Who We Are
Globedu Solutions is an education and training agency. We help international students find education and training institutions where they can further their education and develop their skills.
We provide Canadian, American and UK’s university, college, language and boarding school advice and application services.
Globedu Solutions Solutions gathers and processes your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant data protection Regulation and Laws. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights and obligations and explains how, why and when we collect and process your personal data.
Globedu Solutions Solutions processes your personal information to meet our legal, statutory, and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. We will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and do not process your information in any way, other than already specified in this notice. We are permitted to collect data for legitimate purposes. A legitimate purpose is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The personal data that we will or may collect from you is:- Name
- Date of Birth
- Home Address – Canada, USA, UK (if applicable)
- Home address – home country (if applicable)
- Personal Email
- Home Telephone Number
- Work Telephone Number
- Mobile Telephone Number
- WhatsApp Number
- Skype Address
- Passport Number
- Date of issue
- Qualifications and Education (including copies of Certificates and Transcripts)
- Employment history
- References (Personal and Professional)
- Any other relevant documentation pertaining to applications for training and studying at educational institutions in Canada, USA or UK
- Information about how you use our website, communications and other systems
- Medical and dietary information (where necessary)
- Your responses to surveys, competitions, and promotions
We collect information in the following ways:
- Online forms – via a link, our website, or social media channels
- Email requests for personal data
- Email requests for supporting documents needed to provide our services
- Via mobile messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Viber
How We Use Your Personal Data
Globedu Solutions takes your privacy very seriously and will never disclose, share, or sell your data without your consent unless required to do so by law. We only retain your data for as long as necessary and for the purposes specified in this notice. Where you have consented to us providing you with promotional offers and marketing, you are free to withdraw consent, at any time. The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are detailed below:
We collect your personal data for the delivery of the services we provide. (Described above). We use this data to enable us to evaluate your suitability for relevant courses or training, and to fulfil the requirements of the receiving institution. We share this data with educational institutions or with training providers that fit your study criteria so that they can decide whether to offer you a place on their courses.
We collect and store your personal data under a category known as ‘Legitimate Interests’. In simple terms – we need your data because we have a legitimate interest in obtaining it so that we can provide the service you have requested from us.
Your Rights
- What personal data we hold about you
- The purposes of the processing
- The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
- How long we intend to store your personal data for
- If we did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source
If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to update/correct it as quickly as possible; unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, at which point you will be notified.
You also have the right to request the erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use.
If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the relevant request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.
Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal InformationWe do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement. Globedu Solutions uses third parties to provide the below services and business functions, however, all processors acting on our behalf only process your data in accordance with instructions from us and comply fully with this privacy notice, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Safeguarding Measures
Globedu Solutions takes your privacy seriously and we take every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including:
How Long We Keep Your Data
Globedu Solutions only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and we have strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations.
Where you have consented to us using your details for direct marketing and to notify you of relevant services, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.
Promotional Communications
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, or post) about our services, including promotions for new educational courses, or new services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above ‘How we use your personal information’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you relevant promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION
REGULATIONS (GDPR)
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser. This helps us tailor the site to your needs as well as improve the website in the future. You can delete/control cookies via your browser settings by following these instructions, however if you choose to block cookies then your browsing experience may be affected. This includes:
- Live Chat functionality (if available)
- Track the pages you visit via Google Analytics / Tag Manager
- Allow you to share pages with social networks
- Allow you to share pages via Add This (if available)
Access to your information
You have the right to see what personal data we hold about you. If you would like this information, please email us on [email protected] or write to us.
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page.