Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Picsart Academy, Azatutyan Avenue 24/17, E Plaza Building, Yerevan, Armenia. For any privacy question or request, contact us at [email protected] or +374 43 477447.

2. Information we collect

• Course registration and interview booking: first, last and middle name, gender, date of birth, email address, phone number, the course and interview time you choose, your preferred interview language, your region (for online courses) and how you heard about us.
• Regional interest form: your email address and region.
• Contact, corporate and collaboration forms: your name, email address, phone number, company and message.
• Newsletter: your email address.
• Admissions: interview notes, assessments and exam results recorded by our team.
• Technical data: IP address and basic request information, used for security and to prevent abuse, and data collected by the analytics tools described in section 5.

3. How we use your information

• To process your registration and schedule your interview.
• To send you confirmations, reminders and updates about your application by email and SMS.
• To create a Google Meet link for online interviews and send you a calendar invitation.
• To evaluate applications and run our programs.
• To tell you about the courses you asked us about. You can opt out at any time.
• To keep the website secure, prevent spam and abuse, and improve our services.
• To meet our legal obligations.

4. Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers that help us run the Academy, and only as needed for the purposes above:

• Twilio SendGrid, to send emails.
• Our SMS provider in Armenia, to send text messages.
• Google (Google Calendar and Google Meet), to schedule online interviews. Your email address is added as a guest to the interview event.
• Meta (Meta Pixel) and Microsoft (Clarity), for website analytics, as described below.
• Our hosting provider, which stores the website and its data.

5. Cookies and analytics

We use Meta Pixel to measure the results of our advertising and Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use the website. These tools may set cookies and collect information such as pages visited, clicks and device type. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings.

6. Google user data

Our admin panel lets Academy staff and the Academy's own interview organizer account connect a Google account. Applicants and website visitors are never asked to sign in with Google.

When a Google account is connected, we request access to Google Calendar events (and, for the organizer account, its email address). We use this access only to create, update and delete interview events and their Google Meet links for bookings made through our website. We do not read or use any other calendar data.

We do not sell Google user data, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone except as needed to provide this feature, to comply with the law, or to protect our users' security. Access tokens are stored encrypted, and access can be removed at any time by disconnecting the account in the admin panel or in the Google account settings.

Picsart Academy's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

7. How long we keep it

We keep application and interview data for as long as it is needed for admissions and for running the program you joined, and then delete or anonymize it. You can ask us to delete your data earlier at any time.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to show you the personal information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop sending you messages. Write to [email protected] and we will answer within 30 days.

9. Applicants under 18

Some of our programs are open to school students. If you are under 18, please register with the knowledge and consent of your parent or guardian. A parent or guardian can contact us at any time to review or delete their child's information.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encrypted connections, access controls and encryption of sensitive credentials. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your data.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last changed.