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About Amy

Amy Burk has over 25 years of experience helping adults build confidence in their technology skills. Holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, she began her career assisting others with technology in the Business School computer lab. Amy’s passion for technology grew as she worked on innovative marketing technology projects in the sports industry for the Detroit Red Wings & Tigers and Home Team Sports (now Monumental Sports Network) and then in the software industry at America Online (AOL). Through these experiences, she honed her ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple, understandable terms and transitioned into education. For over 20 years, Amy taught teachers and school administrators in Fairfax County Public Schools, helping them integrate technology into their lessons and work. Amy is a certified Technical Professional Teacher in Virginia and also Google and Microsoft Educator certified.

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Recognizing a technology skills gap among older adults, including family members and neighbors, Amy founded TechWise Coaching to offer personalized group and individual technology coaching for adults. She developed a curriculum specifically tailored to building technology skills in adults and offers regular group lessons at local community centers and senior residences, in addition to one-on-one sessions with clients. Based in McLean, VA, she enjoys gardening and tending to her beehives when she’s not spending time with family or staying up-to-date with the latest technology trends.

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TechWise Coaching's Privacy & Confidentiality Policy

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

At TechWise Coaching, your trust is our top priority. During our sessions, we may access personal photos, documents, passwords, health information, cloud accounts, or other private information in the course of our coaching session together. We take the following steps to protect your data and privacy:

How Your Information is Used
  • All information, files, and passwords are used solely to provide the agreed-upon tech services

  • We do not share, sell, or distribute your information in any way.

  • We maintain an email mailing list for the purpose of sharing TechWise Coaching information from which you may unsubscribe at any time.

How We Protect Your Data
  • TechWise Coaching Devices used for sessions are password-protected and, where possible, passkey protected and/or encrypted.

  • Temporary files created during our sessions are deleted after completion, unless otherwise requested.

  • Sensitive information is handled with care to prevent unauthorized access.

  • Online sharing of photos, documents, or passwords is never done without explicit client approval.

  • When providing coaching on privacy and security settings on your devices, we do not guarantee following our recommendations will prevent any future privacy incursion or hacking of your data.

  • When deleting files and/or email from your accounts and devices upon your request. TechWise Coaching does not review individual messages during mass deletion and is not responsible for the content of deleted communications.

Your Responsibilities
  • Secure your passwords.

  • Provide accurate information for your devices and accounts.

  • Maintain your own backups of photos, documents, and important files.

  • Ask questions if you do not understand.

  • Let us know of any special privacy concerns or requests before or during the session.

Retention and Deletion
  • Session notes and temporary files are retained only as long as necessary to complete the service.

  • You may request deletion of any retained information at any time.

Consent

By scheduling or attending a session with TechWise Coaching, you acknowledge and consent to the handling of your personal data solely for the purpose of providing tech coaching services, in accordance with this privacy policy.

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About Our Web Site

The TechWise Coaching website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to promote our services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

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We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We collect such information for the following purposes to provide our visitors with ongoing customer assistance and technical support, to be able to contact our visitors with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages, and to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

 

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at info@techwisecoaching.com.

Privacy

TechWise Coaching is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability. We aim to adhere as closely as possible to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0, Level AA), published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make Web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly to everyone. While TechWise Coaching strives to adhere to the guidelines and standards for accessibility, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website and we are currently working to achieve this. Be aware that due to the dynamic nature of the website, minor issues may occasionally occur as it is updated regularly. We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility.

If you have any comments and or suggestions relating to improving the accessibility of our site, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@techwisecoaching.com or 571-296-4356. Your feedback will help us make improvements.

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