Our Policy

Barney Fletcher Schools recognizes and respects its students’ privacy. Course records and personal information are strictly confidential. This privacy policy demonstrates our commitment to your privacy rights. We want you to fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the gathering of information about our customers. The following privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

For the purpose of this privacy policy:

• Account means a unique account created for you to access or service or parts of our service.
• Business, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the company as the legal entity that collects consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the state of California.
• Company (referred to as either “the company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this agreement) refers to Barney Fletcher Schools, 3200 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Office: Suite 290, Atlanta, GA 30339.
• Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to United States.
• Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.
• Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  For the purposes of the CCPA, personal data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly with you.
• Sale, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
• Service refers to the website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform services related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Barney Fletcher Schools or Cape School Inc accessible from https://barneyfletcher.com/ or https://capeschool.com/
• You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email Address
• First and Last Name
• Phone Number
• Physical Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal Code, City
• Usage Data
• Social Security Number
• License number/NPN
• Date of Birth
• Employer
• Credit Card Information

Information collected is stored in our customer management system and kept indefinitely.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certrain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small filed placed on your device. 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 not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Privacy Policies website article.

We use both Session and Persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session cookies
Administered by: us
Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided. We only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent cookies
Administered by: us
Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.

Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent cookies
Administered by: us
Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you have to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our cookies policy or the cookies section of our privacy policy.

The information we collect is required if the user wants to receive continuing education credit or certificates of completion.  Accordingly, we share personal information with state regulatory agencies or their designees for credit processing.

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

• to provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.
• To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, complaince, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or any other contract with us through the service.
• To contact you: To contact you be email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communications, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offcer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With State Agencies: We may share your personal information with state agencies to monitor and analyze the use of our service, credit reporting, or to contact you.
• With Affiliates: We may share your personal information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

Barney Fletcher Schools may use any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance our website. We may create internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our own use. This information will not be disclosed to any third parties.

The company will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company’s operating offices and in any other place where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you.

Our service may give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the service.

You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing into your account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.

Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The company may disclose your personal date in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
• Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Googles uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing infromation with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

We may use email marketing service providers to manage and send emails to you.

Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.
For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy Policy at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

We may provide paid products and/or services within the service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Signature
Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://signaturepayments.com/privacy/

We may use third-party service providers to provide better improvement of our service.

Invisible reCAPTCHA
We use an invisible captcha service named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google.
The reCAPTCHA service may collect information from you and your device for security purposes.
The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the privacy policy of Google. https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from You. For example, from the forms you complete on our service, preferences you express or provide through our service, or from your purchases on our service.
• Indirectly from You. For example, from observing your activity on our service.
• Automatically from You. For example, through cookies we or our service providers set on your device as you navigate through our service.
• From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our service, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that we use to provide the service to you.

We may share your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:

• Service providers
• Payment processors
• Our affiliates
• Our business partners
• Third party vendors to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy or our collection and treatment of personal information, you may contact us at:

By email: contact@barneyfletcher.com
By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us
By phone: 770.850.9090
By mail: 3200 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Suite 290, Atlanta, GA 30339

Barney Fletcher Schools is approved by the Georgia Real Estate Commission (the Commission) to offer distance education real estate courses offered through the internet (online). Barney Fletcher Schools offers distance education courses in partnership with Mbition, the developer of the course(s). The School Code issued by the Commission is 6994. The school renews its approval with the Commission every 4 years on December 31.

The administrative offices of Barney Fletcher Schools are located at 3200 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Suite 290, Atlanta, Georgia, 30339 (known as our "Galleria 75" location). You may access directions to all of our classroom locations at www.barneyfletcher.com. The school's phone number is 770-850-9090. The fax number is 678-505-8688. The administrative office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm. As noted below, you may contact the school with questions about the subject content of your course by emailing one of our instructors.

Each Mbition distance education course offered by Barney Fletcher Schools is approved under the regulations of the Commission. The Commission has authorized each course for a specific number of credit hours. You may finish the course in less time than the hours approved, or you may find that the course requires more time than actually approved for the course. The school will give credit only for the hours authorized by the Commission for the specific course that you are taking. No partial credit will be given. Each distance education course offered through Barney Fletcher Schools is complete in itself. Our online continuing education courses do not require that you attend any classroom hours. However, you will be required to take a proctored examination at a school location for Real Estate pre-license (Broker) and post-license courses.

Barney Fletcher Schools does not base course fees, entrance standards, or standards for successful completion of any course on a student's race, color, sex, religion, national origin, handicap, or familial status.

