When using the Edu Vibe Consultancy website, kindly read this Privacy Policy carefully. This privacy notice has been compiled to help you understand why we ask you for your personal information when you use our website and how we will store and use this information.

The core purpose of Edu Vibe Consultancy is to help you and other users find suitable educational courses, learning providers, and assist in the admission process. This is defined as our Legitimate Business Interest. We process your personal data to help you make informed decisions when selecting courses and learning providers. We do that by:

  • Providing extensive educational information.
  • Personalizing sections of our websites to your preferences.
  • Providing features to enable users to directly contact education providers.
  • Providing advertising and promotional opportunities for education providers.
  • Monitoring usage and performance to improve the services we offer.
  • Recommending things which we think you’ll like, such as courses and learning providers.
  • Notifying you about things you’ve told us you like, such as a new course in your local area.
  • Getting in touch if we need to tell you about something, like a change to our policies or issues with our service.
  • Providing assistance and guidance in course selection, admission application submission, and visa guidance, as required, through our premium paid services.

This privacy notice applies to all our website users regardless of location, whether registered or not, including people responding to surveys, competitions, and writing reviews. We refer to all registered users as “members of our community.” Keeping your information safe and private is very important to us. All our services are designed with privacy and security in mind. We will never sell your personal information to any third party.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

You can browse our website without providing any personal information. However, to use some of our enhanced functionality, we will sometimes ask for additional information to process your request.

Examples include:

  • Providing your name, email address, and preferences to create an account to receive email newsletters and save your preferences.
  • Providing your name, email, and contact details to request a prospectus or make an inquiry to an education provider.
  • Providing your name, contact details, and education history to engage with offline education counseling services.

The details we request for each piece of enhanced functionality will depend on what is required to perform the action. For example:

  • If we tailor your experience by displaying available courses, we will ask for your preferred start date.
  • If we need to contact you by email, we will request your email address.

Details of why we collect each piece of information are displayed clearly next to the field used to enter the data.

We also collect some technical information while you use our website, such as the type of browser you use and your IP address. This information is used to maintain and monitor the performance of our website.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website to provide login and preferences functions and to collect anonymized data on user interactions. For example, we use cookies to:

  • Keep you logged into the website.
  • Understand and save your user preferences for future personalized experiences and to allow us to deliver the type of content and products in which you are most interested.
  • Compile anonymized data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We use tools such as Google Analytics to do this.
  • Provide targeted content and advertising based on your preferences and previous interactions. We work with third-party companies to provide targeted advertising. Personal data is not shared with these companies. Further details of the companies we work with are available within our Cookie Policy.

Personal information is never held on any of our first-party cookies.

You can choose to have your computer block some or all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable cookies, some advanced features will be disabled, and some of our services may not function as intended.

Anonymized Analytics and Insights

Occasionally, we will ask for additional information to help us monitor the reach and effectiveness of our services. For example, when creating an account, we may ask for your country of residence or postcode. This data will only ever be used in an anonymized format to help us demonstrate the effectiveness and improve the products and services we offer.

We use Google Analytics to log review aggregated use data across all of our websites. No personal data is shared with Google Analytics.

Geographical Data and Geotargeting

As with all websites, your IP address is sent to us each time a webpage is viewed. For some functionality, we use this, along with geo-location information provided by your browser to provide location-specific content within our websites and apps. When you browse our website or use our apps, your IP address and location information are stored on our system anonymously unless you are a registered user, in which case it will be possible to link it to your profile. This link will only exist temporarily and will be removed three months after your visit. We will not use this information to identify you personally. We use location data for analytics purposes, to understand the locations our products are successful in and to deliver a better service. You can stop sharing this information by changing your browser settings.

Storing Your Data

The personal data you provide is stored in a secure hosting environment. We employ a range of technology and procedures to ensure that this data is secure, including encryption, anti-virus and anti-malware software, intrusion detection, company-wide data usage policies, and mandatory security and privacy staff training.

How Long Will You Keep My Information For?

We will keep your data for as long as we are required to, either:

  • For as long as we require the data to provide a service to you.

Personal data is deleted in accordance with our internal retention policy. All identifiable personal data is deleted three years following your last interaction with this website.

Your Rights

Reviewing and Updating Your Data

You can update the information we store on your behalf by logging into your website account and updating your profile. If you were not assigned a password when creating your account, you can request a new password online by selecting the ‘forgotten password’ option. If you do not have access to this account, you can request a data update by contacting the Privacy Manager.

In line with the privacy regulations across the world, you have the following rights:

  • The Right to be Informed: You have the right to be informed why and how we collect your personal data, how we will use this information, who we share it with, what security measures we take to protect this information, and what your individual rights are. We will publish this information in this Privacy Notice.
  • The Right of Access: You have the right to access the information we hold for you by logging into your online profile. If you require a permanent record, you can download this information in PDF format from our website. Alternatively, you can make an offline Subject Access Request by contacting the Privacy Manager.
  • The Right to Rectification: You have the right for inaccurate or incomplete data we hold to be updated. You can make a request to have your data updated through the Privacy Manager.
  • The Right to Erasure: You have the right to be forgotten at any point by contacting the Privacy Manager or emailing account@eduvibeconsultancy.com. At your request, we will remove all the data we have for you which we are not required legally to retain.
  • The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to restrict processing when you have exercised one of the above rights, and it may take some time to process that request. For example, when you contact us to update your details, you have the right to request restriction until your details are updated.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: For the processing activities where we have asked you for consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any point by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email we send you, by updating your profile in the application, or by contacting the Privacy Manager.
  • The Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data at any point by contacting the Account Manager. There may be instances where we may not be able to fulfill those requests, but we will provide you with an explanation when replying to you.
  • Right to Not Be Subject to Automated Decisions and Profiling: None of our processing activities are purely automated. There are instances where we process data to analyze or predict behavior, but we will ask you for explicit consent when this processing will involve your personal data.
  • Right to Data Portability: If you have provided us with your personal data with consent or under the contract obligations, you have the right to request the data you have provided to us in a machine-readable format should you decide to move to another data controller.

Marketing and Email Newsletters

As industry experts, it is our primary objective to help you with your educational journey. As part of this, we offer a number of subscription options for you to choose from. You have the following two marketing options sent directly from us:

  • Newsletters: Inspiring emails from our editorial team, providing you with the latest educational news, tips, and guides.
  • University Updates: Emails sent from us providing news and updates of course information, open days, events, and scholarships from universities and partners that match your interests. You will receive these newsletters based on your course, institution, or location search history. We will not share your personal data with these institutions. We will only provide them with anonymized data showing how many people have received the email and their general geography.

All marketing communication from us has an unsubscribe option which will allow you to stop receiving similar emails in the future. This is normally located at the bottom of the email.

When and How Do We Share Personal Data?

We share personal data:

  • With your consent: We may share personal data with third parties when we have your consent to do so. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
  • To fulfill a contract: We will share your personal data when necessary to fulfill a contract you have with us.
  • For legal reasons: We will share personal data when we have a legal obligation to do so.
  • As part of a merger or acquisition: If Edu Vibe Consultancy is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal data.

External Links

Our website contains links to external websites. Edu Vibe Consultancy is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these external sites.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy policy, please contact us at:

Edu Vibe Consultancy
Office No B-51, close to Bilal park, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi
Punjab, Pakistan-46300
info@eduvibeconsultancy.com
+92 330 888 3170

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

Edu Vibe Consultancy may update this policy periodically. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.