Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 13, 2026
Last Updated: August 13, 2026

YourPathSecure.com (“YourPathSecure,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of students, parents, guardians, educators, career seekers, and other visitors who use our website and services.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, when information may be shared, and the privacy choices available to you.

By accessing or using YourPathSecure.com, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. About YourPathSecure

YourPathSecure is a career exploration, education pathway, and future-planning platform designed to help students and other users better understand career opportunities and the pathways that may lead to them.

Our website may provide information and tools relating to:

  • Careers and occupations

  • Career exploration

  • Career pathways

  • Industries and employment sectors

  • Skills and qualifications

  • High-school education planning

  • College and university programs

  • Apprenticeships and skilled trades

  • Certifications

  • Scholarships and financial-aid opportunities

  • Internships

  • Co-op opportunities

  • Entry-level employment

  • Career assessments

  • Career comparisons

  • Personalized career pathways

  • Career and education resources

  • Labour-market information

  • Salary information

  • AI-assisted career guidance, where available

Some features may allow users to create accounts, save careers, compare occupations, complete career assessments, save educational programs or scholarships, build personalized career pathways, or interact with AI-powered career tools.

2. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with YourPathSecure.

Information You Provide

You may voluntarily provide information such as:

  • Name or display name

  • Email address

  • Account credentials

  • Country

  • Province, state, or general geographic region

  • School grade

  • Education level

  • Subjects of interest

  • Career interests

  • Skills and preferences

  • Career assessment responses

  • Careers you save or compare

  • Education pathways you explore

  • Colleges or universities you save

  • Scholarships you save

  • Career goals

  • Communication preferences

  • Information submitted through contact forms

  • Feedback

  • Customer-support requests

YourPathSecure seeks to collect only information reasonably necessary to provide and improve the services requested by users.

3. Student and Minor Privacy

YourPathSecure is intended to provide career and education information that may be useful to middle-school and high-school students.

Because some users may be minors, protecting student privacy is particularly important to us.

We seek to follow privacy-by-design and data-minimization principles when developing student-facing services.

Where practical, we may request information such as a user’s school grade or age range instead of an exact date of birth.

Depending on the user’s age, location, applicable laws, and the features being used, parental or guardian involvement or consent may be required.

Where appropriate, YourPathSecure may:

  • Limit information collected from younger users.

  • Request school grade rather than exact birth date.

  • Restrict certain account features for younger users.

  • Request parental or guardian involvement where appropriate.

  • Obtain parental or guardian consent where legally required.

  • Avoid unnecessary collection of sensitive personal information.

  • Provide appropriate mechanisms for parents or guardians to request access, correction, or deletion of information relating to their child where applicable.

Students should not provide unnecessary sensitive personal information through career assessments, AI tools, contact forms, or other areas of the website.

4. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit YourPathSecure.com, certain technical information may be collected automatically.

This may include:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Referring website

  • Pages visited

  • Approximate geographic region

  • Date and time of visits

  • Website interactions

  • Session information

  • Cookie identifiers

  • Website performance information

We may use this information for website security, analytics, troubleshooting, performance optimization, fraud prevention, and understanding how visitors use the website.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

YourPathSecure may use cookies and similar technologies to support website functionality.

Cookies may be used for:

  • Essential website functionality

  • User authentication

  • Website security

  • Remembering preferences

  • Maintaining user sessions

  • Website analytics

  • Performance monitoring

  • Personalization

  • Understanding website usage

Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies will be used only after appropriate consent has been obtained.

Users may be able to manage their cookie preferences through our website’s cookie controls or their browser settings.

Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

6. How We Use Personal Information

We may use information to:

  • Operate YourPathSecure.com.

  • Maintain and improve website functionality.

  • Create and manage user accounts.

  • Provide career exploration tools.

  • Generate career recommendations.

  • Create personalized career pathways.

  • Recommend educational pathways.

  • Help users discover careers based on interests and preferences.

  • Recommend relevant colleges, universities, training programs, or certifications.

  • Help users discover scholarships and educational opportunities.

  • Save careers and other resources selected by users.

  • Provide career comparison features.

  • Improve website search and recommendation functionality.

  • Personalize website content.

  • Respond to questions and support requests.

  • Improve career and educational content.

  • Understand website usage.

  • Maintain website security.

  • Prevent fraud, abuse, and misuse.

  • Comply with applicable legal requirements.

We do not intend to use personal information for materially different purposes without an appropriate legal basis or additional notice where required.

7. Career Assessments and Recommendations

YourPathSecure may provide questionnaires, career assessments, matching tools, and recommendation features.

These tools may consider information such as:

  • Career interests

  • Preferred subjects

  • Skills

  • Education level

  • Education preferences

  • Work-environment preferences

  • Career goals

  • General geographic location

The purpose of these tools is to help users discover careers and educational opportunities they may wish to explore further.

Career recommendations are provided for informational and educational purposes.

They are not professional psychological assessments and should not be interpreted as guarantees of career suitability, university admission, employment, earnings, or career success.

Students are encouraged to discuss important educational and career decisions with parents, guardians, teachers, school guidance counsellors, educational institutions, or qualified career professionals.

8. Personalized Career Pathways

YourPathSecure may allow users to build personalized pathways from their current education level toward potential careers.

For example, a pathway may include:

Current Grade → Recommended Subjects → College or University Program → Skills → Certifications → Internship or Co-op → Entry-Level Career

Personalized pathways may use information voluntarily provided by the user, such as:

  • Current grade

  • Province or region

  • Career interests

  • Preferred subjects

  • Education preferences

  • Saved careers

  • Career assessment results

These pathways are intended as planning and educational tools and should not replace official academic counselling or admission guidance.

9. Artificial Intelligence Features

YourPathSecure may offer AI-powered functionality, including an AI Career Advisor or similar tools.

Users may be able to ask questions about:

  • Careers

  • Education pathways

  • Skills

  • Universities

  • Colleges

  • Certifications

  • Scholarships

  • Internships

  • Employment opportunities

Information submitted to AI-powered features may be processed by technology providers that help us operate these services.

Users should avoid submitting sensitive personal information through AI tools unless specifically requested and necessary.

Users should generally not enter:

  • Government identification numbers

  • Banking information

  • Credit-card information

  • Passwords

  • Detailed medical information

  • Confidential academic records

  • Confidential employment records

  • Other highly sensitive personal information

AI-generated responses may occasionally be incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated.

Important information should therefore be independently verified with official sources.

This is particularly important for:

  • College and university admission requirements

  • Tuition

  • Scholarships

  • Application deadlines

  • Licensing requirements

  • Certification requirements

  • Salaries

  • Employment requirements

  • Immigration requirements

10. Career, Salary, and Labour-Market Information

YourPathSecure may provide information concerning:

  • Career descriptions

  • Salaries

  • Employment outlook

  • Labour-market demand

  • Job growth

  • Skills

  • Qualifications

  • Education requirements

  • Certifications

  • Career progression

Information may be obtained from government publications, educational institutions, employers, public datasets, industry information, and other sources.

Labour-market conditions and salary levels change over time and may vary significantly by employer, location, education, experience, and economic conditions.

Information presented by YourPathSecure should therefore be considered general educational information rather than a guarantee of employment, compensation, or career outcomes.

11. Colleges, Universities, and Education Programs

YourPathSecure may provide information about:

  • Universities

  • Colleges

  • Trade schools

  • Training providers

  • Academic programs

  • Diploma programs

  • Degree programs

  • Apprenticeships

  • Certifications

  • Other educational opportunities

Program availability, admission requirements, tuition, fees, duration, and other information may change.

Users should verify important information directly with the educational institution before making decisions or submitting applications.

12. Scholarships and Financial-Aid Opportunities

YourPathSecure may provide information about scholarships, grants, bursaries, competitions, and other financial-aid opportunities.

Scholarship information may include:

  • Eligibility

  • Education level

  • Field of study

  • Award amount

  • Application deadline

  • Geographic eligibility

  • Application requirements

Scholarship requirements and deadlines can change.

Users should verify all information directly with the organization offering the scholarship before applying.

13. Jobs, Internships, Co-op, and Apprenticeship Opportunities

YourPathSecure may display or link to:

  • Jobs

  • Internships

  • Co-op opportunities

  • Apprenticeships

  • Summer employment

  • Entry-level opportunities

  • Volunteer opportunities

Some opportunities may originate from employers, public sources, third-party providers, or external websites.

When users leave YourPathSecure.com to visit or apply through another website, the privacy practices and terms of that third-party website will apply.

Users should review the privacy policies of external websites before submitting personal information.

14. How We May Share Information

We may share limited personal information with service providers that help us operate YourPathSecure.

These may include providers of:

  • Website hosting

  • Cloud infrastructure

  • Database services

  • Email delivery

  • Authentication

  • Website analytics

  • Security services

  • Customer support

  • AI technology

  • Website performance monitoring

  • Backup services

Service providers should receive only information reasonably necessary to perform their services and are expected to handle information according to applicable privacy and security requirements.

We may also disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect the security, rights, property, or safety of YourPathSecure, our users, or others.

15. Sale of Personal Information

YourPathSecure does not intend to sell students’ personal information.

We also do not intend to sell personal information collected through student career assessments or personalized career pathways.

If our practices materially change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated and appropriate notice, consent, or privacy choices will be provided where required.

16. Advertising, Sponsorships, and Featured Content

YourPathSecure may display:

  • Advertising

  • Sponsorships

  • Featured educational programs

  • Featured institutions

  • Employer opportunities

  • Sponsored scholarships

  • Promoted career resources

Sponsored or promoted content should be identified appropriately.

We intend to take additional care regarding advertising presented to minors and configure advertising technologies according to applicable privacy requirements.

We do not intend to use sensitive student information to create advertising profiles.

17. Website Analytics

YourPathSecure may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use the website.

Analytics may help us understand:

  • Number of visitors

  • Popular careers

  • Popular education pathways

  • Frequently viewed industries

  • Popular scholarships

  • Frequently visited pages

  • General traffic sources

  • Website performance

  • Device and browser information

This information helps us improve YourPathSecure and determine which career and educational resources are most useful.

18. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

This may include periods necessary for:

  • Providing our services

  • Maintaining user accounts

  • Maintaining saved career pathways

  • Meeting legal requirements

  • Resolving disputes

  • Preventing fraud or abuse

  • Maintaining website security

Information may be deleted, anonymized, or aggregated when it is no longer reasonably required.

19. Data Security

YourPathSecure uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information.

These measures may include:

  • Encryption

  • Secure website hosting

  • Secure communications

  • Access controls

  • Authentication controls

  • Restricted administrative access

  • Software security updates

  • Security monitoring

  • Backups

  • Protection against unauthorized access

However, no website, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users are responsible for protecting their account passwords and should notify us if they believe their account has been compromised.

20. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have privacy rights concerning your personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information.

  • Request correction of inaccurate information.

  • Request deletion of personal information.

  • Withdraw certain consent.

  • Object to or restrict certain processing where applicable.

  • Request information about how personal information is being used.

  • Request a copy of certain personal information where applicable.

  • Submit a privacy complaint.

Parents or guardians may also have rights regarding personal information associated with their minor child, depending on applicable law.

We may need to verify the identity of a person making a privacy request before acting on the request.

21. Canadian Privacy

YourPathSecure is designed initially to provide career and education information to users in Canada.

We intend to handle personal information in accordance with applicable Canadian privacy requirements, including federal and provincial requirements where relevant.

Privacy requirements may differ depending on the user’s province, age, the nature of the services being provided, and whether YourPathSecure provides services directly to schools or educational organizations.

22. International Users

YourPathSecure.com may be accessible from outside Canada.

Privacy rights and legal requirements vary between countries and jurisdictions.

As YourPathSecure expands into additional jurisdictions, additional privacy notices, consent mechanisms, or controls may be introduced where required.

23. Third-Party Websites and Services

YourPathSecure may contain links to third-party websites and services, including:

  • Universities

  • Colleges

  • Government websites

  • Scholarship organizations

  • Employers

  • Certification providers

  • Career resources

  • Job portals

  • Training providers

YourPathSecure does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party websites.

Users should review the privacy policy and terms of any third-party service before providing personal information.

24. Schools and Educational Institutions

YourPathSecure may eventually provide services to:

  • Schools

  • Teachers

  • Guidance counsellors

  • School districts

  • Educational institutions

  • Career counsellors

Additional privacy requirements and contractual protections may apply when student information is provided through an educational organization.

Where appropriate, separate agreements, privacy notices, or data-processing arrangements may govern these services.

25. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as YourPathSecure evolves, new features are introduced, technology changes, or legal requirements develop.

When this Privacy Policy is updated, the revised Last Updated date will appear at the top of this page.

If a change materially affects how personal information is collected, used, or shared, we may provide additional notice or obtain consent where required.

26. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how YourPathSecure handles personal information, or would like to make a privacy request, please contact:

YourPathSecure
Website: yourpathsecure.com
Email: info@yourpathsecure.com

For privacy-related requests, please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

Please do not send unnecessary sensitive personal information by email.

Our Privacy Commitment

Explore your future. Understand your options. Protect your privacy.

YourPathSecure aims to help students and families make better-informed career and education decisions while collecting only the personal information reasonably necessary to provide and improve our services.