Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 9, 2026
Last Updated: September 9, 2026

Discovery Flight School, LLC (“Discovery Flight School,” “DFS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit our website, communicate with us, request information, submit an application, inquire about financing, enroll in a program, or otherwise interact with Discovery Flight School.

By using our website or voluntarily providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information directly from you, automatically through your use of our website, and from third parties when appropriate.

Information You Provide to Us

Depending on how you interact with Discovery Flight School, we may collect information including:

  • Full name

  • Email address

  • Mailing address

  • Date of birth

  • Contact preferences

  • Educational background

  • Employment information

  • Aviation experience

  • Pilot certificates and ratings

  • Flight experience and flight-hour information

  • Medical certificate information

  • Training history

  • Checkride history

  • Career goals

  • Preferred training program

  • Desired enrollment or training dates

  • Financing interest or financing-related information

  • Responses submitted through applications, questionnaires, or contact forms

  • Information contained in resumes or other documents you provide

  • Communications you send to Discovery Flight School

  • Records relating to your enrollment, training, payments, or participation in our programs

  • Any other information you voluntarily provide to us

We ask that you not submit highly sensitive personal information through ordinary website contact forms unless it is specifically requested and necessary for the purpose of the form.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics technologies, server logs, and similar tools.

This information may include:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Referring website

  • Pages viewed

  • Links clicked

  • Date and time of visits

  • Time spent on pages

  • Website navigation and interaction data

  • Device identifiers

  • Cookie identifiers

  • General website usage and performance information

This information helps us understand how visitors use our website and improve its performance, functionality, security, and effectiveness.

2. How We Use Information

Discovery Flight School may use information we collect to:

  • Respond to inquiries and requests for information

  • Communicate with prospective and current students

  • Evaluate program applications

  • Determine whether an applicant may be a suitable candidate for a training program

  • Recommend training options

  • Schedule consultations, interviews, assessments, or training activities

  • Process enrollment

  • Administer flight training programs

  • Maintain student and applicant records

  • Provide program guides and other requested materials

  • Communicate about admissions, enrollment, training, scheduling, or program requirements

  • Provide customer service

  • Process payments and financial transactions

  • Facilitate requested financing inquiries or introductions

  • Verify information provided during the application or enrollment process

  • Improve our website, programs, services, and communications

  • Measure website performance and marketing effectiveness

  • Prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized activity, and security incidents

  • Maintain the security and integrity of our website and systems

  • Comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, insurance, safety, or recordkeeping requirements

  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

  • Protect the rights, property, safety, and legitimate interests of Discovery Flight School, our students, employees, partners, and others

We may also use information for other purposes disclosed to you at the time the information is collected.

3. Admissions and Program Applications

Information submitted through a Discovery Flight School application may be used to evaluate whether an applicant meets the qualifications, experience requirements, financial requirements, scheduling requirements, or other standards associated with a particular program.

Submitting an application does not guarantee admission, enrollment, financing, employment, an interview with an aviation operator, or any particular career outcome.

Information supplied during the admissions process may be retained as part of our applicant or student records.

4. Financing Information

Discovery Flight School may provide information regarding financing options offered by independent third-party companies.

If you request information about financing or choose to pursue financing, we may share information necessary to facilitate your request with the applicable financing provider or direct you to the provider's systems.

Third-party financing companies operate independently from Discovery Flight School and maintain their own privacy policies, eligibility requirements, underwriting standards, terms, and information-security practices.

Discovery Flight School does not control how an independent financing provider processes information submitted directly to that provider.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy and terms of any financing provider before submitting personal or financial information.

5. Payments

Payments may be processed by independent third-party payment processors.

Discovery Flight School may receive transaction-related information such as:

  • Your name

  • Payment amount

  • Transaction status

  • Payment date

  • Invoice information

  • Limited payment-method information

We generally do not directly receive or store complete payment card numbers when payments are processed through a third-party payment processor.

Payment processors maintain their own privacy policies and security practices.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate properly, remember preferences, understand visitor activity, improve website performance, measure advertising or marketing effectiveness, and provide certain website features.

Cookies are small files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.

We may use:

Essential Cookies
These cookies help provide functions necessary for the website to operate properly.

Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand website traffic, visitor behavior, and website performance.

Preference Cookies
These cookies may remember certain preferences or settings.

Marketing or Advertising Technologies
If used, these technologies may help us measure advertising campaigns or understand how visitors arrive at and interact with our website.

Your browser may allow you to block, limit, or delete cookies. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Where required by applicable law, we may provide additional choices regarding non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

7. Website Analytics

We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website.

Analytics providers may collect information such as device information, IP address, website activity, referral information, page views, and general usage patterns.

We use this information to understand website performance, improve the visitor experience, identify technical issues, and evaluate the effectiveness of our content and marketing.

8. Email Communications

If you provide your email address, we may use it to respond to your inquiry and communicate with you regarding:

  • Applications

  • Admissions

  • Programs

  • Training

  • Enrollment

  • Financing

  • Scheduling

  • Requested information

  • Program guides

  • Operational updates

  • Relevant Discovery Flight School services

Where permitted by law, we may also send marketing or informational communications.

You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications using the unsubscribe instructions included in the applicable message or by contacting:

info@discoveryflightschool.com

Even if you opt out of promotional communications, we may continue sending non-promotional messages that are reasonably necessary to administer an application, enrollment, transaction, training relationship, or other existing relationship with you.

