Edukasyon.ph is committed to the protection of your personal data and privacy. In this Privacy Policy, “Edukasyon.ph”, “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us” refers to Engadin Corporation, Edukasyon Corporation Limited, and any of our corporate affiliates. We offer a wide range of services, including on this website, referred to as “Services” in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains how the Company collects, processes, uses, discloses and protects data, in compliance with Republic Act No. 10173, also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA), its Implementing Rules and Regulations and other relevant issuances of the National Privacy Commission (NPC). This Privacy Policy applies when you use our products or services, or otherwise interact with us (for example, by attending our events), unless a different policy is displayed. This Privacy Policy also describes your choices regarding use, access, correction and deletion of your personal information. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should refrain from using the Edukasyon.ph or any websites or Services provided by the Company.
In this light, signing up with Edukasyon.ph entails that you provide us with information we can use to better understand you as a student, parent or guidance counselor. Your privacy is our outmost concern and we will ensure that it will always be respected and protected while it is under our possession.
Your privacy is important to us. This policy is intended to help you understand:
Information We Collect and Receive
We collect information about you when you provide it to us, when you use our Services, and when other sources provide it to us, as further described below.
Information you provide to us: We collect information about you when you input it into the Services or otherwise provide it directly to us.
Account and Profile Information: We collect information about you when you register for an account, create or modify your profile, set preferences, inquire to and apply for schools through our website. For example, you provide your contact information when you register for the Services. You also have the option of adding a display name, profile photo, and other details to your profile information to be displayed in our website. We keep track of your preferences when you select settings within the site.
Content you provide through our website: The Services include Edukasyon.ph products you use, where we collect and store content that you post, send, receive and share. This content includes any information about you that you may choose to include. Examples of content we collect include: the messages you send to schools through our website, the photos and transcripts you upload on your profile, the attachments you send to schools as part of your application, and any feedback you provide to us. Content also includes the files and links you upload to the Services. You also provide content to us, for example, when you provide feedback or when you participate in any interactive features, surveys, contests, promotions, or events.
Information you provide through our support channels: The Services also include our customer support, where you may choose to submit information regarding a problem you are experiencing with a Service. Whether you speak to one of our representatives directly or otherwise engage with our support team, you may be asked to provide contact information, a summary of the problem you are experiencing, and any other documentation, screenshots or information that would be helpful in resolving the issue.
Information we collect automatically when you use the Services: We collect information about you when you use our Services, including browsing our websites and taking certain actions within the Services.
Your use of the Services: We keep track of certain information about you when you visit and interact with our website. This information includes the features you use; the links you click on; the type, size and filenames of attachments you upload; frequently used search terms; and how you interact with others on the website.
Device and Connection Information: We collect information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other devices you use to access the website. This device information includes your connection type and settings when you install, access, update, or use our website. We also collect information through your device about your operating system, browser type, IP address, URLs of referring/exit pages, device identifiers, and crash data. We use your IP address and/or country preference in order to approximate your location to provide you with a better user experience. How much of this information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the website.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., device identifiers, pixels) to provide functionality and to recognize you across different Services and devices. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy , which includes information on how to control or opt out of these cookies and tracking technologies.
Information we receive from other sources: We receive information about you from other Service users, from third-party services, from our related companies, and from our business and channel partners.
Other services you link to your account: We receive information about you when you integrate or link a third-party service with our website. For example, if you create an account or log into the website using your Google credentials, we receive your name and email address as permitted by your Google profile settings in order to authenticate you. You may also integrate our Services with other services you use, such as to allow you to access, store, share and edit certain content from a third-party through our Services. The information we receive when you link or integrate our Services with a third-party service depends on the settings, permissions and privacy policy controlled by that third-party service. You should always check the privacy settings and notices in these third-party services to understand what data may be disclosed to us or shared with our Services.
Other Partners: We receive information about you and your activities on and off the Services from third-party partners, such as advertising and market research partners who provide us with information about your interest in and engagement with, our Services and online advertisements.
How We Use Information
How we use the information we collect depends on how you use the website, and any preferences you have communicated to us. Below are the specific purposes for which we use the information we collect about you.
To provide the Services and personalize your experience: We use information about you to provide the Services to you, including to process transactions with you, authenticate you when you log in, provide customer support, show you relevant ads, and operate and maintain the Services. For example, we use the name and other information you provide in your account to identify you to other Service users. Our Services also include tailored features that personalize your experience by automatically analyzing your activities and provide search results, activity feeds, notifications, connections and recommendations that are most relevant for you.
