How we collect and use personal information

Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person.

You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with Eduschemes. Eduschemes will not share this personal information with anyone. We may however combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content and advertising.

How we use your personal information

• The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on Eduschemes's latest product announcements, service updates and upcoming events. It also helps us to improve our services, content and advertising. If you don't want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences.
• We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver and improve our products, services, content and advertising.
• From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with Eduschemes, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.
• We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis and research to improve Eduschemes's products, services and customer communications.

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

We also collect non-personal information — data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it.

• We may collect information such as occupation, language, postcode, area code, unique device identifier, location and the time zone where an Eduschemes product is used so that we can better understand customer behaviour and improve our products, services and advertising
• We may also collect information regarding customer activities on our website. This information is used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products and services are of most interest.

Cookies and Other Technologies

Eduschemes's website, online services, interactive applications, email messages and advertisements may use "cookies" and other technologies. These technologies help us better understand user behaviour, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.

Eduschemes and our partners also use cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our website, online services and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with Eduschemes more convenient and personal. For example, knowing your school name lets us welcome you the next time you visit Eduschemes.

If you want to disable cookies go to the Privacy pane in your browser to disable them. Please note that certain features of the Eduschemes website will not be available once cookies are disabled. You may also not be able to sign in.

As is true of most websites, we gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data.

We use this information to understand and analyse trends, to administer the site, to learn about user behaviour on the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Eduschemes may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.

In some of our email messages, we use a "click-through URL" linked to content on the Eduschemes website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.

Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.

Disclosure to Third Parties

Others

It may be necessary — by law, legal process, litigation and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence — for Eduschemes to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.

We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a re-organisation, merger or sale, we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.

Protection of Personal Information

Eduschemes takes precautions — including administrative, technical and physical measures — to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse, as well as against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

Eduschemes services use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is collected.

Access to Personal Information

Children

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Location-Based Services

Third-Party Sites and Services

Eduschemes websites, products, applications and services may contain links to third-party websites, products and services. Our products and services may also use products from third parties. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.

International Users

Information you provide may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this Privacy Policy. Eduschemes abides by the "safe harbour” framework regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information collected by organisations in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

Our Company-Wide Commitment to Your Privacy

To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to Eduschemes employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about Eduschemes’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us.

Eduschemes may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.