Swap Education (“we”, “us”, “Website”, or “SwapED”) values your privacy. This Privacy Statement (“Policy”) applies to personal and non-personal customer information obtained by Swap Education through our Website and any other source to which this Policy is linked or referenced.
The Policy explains what information we collect about visitors to our Website (“You” and “Your”) and how we use it. We also describe the steps we take to protect the information’s security and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
1.1. Non-personal Information:
1.1. Non-personal Information:
(a) When you visit swapeducation.com, our system collects information about your use of our Website using automated means such as cookies, web server logs, JavaScript, and similar technologies.
(b) The data collected through mobile devices or during website visits includes the visit’s time, pages viewed, duration on each page, and referring site details (like the URL of the referring website, search engine, or social network). It also encompasses the type of browser used, browser language, operating system, flash and JavaScript support, screen resolution, and color processing capability. Additionally, the data includes network location, IP address, file downloads, external link clicks, video interactions, form submission errors, scroll depth, widget interactions, and geolocation information.
1.2. Personal Information:
(a) We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide us, such as your name and email address, in a limited number of cases. We never collect or process your personal information without your permission.
(b) You expressly and irrevocably agree to our use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy by voluntarily providing us with personal information, including, without limitation, by using the Website. If you provide us with personal information, you acknowledge and agree that such information may be transferred from your current location to the Website’s servers as well as the servers of authorised third parties.
1.3. Additional Information:
(a) We reserve the right to obtain information about legal entities that occasionally visit our Website through their representatives.
(b) We might be able to find out details about a legal entity’s name, address, and ICO link, as well as information about the entity’s website and country of incorporation (if applicable).
1.4. We might get the data mentioned in this Policy by using our web browser extension. Only the information you have permitted us to access can be accessed by our web browser extension. We are unable to track your browsing history, nor do we.
We will only obtain personally identifiable information from you if you willingly provide it, such as your name and email address. Refusing to provide personal identification information is always an option. Every time you use our website, we might get non-personal identification information about you.
3.1. The following are the uses of non-personal information by us:
(a) to shield you from pointless adverts and keep you from having to visit the website more than is necessary;
(b) to determine the total number of visitors to our website and the most popular sections of the website;
(c) to enhance the information on our web pages and personalise the text and design of our pages;
(d) to provide the data, such as an article, news, review, analysis, etc., that you request from the website;
3.2. We obtain your personal information if you give it to us at any point. We may use your personal information for various purposes, such as email newsletters, asking for your feedback, and enabling you to leave comments on articles and interactive forms. If you give us your email address, we may send you occasional promotional emails about exclusive deals and services from ourselves and carefully chosen partners. We might also send you informative emails about administrative notices about how the website is run. You may withdraw your consent to receive electronic emails at any time by sending a withdrawal notice to Swap Education or by pressing the dedicated button (“an unsubscribe button”) in any email from Swap Education.
3.3. We also reserve the right to reveal your identity to any third party who alleges that anything you post violates their intellectual property rights or privacy rights.
3.4. You consent to us sharing and transferring your non-identifying information to a third party that we contract with, typically our advertising partners or providers of outsourced services.
4.1. Cookies are small data files that may contain an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are downloaded to your computer’s hard drive by your browser from the website.
4.2. We employ “cookies,” like many other websites, to gather data. Our website uses cookies to collect information about your visit, making navigating between pages easier, tracking visits, and determining which sections and features are most popular. This aids in the feedback collection process, which we use to continuously enhance our website and provide better customer service. We cannot obtain personal information about you through cookies, and we usually do not save any personal data you have given us in your cookies.
4.3. If you’d like, you can manage and/or remove cookies. All cookies currently on your computer can be removed, and most browsers allow you to disable cookies from being stored on them. However, some features and services of our website might not function if you do this.
5.1. We will keep your information for as long as it takes us to meet our legal requirements or as long as it takes us to provide you with services. Your information will be kept on file and used only as needed to fulfil legal requirements, settle disputes, and uphold agreements.
5.2. You can always get confirmation of whether or not personal information about you is being processed by emailing hello@swapeducation.com.
5.3. By submitting a request to hello@swapeducation.com, you may access and export your information anytime.
6.1. We process your data based on our above-described legitimate interests to the extent that the EU General Data Protection Regulation governs our processing of your information. By selecting the designated button and choosing not to receive any further emails, you have the right to object at any time to our use of your information for our marketing purposes. You can also send an email to hello@swapeducation.com to object to processing.
6.2. We are attentive to privacy issues. If you think we have not handled your information per this privacy policy, please email hello@swapeducation.com to our Data Protection Office. Please include as much information as you can in your message to clarify how you think the website’s privacy policy has not been followed. We promise to promptly look into your complaint and get back to you within 30 days.
7.1. To prevent accidental, unlawful, or unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use of the personal information we have about you, we maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.
7.2. We cannot ensure that our security will not be compromised (by technical means or through a breach of our policies and procedures), as there is no such thing as totally secure data transmission or storage.
7.3. Notwithstanding our best efforts to safeguard your information, nothing on this page implies that the Website is secure, and you acknowledge that you are transmitting information at your own risk. Please be aware that there is no guarantee on the Website that any breach of our technical, administrative, or physical safeguards won’t allow access to, disclosure of, alteration, or destruction of your information.
Occasionally, we offer or include third-party goods or services on the Website at our sole discretion. The privacy policies of these third-party providers are distinct and autonomous. Consequently, we disclaim all liability and responsibility for the actions and content of these linked services. However, we welcome any feedback regarding these services and work to maintain the integrity of our website.
We reserve the right to work with web analytics companies that gather this data on our behalf to determine how many people visit our website and to understand better the topics that most interest our visitors. See the privacy policies of the web analytics provider we use for more details: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html is the URL of Google Inc.
We may update this privacy statement from time to time, without giving you any notice, to reflect modifications to our policies regarding personal data. We will let you know if there are significant changes by prominently posting the privacy policy on our website and noting at the top when it was last updated.
Anyone under the age of sixteen (16) or, if that is higher, under the legal age in your country will not be asked for or have their personal information collected by us. You are forbidden to submit Personal Information on this Site if you are under 16 or not of legal age in your country.
Please email hello@swapeducation.com to request that we stop using and processing your information for service delivery. Within 30 days, we will reply to your request.
13.1. Regardless of what this Policy says to the contrary, we may keep or share your information if we think it’s reasonably required to abide by a law, rule, legal procedure, or governmental request; to ensure someone’s safety; to deal with fraud, security, or technical issues; or to safeguard the property or rights of us or our visitors.
13.2 If Swap Education is required by law to do so or to ensure the security of both visitors and Swap Education, it may disclose your personal information to law enforcement, data protection authorities, government officials, and other authorities.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our Website’s practices, or your interactions with us, please email us at hello@swapeducation.com.
Questions? Contact us.