For research and development: We are always looking for ways to make our Services smarter, faster, secure, integrated, and useful to you. We use collective learnings about how people use our website and feedback provided directly to us to troubleshoot and to identify trends, usage, activity patterns and areas for integration and improvement of the Services.
To communicate with you about the website: We use your contact information to send transactional communications via email and within the website, including confirming your preferences, reminding you of subscription expirations, responding to your comments, questions and requests, providing customer support, and sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages. If an opt out is available, you will find that option within the communication itself or in your account settings.
To market, promote and drive engagement with the website: We use your contact information and information about how you use the Services to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you, including by email and by displaying ads on other companies' websites and applications, as well as on platforms like Facebook and Google. These communications are aimed at driving engagement and maximizing what you get out of the Services, including information about new features, survey requests, newsletters, and events we think may be of interest to you. We also communicate with you about new product offers, promotions, and contests. You can control whether you receive these communications as described below under "Opt-out of communications."
Customer support: We use your information to resolve technical issues you encounter, to respond to your requests for assistance, to analyze crash information, and to repair and improve the Services.
For safety and security: We use information about you and your Service use to verify accounts and activity, to monitor suspicious or fraudulent activity and to identify violations of Service policies.
For legitimate business interests and the protection of our legal rights: Where required by law or where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of others, we may use anonymized information about you in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and audit functions, and disclosures in connection with the acquisition, merger or sale of a business. We may also share anonymized, aggregated and non-personally identifiable data we collect with third parties, including but not limited to advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis, advertising, marketing, or other legitimate business purposes.
Legal bases for processing (for EEA users): If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where:
If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your information because we or a third party (e.g. your employer) have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using the Services.
How We Share and Disclose Information
We work with third-party entities who help us provide and improve our Services or who use advertising or related products, which makes it possible to operate our companies and provide free services to our users. Here are some of the types of third parties we can share information with about you:
Schools and other institutions you choose to communicate with, or indicate interest in: A core part of the Services we provide is to allow you to communicate and share information with schools and other institutions (such as scholarship providers, foundations, corporate partners). As such, we share information about you to these institutions, with your consent, in order to provide our Services to you. We do not share information that personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like name or email address that can by itself be used to contact you or identifies who you are) with institutions, unless you give us permission.
We may provide institutions with information about the reach and effectiveness of their reach without providing information that personally identifies you, or if we have aggregated the information so that it does not personally identify you. For example, we may tell an institution how many people viewed their profile page, or provide non-personally identifying demographic information (such as 19-year old female, in Manila, who is interested in electrical engineering) to these institutions to help them understand their audience, but only after the institution has agreed to abide by our partner guidelines.
Service Providers: We work with third-party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, payment processing, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to access or use information about you. If a service provider needs to access information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.
Social Media Widgets: The Services may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. Your use of and any information you submit to any of those third-party sites is governed by their privacy policies, not this one.
With your consent: We share information about you with third parties when you give us consent to do so. For example, we often display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our public websites. With your consent, we may post your name alongside the testimonial.
Advertising, measurement and analytics services (non-personally identifiable information only): For any advertising you see in our website or as part of our Services, we want this advertising to be as relevant and interesting as the other information you find in our website and Services. With this in mind, we use all of the information we have about you to show you relevant ads. We do not share information that personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like name or email address that can by itself be used to contact you or identifies who you are) with advertising, measurement or analytics partners, unless you give us permission. We may provide these partners with information about the reach and effectiveness of their advertising without providing information that personally identifies you, or if we have aggregated the information so that it does not personally identify you. For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed, or how many people viewed their ads, or provide non-personally identifying demographic information to these partners to help them understand their audience or customers, but only after the advertiser has agreed to abide by our advertiser guidelines.
Vendors, service providers and other partners: We transfer information to vendors, service providers, and other partners who support our business, such as providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our Services are used, measuring the effectiveness of ads and services, providing customer service, facilitating payments, or conducting academic research and surveys. These partners must adhere to strict confidentiality obligations in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the agreements we enter into with them.
Compliance with Enforcement Requests and Applicable Laws; Enforcement of Our Rights: In exceptional circumstances, we may share information about you with a third party if we believe that sharing is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements, (b) enforce our agreements, policies and terms of service, (c) protect the security or integrity of our products and services, (d) protect Edukasyon.ph, our customers or the public from harm or illegal activities, or (e) respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose information to assist in preventing the death or serious bodily injury of any person.
How We Store and Secure Information
Information storage and security: We use Amazon Web Services in Singapore to host the information we collect, and we use technical measures to secure your data. While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
How long we keep information: How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, as described in further detail below. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible (for example, because the information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.
