Privacy Policy

VantStride (“VantStride”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is a finance-career education and resource platform. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you access or use VantStride, create an account, interact with VantStride AI, access Career Hubs, browse learning resources, purchase or access digital products, follow third-party or affiliate links, communicate with us, or otherwise use our platform.

By using VantStride, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Depending on how you use VantStride, we may collect:

Account Information

When you create an account, we may collect information such as your name, email address, authentication information, and information associated with your VantStride account.

AI Interaction Data

When you use VantStride AI, we may process the questions, prompts, messages, and other content you submit, together with information necessary to provide and maintain the AI experience. Conversation history may be associated with your account where the platform provides conversation-history functionality.

Usage and Technical Information

We may collect information about how the platform is used, including pages or Career Hubs viewed, features used, links clicked, interactions with resources, device or browser information, approximate technical information such as IP address where provided by our infrastructure, timestamps, and similar diagnostic or analytics information.

Communications

If you contact VantStride, join a mailing list, request information, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect your name, email address, message, and other information you voluntarily provide.

Transaction-Related Information

When you purchase a VantStride digital product through an external payment or commerce platform, the transaction may be processed by that third-party provider. VantStride may receive limited transaction information necessary to identify or support a purchase, but payment-card or banking information entered directly with a third-party payment provider is handled according to that provider’s own privacy practices.

We may use information to:

• create, authenticate and maintain user accounts;
• provide Career Hubs, VantStride AI and other platform functionality;
• maintain AI conversation history where this feature is available;
• provide requested resources and digital products;
• operate, maintain, troubleshoot and improve VantStride;
• understand how users interact with the platform;
• measure resource, Career Hub, product and affiliate-link engagement;
• respond to questions and support requests;
• communicate important account, platform or service information;
• send marketing or educational communications where permitted and where the user has chosen to receive them;
• prevent misuse, fraud, abuse or security incidents;
• comply with applicable legal obligations; and
• protect VantStride, its users and its services.

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.

VantStride includes an AI-powered finance-career assistant.

Information submitted to VantStride AI may be processed by technology and AI service providers used to generate responses and operate the feature.

Users should avoid submitting passwords, payment-card details, government identification numbers, confidential employer information, or other highly sensitive personal information through VantStride AI.

AI-generated responses may contain errors or inaccuracies and should not be treated as professional financial, investment, legal, tax, employment, or other professional advice.

Where AI conversation history is available, conversations may be stored so users can access or continue previous conversations.

VantStride may use analytics and internal event tracking to understand platform usage and improve the user experience.

This may include events such as account creation, login activity, Career Hub views, resource interactions, product interactions, affiliate-link clicks, and other feature usage.

Analytics information may be aggregated or otherwise processed to understand how VantStride is being used.

VantStride and service providers supporting the platform may use cookies, local storage, session technologies, or similar technologies where necessary for authentication, security, preferences, analytics, and platform functionality.

The technologies used may change as VantStride develops. Where legally required, appropriate choices or consent mechanisms may be provided.

VantStride may offer digital products through third-party commerce or payment platforms.

When a user follows a purchase link, the transaction may occur on a third-party website. Information entered directly on that website is governed by that provider’s privacy policy and terms.

VantStride should not be understood to directly collect or store complete payment-card information merely because a purchase originates from the VantStride platform.

VantStride contains curated recommendations and may contain affiliate links to third-party products, courses, platforms, communities, tools, books, or other resources.

When you click an external or affiliate link, you may leave VantStride. The destination website may independently collect information about you according to its own privacy policy.

VantStride is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or data-processing practices of third-party websites or services.

Some affiliate links may use tracking parameters or similar mechanisms that allow the relevant partner to attribute a referral or purchase to VantStride.

For additional information regarding commercial relationships, users should review VantStride’s Affiliate Disclosure.

We may use third-party service providers to operate parts of VantStride, including services related to hosting, infrastructure, authentication, databases, analytics, artificial intelligence, email delivery, security, and payment or digital-product processing.

These providers may process information as necessary to perform their services.

Each third-party provider may also maintain its own privacy terms and practices.

We may disclose information:

• to service providers that help operate VantStride;
• when necessary to provide functionality requested by a user;
• when required by applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
• when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, security threats, or violations of our terms;
• to protect the rights, property, security, or safety of VantStride, our users, or others; or
• in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, sale, or transfer of all or part of the platform or its assets, subject to applicable law.

We do not disclose personal information to third parties merely for unrelated purposes without an appropriate basis.

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the platform, maintaining accounts and user-requested functionality, resolving disputes, maintaining security, and complying with applicable legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

Where appropriate and technically available, information may be deleted or anonymized when it is no longer required.

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information handled through VantStride.

However, no website, database, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should therefore use strong passwords, keep login credentials confidential, and exercise appropriate care when submitting information online.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information, which may include requesting access, correction, updating, or deletion of certain personal information.

You may also be able to manage certain information directly through your VantStride account.

Where marketing emails are sent, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in those communications.

Requests concerning personal information may be submitted using the contact information below. We may need to verify a request before acting on it.

VantStride may be accessible to users in different countries. As a result, information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which a user is located, including through third-party technology providers.

Where applicable, we take reasonable steps to use service providers and data-processing practices appropriate to the operation of the platform.

VantStride is designed as a finance-career and educational platform and is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children where parental or guardian consent would be legally required.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to VantStride in circumstances where such consent was required, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed.

References to or links to third-party websites, courses, communities, tools, resources, products, or services do not mean that VantStride controls those third parties’ privacy practices.

Users should review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party service they choose to use.

We may update this Privacy Policy as VantStride evolves, including when we introduce new features, providers, products, or legal requirements.

When material changes are made, the “Last updated” date on this page will be revised. Where required by applicable law, additional notice or consent may be provided.

For privacy-related questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

VantStride

Email: support@vantstride.com