9. How We Share Information

Discovery Flight School does not sell personal information in exchange for money.

We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to operate our business or provide services.

Information may be shared with:

Service Providers

We may use outside companies to provide services such as:

  • Website hosting

  • Website administration

  • Customer relationship management

  • Email communications

  • Application processing

  • Cloud storage

  • Analytics

  • Payment processing

  • Accounting

  • Scheduling

  • Marketing

  • Information technology

  • Cybersecurity

  • Document management

  • Financing services

These providers may receive information necessary to perform services on our behalf.

Aviation and Training Partners

When appropriate and consistent with the services you request, information may be shared with aviation-related organizations involved in training, assessment, career development, recruiting, operator relationships, or other aspects of a Discovery Flight School program.

Where a program includes consideration for interviews, introductions, referrals, or career opportunities, relevant professional information may be provided to participating aviation employers or operator partners.

Such information may include aviation qualifications, certificates, ratings, flight experience, training results, professional background, and other information relevant to evaluating a potential candidate.

We do not guarantee that any partner or employer will offer an interview, employment, or other opportunity unless expressly stated in a separate written agreement.

Professional Advisors

Information may be disclosed to attorneys, accountants, insurers, consultants, or other professional advisors when reasonably necessary.

Legal and Safety Requirements

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law

  • Comply with a court order, subpoena, government request, or legal process

  • Protect the safety of an individual

  • Investigate suspected fraud or unlawful activity

  • Enforce agreements or policies

  • Protect our legal rights or property

  • Address cybersecurity or security threats

  • Meet applicable aviation, insurance, safety, or regulatory obligations

Business Transactions

If Discovery Flight School is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing transaction, sale of assets, ownership change, or similar business transaction, information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

10. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to websites, platforms, forms, payment systems, financing providers, social media platforms, aviation organizations, or other services operated by third parties.

Discovery Flight School does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information processed by Discovery Flight School.

When you leave our website or interact directly with a third-party service, that organization's privacy policy and terms may govern the information you provide.

We encourage you to review those policies before providing personal information.

11. Social Media

Discovery Flight School may maintain accounts on social media platforms.

If you interact with us through social media, the platform may collect or process information according to its own privacy policy.

Information you make publicly available through social media may also be visible to Discovery Flight School and other users.

12. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

  • Managing inquiries and applications

  • Administering training and enrollment

  • Maintaining business and student records

  • Satisfying contractual obligations

  • Meeting legal, tax, accounting, insurance, safety, or regulatory requirements

  • Resolving disputes

  • Preventing fraud

  • Enforcing agreements

  • Protecting our legitimate business interests

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.

13. Data Security

Discovery Flight School takes reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic communication, database, or method of transmitting information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should use appropriate caution when transmitting sensitive information electronically.

14. Children's Privacy

Discovery Flight School's website and services are not directed toward children under 13 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without appropriate authorization.

If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected through our website in a manner inconsistent with applicable law, we may take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Discovery Flight School through our website, contact:

info@discoveryflightschool.com

15. Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you reside and the laws applicable to your information, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the ability to request:

  • Access to certain personal information we maintain about you

  • Correction of inaccurate personal information

  • Deletion of certain personal information

  • Information regarding how personal information is used or disclosed

  • A copy of certain personal information

  • Withdrawal of certain previously provided consent

  • Opt-out from certain marketing communications

  • Other rights provided under applicable privacy law

Not every right applies in every jurisdiction or circumstance.

We may need to verify your identity before processing a privacy request.

Certain information may also be exempt from deletion or other requests where retention is reasonably necessary or legally required.

To submit a privacy-related request, email:

info@discoveryflightschool.com

Please include enough information for us to understand and reasonably respond to your request.

16. State-Specific Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state law.

Where applicable, these rights may include rights relating to:

  • Access

  • Correction

  • Deletion

  • Portability

  • Certain types of data sharing

  • Targeted advertising

  • Profiling

  • Use of sensitive personal information

  • Appeals of certain privacy-request decisions

Discovery Flight School will process valid privacy requests as required by applicable law.

To exercise any applicable state privacy right, contact:

info@discoveryflightschool.com

We will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising rights available under applicable privacy law.

17. Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers provide a “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signal.

Because there is not a universally adopted standard governing all such browser signals, our website may not respond to every Do Not Track signal.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular legally recognized browser-based privacy preference signal, we may process that signal as required by law.

18. Information Submitted on Behalf of Another Person

If you provide Discovery Flight School with personal information regarding another individual, you represent that you are authorized to provide that information or otherwise have an appropriate lawful basis for doing so.

19. International Visitors

Discovery Flight School is based in the United States.

If you access our website from outside the United States, information you provide may be processed or stored in the United States or other jurisdictions in which our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from the laws in your country of residence.

Where legally required, we will process personal information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Discovery Flight School may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business, website, services, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When we make changes, we may update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

Changes become effective when the revised Privacy Policy is posted unless otherwise stated.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

21. Contact Discovery Flight School

Questions, requests, concerns, or other communications regarding this Privacy Policy or Discovery Flight School's privacy practices should be submitted by email.

Discovery Flight School, LLC
701-6 NE 10th St
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
United States

Email: info@discoveryflightschool.com

All privacy requests and communications regarding this Privacy Policy should be submitted by email to the address above.