Account information: We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and a reasonable period thereafter in case you decide to re-activate the Services. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our Services. Where we retain information for Service improvement and development, we take steps to eliminate information that directly identifies you, and we only use the information to uncover collective insights about the use of our Services, not to specifically analyze personal characteristics about you.
Information you share on the Services: If your account is deactivated or disabled, some of your information and the content you have provided will remain in order to allow others with whom you have shared information to make full use of the Services.
Marketing information: If you have elected to receive marketing emails from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our Services, such as when you last opened an email from us or ceased using your Edukasyon.ph account. We retain information derived from cookies and other tracking technologies for a reasonable period of time from the date such information was created.
How to Access, Control and Remove your Information
You have certain choices available to you when it comes to your information. Below is a summary of those choices, how to exercise them and any limitations.
Your Choices: You have the right to request a copy of your information, to object to our use of your information (including for marketing purposes), to request the deletion or restriction of your information, or to request your information in a structured, electronic format.
Your request and choices may be limited in certain cases: for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal information about another person, or if you ask to delete information which we or your administrator are permitted by law or have compelling legitimate interests to keep. Where you have asked us to share data with third parties, for example, by installing third-party apps, you will need to contact those third-party service providers directly to have your information deleted or otherwise restricted. If you have unresolved concerns, you may have the right to complain to a data protection authority in the country where you live, where you work or where you feel your rights were infringed.
Access and update your information: Our Services and related documentation give you the ability to access and update certain information about you from within the Service. For example, you can access your profile information from your account and search for content containing information about you using keyword searches in the Service. You can update your profile information within your profile settings and modify content that contains information about you using the editing tools associated with that content.
Deactivate your account: If you no longer wish to use our Services, you may be able to deactivate your account. If you want to deactivate your own account, that setting is available to you in your account settings. Please be aware that deactivating your account does not delete your information; your information remains visible to Edukasyon.ph based on your past participation within the website. For more information on how to delete your information, see below.
Delete your account and information: To delete all your stored information at Edukasyon.ph, you may send a deletion request to support@edukasyon.ph.
Request that we stop using your information: In some cases, you may ask us to stop accessing, storing, using and otherwise processing your information where you believe we don't have the appropriate rights to do so. For example, if you believe an account was created for you without your permission or you are no longer an active user, you can request that we delete your account as provided in this policy. Where you gave us consent to use your information for a limited purpose, you can contact us to withdraw that consent, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place at the time. You can also opt-out of our use of your information for marketing purposes by contacting us, as provided below. When you make such requests, we may need time to investigate and facilitate your request. If there is delay or dispute as to whether we have the right to continue using your information, we will restrict any further use of your information until the request is honored or the dispute is resolved, provided your administrator does not object (where applicable). If you object to information about you being shared with a third-party app, please disable the app or contact your administrator to do so.
Opt out of communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by using the unsubscribe link within each email, updating your email preferences within your account settings menu, or by contacting us as provided below to have your contact information removed from our promotional email list or registration database. Even after you opt out from receiving promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive transactional messages from us regarding our Services. You can opt out of some notification messages in your account settings.
Turn off Cookie Controls: Relevant browser-based cookie controls are described in our Cookie Policy.
International Transfer of Information
We collect information globally and primarily store that information in the Philippines and Singapore. We transfer, process and store your information outside of your country of residence, to wherever we or our third-party service providers operate for the purpose of providing you the Services. Whenever we transfer your information, we take steps to protect it.
International transfers to third parties: Some of the third parties described in this privacy policy, which provide services to us under contract, are based in other countries.
Other Important Privacy Information
Privacy of Minors: Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to create accounts unless their parent has consented in accordance with applicable law. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under the relevant minimum age without parental consent, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. Parents who believe that their child has submitted personal information to us and would like to have it deleted may contact us at info@edukasyon.ph
Changes to our Privacy Policy: We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by adding a notice on the Services homepages, login screens, or by sending you an email notification. We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review. We encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you disagree with any changes to this privacy policy, you will need to stop using the Services and deactivate your account(s), as outlined above.
Data Privacy Officer: To communicate with our Data Privacy Officer, please email info@edukasyon.ph
Contacting Edukasyon.ph Please also feel free to contact Edukasyon.ph if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices. You may contact us at info@edukasyon.ph or at our mailing address below:
Edukasyon.ph
UB, 111 Paseo de Roxas Building, Legaspi Village, Makati City
Philippines
Last modified: March 26, 2020