Privacy Policy

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Effective Date: August 1, 2026

 

Discovery Flight School (“Discovery Flight School,” “Discovery,” “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, retain, and protect information when you visit **discoveryflightschool.com**, submit a form or application, request information, communicate with our admissions or operations team, make a payment, apply for employment, 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

 

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

 

**Contact information**, such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and other information you provide when contacting us.

 

**Flight training and aviation information**, such as certificates and ratings held, total flight time, pilot-in-command time, multi-engine time, instrument time, cross-country time, night time, dual given time, endorsements, medical certificate information, training history, prior checkride information, desired training program, expected start date, career goals, and other aviation-related information voluntarily provided through our applications or communications.

 

**Program application information**, including information used to evaluate eligibility for Discovery Flight School training programs, determine the appropriate training pathway, prepare enrollment information, communicate program requirements, or determine whether an applicant may be a suitable fit for a particular program.

 

**Employment application information**, such as resumes, cover letters, certificates and ratings, flight experience, employment history, qualifications, relocation information, work eligibility information, references, and other information submitted by individuals seeking employment or instructor positions with Discovery Flight School.

 

**Transaction and payment information**, including transaction amount, payment status, billing information, and related transaction records when you make a deposit or other payment. Payment card information may be collected and processed by payment-processing providers rather than directly stored by Discovery Flight School.

 

**Financing-related information.** If you choose to explore financing through a third-party lender or financing provider, information you submit directly to that provider is governed by that provider's own privacy practices. Discovery Flight School may receive information regarding your financing status or other information necessary to coordinate enrollment, but we do not control the privacy practices of independent lenders.

 

**Communications**, including emails, text messages, telephone communications, form submissions, questions, feedback, and other correspondence with Discovery Flight School.

 

Website and device information, which may include Internet Protocol address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring pages, pages visited, approximate geographic region, dates and times of visits, website interactions, and similar technical or analytics information.

 

Cookie and tracking information, as described below.

 

We do not intentionally request information that is unnecessary for providing our services. Please do not submit highly sensitive personal information unless it is specifically requested and necessary for the purpose for which you are providing it.

 

2. How We Collect Information

 

We may collect information directly from you when you:

 

Submit a contact or information-request form;

 

Download or request a program guide;

 

Submit a flight-training application;

 

Submit an employment or instructor application;

 

Upload a resume, cover letter, or supporting document;

 

Make a deposit or payment;

 

Request financing information;

 

Call, email, or text Discovery Flight School;

 

Communicate with an admissions representative, instructor, employee, or representative;

 

Subscribe to communications;

 

Participate in training, enrollment, or student onboarding; or

 

Otherwise voluntarily provide information to us.

 

We may also collect certain technical information automatically when you use our website through cookies, analytics technologies, server logs, and similar technologies.

 

3. How We Use Personal Information

 

Discovery Flight School may use personal information to:

 

Respond to questions and information requests;

 

Communicate with prospective students, applicants, students, graduates, job applicants, and other individuals;

 

Evaluate eligibility for flight-training programs;

 

Recommend training pathways based on an applicant's experience and goals;

 

Process program applications and enrollment;

 

Coordinate class start dates, training schedules, and student onboarding;

 

Process deposits, tuition payments, refunds, invoices, and other transactions;

 

Provide requested program guides or other educational materials;

 

Administer flight-training programs;

 

Maintain student, applicant, transaction, and business records;

 

Evaluate employment and instructor applicants;

 

Communicate regarding employment opportunities;

 

Provide customer service and administrative support;

 

Improve our website, services, programs, marketing, and user experience;

 

Measure website traffic and engagement;

 

Protect our website, users, students, employees, aircraft, facilities, and business from fraud, misuse, security threats, or unlawful activity;

 

Comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, insurance, safety, contractual, or recordkeeping requirements;

 

Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; and

 

Carry out other legitimate business purposes reasonably related to your interaction with Discovery Flight School.

 

4. Email, Telephone, and Text Communications

 

When you provide your telephone number or email address while requesting information, applying to a program, enrolling, or otherwise communicating with Discovery Flight School, we may use that information to respond to your request and communicate with you regarding your inquiry, application, enrollment, payment, training, or other relationship with Discovery Flight School.

 

Where required, promotional or marketing communications will be sent subject to applicable consent requirements.

 

You may request that we stop sending non-essential promotional email or text communications. Transactional, administrative, safety-related, enrollment-related, payment-related, or other communications necessary to an existing relationship may still be sent when appropriate.

 

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

 

Discovery Flight School and service providers supporting our website may use cookies and similar technologies.

 

These technologies may be used to:

 

Operate and secure the website;

 

Remember visitor preferences;

 

Understand how visitors use the website;

 

Measure website traffic and performance;

 

Diagnose technical problems;

 

Improve website functionality and usability; and

 

Measure the effectiveness of marketing or advertising activities.

 

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may be given the ability to accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookies through the cookie-consent controls displayed on our website.

 

You may also control certain cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of certain website features.

 

6. Website Hosting and Service Providers

 

Discovery Flight School uses third-party technology providers to operate portions of its website and business systems.

 

These providers may process information on our behalf to perform functions such as website hosting, website forms, customer relationship management, analytics, email delivery, document storage, invoicing, payment processing, security, or other business services.

