Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

Welcome to Iqra Academic’s privacy notice. Iqra Academic is committed to protecting your data and privacy. This privacy notice will inform you of how we take care of your personal information when you visit our website (from any global jurisdiction),  and tell you about how the law protects your privacy rights.

Purpose of This Notice

This privacy notice serves to inform you on how Iqra Academic stores and processes your data through the use of this website. This notice must be read so that you are fully aware of how Iqra Academic stores and uses your data.

Controller

Iqra Aacademic is the controller and responsible for your data. Our data privacy manager is responsible for overseeing any queries about this privacy notice.

Contact details

Our contact details for any data privacy-related queries are as follows.

Name of Company: 

Iqra Academic

Name of data privacy manager: 

M. Saber Faizi

Email Address: 

info@iqraacademic.com

Postal Address: 

103 Speldhurst Road, Chiswick, London W4 1BY

United Kingdom

Third-Party Links

The Iqra Academic website includes links to third-party websites for your convenience and to provide additional information, however, Iqra Academic is not responsible under any circumstance for the collection of data by third-party sites. Before providing any external sites with your private information, we encourage you to check their privacy statements.

The data we collect about you

Personal data refers to any kind of personal information about an individual that can help them be identified. We may require collecting, using and storing various forms of information about you that we have listed below.

This information is strictly used for university admissions guidance and consultation, university admissions, and visa applications. This information will only be available to: your Iqra Academic University consultant/s, the governmental agencies responsible for visa applications, and university admission teams of the universities applied to.

• Identity Data includes the student’s name, student’s surname, name and surname of parent/s      or guardians, student’s date of birth, student’s gender, student’s passport details, parent or guardian’s passport details if necessary,      student’s visa details and CAS number, UCAS number if necessary,      school/university transcripts, letter of purpose, letter of recommendation, portfolio, CV.
• Contact Data includes the student’s billing address, parent’s billing address, email address, telephone number, and mobile phone number.
• Financial Data includes student and/or parent’s bank statements to verify income and revenue, and payment card details for university fees payment.
• Transaction Data includes      details about payments to and from you to us and details about products      or services purchased from us/
• Technical Data     includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, tie zone setting and location, browser, operating system, platform, and devices.
• Profile Data     includes your purchases or orders, preferences and feedback.
• Usage Data     includes information on how you use our services.
• Marketing and Communications Data     includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your      communication preferences

We also collect and use aggregated Demographic Data which includes aggregate/collective information on customer demographics. It is used to calculate the percentage of users accessing our website, pages or services with common characteristics such as region, and gender. This is purely to improve the quality and accessibility of our services and to help us understand our customer demographics.

We may also require to collect special categories of personal data such as information on any disabilities or learning difficulties, any criminal convictions, and biometric data.

If you fail to provide the required personal data

Where we require a form of personal data to process your application that you fail to provide, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us.

How is your data collected?

Different methods may be used to collect data from you including.

• Direct interactions by phone, email or in-person
• Automated technologies as you interact with our website using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
• and or publicly available sources using analytics required providers, advertising networks, search information providers, as well as person contact, financial and transactional data from providers of technical,      payment and delivery services.

How we use your data

• We will only use your  Third-party data where the law allows us to,      often in the following scenarios:
• Where we need to perform a contract with you
• Where it is necessary for our interests, the interest of educational      (university) or governmental (visa provider) institutions and your      interests do not override those interests
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation

Marketing

We provide you with choices regarding personal data uses around marketing and advertising.

Promotional Offers

We may require your profile information and preferences to form a view on what we think may be of interest to you and may communicate this you in the form of marketing offers or suggestions if you have signed up or requested this information from us and have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

We will obtain your consent before sharing any of your data with any companies or institutions outside Iqra Academic.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse cookies, if you do so, please note that some areas of this website may become inaccessible.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your data for the purposes which we have collected it. If we Third-Party to use it for another purpose, we will inform you and explain the legal basis, for allowing us to do so.

Data Security

Iqra Academic have put measures in place to prevent your are required data from being lost, accessed or used in an unauthorised way. We will limit your information to being used only by employees and third parties who have a business need to know, and they will only process your information based on our instructions.

In the case of an unlikely personal data breach, we will notify you and any regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

By law, we keep basic information about our clients for six years after they cease being clients. In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data.