Edu Connect Consultancy Services Privacy Policy.

Last updated: June 16, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how Edu Connect Consultancy Services (the “Site,”  “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, or use our services from http://educonnectcs.com/ (the “Site”) or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” mean you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with this privacy policy, please do not use or access any of the services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last updated” date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we have collected personal information about you over the past 12 months from various sources, as set out below. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

What personal information do we collect?

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our site and use our services. When we use the term “personal information,” we refer to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:
– Basic contact details, including your name, address, phone number, and email.
– Customer support information, including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.

Some service features may require you to provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect Through Cookies

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). We may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (“cookies”) to do this. Usage data may include information about how you access and use our site and your account. This includes device information, browser information, network connection information, IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the services.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers, who may collect information on our behalf, such as:
– When you visit our site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our services or advertisements, we, or third parties, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party’s policies or practices. For more
For more information, see the Third Party Websites and Links section below.

How We Use Your Personal Information

– Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with services and perform our contract with you.
– Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail and showing you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.
– Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. 
– Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. It is in our legitimate interests to be responsive to you, provide effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. We use cookies to power and improve our site and our services (including remembering your actions and preferences), run analytics, and better understand user interaction with our website (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve, and optimise the services). We may also permit third parties and service providers to use cookies on our site to better tailor the services, products, and advertising on our site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the services to work incorrectly or be unavailable. Additionally, blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties, such as our advertising partners.

How do we disclose personal information?

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes, subject to this Privacy Policy.
Such circumstances may include:
– With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfilment, and shipping).
– With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
– With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, it is in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
– In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Third-Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of Edu Connect and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on our website.

Children’s Data

Edu Connect Consultancy Services is not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the
parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.
As of the effective date of this privacy policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances, and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
• Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct the inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
• Right to opt out of sales, sharing, or targeted advertising. You may have a right to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be “targeted advertising,”  as defined in applicable privacy laws. Please note that if you visit our site with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of information for the device and browser that you used to visit the site.
• Right to Limit and/or Opt Out of the Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You may have a right to direct us to limit our use and/or disclosure of sensitive personal information to only what is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average individual.
• Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
• Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
• Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
• Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of the rights indicated on our site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorised agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorised them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting the contact details below or lodging your complaint with your local data protection authority.

Edu Connect Consultancy Services
Address: Taimani, Second Street, Kabul, Afghanistan
Phone Number: +93 79 0109343 / +93 79 1742189
Email Address: edu-consultancy-services@outlook.com