Privacy

Effective September 9, 2026

This notice explains how Earniculum handles information from the website, waitlist, invite-only learner network, organization learning workspaces, courses, certificates, Earnie assistants, moderation and reports, job applications, sponsor operations, and Partner Studio.

Account age checks

Earniculum accounts are currently limited to people who are at least 18. When you accept an admin, partner, or learner invitation, we collect the date of birth you enter, use it to decide whether the account may be activated, and retain it with the private account record to document and continue enforcing that eligibility rule. It is not shown on public profiles, shared with course partners or sponsors, used for advertising, or made available through Earnie. If the date shows that you are under 18, the invitation is not accepted and an active account is not created. Existing accounts created before this check was introduced may be asked to provide a date of birth before continuing to use the service.

Who is responsible

AKS Group of Companies, a Texas limited liability company doing business as Earniculum operates the service and determines why and how personal information is handled. Privacy requests and legal notices may be sent to legal@earniculum.com. The company’s contracting address is provided directly to business counterparties and is not published on this website.

Categories of information

Depending on how you use Earniculum, we collect identifiers and contact details; account and authentication records; organization and contract records; commercial, reward, invoice, and payout-status records; internet and device information needed for security, attribution, consent, and advertising where allowed; course, assessment, certificate, and approximate activity records; preferences and inferences directly derived from the choices you provide; communications, social content, images, reports, and moderation records; application and optional equal-opportunity information; and Earnie questions, answers, conversation settings, feedback, approved memories, source references, and audit metadata. The sections below explain the source, purpose, recipient, and retention of each category.

Information we collect

When you join the learner waitlist, we collect the first name, last name, phone number, and email address you provide. We check that the phone number is structurally valid before saving it, and we use it to prevent one person from taking several places in line, not to call or text you about anything you did not ask for. A prospective partner may also provide an organization name, contact details, website, course idea, intended audience, and message. A prospective sponsor may provide a name, email address, company description, intended audience, learning context, offer, dates, and budget. Partners provide company and public-profile information, team-member email addresses, role and permission choices, account credentials, course drafts, lesson text, quiz questions, uploaded course media, review submissions, and related operational information. Admin, partner, and learner account holders provide a date of birth when accepting an invitation so we can enforce the service’s 18-and-older account rule. Learners also provide the name and email address an invitation was sent to, a username, account credentials, and the course progress and course activity described below. Administrators provide account and audit information needed to operate the service. We may also receive basic technical information needed to operate and secure the website.

How we use information

We use waitlist information to record and display your place in line, prevent duplicate entries, send a signup confirmation, communicate rollout or early-access updates, and understand interest in Earniculum. We use learner information to operate profiles, audience controls, posts, study-pal connections, messages, reports, moderation, course progress, and certificates. We use partner and sponsor application information to review the proposed relationship and reply with questions or next steps. We use account information to deliver invitations, password-reset links, and email-change verification. We use partner information to create a public company page, enforce role-based access, save private course progress, review submitted courses and revisions, publish approved versions, deliver in-app learning content, and communicate requested changes. We use sponsor information to manage agreements and contextual placements. We use technical information to operate and protect the service.

How you found Earniculum

On your first public-page visit, Earniculum records the broad arrival channel, the referring site’s hostname when one is provided by your browser, campaign labels included in the link, the Earniculum page where you landed, and a referral code supplied in ?ref=. Examples are Direct, Search, Social, Email, another website, a paid link, or an online assistant. We do not record the page you viewed on the referring site, a search query, an advertising identifier, or a browser fingerprint.

This first-touch record is kept in a first-party, HTTP-only cookie for up to thirty days so reading another Earniculum page before submitting does not erase where the visit began. If a person follows an explicit referral link later, the first referral code is added without replacing the earlier channel, source, or landing page. Staff links use the staff username; a waitlist member’s link uses an opaque random code that does not expose that member’s name, email, phone number, or signup identifier. When the referred person joins, authorized administrators can resolve that code to the referring waitlist record and display who referred whom.

The cookie is not sent to other sites and does not follow you around the internet. If you join the waitlist, apply to partner, or submit a sponsor application during that period, the source record is stored with that submission so Earniculum can compare which broad channels, referral links, and landing pages lead to each type of application. Deleting the underlying signup or application also removes its attached source record and personal referral code.

Partner and sponsor agreements

When Earniculum prepares or receives a partner or sponsor agreement, we store the organization’s legal name and address, the authorized contact’s name, title, and email address, contract dates, compensation terms, additional terms, document copies, document fingerprints, delivery status, and lifecycle history. For an electronic signature we also store the signer’s typed name, title, consent statement, signing method, timestamp, a one-way hash of the connection address, and a limited browser identifier. A signer may instead upload an externally signed PDF. These records are used to verify authorization and intent, reproduce the agreement, open the partner or sponsor account, administer renewals, and document lifecycle decisions.

Contracts and their audit records are visible only to authorized Earniculum administrators and the intended signer through a private, expiring link. Completed copies are sent to the parties. We retain executed agreements, signature evidence, lifecycle history, course records, and related financial records after an account closes when reasonably needed for legal, tax, audit, dispute, fraud-prevention, or recordkeeping obligations. Closing a company removes public and login access but does not erase those private records automatically.

Terms and Privacy Notice records

When a form or account setup asks you to confirm the legal notices, we record the email address used, the form or account flow, the versions of the Terms and Privacy Notice presented, the time, a one-way hash of the connection address, and a limited browser identifier. The record distinguishes acceptance of the Terms from acknowledgment that the Privacy Notice was read. We keep it as evidence of which legal copies were presented and accepted, including after the related submission or account is closed where reasonably needed for legal, audit, fraud-prevention, or dispute purposes.

Public company information

A partner’s company name, description, logo, website, public page address, and approved courses may be visible to anyone. Team-member email addresses, permissions, invitations, private drafts, and account credentials are not part of that public profile.

Organization-assigned learning

If an employer or another organization adds your work email to its roster, we store the roster details it provides, such as your name, employee number, title, department, cohort, course assignments, due dates, and whether an assignment is required. Authorized organization staff can see those roster details together with your status and percentage progress in courses that organization assigned, completion date, and certificate ID. They cannot see your social activity, preferences, private messages, unrelated courses, individual answers, or activity in another organization.

The organization is responsible for having an appropriate basis to provide roster data and assign learning. Workspace owners can invite additional staff and assign preset roles with separate permissions for roster, catalog, private course authoring and submission, assignments, reports, branding, staff, and audit records. Earniculum stores those invitations, role and permission choices, account status, and administrative actions. Organization-created drafts, lessons, media, assessments, accreditation metadata, edit history, and review messages are visible only to authorized organization staff and authorized Earniculum reviewers until approval. After approval, active roster members may receive the course through that organization’s private catalog. The course is not exposed in the public catalog or to another organization. Suspending a roster seat stops organization access without deleting the learner account. Removing a workspace from active administration disables its staff access while signed agreements and learning records may be retained for contract, audit, dispute, and credential-integrity purposes.

When an organization assigns learning, Earniculum may send the learner an operational email and create an in-app activity notification containing the organization, course, requirement, and due date. The pop-up copy is temporary, while the notification remains in the learner’s Activity page until the account record is deleted under the rules below.

Where your information goes today

We do not sell personal information and do not hand learner records to advertisers. We use service providers to host the website, store data, process approved media, deliver transactional communications, process payments and identity verification, and, when you allow advertising, select and measure ads. Each provider receives only the information needed for that service and processes it under its own obligations and our instructions where applicable. The advertising details and choices are explained below and in our Cookie Notice.

The categories of recipients are hosting and database providers, email-delivery providers, Stripe for payment, connected-account onboarding, identity and tax verification, advertising providers when consent and law permit, professional advisers, regulators and law enforcement where legally required, course partners as specifically described below, and a successor in a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale subject to this notice and applicable law. If our handling changes materially, we will update this notice and our changelog and provide direct notice or renewed consent where required.

How we share information

We do not sell waitlist, learner, application, Earnie-conversation, or course-activity information. We may disclose information to the recipients described in this notice, when you direct us, when required by law, or when reasonably necessary to protect people, rights, and the security of Earniculum. We do not use sensitive personal data for sale, targeted advertising, or profiling in furtherance of a decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect.

