Privacy policy

Your privacy matters to us. This page explains what data Fooda Academy collects, what we use it for and who sees it.

1. What we collect

• Your account: name, email, mobile number, profile photo and password (stored hashed, so nobody can read it).
• Your devices: device type, browser and operating system, IP address and approximate country, to apply the device limit and protect your account.
• Your orders: the package, amount, payment method and payment reference, and the transfer screenshot for manual payments. Card details go straight to Fawaterak and never reach us.
• Your learning: the lessons you've watched, your progress, quiz results and certificates.
• The community and portfolios: your posts, comments, photos and video links, and the messages clients send you from your portfolio.
• The checkout: if you type your email and don't finish buying, we keep it to send you a reminder. You can stop reminders from the link in the email.
• The contact page: the messages you send us.
• Google or Facebook sign-in: if you choose to sign in with Google or Facebook, we receive only your name, email and profile picture from them, and use them to create your account and sign you in. We can't see anything else in that account and we never post on your behalf.

2. How we use it

• To open your courses, save your progress and issue your certificates.
• To protect your account and the content (the device limit, and the watermark with your name and email on videos).
• To confirm payments and send receipts and important emails.
• To answer your questions and improve the platform.

We don't sell your data to anyone.

3. Who sees it

• Fawaterak: online payments.
• VdoCipher: plays the protected videos (your name and email appear as a watermark in the video).
• Hostinger: hosts the platform and sends our emails.
• Cloudflare: protects the site and delivers it quickly.
• YouTube and Vimeo: when you play a video embedded on the public pages.
• Google and Facebook: if you sign in with them, they confirm to us that the account is yours.
• Other students in the community: see your name and profile photo next to your posts and comments.
• The Fooda Academy team: each according to their role (support sees orders, moderators see the community...).
• Authorities, when the law requires it.

4. Cookies

We use cookies to keep you signed in and to remember your device, your language and your display choices. We don't use advertising cookies.

5. Your portfolio

Your portfolio is a public page, and you choose whether it's public, link-only or hidden. Your email and phone are never shown to clients: their messages reach you without them seeing your details.

6. How long we keep it

For as long as your account exists. Order and payment records are kept as long as the law requires.

7. Your rights

You can ask to see your data, correct it, delete your account, or stop non-essential emails. Reach us from the contact page; to have your data deleted, see deleting your data.

8. Deleting your data

To have your account and data deleted:

• Write to us from the contact page or by email, from the email address on your account, and say you want your data deleted.
• Within 30 days we delete your account, your course progress, your posts and comments, your portfolio, and any data that came from signing in with Google or Facebook.
• Payment records that the law requires us to keep are kept only for as long as required, then deleted.
• We'll confirm by email once it's done.

9. Children

The platform is for people aged 13 and over, and we don't knowingly collect data from younger children.

10. Changes

We may update this policy and will show the date of the last change on this page.