1. Introduction
DataPro Cyprus ("we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy policy applies to personal data we collect from you when you use our website, enroll in our courses, subscribe to our newsletters, or otherwise engage with our services.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
2.1 Identity Data
Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth, and gender.
2.2 Contact Data
Includes email address, telephone numbers, and physical address.
2.3 Technical Data
Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
2.4 Usage Data
Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
2.5 Marketing and Communications Data
Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
2.6 Educational and Professional Data
Includes your educational background, professional experience, and course enrollment details.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Educational/Professional Data by filling in forms on our website, enrolling in courses, or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
- Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation
- Where you have provided consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose
We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data:
4.1 To Register You as a New Student
We use your Identity and Contact Data to process and manage your enrollment in our courses, including creating and maintaining your student account.
4.2 To Provide Educational Services
We use your Identity, Contact, and Educational/Professional Data to deliver course content, assess your performance, provide feedback, and issue certificates or qualifications.
4.3 To Manage Our Relationship With You
We use your Identity, Contact, and Marketing and Communications Data to manage our relationship with you, which will include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
4.4 To Administer and Protect Our Business and Website
We use your Identity, Contact, and Technical Data for administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud, and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise.
4.5 To Deliver Relevant Website Content and Advertisements
We use your Identity, Contact, Usage, Marketing and Communications Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
4.6 To Use Data Analytics
We use your Technical and Usage Data to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data. See your legal rights below for further information.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data: This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of your personal data: This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- Request erasure of your personal data: This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
- Object to processing of your personal data: This enables you to object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data: This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data: This enables you to request the transfer of your personal data to a third party.
- Right to withdraw consent: This enables you to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
8. International Transfers
We may share your personal data within our group of companies and with external third parties, which may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of 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 certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.
9. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
10. Changes to the 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 page.
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.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us through the contact form on our website.
12. Data Protection Authority
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, the Cyprus supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority, so please contact us in the first instance.