Course media and learner activity

Partner-uploaded images, short videos, article content, assignments, and quiz materials are stored with the course record.

Learner accounts

Learner accounts are invitation only. When an Earniculum administrator invites you, we create a record holding the first name, last name, and email address you gave us, and a single-use invitation link that expires after fourteen days. When you accept, we store the username you choose and a hash of your password, never the password itself.

While you take a course we record which lessons you have completed, your best score on each quiz or exam, how many attempts you made, and when you were last active. We use this to show your progress, decide whether you have finished a course, and issue a certificate. Quizzes are marked on our servers rather than in your browser, so what we store is the score we calculated, not a claim sent from your device.

What we record while you are taking a course

Alongside your progress we keep a record of the activity itself: each time you open a lesson, roughly how long that lesson stayed open in your browser, each assessment you submit and whether you passed it, each time a monitored exam is started or left, and when a course is completed and a certificate issued. Each entry is stamped with the time and the lesson and course it belongs to.

We use it to show progress, let Earnie answer approved questions, show partners how their courses are performing, understand which subjects hold attention, and notice patterns that may require an academic-integrity review. Partners are limited to their own courses, and named learner analysis requires a separately assigned permission.

Times recorded from your browser are approximate and we treat them that way. A lesson left open in a background tab is not study, so these figures inform product decisions and are never used to grade you, to decide whether you completed a course, or to decide whether a certificate is issued.

Where this data suggests a possible integrity problem it is treated as a prompt for a person to look, never as a finding on its own. A dropped connection during an exam and a deliberate exit produce the same record, and only a human reviewing the surrounding events can tell them apart. No account is suspended, and no certificate is withheld or withdrawn, on the basis of an automatically calculated score alone.

Today this record stays inside Earniculum. It is not used for advertising, it is not sold, and it is not shared with anyone beyond the recipients described here. Earnie may summarize activity that the account is allowed to see. If an authorized staff member turns on optional wording help, the question and prepared answer may be processed on that device. Database credentials, raw queries, and unrestricted records are not provided.

Within Earniculum, reading one named person’s course activity requires a specific staff permission that is granted separately from the ability to see learner accounts at all, so most of our own staff cannot open it. A partner sees aggregate figures for their own courses; the per-learner detail behind those figures is likewise a separate permission a partner grants inside their own organization, and in every case it is limited to their own courses. Deleting your learner account deletes this record along with everything else attached to it.

The company behind a course can see your name, email address, and progress in that course, and any certificate you earned from it. That is how a partner supports the people taking their material and knows who completed it. A partner cannot see your activity in any other company’s courses, or anything about you if you never started one of theirs.

Your learning preferences

You can answer an optional questionnaire about what you want to learn: your goals, the fields and subjects that interest you, how much time you have, the formats you prefer, and optionally anything that gets in the way of finishing a course or would make courses more accessible to you. You can change or clear every answer at any time from Preferences, and skipping it costs you nothing beyond a less useful catalog.

We use it for two things. It decides which courses we put in front of you and the short reason shown beside each suggestion. And in aggregate, across everyone, it tells us which subjects people want that we have not built, which is how we decide what to commission next.

Course matching uses the preferences you provide. Your answers are compared against course descriptions using a fixed set of weightings you could read, and no profile is built about you beyond the answers you gave. Those answers stay inside Earniculum: we do not sell them and we do not share them with partners. Deleting your account deletes them.

Sponsor placements

Some courses show a message from a company we have an agreement with, usually one whose offer relates to what you just learned. Every one of these is labelled as sponsored and names the company, so you always know what you are looking at.

We do not send anything about you to those companies. They do not receive your name, your email address, which course you took, or the fact that you exist. They cannot place a cookie or a tracker through us. If you click one of these links, the click is counted on our side as a number against that placement, with nothing attached to it that identifies you, and the outgoing request is sent without a referrer so the destination cannot see which page you came from. What the company learns is that somebody arrived, which is what they would learn from any link on the internet.

We count how many times a placement was shown and how many times it was clicked. Those are totals, not records about people, and they are not joined to your account.

Certificates are public by design

A certificate is a credential you show to other people, so its verification page opens for anyone you give the link to, without an Earniculum account. A credential nobody can check is worth nothing. It shows your full name, the course, the company that offered it, the dates, and the certificate ID.

We ask search engines not to index these pages. The certificate ID cannot be guessed, which is what stops anyone browsing other people’s credentials, and letting a crawler build a searchable directory of names and courses would undo that. Sharing your certificate stays your decision.

If a certificate is withdrawn it is marked as revoked rather than deleted, and the same link then reports that it was withdrawn and when. We do this deliberately: making the page vanish would leave anyone holding the link unable to tell a withdrawn credential from a forged one, which would damage the person who earned it.

Deleting your learner account

Ask us at support@earniculum.com and we will delete your learner account, together with every enrollment and progress record attached to it. That removal is permanent and cannot be undone.

Certificates you already earned are revoked rather than deleted, for the reason above: a link you may already have given to an employer should say the credential was withdrawn, not report that no such certificate exists. If you would prefer a certificate erased outright, tell us and we will do that instead.

Course requests, sponsor applications, and issue reports

If you ask us for a course, apply to sponsor, or report a problem, we keep your name, email address, what you wrote, and which page you sent it from. We use it to reply, review the proposed sponsor relationship, fix what you reported, and decide what to build. Requests for the same subject are counted together so popular ones rise; the counting does not require your name and we do not publish who asked for what.

These forms are open to anyone, so we apply the same abuse controls the waitlist uses: rate limits per address and per connection, basic checks on obviously fake names and addresses, and a hidden field that automated submissions fill in and people never see. We keep these messages while the request, application, or issue is open and for a reasonable period afterwards, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time.

Job applications

When you apply to a role on our careers page, we collect the name and email address you provide, the link you optionally share to a resume, portfolio, or professional profile, and your answers to that posting’s questions. If you send an open application when nothing listed fits, we collect your name, email address, an optional link, and your written introduction. We do not accept file uploads, so we never hold a copy of your resume, only the link you choose to share, which you control and can revoke at any time.

We use this information solely to evaluate you for a role at Earniculum and to contact you about your application. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, add you to the learner waitlist, or use it to make automated decisions about you. Only Earniculum administrators whose accounts hold the applicant review permission can read applications, and that permission is granted separately from the ability to create or close a posting.

We keep applications while a search is active and for a reasonable period afterward so we can consider you for future roles. You can ask us to delete your application or open application at any time by emailing us, and we will remove it. Deleting a posting also deletes every application submitted to it.

Voluntary self-identification

Job applications include four optional questions about gender, race or ethnicity, protected veteran status, and disability status. Every one of them can be declined, and a blank answer is recorded as “prefer not to disclose.” These questions exist so employers can monitor equal opportunity, under the frameworks set by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (EEO-1 reporting, 29 CFR 1602), Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (41 CFR 60-741.42), and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act, 38 U.S.C. 4212 (41 CFR 60-300.42).

Your answers are stored separately from your application, recorded against the role rather than against you, and are never joined back to your name, email, or written answers. Earniculum administrators cannot view an individual person’s responses, only aggregate counts for a role or across every role. We store only the month a response was given, not the moment it was submitted, so a response cannot be matched to an application by timing either. Declining any or all of these questions has no effect whatsoever on your application.

Because these responses are deliberately not linked to you, we cannot look yours up on request, and neither can we. If you want your self-identification removed, tell us which role you applied to and we will delete every response recorded against that role.

Monitored exams

Some courses include a monitored exam. While one is running we record events that happen inside that browser tab: leaving the exam window or fullscreen, and blocked attempts to copy, paste, or open the context menu. We do not and cannot see anything outside the tab: not your other applications, not your screen, not your camera or microphone, and not any other device.

If an attempt ends because the exam window was left, we record that outcome and the reason, and the course may prevent you from retaking it. You are told this before the exam starts and again if it happens. Where a partner sends you to their own lockdown browser instead, that tool is operated by them and its handling of your data is covered by their policy, not this one.

Invitations, retention, and security

Admin and partner invitations are sent to the intended email address using single-use random links that expire after seven days; accepted links cannot be reused. Password-reset and email-verification links are also single-use and time-limited. We retain waitlist, partner application, and sponsor application information while it is needed for launch preparation and related communications. We retain partner accounts, course drafts, approved versions, uploaded media, permission history, and review history while needed to operate the relationship and document publication decisions. Administrative and partner access is permission-based, private areas are excluded from search indexing, sessions use signed HTTP-only cookies, and credentials are stored as password hashes rather than readable passwords. No storage or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure.

