Privacy Policy

Effective October 13, 2026

This policy covers the LearnSCADA store at books.learnscada.com and its online courses (the "store"), run by Mountaintop Solutions Inc ("LearnSCADA", "we"). It explains what we collect, why, who helps us process it, and the choices you have. Questions: admin@learnscada.com.

What we collect

• Your email address, when you join, sign in, buy something, or ask to be told about a course. It is your account name.
• Your name, if you give it, and a password if you choose to set one. Passwords are stored only as a salted one-way hash; we cannot read them.
• Your membership and purchases: your tier (Free Reader or Pro Library), what you bought, when, the amount, the sales tax charged, and the state or country used for tax.
• Course progress: which lessons you have completed, so your account can show where you left off.
• Your newsletter choice: whether you want occasional emails about new books and courses.
• Technical data: like any website, our hosting provider receives your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, for delivery, security and abuse prevention.

We do not see or store your card number or bank details. Payment is entered on Stripe's checkout page and handled by Stripe.

How we use it

• To create and sign you in to your account, including emailing you sign-in links.
• To deliver what you bought: PDF downloads, course access and Pro Library benefits, kept in your account.
• To keep accounting and tax records.
• To send our newsletter, but only after your email address has been confirmed (by a sign-in link or a confirmation email), and only until you unsubscribe.
• To answer you when you write to us, and to protect the store from fraud and abuse.

We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

Services that process data for us

• Cloudflare hosts the store and its database and files, and protects the admin area.
• Stripe processes payments, subscriptions and refunds, and calculates sales tax. Yearly Pro members manage their subscription on Stripe's customer portal. Stripe's own privacy policy applies to what you enter on its checkout and portal pages.
• Resend sends our sign-in and confirmation emails.
• Mailchimp holds our newsletter list and sends the newsletter.
• Google Fonts serves the typefaces the pages use, so your browser contacts Google when a page loads.
• YouTube plays course videos through its privacy-enhanced (youtube-nocookie.com) player, which Google runs.

Links to Amazon, Audible and our print-on-demand partner take you to their sites, where their own privacy policies apply. We do not send them your account details.

Cookies and browser storage

• ls_member keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. It holds only your email address and an expiry time, signed so it cannot be forged. It is needed for your account to work, so the store has no cookie banner.
• The interactive course pages save your completed lessons and your narration preference in your browser's local storage, so they work even when you are not signed in. Clearing your browser data removes them.
• Stripe sets its own cookies on its checkout page to process payment and prevent fraud.

How long we keep it

We keep your account while it is in use. Purchase and tax records are kept as long as accounting and tax law require, even after an account is closed. Newsletter records are removed from the mailing list when you unsubscribe.

Your choices and rights

• Newsletter: every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, or email us.
• See, correct or delete your data: email admin@learnscada.com from the address on your account. We will answer within 30 days. Deleting your account removes your access to purchased downloads and courses, and some purchase records must be kept for tax law.
• Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK or California), you may have further rights, such as data portability or objecting to processing. Email us to use them.

Security

The store is served only over HTTPS, sign-in uses one-time email links or hashed passwords, and the admin area is behind Cloudflare Access. No system is perfectly secure, but we limit what we collect and who can reach it.

Children

The store is meant for adults and students of industrial automation. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.

International visitors

LearnSCADA is run from the United States, and our service providers may process data in the United States and other countries.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update it here and change the effective date at the top. Significant changes will also be announced by email to members.

Contact

Mountaintop Solutions Inc, LearnSCADA: admin@learnscada.com