International Certified considers the personal data of its students as its data and takes care of their privacy as it does for itself. At International Certified, we are responsible for the privacy of your data and information. The information we collect is used for the only purpose we get it. Once we use it, its privacy and protection are our responsibility. Our students, instructors, and other team members can share their data without worry or risk while joining International Certified.
Website and Mobile Apps
Whether you are using the International Certified website or its mobile app, both are user-friendly and fast-loading. We ask for the data we require from users in both ways, as it’s crucial for our system's functioning.
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Our Aim
This privacy policy aims to clarify to the users connected with International Certified that all the data they share is safe and secure. International Certified understands the significance of each user's privacy and knows how to protect their data and information. All our privacy policy's laws, purposes, and objectives are mentioned. International Certified informs each user and team member about why we collect their data and how we protect it.
The Purpose Behind
International Certified is built to provide an online learning platform to students worldwide. It is a globally recognized platform that offers online international certification courses and corporate training. Everyone who joins International Certified, whether as a student, instructor, or team member, must provide the required data or information. This privacy policy aims to describe to our users how we collect, use, store, and protect their data. Moreover, it includes the laws under this policy is created.
This privacy policy consists of the types of data we gather and use by our users. You can find all the processes for analyzing, recording, and aggregating data. International Certified is committed to securing the related data of all its team members, experts, and students so that their data can’t be used immorally. And they are all satisfied with our work and system. Why we use your sensitive personal data and information is all clear under applicable privacy laws.
This policy applies to all our systems, controls, and procedures under International Certified. We guarantee our users will use their information and data only when necessary. Our team gathers your data in different ways. And use the data with your consent only. As a connected member of International Certified, you have complete information about when, where, and why we collect and use your data.
Our Goals and Objectives
You may have been thinking about why we need your personal information. The basis of International Certified builds on some goals and objectives. Our primary goals include:
- To offer various online certification courses and corporate training
- To provide worldwide students with a reliable online learning platform
- To differentiate you from your competitors with our certificates
- To protect your data and maintain your privacy
- To help you enhance your skill set and expertise
- To assist you in building a bright career
One of our primary goals is to protect all types of our user data. Our objectives for it are:
- To explain how we collect, use, and protect the data
- The user data can never be used in any immoral way
- To satisfy you with our services and systems
- To ensure that your data is safe and secure
- To describe our policy principles and laws
- To take care of our user’s privacy
- To clarify why we need your data
What’s included in the Privacy Policy?
The privacy policy of International Certified is designed to describe every individual connected with it and how we collect, use, analyze, and protect your data. The privacy of our customers or website users is of serious concern for International Certified. We neither introduce any system nor take any action with which your policy can get into any risk.
Our privacy policy is straightforward. It clearly states the purpose of data collection and the procedures through which we collect data and protect it. As a connected user of International Certified, you can share your information with us without worry. We are responsible for your privacy.
Types of Data Included
International Certified asks for various kinds of data when you join it, whether as a student, instructor, or team member. We take a record of every individual who joins us. The types of data we need include:
Personal User Identification Data
We ask for the user’s data to show their identity. So we have a record of individuals joining International Certified. The personal user identification data includes his first and last name, expertise, skills, location, email address, date of birth, occupation, and government-issued ID number. The only purpose for asking for such data is to have records.
User Financial Data
Financial data is used for finances and creditors. It includes financial information such as bank account information, salary package, payment transaction account details, assets, expenses, total income, e-wallet account details, financial resources, and cash flow.
Personal User Characteristics
Personal User Characteristics refer to the characteristics and features the user possesses. It includes information about his nationality, gender, age, skills, education level, date of birth, marital status etc.
User Contact Data
Contact data is crucial for communication purposes. It includes postal address, email address, phone number, social media accounts, etc.
User Location
International Certified is for worldwide students. Therefore, we ask every new individual who joins us about their location.
User Education Data
It consists of data and information related to user education. What are his qualifications, educational institutes, grades, etc.?
User Work Data
User Work Data is about the user's occupation, expertise, and skill set. It includes what the user is doing and to which institute or company he belongs.
User Electronic Identification Data
It involves asking users to provide digital proof of identity when trying to sign up on our website or courses. It also helps to safely conduct bank transactions.
User Inquiries
User inquiries mean providing the user with a form with required questions about their education, identity, payment details, and other personal information. We can easily record our users through digital forms.
User Generated Data
We encourage getting feedback and reviews from our website visitors and students. It assists in improving the quality of our work and building our platform's authority.
User Marketing Data
International Certified asks the user about user marketing data and provides it to the marketing team. The data is crucial for marketing new systems, courses, or products. The major types of marketing data include campaign data, customer data, competitor data, sales and purchase data, customer satisfaction data, etc.
User Behavioral Data
To gather user behavioral data, our research team tracks customer engagement and other activity on social media, email marketing campaigns, and online shopping. The time at which most users visit our website and for how long they stay are also included in user behavioral data.
Use of User Personal Information and Other Data
The only purpose of International Certified in using users' personal information is to provide them with quality services and offers. It offers international certification courses to worldwide students, so keeping records of users joining us is crucial. Here are the significant ways we use the personal information and other data of our users:
User Personal Identifiable Data
Users' Data is used to identify or differentiate them from other users. As hundreds of students join a similar course, we need their personally identifiable data to be aware of their identity and recognition. Moreover, we need to know about the users' goals and interests to suggest the best course or training according to their interests.
User Non-Personal Identifiable Data
Non-personal identifiable data involves information about the user’s device type, browser type, location, language preferences, etc., to provide them with certification courses and training according to those factors. We also asked about their learning time zone so we could send them marketing emails or content at that time.