Cookies and consent

Strictly necessary cookies run on every visit: they keep you signed in, protect accounts and forms against abuse, and remember the cookie choice you made. They cannot be turned off, because the site does not function without them. The first-touch source cookie described above also runs on public pages. It contains no person, device, or advertising identifier and is used only to preserve the source that may be attached to a later waitlist signup.

All other optional categories are off until you switch them on from the cookie banner or the Cookie preferences link in the footer. Those categories are product analytics, preferences, Earnie improvement, and advertising. Advertising consent allows Google and its advertising partners to use cookies or similar technology to select, measure, limit, and report ads. Where law permits and you consent, that may include personalized advertising based on activity or interests. Otherwise ads are non-personalized or are not shown.

Declining product analytics does not switch off the course activity described above. That is not a cookie and not a tracker: it is the record of work you did in a course you are enrolled in, held against your account, and it is how progress, completion, and certificates function at all. It is governed by the section above rather than by this panel, and deleting your learner account deletes it.

Declining optional cookies leaves the core site usable. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time from the footer. Ad-free accounts do not receive advertising placements even if advertising consent was previously granted.

Advertising and sponsor data

Earniculum may show Google advertising, direct sponsor messages, and partner-course recommendations. Google-served ads currently load only on complete public course sample pages and only after advertising consent. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure ads, including ads based on prior visits where permitted. Google may receive device, browser, approximate location, page, consent, impression, and interaction information as described in Google’s business data privacy notice. You can also manage Google ad personalization in Google Ads Settings. Direct sponsors and course partners receive only aggregate placement reporting from Earniculum unless you choose to follow their link; we do not give them your name, email, course record, private profile, or reward balance.

Google-served ads do not load on other public pages or in signed-in areas. Ads are also excluded from administrative and partner workspaces, exams, messages, settings, reporting and moderation tools, checkout, legal pages, certificate verification, and other sensitive flows. An ad view, click, refresh, or interaction is never used to calculate a learner reward.

Purchases, reward balances, and payouts

For a course purchase, we record the learner and course, partner, displayed and charged amounts, currency, discount, course-rule acceptance, status, Stripe Checkout Session, PaymentIntent, charge, processor-fee, refund, transfer, and settlement identifiers and timestamps. We use this record to confirm enrollment, prevent duplicate fulfillment, support refunds and disputes, reconcile partner settlements, detect fraud, and meet tax, accounting, and legal duties.

For each learner reward, we record the source, amount, status, eligibility date, related course or rule where applicable, and the dates it became available or was paid. We use this ledger to show pending, available, and paid totals; prevent duplicate rewards; review fraud; and run payouts. Purchase and reward records may be retained where needed for accounting, tax, dispute, and anti-fraud obligations even after an account closes.

Stripe handles checkout and connected-account setup. Stripe, rather than Earniculum, collects and stores complete card, bank-account, identity, tax, sanctions, and business-verification details. Earniculum receives payment and account-readiness statuses, limited transaction identifiers, fee and refund amounts, country, and transfer status—not a complete card or bank-account number. Stripe’s own privacy notice applies to information it collects directly.

A learner may create a share link for a weekly or lifetime earnings card. The public card contains the chosen display name, the selected amount and period, and a signup prompt. It does not expose the learner’s ledger, payment method, tax information, courses, profile, or private account data. The link expires and can be replaced.

Internal notifications

When someone joins the waitlist or applies to a role, our system emails the Earniculum team so we can respond promptly. That notification contains only the person’s name, their position in line or the role applied for, and a link to the private dashboard. It does not contain email addresses, phone numbers, résumé links, written answers, or self-identification responses. Those stay in the dashboard behind an authenticated login.

How we ask for your agreement

Before you join the waitlist, apply to a role, send an open application, apply to partner with us, or accept an invitation, you are asked to take separate affirmative actions for this notice and the Terms of Service. They are separate so you can see what applies, and neither is selected in advance. A server-side check rejects the submission unless both are accepted. The acceptance record may include the versions presented, time, related account or submission, and limited security evidence.

Email we send you

We may email you about Earniculum using the address you gave us: launch and early-access updates if you joined the waitlist, updates about your application if you applied to a role, and account or course matters if you are a partner. Everyone receives their own copy; we never put other people’s addresses in a message you can see.

Every non-essential email carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in. Unsubscribing applies to non-essential communications sent to that mailbox and cannot be undone by staff without a new request from you. Security, contract, account, course, payment, legal, and other transactional messages you request or that are necessary to provide the service may still be sent.

Your privacy rights and appeal

Subject to applicable exceptions, you may ask us to confirm whether we process your personal information; access it; correct inaccuracies; delete information you provided or that we obtained about you; receive a portable copy of information you provided; or opt out of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of a decision with a legal or similarly significant effect. Earniculum does not currently sell personal data or use it for that kind of profiling. You may also withdraw optional cookie consent and unsubscribe from non-essential email. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

Send a request to support@earniculum.com from the email associated with the record and describe the right you want to exercise. We will verify the request in a way proportionate to the information involved, respond without undue delay and ordinarily within 45 days, and explain any lawful extension or denial. Authorized agents may submit a request where law permits, but we may require proof of authority and direct identity confirmation. If we deny a request, reply with “privacy appeal” and the reason you disagree. A person not involved in the original decision will review the appeal and provide a written response. If the appeal is denied, we will explain how to contact the Texas Attorney General.

Some records cannot be deleted immediately because they are needed to complete a transaction, protect security, prevent fraud, exercise legal rights, comply with law, preserve an executed agreement, keep required tax or accounting records, or maintain certificate integrity. We will explain the applicable exception and limit retained information to that purpose.

Earnie assistants

Authorized administrators, Partner Studio members, and signed-in learners may use Earnie to ask read-only questions about information their account is already permitted to see. Earnie does not grant access by itself. A partner answer is scoped to that organization’s own courses before any analysis runs. A learner answer can use only that learner’s own progress, certificates, preferences, earnings and payout-readiness status, and the published catalog. Aggregate analytics, course records, learner preferences, and product submissions are available to staff or partners only when the account also holds the corresponding permission. Reading a named learner’s course activity additionally requires the separate learner-activity permission and, for a partner, is limited to that learner’s activity in the partner’s courses.

Earnie can only use approved parts of the product. Password hashes, access credentials, session material, invitation and reset tokens, private learner messages, applicant self-identification responses, signing tokens, biometric identifiers, and payment-account details are excluded. Earnie is not used to infer sensitive characteristics or make decisions based on a protected class. A supported browser may offer optional wording help on the user’s device after an answer has been prepared. It receives the question, prepared answer, and relevant approved memory, but no database credential or unrestricted database record. Earnie still works when that option is unavailable, and course activity is not used to train it.

Earnie saves each administrator’s, partner member’s, or learner’s conversations privately so that person can continue them. Admin, partner, and learner conversations are held in separate collections. Unless marked Keep, a conversation expires after ninety inactive days. Users may rename, keep, rate, or delete their conversations. Deleting one removes its messages and summary, and deleting a learner account removes its Earnie history and audit records. Removing a pending partner company removes its members’ Earnie records. An administrator with the specific shared-knowledge permission may separately approve a corrected, non-secret admin memory as shared institutional knowledge; that approved copy is independent and is never exposed as partner or learner conversation history.

Earnie keeps an audit record of the actor, analysis operation, collections consulted, and time, without copying the answer into that audit. A helpful or not-helpful rating is recorded with the account type and answer area so authorized administrators can see what needs review. Audit records expire after one year. Conversation history, feedback, and explicit memories do not change Earnie automatically. Any future improvement work will use only separately approved and appropriately anonymized examples, not deleted conversations or raw private conversation history. Earnie’s observations are advisory and may not automatically determine a reward, eligibility, suspension, certificate, hiring, or enforcement outcome.

Children and minors

Earniculum accounts are for adults age 18 and older. We do not knowingly activate accounts for minors. If you believe a child or minor has provided information or is using an account, write to support@earniculum.com so we can investigate, restrict access, and delete or retain records as applicable law and legitimate safety, fraud-prevention, payment, tax, or credential-integrity obligations require.