Barney Fletcher Schools operates with a no-refund policy. However, a student enrolled in an online course may request a refund for the cost of the course within 7 days of the date of enrollment. The school will process a refund only to the student enrolled in the course, not to any other party. When purchases are made with a credit card, any refunds will be returned to that card. Any student who has a returned check due to insufficient funds or a closed account will be assessed a $30 charge by the school.

Barney Fletcher Schools utilizes a number of instructors approved under the regulations of the Commission. If you have questions regarding the content or subject area of your course, you may email your question to Barney Fletcher Schools at contact@barneyfletcher.com. One of our instructors will reply to you as soon as possible, usually no later than two business days from the date of your email message.

For technical assistance, please call Mbition Technical Support at 1-800-532-7649 or email them at support@mbitiontolearn.com. Technical Support is available during the following times:  Monday thru Thursday from 8:00am - 7:00pm (Central Time), on Fridays from 8:00am - 6:00pm (Central Time), and Saturdays from 8:00am - 4:00pm (Central Time). They are closed on Sundays.. (Holidays are an exception to this schedule and times may vary).

When you call Technical Support, please be prepared to explain your problem in detail and have access to your computer. To effectively troubleshoot your issue, our technicians begin the call by asking you a series of questions regarding your operating environment. We will need to know what type of computer you are using, the operating system you are using, the version number of your software, etc. Your call may be document or monitored to help maintain quality of service standards.

In order to take this course, your computer must meet the following system requirements.

• Operating System: Windows 7 SP2 or newer, MacOS 10.12 or newer, OS X 10.9 or newer, Android 8.0 or newer, iOS 8.0 or newer
• Web Browser: Latest version of any modern web browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Safari are recommended)
• Internet Connection: High-speed internet connection is required
• Display: 1024 x 768 resolution or greater required
• Sound: Speakers or headphones may be required for some courses

Each distance education course requires that you complete a certain number of learning modules including instructional text, quizzes, chapter tests, matching exercises or other learning activities. No final examinations or any written assessments are required for continuing education courses. In order for Barney Fletcher Schools to certify that you have completed a course, you must:

• complete all instructional lessons in the course by answering each question correctly at least twice
• complete any online or paper homework or exercise required by the course
• return the signed and dated Course and Assignment Certification Statement located at the end of the course
• pass any required course final examination at an approved school location.

The Commission requires that a student successfully pass a proctored final examination for each broker pre-license (60 hours), or sales post license (25 hour) course. Barney Fletcher Schools requires that you answer correctly a minimum of 72% of the total questions on the Post-License final examination to pass the course, and 70% of the total questions on the Broker final examination. No proctored final examination is required for any continuing education course.
You may take a course final examination only after completing all other requirements for a course and only after the school has received your affidavit and survey. You must contact a school administrator to schedule a final examination. *Examinations for distance education courses are administered at our testing center at the Galleria/75 school location in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesdays at 9:00am, Thursdays at 12:30pm, and Friday at 9:00am. Course examinations may not be administered at any other site without the prior authorization of the School Director.

*Due to COVID-19, we are not currently offering onsite testing. Course exams are currently set to be taken online with a disinterested 3rd party proctor.

If you do not pass the course final examination, Barney Fletcher Schools will provide you at no charge an opportunity to pass a second, separate examination. You must score a minimum of 72% on Post-License exam, or 70% on the Broker final exam to pass the second examination. If you do not pass the second exam, the Commission requires that you retake the course a second time. The school will provide you a discount for the second course.

Commission regulations state that a real estate licensee who has successfully completed an approved continuing education course to meet any part of the continuing education requirement may not repeat that course for credit unless one full year has passed since the completion of the course.

Barney Fletcher Schools requires that you complete any course within 180 days of your enrollment date. The school may grant an extension for a student who experiences unforeseen hardship or difficulty in completing the course within that time. You must contact a course administrator to request an extension of your course before the end of your 180 days. The school and/or the course provider require(s) a fee to extend your course completion deadline. The fee extends your course for a 60-day period and you may purchase as many as 3 extensions. In order for you to retain knowledge and pass course examinations, the school recommends that you complete the course requirements as soon as possible, no later than 180 days from your enrollment date. You must contact a school administrator at 770-850-9090 to request an extension before your completion deadline. Extensions will be denied if requested later than 180 days from your purchase date.

Barney Fletcher Schools will submit your successful completion of a course to the Commission (for Real Estate post license and continuing education courses) through secure internet transmission programs. Normally the school does not issue paper course completion certificates. If you require a paper certificate from the school for another state's requirements or some other purpose, you must contact a school administrator prior to your completing the course.

Georgia License Law requires that each new licensee complete a Georgia Real Estate Commission approved 25 hour Post License course within 12 months of obtaining a license (active or inactive).