Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 13, 2026

PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE TREAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.

Society for Public Health Education, Inc. (“SOPHE”, “Company“, “we“, “our“, or “us“) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our websites www.sophe.org, my.sophe.org, elearn.sophe.org (and any microsites accessible via said websites), and services that link to this policy (our “Services“) and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to information we collect:

  • Through the Services.
  • In communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications (including mobile apps) on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) that does not link to this policy; or
  • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.

We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children’s and Minors’ Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information promptly and in accordance with applicable law.

The Personal Data that we Collect or Process

“Personal data” or “personal information” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address, credit card number).

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

  • Account and contact information, including name, address, email address, business phone number, business fax number,  username, and other contact information you provide us.
  • Professional credentials, membership status, and participation records.
  • If you are a student member and upload a student verification document (e.g., transcripts, certificate of enrollment, letter from advisor, etc.), this documentation is used for verification purposes only.
  • Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information about the payment methods and services (such as PayPal or Venmo) you use in connection with the Services.
  • Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.
  • Demographic information, including your age, gender, income level, education, or family or marital status, if you have consented to such information collection.
  • Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city.
  • Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
  • Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile.
  • Images, voice recordings, and videos collected or stored in connection with the Services, if you have consented to such information collection.  We may collect information about videos that you view or stream on the Site as well as the accounts that you link together with our Services, including social media accounts.  Please see the “Visual Materials and Consent to Collect, Use, and Disclose Video Viewing History” section of this Policy for additional information.

We also collect:

  • Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
  • Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information (such as health information, biometric data, precise geolocation data, Social Security numbers, or information about race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation) except where necessary for our services, required by law, or with your explicit, informed consent. We implement additional safeguards for any sensitive personal information we collect.

How we Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you create or update an account, place an order, subscribe, make a purchase, participate in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions, or create, upload, or post content to the Services, including reviews, media such as photos, videos, or audio recordings.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include Cookies and similar technologies:

First and Third-Party Cookies

A “cookie” is a small file created by a web server that can be stored on your device (if you allow) for use either during a particular browsing session (a “session” cookie) or a future browsing session (a “persistent” or “permanent” cookie). “Session” cookies are temporarily stored on your device and only last until they expire at the end of your browsing session. “Persistent” or “permanent” cookies remain stored on your device until they expire or are deleted by you. Local stored objects (or “flash” cookies) are used to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on a website. First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting, and they can only be read by that site. Third-party cookies are set by a party other than that website.

Other Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, there are other automatic data collection technologies, such as Internet tags, web beacons, pixels (clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs), and navigational data collection (log files, server logs, etc.) that can be used to collect data as you navigate through and interact with a website. For example, pixels are small images on a web page or in an email that collect information about your browser or device and can set cookies.  Web beacons are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that are used to understand browsing activity. UTM codes are strings that can appear in a URL when you move from one web page or website to another. The string can represent information about your browsing, such as which advertisement, page, or publisher sent you to the receiving website.

What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are in Use and Why Do We Use Them?

We use certain cookies and similar technologies to operate the Site, to measure and track how you interact with the Site, to ensure the privacy and security of our Site, to enhance your experience and provide you with a more personal and interactive experience, to market to you, to track ad-driven activity, to perform usage analytics, and to otherwise tailor our communications to you. Where required by law, we rely on your express opt-in consent for the use of marketing, performance, and analytic cookies and similar technologies. You may withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie management tool or by adjusting your browser settings. The cookies and similar technologies used on the Site include the following:

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect and process statistical data about the number of people using the Site and to better understand how they find and use the Site. The data collected includes data related to your device/browser, your IP address, and on-site activities to measure and report statistics about user interactions. The information stored is reduced to a random identifier. Any data collected is used in accordance with this Policy and Google’s privacy policy. You may learn more about Google Analytics by visiting: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

You can learn more about Google’s restrictions on data use by visiting the Google Privacy Policy located at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy. To opt-out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install the opt-out browser add-on feature. For more details, visit the “Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on” page located at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en.

CookieDescriptionTypeDuration
_gaUsed to distinguish users.  The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. Analytics1 year 1 month 4 days
_ga_*Used to store and count page views.Analytics1 year 1 month 4 days

Google Tag Manager. We may use Google Tag Manager, which allows marketed website tags to be managed using an interface. The tool itself (which implements the tags) does not use cookies and does not register identifiable data. The tool causes other tags to be activated which may, for their part, register personal information under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access this information.  Google Tag Manager is subject to the Google Privacy Policy located at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.

