Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 3, 2026
Who We Are
HighSchoolEquivalent.com is an online education platform that provides study materials, preparation programs, and online resources for adult learners.
Our website address is: https://highschoolequivalent.com
Information We Collect
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user-agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (also called a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Student Accounts & Course Enrollment
If you create an account, enroll in a course, or purchase a program, we may collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Billing information (processed securely by our payment processor)
- Course progress and activity
This information is used only to provide educational services, manage your enrollment, communicate with you, and provide customer support.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We use cookies to remember your login status, improve site functionality, store user preferences, and support course progress and access.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen-options cookies last for one year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles or lessons on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Your use of such third-party sites is governed by their respective privacy policies.
Payments
We use secure third-party payment processors to handle payments for our courses and programs. We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers. Payment information is processed and stored by our payment processors in accordance with their own security standards and privacy policies.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share limited data with trusted service providers only when necessary to:
- Process payments
- Provide customer support tools
- Detect spam or fraud
- Comply with legal obligations
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including:
- Using SSL encryption on our website
- Using secure, reputable payment processors
- Restricting internal access to personal information
- Storing data on secure servers
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at: