Privacy Policy for Code Camp (The Coding Gateway)

Effective Date: May 26, 2025

Last Updated: May 26, 2025

1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Welcome to Code Camp, "The Coding Gateway"! We, Dad-Link Tech (the "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a transparent understanding of how we handle your information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and safeguard your data when you use our web application, forum, and all related services (collectively, the "Service"). By accessing or using Code Camp, you signify your understanding and agreement with the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. Our goal is to provide a secure and trustworthy environment for your coding education and community interaction.

2. The Information We Collect: Powering Your Coding Journey

To provide you with a seamless and personalized experience on Code Camp, we collect certain types of information:

• Account Information: When you create a Code Camp account, we collect essential information such as your chosen username, email address, and a hashed password. If you opt for premium features or subscriptions in the future, we may also collect payment information through secure third-party processors.
• User-Generated Content & History: This is key to your Code Camp experience. We store content you create, upload, or generate, including:
  • Code snippets and project files you work on.
  • Your interaction history with AI coding assistance tools.
  • Posts, comments, and messages you contribute to the Code Camp forum.
  • Saved preferences and settings.
  This data is crucial for allowing you to track your progress, revisit your work, access your history across different devices, and receive personalized support.
• Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you interact with Code Camp. This includes log data (IP address, access times, pages viewed), usage statistics (features used, time spent on tasks), and preferences. This helps us understand how our Service is used, identify areas for improvement, and enhance your overall learning experience.
• Device Information: We may collect information about the device you use to access Code Camp, such as IP address, operating system, browser type, and unique device identifiers. This information helps us optimize the platform for various devices, ensure security, and assist in troubleshooting.
• Communications: If you contact us for support or provide feedback, we will collect the information you provide in those communications.

3. How We Use Your Information: Enhancing Your Code Camp Experience

Your information is used thoughtfully to deliver and improve the Code Camp experience:

• Providing and Maintaining the Service: To operate Code Camp, authenticate users, and enable you to view and use the application effectively across different devices.
• Personalization and History: To allow you to access your coding history, track your learning progress, and receive personalized content or assistance.
• Improving Our Service: To analyze usage patterns, gather feedback, and make Code Camp more intuitive, efficient, and valuable for our users.
• Communication: To send you important service-related announcements, security updates, information about new features (if you opt-in), or respond to your support requests.
• Security and Integrity: To protect Code Camp and our users from fraud, abuse, and security threats.
• Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.

4. Data Storage, Security, and Retention: Your Trust is Our Priority

Data Security

We implement robust, industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. This includes data encryption, secure server infrastructure, and access controls. While we strive to provide the highest level of security, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% foolproof, but we are continuously working to enhance our security protocols.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information and user-generated content for as long as your Code Camp account is active, or as needed to provide you with the Service and maintain your coding history for your convenience (e.g., for cross-device access). We may also retain certain information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Your Control: Data Deletion

You have the right to delete your Code Camp account and associated data at any time. Upon receiving a verified deletion request, all your personal data and user-generated content directly associated with your account (such as your profile information, code history, projects, and forum contributions directly linked to your identity) will be permanently and irreversibly erased from our active production systems. Code Camp does not maintain backups of individually deleted user data once the deletion process is complete, meaning this action is final and your data cannot be recovered by us. Please be aware that initiating this process will result in the permanent loss of your account and all its associated information.

5. Sharing of Information: Your Data Stays Within Code Camp

Your Privacy is Paramount: Code Camp does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their marketing or any other unrelated purposes. Your data is yours and is securely locked away within the Code Camp ecosystem.

We limit the sharing of your information to the following specific circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may engage trusted third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (e.g., cloud hosting providers, payment processors for premium services, analytics services to help us understand usage). These providers are contractually bound to protect your data, have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency), or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Code Camp, our users, or others.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for purposes such as statistical analysis, research, or improving our services.

6. Your Rights and Choices: Empowering You

Code Camp respects your rights regarding your personal information. You have the right to:

• Access Your Information: Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct Your Information: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Delete Your Information: Request the permanent deletion of your Code Camp account and all associated personal data, as detailed in Section 4.
• Manage Your Content: Control and delete content you post on the Code Camp forum, subject to our community guidelines and platform functionality.
• Object to Processing: Object to certain types of data processing where applicable laws provide this right.
• Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a commonly used, machine-readable format, where applicable.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

7. Children's Privacy

Code Camp is not intended for individuals under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold if stipulated by local laws, e.g., 16 in some EU regions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Service after any modifications to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us: We're Here to Help

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please do not hesitate to contact us:

By email: privacy@codeingcamp.web.app (Please update if you have a specific privacy email)

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy.