1. Introduction
At Accounting Academy Cyprus ("we," "our," or "us"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use our services, or enroll in our courses.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access our website or use our services.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Data
We may collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when you express interest in obtaining information about our courses or services, when you register for courses, or otherwise contact us. The personal data we collect may include:
- Name, email address, and contact details
- Educational background and professional experience
- Course enrollment information and academic records
- Payment information
- Feedback, surveys, and correspondence
2.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log standard data provided by your web browser. This may include:
- Your computer's IP address
- Browser type and version
- Pages you visit and the time spent on those pages
- Time and date of your visit
- Referring website addresses
2.3 Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. For more information about our use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our services
- Process and complete transactions, and send related information including confirmation notices and updates
- Manage student accounts, including enrollment, assessment, and certification
- Send administrative information, such as updates to our terms, conditions, and policies
- Respond to inquiries, comments, and questions
- Provide customer support and send technical notices and security alerts
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services
- Improve our website, services, marketing, and student relationships
- Develop new programs, products, services, and content
- Send promotional communications, such as information about courses, features, surveys, newsletters, offers, promotions, contests, and events
4. Legal Basis for Processing
We will only process your personal data when we have a legal basis to do so. The legal basis will depend on the purpose for which we process your data. We generally process your data on the following bases:
- When it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the educational services you have requested)
- When it is in our legitimate interest to do so (e.g., to improve our services)
- When you have given us consent to do so for a specific purpose
- When we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:
- Service providers who help us deliver our services (e.g., payment processors, cloud hosting providers)
- Professional advisors such as lawyers, auditors, and insurers
- Regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, and other public bodies when required by law
- Potential employers or internship providers (only with your explicit consent)
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Academic records and certification information may be retained indefinitely to provide verification services for you and potential employers.
7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your personal data. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: You may request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: You may request that we correct inaccurate or complete incomplete data.
- Erasure: You may request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Restrict processing: You may request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
- Data portability: You may request that we transfer your data to another organization or directly to you.
- Objection: You may object to our processing of your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.
9. International Data Transfers
We primarily process and store your information within the European Economic Area (EEA). However, in some cases, your information may be transferred to and processed by staff or service providers operating outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
- Where we use service providers outside the EEA, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
10. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.