BACKGROUND:
Academy Europe (“Us”, “We”, or “Our”) knows that your privateness is crucial to you and which you care approximately how your private statistics is used. We appreciate and fee the privateness of everybody who visits this website, www.academyeurope.eu (“Our Site”) and the Academy Europe platform (“Our Platform”) and could simplest accumulate and use private statistics in methods which are defined here, and in a manner this is constant with our responsibilities and your rights below the law. Please examine this Privacy Policy cautiously and make sure which you recognize it. Your attractiveness of this Privacy Policy is deemed to arise upon your first use of Our Site. If you do now no longer be given and believe this Privacy Policy, you should prevent the use of Our Site and Platform immediately.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.academyeurope.eu.
Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
| “Account” | means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of Our Site and/or Platform; |
| “Cookie Law” | means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003; |
Information About Us
Our Site and Our Platform are owned and operated by Academy Europe Institution and Publishing Ltd , a limited company registered in Turkey.
Registered address: Celler Strasse, Hambühren, Ovelgönne 29314, Germany
Email address: student@academyeurope.eu
Telephone number: +49 174 463 12 55 (Germany)
What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies simplest on your use of Our Site and Platform. Our Site and Platform can also additionally include hyperlinks to different web sites. Please be aware that we haven’t any manage over how your facts is collected, stored, or utilized by different web sites and we propose you to test the privateness guidelines of one of these web sites earlier than supplying any facts to them.
What is Personal Data?
Personal facts is described via way of means of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any statistics referring to an identifiable man or woman who may be without delay or in a roundabout way recognized specifically via way of means of connection with an identifier’. Personal facts is, in less complicated terms, any statistics approximately you that permits you to be recognized. Personal facts covers apparent statistics which includes your call and call details, however it additionally covers much less apparent statistics which includes identity numbers, digital region facts, and different on-line identifiers.
What Are My Rights?
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
- a)The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 15.
- b)The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 13 will tell you how to do this.
- c)The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 15 to find out more.
- d)The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the details in Part 15 to find out more.
- e)The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
- f)The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
- g)The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
- h)Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 15.
Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When traffic depart remarks at the web website online we acquire the information proven withinside the remarks form, and additionally the visitor’s IP deal with and browser consumer agent string to assist unsolicited mail detection. An anonymized string made from your electronic mail deal with (additionally referred to as a hash) can be supplied to the Gravatar carrier to peer in case you are the usage of it. After approval of your comment, your profile photo is seen to the general public withinside the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:
- Providing and managing your Account on Our Platform;
- Providing and managing your access to Our Site and Platform;
- Personalising and tailoring your experience on Our Site and Platform;
- Supplying Our Platform for your usage and services to you. Your personal details are required in order for us to enter into a contract with you.
- Personalising and tailoring Our Platform and services for you.
- Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails, support tickets or calls from you.
- Supplying you with information by email that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by sending an email to info@academyeurope.org).
- Analysing your use of Our Site and Platform and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve Our Site and Platform your overall user experience.
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email or telephone or text message with information, news, and offers on Our Platform and Services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.
Third Parties whose digital tools we use on Our Site and Platform may use third-party Cookies, as detailed below in Part 14. Please refer to Part 14 for more information on controlling cookies. Please note that we do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data that they collect and use themselves, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such third parties.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We share your data with external third parties, as detailed below in Part 10, that are based outside of the EEA. The following safeguards are applied to such transfers:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of personal data protection. More information is available from the European Commission.
Additionally, we use specific contracts with external third parties that are approved by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data to third countries. These contracts ensure the same levels of personal data protection that would apply under the GDPR. More information is available from the European Commission.
Where we transfer your data to a third party based in the US, this may be protected if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar to those in Europe. More information is available from the European Commission.
Please contact us using the details below in Part 15 for further information about the particular data protection mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Do You Share My Personal Data?
We may sometimes contract with the following third parties to supply certain features of Our Site, Platform and services. These may include payment processing, delivery, and marketing. In some cases, those third parties may require access to some or all of your personal data that we hold.
- Chargebee.com (subscription management and invoicing)
- Braintreepayments.com (online credit card payments)
- Shopier.com (online credit card payments)
- Iyzico.com (online credit card payments)
- PayPal.com (online payments)
- FreshDesk (Customer help center and support tickets)
- Agile CRM (CRM, form handling, appointment scheduling and user analytics)
- Refersion (registration and tracking of affiliates)
- Google Analytics (website user analytics)
- MixPanel (website user analytics)
- Segment (website user analytics)
- HotJar (website user analytics)
- SessionCam (website user analytics)
- Google AdWords (targeting and tracking of ad campaigns)
- Facebook (targeting and tracking of ad campaigns)
- useFOMO (display of user notifications)
- LeadPages (displaying pop-ups and registration forms)
- Wistia (showing user videos and tracking analytics)
If any of your personal data is required by a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 9.
If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, we will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR, as explained above in Part 9.
In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
How Can I Control My Personal Data?
In addition to your rights under the GDPR, set out in Part 5, when you submit personal data via Our Site and Platform, you may be given options to restrict our use of your personal data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails, at the point of providing your details, or and by managing your Account).
Can I Withhold Information?
You may access certain areas of Our Site without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on Our Site and Platform you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
You may restrict our use of Cookies. For more information, see Part 14 of this policy.
How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 15. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible. Please contact us at info@academyeurope.org and request this form.
There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
We will respond to your subject access request within 21 days and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details (for the attention of Dr.Alper Karakus, CEO):
Email address: student@academyeurope.eu
Telephone number: +49 174 463 12 55 (Germany)
Postal Address: Celler Strasse, Hambühren, Ovelgönne 29314, Germany
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.