Privacy Policy

GECC means Global Education and Career Consultants Limited, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 8939124. GECC respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, regardless of where you visit it from, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

In this Policy, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Account

An account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of our Site.

Cookie

A small text file placed on your computer or device by our Site when you visit certain parts of it or use certain features.

Cookie Law

The relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the "GDPR") as any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier.

In simpler terms, it is any information about you that enables you to be identified — covering obvious information such as your name and contact details, as well as less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority for data protection. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns directly before you approach the ICO.

Depending on your use of our Site, we may collect some or all of the following personal and non-personal data:

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.

Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data — because it is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented, or because it is in our legitimate business interests. Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:

• Providing and managing your Account
• Providing and managing your access to our Site
• Personalising and tailoring your experience on our Site
• Supplying our products and services to you
• Personalising and tailoring our products and services for you
• Communicating with you, including responding to emails or calls
• Supplying information by email and/or post that you have opted in to
• Analysing your use of our Site and gathering feedback to improve it

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email, telephone, text message, and/or post. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam, and you will always have the opportunity to opt out.

Third parties whose content appears on our Site may use third-party cookies. We do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data they collect and use themselves, and we advise you to check their privacy policies directly.

We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was first collected. Where there is no fixed retention period, relevant factors will be used to determine how long it is kept.

We will only store or transfer your personal data within the UK and/or the European Economic Area (the "EEA"), which consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means your personal data will be fully protected under the GDPR or to equivalent standards by law.

Where data is stored or transferred in countries outside the EEA, which may not have data protection laws as strong as those in the UK and/or EEA, we take additional steps to ensure it remains just as safely and securely protected, including through:

• Binding corporate rules requiring all companies within our group to follow the same rules on personal data usage.
• Transfers only to countries the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of protection.
• Specific contracts with external third parties approved by the European Commission for transfers to third countries.
• Where data is transferred to a third party based in the US, protection to standards similar to those in Europe.

We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to one important exception: in some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data if we are involved in legal proceedings, complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply certain products and/or services — including payment processing, delivery, and marketing — who may require access to some or all of the personal data we hold. Where this is required, we take steps to ensure that data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights and our obligations under the law.

You may access certain areas of our Site without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on our Site, you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

You may restrict our use of cookies — see the Cookies section below and our Cookie Policy at gecconsultant.co.uk.

We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business, which may involve the sale and/or transfer of control of all or part of it. Any personal data you have provided will, where relevant to the part of the business being transferred, be transferred along with it, and the new owner will be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.

If you want to know what personal data we hold about you, you can ask us for details of it and a copy of it, where held. This is known as a subject access request.

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses in the Contact section below. A Subject Access Request Form is available on request, though you are not required to use it.

There is not normally any charge for a subject access request unless it is "manifestly unfounded or excessive" — for example, through repetitive requests — in which case a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs.

We will respond within one month of receiving your request. In more complex cases, this may extend to a maximum of three months, and you will be kept fully informed of our progress.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users, helping us provide a good browsing experience and improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers stored on your browser or hard drive if you agree. A cookie message will appear on our site before any cookie is stored on your device.

Advertising and remarketing cookies — GECC uses third-party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google Adwords tracking cookie, which tell us when a user arrives on our site via a paid advert. Remarketing displays relevant ads tailored to your prior use of our website. These cookies do not identify you or give access to your device — they simply allow us to tailor marketing to your needs.

You can opt out of Google's use of cookies via Google's Ads Settings, or set your browser to refuse cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may cause some parts of this website to become inaccessible or malfunction.

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time — for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection. Any changes will be posted immediately on our Site, and you will be deemed to have accepted the updated terms on your first use of the Site following the alterations. We recommend checking this page regularly to stay up to date.

Please contact us using the details below when exercising your rights listed in this policy, or with any query about how we process your data.