Privacy Policy • Grade University

Privacy Policy

1. General provisions

The privacy of users of our website https://grade-university.com/ is of great importance to us, and we make every effort to ensure its protection.

By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy (hereinafter — the Policy).

This Policy explains how we use your personal information.

This Policy sets out the procedure for processing personal data, the types of personal data that are collected, the purposes of using such personal data, interaction with third parties, and the rights of the subject of personal data.

By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of this Policy, you give us permission to use cookies on each of your subsequent visits.

2. Collection, processing and use of personal data

We collect only those personal data that are voluntarily provided by the user when visiting/authorizing on our website https://grade-university.com/, which in accordance with the requirements of the law is the consent of the subject of personal data to the processing of his/her personal data in accordance with this Policy purposes of their processing.

List of personal data that may be collected, stored and used when using our website:

  • 2.1

    Information about your computer, phone or other device, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;

  • 2.2

    Information about your visits and use of the website, including referral sources, length of visits, pages viewed and navigation paths;

  • 2.3

    Information about your e-mail, which you used to register on our website;

  • 2.4

    Information that you entered during authorization on our website — for example, your first name, last name, patronymic;

  • 2.5

    Information that you entered while using the services of our website;

  • 2.6

    Information generated when using our website, including information about the time, frequency and conditions of its use;

  • 2.7

    Information contained in any messages you have sent to us by e-mail or to our website, including message content and metadata;

  • 2.8

    Any other personal information you have sent to us.

The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this Policy. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Administration of our website;
  • Personalization of our website for you;
  • Providing you with the opportunity to use the services available on our website;
  • Sending you messages;
  • Sending you e-mail messages that you have specifically requested;
  • Providing third-party companies with statistical information about our users (however, these third-party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
  • Handling inquiries and complaints made by you or against you, and which relate to our website;
  • In order to ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud;
  • In order to verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of private messages sent through the private message service of our website); and
  • For other purposes.

We have the right to provide access and transfer your personal data to third parties without any separate and/or additional notifications, without changing the purpose of personal data processing within the scope of your rights as a subject of personal data in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of Personal Data".

The processing and storage of the provided personal data is carried out in data centers where the equipment that ensures the functioning of the website services is located. The provided personal data is processed and may be stored in the personal data base or a separate table of the website database.

The place of storage and processing of personal data is located at the address: office 39, 1st floor, 13/2-B, Yaroslaviv Val str., Kyiv, 01054.

If the user does not wish to provide personal data, the user is obliged to stop registration, further use of our website and leave the website.

3. Disclosure of personal data

We undertake not to use, process or transfer the collected information in a way that goes beyond the requirements of the current legislation of Ukraine. The transfer of personal data is carried out only on the basis of a court decision or in another order provided by the current legislation of Ukraine.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, managers, policyholders, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors to the extent and for the purposes set forth in this Policy.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies to the extent and for the purposes set forth in this Policy.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information:

  • 3.1

    In those cases in which the law requires us to do so;

  • 3.2

    In connection with any current or future legal proceedings;

  • 3.3

    To establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud);

  • 3.4

    To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or assets that we sell (or intend to sell); and

  • 3.5

    To any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may submit a request to a court or other authorized body for the disclosure of this personal data and, in our reasonable opinion, this court or authorized body will issue an order for the disclosure of this personal data.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except for the cases specified in this Policy.

4. Retention of personal data

Section 4 sets out the rules and procedures for the preservation of personal information. These rules and procedures are intended to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations to retain and delete personal information./p>

Personal information that we process for a specific purpose or purposes must not be retained for longer than is necessary to achieve that purpose or those purposes.

After you cease to be a user of the website by deleting your account on the website, your personal data is also automatically deleted.

5. Protection of personal data

We will take adequate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, unlawful use or falsification of your personal information.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the World Wide Web.

You are fully responsible for keeping the password you set when you log in to our website confidential. We will never ask for your password (except when you try to log into your account).

6. Changes and amendments

We reserve the right to make changes and amendments to this Policy from time to time and publish the new version on our website. You should check this information periodically to ensure that you understand the changes made to this Policy. We may also notify you of changes to this Policy by email or through the messaging system on our website.

All changes take effect from the moment of their publication. By continuing to use our website, you confirm your agreement to the new terms of the Policy in the version valid at the time of using the website.

7. Your rights as a user (subject of personal data)

You can instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.

We reserve the right to refuse to provide information at your request, within the limits of current legislation.

You have the right to instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either consent in advance to us using your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of using your information for marketing purposes.

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be both "persistent" cookies and "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by the web browser and will remain valid until its expiration date, unless you delete it before the expiration date; a session cookie, ends at the end of your work session when the web browser closes. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and retrieved from cookies.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:

  • 8.1

    To identify you as a registered user on the website and your authentication;

  • 8.2

    To ensure that you connect to the correct service on the website when any changes are made to the way it works;

  • 8.3

    For security purposes;

  • 8.4

    Conducting web analytics: generating statistics on the use of the website;

  • 8.5

    Affiliate Tracking: to inform affiliates that one of our visitors has also visited their site;

  • 8.6

    Obtaining data on the number of website users who viewed a product or service;

  • 8.7

    Tracking any errors that occur;

  • 8.8

    Testing of various website pages design;

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    Saving your settings, such as text size, colors and other preferences;

  • 8.10

    Saving information about surveys already completed: so as not to bother you with them again;

  • 8.11

    Saving information about the fact of your interaction with certain components of the website, so as not to bother you again;

  • 8.12

    To show you when you have entered the website;

  • 8.13

    To provide and display embedded video content;

  • 8.14

    Demonstrations of targeted advertising on the website;

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    Improving the way of providing personalized advertising and measuring the success of advertising campaigns on the website.

Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of the website. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all functions of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Deleting cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites. If you have not configured your browser to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies immediately after visiting the website.

Changing cookie settings. Browser settings for changing cookie settings are usually found in the "Options" or "Settings" menu of your web browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be useful. Otherwise, you should use the "Help" option in your web browser for more information.

  • Deleting cookies and managing them in Internet Explorer
  • How to delete, disable and manage cookies in Chrome
  • Cookie settings in Firefox
  • Manage cookies and website data using Safari on Mac

9. Third-party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks and details about the websites of third party companies and individuals. We have no management tools, and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties and companies in this area.

10. Information update

Please notify us in a timely manner if your personal information held by us needs to be updated or corrected.