Privacy Policy for STAGES International Assessments

This privacy policy applies only to ordering, creating, processing and storing STAGES assessments, and to related email notifications about STAGES assessments.

The STAGES Assessment is an assessment of your developmental level according to the STAGES model of human development. You take the assessment by following a personalized link and answering questions on an online form. The outcome of a STAGES Assessment is an Assessment Report that informs you of the findings and suggestions resulting from your Assessment. The outcome may also include a Debrief of the Assessment Report, if you chose to receive one.

For our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use related to our website and courses, see: https://www.evolving.stagesinternational.com/privacy.php?local=en_US.

Who can order a STAGES development profile?

Assessments can be ordered by persons of at least the age of 18 years. Orders of persons who have not yet reached the age of 18 require the express consent of a person with parental authority.

Protecting your personal data

We take the protection of your personal data seriously.

Personal data includes "Personally Identifying Information" plus records of your financial transactions related to our products and services. “Non-Personally Identifying Information” is information that, without the aid of additional information, cannot be directly associated with a specific person.

When collecting and processing personal data in connection with the creation, processing and storage of STAGES assessments, we comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as US regulations.

For all questions related to data protection, please contact the data protection officer (DPO) of STAGES International: dpo@stagesinternational.com

You can contact the data protection officer at any time if you would like to inspect the stored personal data, have it corrected and possibly deleted. (Data can only be deleted if this does not conflict with any legal obligations to retain data).

We process and use your personal data for the following purposes

Pre-purchase product or service consultation
Ordering of products including assessments, and debriefings
Payment processing (including refunds, invoicing, etc.)
Communications related to assessment delivery, follow-up, and support
Collection of personal data when initiating an assessment or other service or product
Other forms and communications done in compliance with commercial, tax and other regulations

What data do we collect and process?

During the processes of consultation, sales, service providing (including assessments and debriefs), and support, and related correspondence, we may collect the following data: Personal Data: name, email, address, time of purchase, location of purchase; and financial transaction information collected during the purchase process.

We may also collect the following "demographic data" that is not personally identifying (assuming any personal data is removed): (1) demographic data including age, gender, primary language, education level, and country, which is processed and used exclusively in anonymized statistical analyses; (2) product purchasing statistics, including product ID, time of purchase, payment transactions; (3) assessment data: including your responses to assessment and survey questions, as well as the contents of your assessment report, which may be used in research or reporting activities after all personal data has been removed.

Who is granted access to the personal data?

Scorer, who evaluates the assessment and creates the report
Debriefer gets access to the assessment only after explicit consent of the customer
In some situations your assessment results may be shared with a coach or other professional that you have given us explicit permission to share it with.
Sentence completions and their scores are stored in anonymized or pseudonymized form for scientific research. Anonymized sentence completions that are stored for scientific research do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about personal data.

The data that you provide in your Assessment will be added to the STAGES research database, which is used for ongoing study and refinement of the STAGES model by STAGES International and selected third party researchers. Data made available to third party researchers does not include your Personally Identifying Information; it is always anonymized.

Data in the STAGES research database may also be used for research related publishing and reporting. Such publications will not include your Personally Identifying Information; it is always anonymized.

Confidentiality

The scorer and debriefer (who are often the same person) of the assessment have committed themselves to strict confidentiality about the contents of the assessment and the debrief.

If support or administrative employees of STAGES International are exposed to confidential data as part of their normal administrative work, or otherwise gain insight into correspondence with customers, they have committed themselves to the strictest confidentiality.

Service providers

Personal data is stored and processed on the servers and computers operated by data service providers. STAGES International only engages service providers who in turn guarantee strict data protection and adherence to GDPR. Below is a list of the service providers currently contracted. Changes to contracted service providers will be duly added to later revisions of this document.

Hosting services: Dreamhost, GoDaddy
Email and Transactional messaging service: Google, Mailchimp, Mandrill, Kajabi
Payment and transaction service providers: Stripe, Wise, PayPal, Thrivecart, Kajabi, Zapier

All of these service providers are governed by the laws of the United States, as well as their respective state. The servers of these service providers are usually located in the USA. We do not share personal data with third parties unless you have given us explicit permission to do so.

How long do we store your personal data?

The contractual relationship with you and legal regulations result in storage obligations for documents such as correspondence, orders, invoices or accounting records.

To enable you to view one or more of your assessments at a later date, we store your personal data required for this purpose for as long as we offer this service.

You can request the deletion of your personal data at any time. In this case, we will delete all data for which there is no legal retention obligation. You will then no longer be able to view one or more of your previously created assessments and related data.

How do we ensure the security of your personal data?

We protect your personal data entrusted to us against loss, access, deletion or manipulation by unauthorized persons with technical and organizational measures that correspond to the current state of technology and organizational knowledge.

Scorers and persons conducting debriefing protect personal information on their computer systems in compliance with the same standards.

What data is collected and processed when visiting the web pages relating to STAGES assessments?

The administration and scoring of STAGES assessments is done through proprietary software (the STAGES "Platform") that runs on your browser. You might have accessed the Platform directly through an email or other communications, or you might have first visited a website or financial transactions software before having access to the Platform.

This Privacy policy applies only to use of the assessments Platform, and not our website or other services such as online courses and discussion tools. For our privacy policy related to our website and related web pages see www.stagesinternational.com/privacy.

The website of STAGES International are hosted by an external service provider. All of our external service providers (see above) are subject to the laws of the USA as well as the relevant state. External service providers, and other service providers such as payment processing sites, may gather additional anonymous information about your browser behavior, such as IP addresses and times of access, and they may store cookies on your computer. The Platform does not store cookies on your computer.

To protect your data entered on our web pages against access by unauthorized persons, your connection to our web pages is encrypted (using the so-called SSL protocol). Data entered on our web pages are transmitted to us via an encrypted connection.

Our Contact Details

Stages International, LLC
608 NE Washington
Lewistown, MT 59457
United States
Email: support@stagesinternational.com
Data protection officer(DPO): dpo@stagesinternational.com