Privacy Policy: Intent and Objective
In-Depth Guide to Our Privacy Commitments
We understand the importance of privacy for our users. This detailed policy provides insights into how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information. It also explains your rights as a user and our commitment to upholding them, ensuring that we handle your data with the utmost respect and legal compliance.
SUMMARIZED DATA COLLECTION
When you create an account, Organization collects personal information such as your email address, date of birth, gender, profile photo, as well as those preferences that you enter into the Service.
Guidelines for Your Data Management
We share your personal data under the following circumstances:
- Service providers and business partners: We share your personal data with our service providers and business partners whp perform marketing services and other business operations for us for the purposes set forth above. For example, we partner with companies to process secure payments, fulfill orders, optimize services, serve online behavioral advertising, send newsletters and marketing messages, support email and messaging services, and analyze information. We may also partner with other companies such as management system providers, information technology providers. These service providers and business partners include advertising agencies and fraud prevention agencies which will use your personal data only in the ways described in this policy.
- Within our organization: We share personal data within our organization for the purposes set out above. To the extent we collect information in person outside of our country.
- Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators, government authorities or other third parties: We may share your personal data with these parties where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
Sharing Your Data
We share your data, including email addresses, with third-party processors for targeted advertising, unless you are a Premium member through an organization, in which case your data will not be used for advertising.
Securing Your Personal Information
Sharing of Information
We may share the information described above as set forth in this privacy statement or as otherwise described at the time such information is collected from you. We will not sell, rent, or swap this information, nor will we authorize any of our service providers or business partners to use this information for their own commercial purposes without your permission.
Information Shared by Us
- Service Providers: In the course of doing business, we employ other companies and individuals to perform a variety of functions on our behalf. For example, we may provide information as necessary to companies that host our Online Platforms or send communications on our behalf. These service providers may have access to information about you if it is needed to perform their functions for us, but they are not authorized by us to use or disclose such information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements, and they are required to maintain the information in confidence.
- Legally Required: We reserve the right to disclose information if required to do so by law or by a regulatory authority, including those that regulate higher education. We may also disclose information as part of an investigation or enforcement action relating to improper or illegal conduct in connection with our Online Platforms or other products, including, without limitation, any situations that may potentially involve threats to the safety or privacy of any person or misuse of our Online Platforms.
- Aggregated and Non-Identified Data: We may maintain and use aggregate data or other non-identified information (i.e., data that does not identify a specific individual), such as usage statistics, device data, online traffic patterns, and user feedback. In addition to using this information for the purposes discussed in this privacy statement, we may disclose such aggregated or non-identified data to third parties without restriction.
- Business Partners: Organisation may securely share your information with our business partners, such as local advertisers who pay for banner ads on Organisation Online Platforms and vendors who coordinate the collection of donations to the university. These business partners may use the information received by them to contact you to offer you certain opportunities, products, services, or promotions. Once your information has been shared with a business partner, it is no longer subject to the control of Organisation or subject to this privacy statement, however Organisation requires its business partners to maintain appropriate data security.
Third-Party Website Hyperlinks
Our websites feature links to various third-party websites. Should you choose to follow these links, be aware that these sites operate under their own privacy policies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these third-party privacy statements or practices. Please review their policies thoroughly before submitting any personal information to these websites.
Reimagining Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated regularly to ensure that it remains as clear and comprehensive as possible. 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, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage, 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. It is important for you to periodically check back here to review this policy so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
Data Privacy Regulations and Compliance
We rigorously adhere to privacy laws to ensure your information is handled properly according to both national and international standards. Our practices are designed to safeguard your data, respecting the legal requirements and rights of individuals.
Your Rights to Privacy and Control of Personal Data
In accordance with local laws, you may possess rights such as:
- Access your personal information through a formal data subject access request.
- Correct any incorrect personal information we have about you.
- Erase your personal information under specific conditions.
- Object to the processing of your personal information based on legitimate interests.
- Restrict the processing of your personal information when appropriate.
- Transfer your personal information to a different service provider.
- Avoid being subject to solely automated decision-making processes.
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