Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated December 04, 2022

This privacy notice for Unitek Associates ('Company', 'we', 'us', or 'our'), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share your (students') information when you use our services ("Services), such as when you:

  • Visit our website at https://www.unitekassociates.co.uk or any website of ours that links to this privacy policy.
  • Engage with us in other related ways, including any social media, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns?
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with us at support@unitekassociates.co.uk

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

This summary provides key points from our privacy policy. Still, you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for. You can also click here to go directly to our table of contents.

What personal information do we process?
When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with Unitek Associates and the Services, your choices, and the services and features you use.

Do we process any sensitive personal information?
We may process sensitive personal information when necessary with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Do we receive any information from third parties?
We may receive information from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information?
We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.

What are your rights?
Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.

How do you exercise your rights?
The easiest way to exercise your rights is by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

How do you exercise your rights?
The easiest way to exercise your rights is by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Want to learn more about what Unitek Associates does with any information we collect? Click here to review the notice in full.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
  2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
  3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
  4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
  5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
  6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
  7. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
  8. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
  9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
  10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
  11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
  12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you visit the website to register, sign up, use our Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You.
The personal information we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, your choices, and the services and features you use.

The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • names
  • mailing addresses
  • email addresses
  • job titles
  • usernames
  • passwords
  • contact preferences
  • contact or authentication data

Sensitive Information.
When necessary, with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive information:

  • financial data
  • genetic data
  • data about a person's sex life or sexual orientation
  • information revealing race or ethnic origin
  • student data
  • social security numbers or other government identifiers
  • qualification
  • health data
  • biometric data
  • school and college

Social Media Login Data.
We may allow you to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, Twitter, or other social media accounts. If you choose to register this way, we will collect the information described in the section 'HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?' below.

All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information collected from other sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

To enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and from other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behaviour data), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, social media profiles, social media URLs, and custom profiles for purposes of targeted advertising and event promotion. If you interact with us on a social media platform using your social media account (e.g. Facebook or Twitter), we receive personal information about you, such as your name, email address, and gender. Any personal information that we collect from your social media account depending on your social media account's privacy settings.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage student accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log into your account well as your account in working order.
  • To help students find and choose the right university and course. You can visit our site and look around at the different schools and programmes we offer, read the articles and other content we have up, and see if you qualify for any of our programmes without signing up for an account. Your nationality, country of education, highest education, grading scheme, grade average, English exam score(s), and the disciplines or programmes you are interested in pursuing are just some of the pieces of personal data we collect if you choose to use our website to discover programmes you are eligible to apply for. ApplyBoard will use this data to compile a list of relevant programmes and schools for your application.
  • To respond to students' inquiries. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
  • To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our international educational consultancy services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
  • Make a student profile and apply to a course. You (or the recruitment partner or counsellor acting as your legal representative) must make a student profile on our site before applying to a course. The information you provide in your student profile is used to find you a school and a programme that are a good fit for you based on your interests and academic background. For the application to be processed, the school may also need to know this. Your first and last name, email address, gender, date of birth, home and mailing address, passport details, marital status, emergency contact information, English language test score(s), education history, volunteer experience, and other education-related information may be requested.
  • To enable user-to-user communications. We may process your information if you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
  • To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and contact you about using our Services.
  • To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
  • To inform students. Keep you informed about new features and services which will help you engage with students (if consented)
  • To deliver targeted advertising to you. We may process your information to develop and display personalised content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
  • To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
  • To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
  • To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns. We may process your information to better understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns that are most relevant to you.
  • Engage in real-time interaction via online chat and support services. Our website features a live chat feature and links to third-party online support services (such as Zendesk and Sendbird) for your convenience. With the help of these services, our support staff and the service providers with whom we partner can instantly contact you to clarify any issues or answer any questions you may have.
  • To save or protect an individual's vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest and prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfil our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our legitimate business interests.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

Consent. We may process your information if you have permitted us (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Click here to learn more.

Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request before entering into a contract with you.

Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests. Those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described to:

  • Send students information to colleges and universities that they are applying to.
  • Develop and display personalised and relevant advertising content for our users.
  • Analyse how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users.
  • Support our marketing activities.
  • Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities.
  • Understand how our users and students use our services so we can improve user experience.

Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as in situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties. We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Colleges/Universities. Information contained in applications is sent to prospective educational institutions (either directly or through a third party on your behalf). United Associates does not have any control over the use of such information once it has been supplied to these institutions for your application for admission, and we advise you to contact them directly if you have any queries regarding how your personal data is processed.
  • Business Purposes. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
  • Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain services or promotions.

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Our Cookie Policy sets out specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies.

We use "cookies" on our websites to let people log in, save their preferences, and collect anonymous information about how people use our sites.

Cookies help us do things like:

  • Don't log out of the site.
  • Gather anonymous data about site traffic and how people use the site so that you can improve the site and its tools in the future. We do this with the help of tools like Google Analytics.

You can choose to block some or all cookies on your computer. This is done in your browser's settings. Each browser is a little different, so look in your browser's Help menu to find out how to change your cookies correctly.

If you turn off cookies, you won't be able to use some of our more advanced features, and some of our services may not work as they should.

6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.

Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider but will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture, and other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes described in this privacy notice or otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your personal information and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

7. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?

In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.

Our servers are located in. If you are accessing our Services from outside, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see 'WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?' above), in and other countries.

Suppose you are a European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK) resident. In that case, these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law.

8. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us to keep your personal information for longer than.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK), you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

Your rights. You have the following rights, according to the GDPR:

Right to be informed. You have the right to know why and how we collect your personal information, how we will use it, who we will share it with, what security measures we use to protect it, and what your rights are. This is all written down in this Privacy Notice.

The right to access. You can look at the information we have about you. If you want to make a Subject Access Request, please contact the Privacy Manager.

The right to make changes. You have the right to have us fix any wrong or missing information we have about you. You can log in to your profile (if it's there) and make any necessary changes. You can also ask the Privacy Manager to update your information.

The right to erasure. You may have the right to be forgotten. You can use this right by calling the Privacy Manager or sending an email to delete @emaild. If you ask us to, we'll eliminate any information about you that we don't have to keep by law or contract.

The right to object. You can say you don't want your personal information to be used at any time by contacting Unitek Associates. There may be times when we can't do what you ask, but when we answer you, we'll give you a full explanation of why.

Right to stop giving permission. This only applies to processing activities for which we've asked for your permission (marketing emails). You can change your mind at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any email we send you, logging into your Unitek Associates Connect account (if you have one), or getting in touch with the Privacy Manager.

The right to stop processing. When you use one of the above rights, you have the right to stop processing. It may take some time to process this request. For example, if you contact us to change your information, you can ask for a restriction until your information is changed.

Right not to be subject to decisions made by computers and to be profiled. None of the things we do to process is done by machines alone. Sometimes we process data to analyse or predict behaviour, but if this involves your personal data, we will ask for your explicit permission first.

The right to move data. If you gave us your personal information with your permission or because you had to, you have the right to ask for it in a format that a computer can read if you decide to move to another data controller.

10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated 'Revised' date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated 'Revised' date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may call us at Tel: 01487800000/Mobile: 07586600000 or email us at support@unitekassociates.co.uk

13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a Enquiry Form on our website.