 

We may provide these service providers with information reasonably necessary to perform their services. We do not authorize service providers to use personal information for unrelated purposes except as permitted by their own agreements with us or applicable law.

 

7. Payments

 

When you make a deposit, tuition payment, or other payment through our website, payment information may be processed by Wix and/or payment-processing providers made available through our website.

 

Discovery Flight School may receive information such as your name, transaction amount, transaction identifier, payment status, billing information, and other information necessary to document and administer the transaction.

 

Complete payment-card information may be handled directly by the applicable payment processor rather than stored by Discovery Flight School.

 

The privacy and security practices of payment processors may also be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

 

8. Financing Providers

 

Discovery Flight School may provide access to independent aviation-financing providers, including Stratus Financial or other lenders.

 

Financing providers are independent businesses. If you follow a link to a financing provider, use an embedded financing application, or otherwise provide information directly to a lender, the lender's privacy policy and terms govern the information it collects.

 

Discovery Flight School does not determine an independent lender's credit decisions, interest rates, lending criteria, privacy practices, or use of financial information.

 

Information received by Discovery Flight School from a financing provider may be used for enrollment coordination, tuition planning, student services, or other purposes related to your requested training.

 

9. Pilot Assessment, Recruitment, and Career Partners

 

Discovery Flight School may work with independent aviation assessment, recruitment, financing, training, technology, or career-placement partners, including Sun Crest Pilot Selection.

 

Information will only be provided to such organizations when reasonably necessary for a program, service, assessment, career process, or other interaction involving the individual, or when otherwise authorized or permitted by law.

 

Information collected directly by an independent partner is subject to that partner's own privacy practices.

 

10. Employment Applicants

 

Information submitted through a Discovery Flight School employment application may be used to evaluate qualifications, experience, certificates, ratings, work eligibility, professional history, and suitability for employment.

 

Application information may be reviewed by employees, managers, instructors, flight operations personnel, safety personnel, recruiting personnel, or professional advisers with a legitimate reason to participate in the hiring process.

 

Submitting an employment application does not create an employment relationship or guarantee an interview or employment.

 

11. How We May Disclose Information

 

Discovery Flight School may disclose personal information to:

 

Technology and website service providers;

 

Payment processors and financial service providers;

 

Financing providers when appropriate;

 

Professional advisers such as attorneys, accountants, insurers, and consultants;

 

Aviation assessment, career-placement, or recruitment organizations when applicable to the program or service requested;

 

Government agencies, regulators, courts, law enforcement, or other parties when disclosure is required or permitted by law;

 

Parties involved in preventing fraud, protecting safety, investigating misconduct, or protecting Discovery Flight School's rights and property; and

 

A successor organization in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, restructuring, reorganization, or transfer of some or all of Discovery Flight School's business or assets.

 

We may also disclose information when you direct us or consent to the disclosure.

 

12. Sale of Personal Information

 

Discovery Flight School does not sell personal information for monetary compensation as part of its ordinary business operations.

 

Certain privacy laws may define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” more broadly than their ordinary meanings. Depending on the technologies used on our website and the law applicable to you, you may have additional choices regarding certain advertising or data-transfer activities.

 

Where required, those choices may be made through cookie or privacy controls provided on our website or by contacting us.

 

13. Data Retention

 

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to accomplish the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and our business, educational, employment, financial, legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, insurance, safety, dispute-resolution, or contractual requirements.

 

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

 

14. 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 Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us or by third-party providers.

 

15. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

 

Depending on where you reside and the laws applicable to Discovery Flight School, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

 

These may include the right to request access to certain personal information, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion, obtain a copy of certain information, withdraw certain consent, object to or restrict certain processing, or opt out of certain uses or disclosures.

 

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions, identity-verification requirements, record-retention obligations, or other limitations.

 

To make a privacy request, contact:

 

Discovery Flight School

Email: [info@discoveryflightschool.com](mailto:info@discoveryflightschool.com)

Telephone: (863) 225-3096

 

Please include sufficient information for us to identify the applicable records and understand your request. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

 

We will not discriminate against an individual for exercising a privacy right protected by applicable law.

 

16. Third-Party Websites and Services

 

Our website may contain links to, integrations with, or embedded content provided by third parties.

 

Examples may include financing providers, aviation partners, social-media platforms, payment services, mapping services, or other websites.

 

Once you interact directly with a third party, information collected by that third party is governed by its own privacy policy and terms.

 

Discovery Flight School is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of independent third-party websites or services.

 

17. International Visitors

 

Discovery Flight School is based in the United States.

 

If you access our website from another country, information you provide may be processed or stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where Discovery Flight School's technology providers operate.

 

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

 

Where applicable law provides additional rights or requirements, Discovery Flight School will address those requirements as applicable to its operations.

 

18. Children's Privacy

 

Our website is not directed toward children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without appropriate authorization.

 

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us through the website, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

 

19. Changes to This Privacy Policy

 

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, programs, technology, business practices, service providers, or applicable requirements.

 

When we make changes, we will update the effective date shown at the top of this page.

 

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method when warranted.

 

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

 

20. Contact Us

 

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or Discovery Flight School's privacy practices may be directed to:

 

**Discovery Flight School**

**Email:** [info@discoveryflightschool.com](mailto:info@discoveryflightschool.com)

**Telephone:** (863) 225-3096

**Website:** discoveryflightschool.com