Facebook Pixel. We may use Facebook Pixel to customize and display advertisements only to Facebook users who have shown an interest in our Site or who have specific characteristics (e.g., certain demographics or interests in certain topics or products determined by websites visited) that we submit to Facebook.  The use of Facebook Pixel helps ensure that our advertisements are in line with the potential interests of users and do not have a nuisance effect.  Facebook Pixel also allows us to track the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether uses have been redirected to our Site after clicking on a Facebook advertisement.   The Facebook Pixel is directly integrated into our Site by Facebook and can store a cookie on your device.  While the information collected about you through Facebook Pixel may be anonymous to us, the information collected via the Facebook Pixel on the Site as well as other websites on which Facebook Pixel is installed is also stored and processed by Facebook. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy. We share this data with Facebook as a third-party service provider, and Facebook acts as an independent data controller with respect to this information.

To understand more about Facebook advertising please visit: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads.  You may deactivate Facebook Pixel via the Cookie Settings on Facebook.  The Settings are located at the bottom of the main page for logged in users at: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#.

LinkedIn Insight Tag.  We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag, a JavaScript tracking tool provided by LinkedIn, on our website. The Insight Tag places cookies and may create a first‑party identifier in your browser to enable us to track website interactions, measure the effectiveness of our LinkedIn advertising campaigns, and build website visitor audiences for targeted advertising.

Through the Insight Tag, LinkedIn collects information such as page views, URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics, and certain actions you take on our site. This data may be associated with your LinkedIn account (if you are a LinkedIn user) and is processed by LinkedIn to provide aggregated analytics and advertising insights.

We are responsible for obtaining any necessary consent for the use of the Insight Tag and the setting of cookies. You can control the use of cookies through your browser settings and can opt out of LinkedIn’s advertising tracking by adjusting your LinkedIn account preferences or visiting LinkedIn’s opt‑out resources.

For more information, please review LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Other Third-Party Technologies

Some third parties may use data collection technologies to collect information about you when you browse the Internet. We do not control these third parties’ technologies or how they may be used. If you have questions about targeted content, you should contact the responsible party directly or consult their privacy policies.

Cookie Consent and Management

SOPHE uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to operate our website and deliver services. When you first visit our website, you’ll see a cookie consent banner offering options to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage preferences. Essential cookies are required for site functionality, while analytics and advertising cookies are optional.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Our staff may use this information to detect and resolve website problems and assist with customer support. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be unable to use some portions of our site.

Choices About Cookies

Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to refuse all or some types of cookies or to alert you when cookies are being stored. These settings may affect your enjoyment of the Site’s functionality. Adjusting the cookie settings may not fully delete all of the cookies that have already been created. To delete them, you should review your web browser settings after you have changed your cookie settings.

The links below provide additional information about how to disable cookies or manage the cookie settings.  PLEASE NOTE: These third-party links are provided for your convenience and we may not actively monitor the content of these links.

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac and https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/. You may learn more about internet advertising practices and related consumer resources at https://youradchoices.com/control, https://thenai.org/about-online-advertising/faq, and http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

For California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah residents: Our mailing list rental activities may qualify as a “sale” of personal information under state laws. You have the right to opt out via the Submission Process included in the Privacy Notice.

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by the “Cookie Settings” link in our website footer. Alternatively, you can email us at in**@***he.org with the subject “Cookie Opt-Out” and we will assist you with the process.  Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include:

  • Analytics companies.
  • Your internet or mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive personal data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors, and analytics, security and anti-fraud services. We also may receive personal data from business partners that we engage to share consumer information with us, including your personal preferences and demographic information such as age, gender, and income level so that we can better provide you with a personalized experience, including personalized content, offers and services.

Visual Materials and Consent to Collect, Use, and Disclose Video Viewing History

The Site may display live or prerecorded videos or similar audio-visual materials (“Videos”).  We are not in the business of delivering audiovisual materials.  Rather, the display and use of Videos on the Site is incidental to our business and merely a peripheral part of our marketing strategy.  The provision of Videos on our Site is not an admission by SOPHE and it shall not otherwise be interpreted, in any form or manner, to mean that SOPHE is a “video tape service provider” for purposes of the Video Privacy Protection Act (codified as amended at 18 U.S. Code § 2710) (the “VPPA”) or that SOPHE is otherwise subject to the VPPA.

We may collect personal information with respect to you viewing, streaming, or otherwise accessing such Videos ,and we may disclose such personal information regarding your video-viewing history on the Site to third parties, such as analytics providers and social media platforms, through the use of cookies, pixels, or other tracking technologies for analytics, marketing, and service improvement purposes.

