Privacy Policy

EDU CONSULTANCY LTD, a company registered in England, with company number 12534558 (we, us or our), understands that protecting your personal data is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal data provided to us, or otherwise collected by us when providing our website that allows you to request university application consultancy services (Services), or when otherwise interacting with you.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other detailed privacy notices we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you understand our privacy practices in relation to your data.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and facilitating your privacy rights. To this end, we adhere to principles relating to processing your personal data responsibly under applicable data protection regulations.

The following principles govern how and why we collect and use your personal data under the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 and the U.K. Data Protection Act 2018:

• Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: We process your personal data lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner.
• Purpose Limitation: We only collect personal data about you for the specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes listed in this Notice. We do not process your personal data for any other purposes.
• Data Minimisation: We only collect personal data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what we need for the purpose for which we collect your data. We take every reasonable step to ensure that the personal data we collect is accurate and kept up-to-date and give you every opportunity to rectify or erase any inaccuracies.
• Storage Limitation: We only keep your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which we collected it.
• Integrity and Confidentiality: We take technical and organisational measures to ensure that personal data is adequately protected.
• Accountability: We demonstrably comply with our personal data protection obligations.

For the purposes of processing your personal data, EDU Consultancy acts as both a Data Controller and a Data Processor, depending on the nature and purpose of each processing operation that we carry out using your personal data.

EDU Consultancy as 'Data Controller'

For the purposes of our marketing and recruitment operations, EDU Consultancy acts as a "Data Controller". We also act in this capacity in connection with third-party vendors we may engage in conducting our business, as well as members of the general public who contact us through any channel with questions about our company, services or for any other purpose. This means that in all these cases, we decide whether and how to process your personal data, depending on the nature of our relationship with you and the purpose(s) for which your data is necessary in this context.

EDU Consultancy as 'Data Processor'

For the purposes of providing our education consulting and placement services to you, EDU Consultancy acts as a "Data Processor", meaning that we process your personal data in accordance with your instructions as our client, and as determined by educational and financial institutions' application processes in their capacity as "Data Controllers".

Personal data: is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

We may collect, use, store and disclose different kinds of personal data about you which we have listed below:

• Identity Data including first name, middle name, last name, title, date of birth and gender.
• Contact Data including residential address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data including bank account and payment card details.
• University Application Data including your passport details, national insurance number or other details requested as part of our process to comply with university application requirements.
• Transaction Data including details about payments from you to us and other details of services you have purchased from us.
• Technical and Usage Data including internet protocol (IP) address, your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, information about your access and use of our website, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our website, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
• Interaction Data including information you provide to us when you participate in any interactive features of our Services, including surveys, contests, promotions, activities or events.
• Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
• Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience.

Special Categories of Personal Data is a special category of personal data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. In the course of providing our Services, we may collect, or come across such special categories of personal data, in different situations including when assisting you with university applications that require disclosure of disabilities or special needs information.

We collect personal data in a variety of ways, including:

• Directly: We collect personal data which you directly provide to us, including through the 'contact us' form on our website or when you request our assistance via email, or over the telephone.
• Indirectly: We may collect personal data which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you use our website, in emails, over the telephone and in your online enquiries or any online campaign published on various social media platforms.
• From third parties: We collect personal data from third parties, such as details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers. See the "Cookies" section below for more detail on the use of cookies.

We collect and process personal data about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

If you have consented to our use of data about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your data because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using our services. Further information about your rights is available below.

We may disclose personal data to:

• our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
• IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers;
• professional advisors, bankers, auditors, our insurers and insurance brokers;
• our existing or potential agents or business partners;
• universities you are applying to;
• sponsors or promoters of any promotions or competition we run;
• anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
• courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
• third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics (To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or any other URL Google may use from time to time), Meta Pixel or other relevant analytics businesses; and
• any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a summons.

We have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features including [Remarketing Features, Advertising Reporting Features, Demographics and Interest Reports, Store Visits, Google Display Network Impression reporting etc.]. We and third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features including using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on. To opt-out of personalised ad delivery on the Google content network, please visit Google's Ads Preferences Manager or if you wish to opt-out permanently even when all cookies are deleted from your browser you can install their plugin. To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device: On android open the Google Settings app on your device and select "ads" to control the settings. On iOS devices with iOS 6 and above use Apple's advertising identifier. To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings menu on your device.

Where we disclose personal data to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal data outside of the United Kingdom. The level of data protection in countries outside of the United Kingdom may be less comprehensive than what is offered in the United Kingdom. Where we transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom, we will perform those transfers using appropriate safeguards in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and we will protect the transferred personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This includes:

• only transferring your personal data to countries that have been deemed by applicable data protection laws to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
• including standard contractual clauses in our agreements with third parties that are overseas.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

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 unauthorised 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, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Your choice:

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal data to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal data to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Information from third parties:

If we receive personal data about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal data about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person's consent to provide the personal data to us.

Access, correction, processing and portability:

You may request details of the personal data that we hold about you and how we process it (commonly known as a "data subject request"). You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have your personal data rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to object to decisions being made based on automated processing where the decision will produce a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal data to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal data relating to you transferred to you or another organisation.

Unsubscribe:

To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Withdraw consent:

Where we are relying on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Complaints:

If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

If you are a national of, or you reside in, or otherwise find yourself in a European Economic Area (EEA) country, EDU Consultancy is committed to facilitating the exercise of your privacy rights as granted by applicable data protection laws and regulations. You can contact us at any time to exercise your rights or discuss your privacy questions or concerns.

European and British data protection regulation provide you with the following privacy rights:

• Right to Information about whether, what, and how we process personal data about you;
• Right to Access a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;
• Data Portability gives you the right to request us to provide a copy of your data to a third-party, instead of yourself, such as when you would like to change service providers;
• Restriction of Processing, which allows you to request us to stop specific processing operations, or all processing operations using your personal data altogether;
• Permanent erasure, meaning that you can request us to permanently erase your personal data from our records;
• Right to Object and Withdraw Consent to Processing at Any Time, means that you can object to specific processing operations and withdraw any consent that you have previously provided us with to process your personal data, in which case all processing operations based on consent must stop. For example, we only send you marketing communications with your consent. You have the right to unsubscribe from our marketing campaigns at any time by using the 'Unsubscribe' facility that we provide with each communication.
• Right to Complain to Data Protection Authorities, should you feel concerned about our data protection practices and/or unsatisfied with our response to you.

We are committed to ensuring that the personal data we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal data and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences and to provide a better user experience. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do recognise you when you return to our online services and may allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If you choose to provide our online services with personal data, this data may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Where required by law, we will always seek your consent before placing any non-essential cookies on your device. For more information about the cookies we use, or to update your consent preferences, please see our Cookie Policy available at [Cookie Policy URL]

Our website may contain links to other party's websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal data which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

You also have the right to complain to the data protection authorities about our approach to privacy, although we encourage you to try and let us help you first.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, we advise that you Contact Us in the first instance as we welcome the opportunity to make things right for you. If you are still not happy with our response to your data protection concerns or complaint, you are also welcome to complain to the national data protection authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at:

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you if we make a significant change to this Privacy Notice, by contacting you through the contact details you have provided to us and by publishing an updated version on our website.

Whether you have questions or concerns about any of the above, or you would simply like to exercise your data protection rights, our dedicated Privacy Office, including our Data Protection Officer, is here to help: info@educonsultancy.co.uk

For any questions or notices, please contact us at:

Last update: 24 October 2025