;
- Reasonably necessary as part of a legally-valid request;
- Reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements;
- Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues;
- Required or permitted by law.
- During a Change in Control: If the IAOTH undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition.
5. Security
We use appropriate security based on the type and sensitivity of data being stored. As with any internet-enabled system, there is always a risk of unauthorized access, so it’s important to protect your password and to contact us if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.
The IAOTH takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal data that we collect and store. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, however, no system can be 100% secured, so we cannot guarantee that communications between you and the IAOTH, the Services, or any information provided to us in connection with the data we collect through the Services will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Your password is an important part of our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with any third party, and if you believe your password or account has been compromised, you should change it immediately and contact us at support@iaoth.com with any concerns.
6. Your Rights
You have certain rights around the use of your data, including the ability to opt out of promotional emails. You can update your account from within your profile dashboard and can terminate your account by contacting us at support@iaoth.org. You can also contact us for individual rights requests about your personal data.
6.1 Your Choices About the Use of Your Data
You can choose not to provide certain data to us:
To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism in the promotional communication you receive. Note that regardless of your email preference settings, we will send you transactional and relationship messages regarding the Services, including administrative confirmations, order confirmations, and important updates about the Services.