Where your information is processed

Earniculum is operated from the United States, and our hosting, database, and email providers process information there. If you use Earniculum from another country, your information is transferred to and handled in the United States, where privacy law may differ from your own. Using the service means you understand that.

The learner network

The full learning network and interactive profiles are visible only to signed-in learners. “Anyone” inside its privacy controls means any signed-in learner, not the public internet or search engines. A name-only shared-profile preview is the limited exception described below. Your username is the stable identity. Your legal account name is not placed on your social profile. You may choose a display name, bio, profile image, and interests.

Profile visibility, bio and interests, learning totals, certificate total, and study-pal count each have their own audience control. New profiles default to: profile and bio visible to signed-in learners; learning totals visible to learners sharing a course; certificate and study-pal totals visible to accepted study pals; and messages accepted from study pals. Every post separately chooses its audience.

Posts may contain learning-oriented text, questions, verified course progress, completed lessons, certificates, and up to four uploaded images. Blocking removes the connection and prevents either learner from seeing the other through the network. Deleting your learner account also removes your social profile, posts, comments, reactions, messages, uploaded social images, connections, blocks, reports, moderation-action history, and notifications.

Trust, safety, and moderation data

Text submitted to profiles, posts, comments, messages, and image descriptions is checked by a rules-based automated safety system before it is distributed. The check looks for high-confidence signals associated with child sexual exploitation, credible threats, encouragement of self-harm, exposed identity or payment numbers, credential theft, dangerous instructions, targeted harassment, fraud, and bulk spam. Ordinary content passes immediately. Content with an ambiguous high-risk signal is withheld from other learners and placed in a human review queue. Content with a high-confidence critical signal is blocked and creates a safety case.

A safety case records the account involved, the type of content, the rule category, a risk score, the matched signal names, when it occurred, how often it recurred, and the moderator’s decision. For child-safety and identity-number signals, the submitted text is not copied into the queue; moderators see that sensitive content was withheld and the signal that caused the case. For other cases, a limited excerpt is stored so a moderator can understand the context. Automated screening can limit distribution, but a person decides whether held content is approved, hidden, or removed and whether an account is warned, restricted, suspended, banned, restored, or deleted.

A learner report records the reporter’s account, the reported account or content, the reason, optional details, and the review outcome. The reported learner is not told who made the report. Only administrators with the specific community-moderation permission can read reports and safety evidence. We use this information to protect learners, enforce the Community Rules, identify repeated abuse, notify affected account holders, and review mistakes.

Account actions record the status, affected features, reason, strike points, duration, moderator, and time. Warnings and restrictions appear inside the learner portal. Content and account decisions may also generate transactional email to the account address. Suspensions and bans invalidate active sessions. Time-limited restrictions and suspensions expire on the date recorded. A learner can ask us to review a decision by contacting support@earniculum.com.

Shared profile links

A signed-in learner can copy a link to their own profile or another visible profile. When somebody opens that link without being signed in, we send the browser only the profile’s chosen display name. The username remains visible as part of the link they opened. The blurred profile underneath is a generic visual placeholder; it does not contain the person’s photograph, bio, interests, posts, connections, courses, certificates, activity, or profile statistics in the page source.

A profile link works unless the profile owner has set Profile visibility to Only me. In that case Earniculum does not provide a signed-out preview, and the sharing control explains that the privacy setting must be changed before a link can be copied. Shared profile pages are excluded from search indexing.

Opening a shared profile while signed out stores a session-only, HTTP-only cookie containing the internal path to that profile. It is used once, after a successful learner sign-in or invitation acceptance, to take the learner back to the profile they originally opened. The cookie contains no profile content or advertising identifier, is not available to page scripts, and is deleted after sign-in. Shared profile pages do not create accounts; Earniculum accounts still require an invitation.

Profile-sharing privacy does not change certificate verification. Each certificate has a separate unguessable /verify/ link that remains available without an Earniculum account so an employer or school can check a credential placed on a resume, application, portfolio, or professional profile. Certificate pages are excluded from search indexing and are not listed from a signed-out profile.

Changes

We may update this notice as the product develops. The effective date above will show when it was last revised.

Contact

Questions about this notice can be sent to support@earniculum.com.