Consent to Collect, Use, and Disclose Video Viewing History

By viewing, streaming, or otherwise accessing Videos on the Site, you hereby acknowledge, agree, and consent to the following:

Collection. We may, through the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies, collect personal information with respect to you viewing, streaming, or otherwise accessing Videos.  Such personal information may include: (i) identifiers that can be used to recognize you or the device you use to access our Site over time and across different services, such as a device identifier, an IP address, mobile ad identifiers, and similar data; (ii) the Video(s) you viewed, streamed, or otherwise accessed, including the nature, scope, and duration of such access and (iii) identifiers associated with your social media account, or similar online accounts.

Disclosure. We may, in our sole discretion, disclose personal information that we collect from you with respect to you viewing, streaming, or otherwise accessing Videos on our Site to third-parties, such as social media partners like Facebook and our service providers, to assist with the operability and functionality of our Site, to help us assess and improve our Site, products, and Services, and to facilitate or assist with our marketing and advertising campaigns.

Withdrawal of Consent. You acknowledge and agree that you may prevent us from collecting and disclosing personal information from you with respect to you viewing, streaming, or otherwise accessing Videos on our Site: (i) by changing your browser settings in accordance with the instructions set forth in our Privacy Policy or (ii) by adjusting your privacy settings in our cookie management tool. These options will prevent the deployment of cookies and similar online tracking technologies that are used to collect, process, and disclose your personal information in connection with the Videos.

How we Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

  • Administer memberships, deliver educational content, manage certifications, provide networking opportunities, and for professional development support.
  • Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
  • Fulfill and manage subscriptions, purchases, orders, deliveries, payments, returns, and exchanges.
  • Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • Provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
  • Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.
  • Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing advertising on our own Services.
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide though them.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Services.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile or click here to direct you to a submission form for opting out of our mailing lists and tracking technologies. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information.

Who we Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Society for Public Health Education, Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Society for Public Health Education, Inc. is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Privacy Policy or Terms of Sale  and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

  • Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. You can also choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect information through other tracking technologies by using the Submission Process identified below.  If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked.
  • Promotions by the Company. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by using the Submission Process identified below. You can also opt out by logging into your account and adjusting your account settings and preferences or by sending us an email stating your request to pr*****@***he.org.
  • Targeted Advertising by the Company. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target audience preferences, you can opt out by using the Submission Process identified below.  
  • Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal data with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for advertising and marketing purposes, you can opt out by using the Submission Process identified below.  You can also opt out by logging into your account and adjusting your account settings and preferences or by sending us an email stating your request to pr*****@***he.org. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. To learn more about opting out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“), including how to add the NAI Global Privacy Control (GPC) extension to your Chrome web browser, see NAI: How to Opt Out.

Submission Process

As a member or participant, you can:

  • Update your profile information
  • Choose communication preferences
  • Opt out of specific marketing
  • Request your information
  • Request corrections or deletion of optional data

To exercise these choices, contact us through your member account, by email at in**@***he.org, by phone at 202.408.9804, or by mail at [INSERT MAILING ADDRESS]. We want to ensure that we keep only the most accurate and up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, whenever you believe that your contact information needs to be updated, you can email us to correct or update it. You may choose at any time to remove your name, telephone and fax numbers, and postal and email addresses from the lists we use to send notices or updates and elect not to receive correspondence from us. Users may request that the Society for Public Health Education refrain from disclosing to third parties the data it collects on its membership application form or any other form on which users are providing information.  If a request is submitted in an incorrect manner or if it is deficient, we will either (1) treat the request as if it had been submitted via the designated manner, or (2) provide you with specific directions on how to submit the request or remedy any deficiencies, as applicable.

When submitting other privacy requests, please include your full name, contact information, state of residence, and the specific right you wish to exercise. We will respond to verifiable requests within 45 days, or as applicable state laws require. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

  • Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible[ and required by state law, depending on your state], data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
  • Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose.
  • Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
  • Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.

Important: The exact scope of these rights varies by state. There are also several exceptions under applicable law where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please use the Submission Process identified above. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request please use the Submission Process identified above.

Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC“) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data “sales” as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.

Nevada Residents: You may submit a verified request to us via the Submission Process identified above to request that we not make any sale (as defined under Nevada law) of any covered information (as defined under Nevada law) that we have collected or will collect about you. Please provide your name and contact information in your request, and we will respond to your request in accordance with Nevada law.

How we Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will post revisions on our website with an updated “Last Updated” date, or as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated policy on the Services. Since these policy change notices last only for a limited time, you should check this Privacy Policy regularly to see if there have been any changes.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Email: in**@***he.org

Phone: 202.408.9804

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