Last updated: January 1, 2026

Accredited Home Staging ("Accredited Home Staging," "we," "us," or "our") provides online education, coursework, and certification programs for home staging professionals. Protecting the personal information of our students, prospective students, and website visitors is a priority for us.

This Privacy Policy covers our practices concerning personal information that we collect or handle in the context of offering our website, courses, certification programs, and related services (collectively, our "Services"), including information we collect from you or that you provide when you visit accreditedhomestaging.com or any other website that links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, our "Website").

This policy is not a contract between Accredited Home Staging and its users. It is a description of our practices as of the date above, and it may change from time to time — please check back periodically for updates.

Contents

Information We Collect

Use of Information

Disclosure of Information

Legal Basis for Processing Information

Your Rights and Choices

Protection of Information

Retention of Information

Children's Privacy

Updates and Changes to This Policy

Contact Information

Additional Detail for California Residents

1. Information We Collect

a. Information You Provide to Us

You may provide the following types of information to us:

Identifiers — name, username, physical address, email address, and phone number

Enrollment and course information — courses or certifications you purchase, complete, or are enrolled in, quiz/exam results, and certificates issued

Commercial information — purchase history and information you provide in communications, surveys, or promotions

Financial data — payment card information, processed through our third-party payment processor (we do not store full payment card numbers on our own servers)

Professional information — your business name, real estate or staging credentials, and work experience, if you provide it

Internet or device activity — IP address, device identifiers, cookie data, browsing information, and other technical data

Any other information you choose to provide — such as messages sent through our contact forms or in course discussion areas

b. Cookies and Other Information Collection Technology

Through our Website and learning platform, we and third-party service providers may collect information from your browser or device using cookies, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies. This information may include your browser and device type, IP address, pages visited, links clicked, time spent on pages, and course progress.

These technologies help us:

Keep you logged in and track your course progress

Remember your preferences

Analyze traffic and understand how visitors use our Website and courses

Diagnose technical issues

Deliver and measure advertising, where applicable

c. Information From Third Parties

We may receive information about you from third parties, such as our payment processor, email/marketing platform, course-hosting or learning-management platform, and analytics providers. We may combine this information with other information we hold about you.

2. Use of Information

We use the information described above to:

Create and administer your account and process course enrollment and payments

Deliver course content, track your progress, and issue certificates upon completion

Communicate with you about your enrollment, course updates, and support requests

Send you marketing communications about new courses, promotions, or events, consistent with your communication preferences

Improve our Website, courses, and Services

Conduct business operations such as accounting, fraud prevention, and analytics

Comply with legal obligations

Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

We may also use and disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any lawful purpose (for example, understanding overall enrollment trends).

3. Disclosure of Information

We disclose personal information as follows:

To Vendors and Service Providers — companies that help us operate, such as our payment processor, learning-management/course-hosting platform, email marketing provider, web hosting, and analytics providers

Corporate Transactions — as part of, or in anticipation of, a sale, merger, or other transfer of all or part of our business

Legal Requirements — when required to comply with a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Accredited Home Staging, our students, or others

With Your Consent — when you've agreed to a specific additional disclosure

We do not sell your personal information to third parties for money. As described in Section 11 below, certain uses of cookies and analytics tools may be considered a "sale" or "share" of information under California law, and you have the right to opt out of that.

4. Legal Basis for Processing Information

Where applicable law (such as the GDPR) requires us to state a legal basis for processing, our bases include:

Contractual necessity — to enroll you in a course, deliver content, and process payment

Legitimate interests — to improve our Services, prevent fraud, and conduct business operations

Consent — for marketing communications and certain cookies, where required

Legal obligation — where we must retain or disclose information to comply with the law

5. Your Rights and Choices

You may opt out of marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in those emails. Note that you may still receive transactional messages related to your enrollment (such as receipts or course-completion certificates) even after opting out of marketing.

You may be able to adjust cookie preferences through your browser settings or a cookie preference tool on our Website, if available. Blocking certain cookies may affect your ability to log in or track course progress.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

Confirm whether we hold personal information about you and learn how it's used

Obtain a copy of that information

Correct or delete your information

Object to certain uses

Withdraw consent previously given

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information in Section 10. We will respond within a reasonable time and as required by applicable law.

6. Protection of Information

We use reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the personal information we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Retention of Information

We retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide our Services (including maintaining a record of your certification), and afterward as needed for legal, accounting, or legitimate business purposes, or as required by law.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Services are intended for adults seeking professional home staging education and are not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can delete it.

9. Updates and Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. We will post the revised policy on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

10. Contact Information

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

Accredited Home Staging
Email: [email protected]

11. Additional Detail for California Residents

This section applies to "personal information" about California residents as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy.

a. Categories of Personal Information Collected

CategoryExamplesIdentifiersName, email, phone number, address, usernameCommercial informationCourses purchased, enrollment and payment historyFinancial dataPayment information (processed by our payment processor)Internet/device activityIP address, browsing behavior, cookies, course progress dataProfessional informationBusiness name, credentials, work history (if provided)InferencesInferences drawn from the categories above, such as course interests

b. Sale/Sharing and Opt-Out

Some of our use of analytics or advertising cookies may be considered a "sale" or "share" of information under the CCPA (for example, sharing browsing behavior with an analytics or ad partner). You can opt out of this by adjusting cookie preferences via the footer link or by contacting us at [email protected]. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16.

c. Your CCPA Rights

California residents may request that we:

Disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we've collected about you

Delete personal information we've collected about you (subject to certain exceptions, such as information we need to maintain your certification record)

Correct inaccurate personal information

Disclose the categories of third parties with whom we've shared your information

To exercise these rights, email us at the address in Section 10. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.

d. Nondiscrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.