User Data Use
We analyze the user behavioral data while visiting our website and ask for their feedback and reviews. That user-generated data is used to improve the quality of our system and work, for marketing purposes, and to build or show our authority to upcoming users.
User Data Share
We share the user’s data, including his name, email address, bank details, location, etc., with our affiliations. We share the data with the particular affiliation for which he needs the certificate so they know to whom we are providing their certificates.
User Data from Third Parties
The user data is also used to share it with third parties. The third party may be any of our accreditations or affiliations. Or it may be the bank through which the transaction is made. Or it may be our new website visitor who is in a way to decide whether he should join International Certified or not.
Collect User Data
International Certified collects data on its users in various ways. The most essential and significant way is to ask for it from the users. Some other ways may include:
- Seminars or Webinars
- From User’s Feedback
- Exams or Assessment of Online Courses
- Surveys
- Offline Activities by Educational Partner
- Scholarships, Refunds and Referrals
- Our Web Pages or Mobile Apps
- User’s Activity on Social Media
- Third-party resources like advertising partners, analytic providers
Protect User Data
International Certified has designed an accessible and crucial privacy policy for its users that is strictly followed. Following is the list of actions we take to maintain the privacy of our users:
- Every International Certified team member or employee knows the significance of privacy and how to protect our website user's privacy.
- We never transfer data or information to laptops or USBs that risk being stolen. Every piece of data is stored on company computers.
- Whether we ask for it directly from the user or gather it themselves, we use it only for record purposes or to share it with our affiliations and bank partners.
- International Certified collects, stores, and uses personal and non-personal data following privacy laws to satisfy users with our systems.
- Whenever we remove an individual's data from the records, the individual is notified immediately. This shows that we use our users' data with their consent.
- We record our users' personal data by their first and last names. So, in case of disclosure of personal data, the only thing the person knows is his full name. At the same time, all other details remain hidden.
- The computers and electronic devices of International Certified have installed some specific software that keeps records related to which action is performed in any system.
- We have black screen cameras for the computers to reduce the risk of affecting user policy to zero.
The Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies We Use
The company can use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide the best functionality and recognize users living in different regions and using different devices. The other tracking technologies include web beacons, device identifiers, pixels, etc.
Types of Cookies
The types of cookies International Certified uses are:
Cookies on our website:
The website of International Certified includes various cookies to make it easier for the user or visitor to revisit the website.
User session cookie:
User session cookies save information about login credentials or items in the shopping cart, even during a single user visit.
Analytical/performance cookies:
Analytical cookies observe and analyze how a visitor or user visits the website. They play a significant role in fixing our website's mistakes.
Targeting cookies:
Targeting cookies are specifically designed for marketing purposes. They collect information from your device and display ads to you accordingly.
Refusing cookies:
Our website also includes refusing cookies through which you can refuse them for their work. When users use such refusing cookies, it badly affects the visibility and usage of our website.
Marketing Cookies:
As its name shows, these cookies are designed for marketing purposes. It tracks users' online activity and helps market new courses and products.
How do we manage cookies?
Users can accept, delete, and reject cookies from a website. Refusing cookies from a website badly affects its visibility and usage. However, the user can delete them manually, so there is no such effect on the website itself.
User Data Analytics
We use tools like Google Analytics to monitor our website analytics. With the help of tools, we check the number of website visitors and how many of them are converting into our students. The purpose of it is to have statistics about our website visitors, click-through rates, conversion rates, share, etc. We get users' data on our website and then show them ads for our courses and offers through tools like Facebook Custom Audiences, Meta Business Suits Insights, Many Chat, etc.
User Data Aggregation
The team International Certified aggregates its users' data anonymously with other users. The data of students is aggregated in one file, while the data of instructors is aggregated in another. These files are used when data is needed for company use. However, we also share those data files with our bank partners and affiliated organizations. As we provide accredited certificates, we need to share your data with our accredited organizations.
Our User Data Protection Principles
The data protection principles of the Privacy Policy include:
- We may share your data with a third party. The third party can be an accredited organization through which we provide accredited certificates. It may also be our partner bank through which you make payments for our courses or training.
- We store your data in manual forms or on computers for our management, record, and regulation purposes.
- Whenever an individual buys our courses, whether real-time or recorded, we ask for some of their data. The data that provides us with accurate and enough information about our customers.
- We store the data of our users and students. If we launch a similar course that can help him achieve his goals or career, we contact him using that data and refer him to that individual.
- International Certified collects and uses users' data with their consent. We do not use it or share it with our partners without your permission.
All of our privacy laws and rules are applicable fairly and transparently. We use or share your data only when it is crucial. Each law is applied in its relevant situation. Our privacy policy and rules are updated according to time and systems.
Purpose of Gather User’s Data
International Certified gathers user’s data for company use. Some of its uses and reasons are given below:
- To send you a description of our new courses and procedures
- To provide information about related taxes, systems, and laws
- To check whether our courses align with our student's needs
- To share information about our students with our affiliations
- To observe analytics of our present and incoming students
- To monitor the quality of our content, offers, and system
- To sign up on our website as our student or instructor
- To provide you access to our courses and lectures
- To fully understand the needs of our customers
- To communicate about your goals and needs
- To ensure network and information security
- To fulfill the requirements of our procedures
- To have a record of our students and team
- To respond to customer service requests
- To create your account on our website
- For future management and planning
- To connect instructors and students
- To assist you in all possible ways
- To respond to your queries
- For marketing purposes
- For easy transactions
- To conduct surveys
Rights to access
International Certified allows its users to request access to their data. Our team will provide them with access. Once you access your data, you can edit, update, and change it in our system. You can contact us at our official phone number and website to gain access.
The users can also decide whether they need promotional or marketing content. If you want, you can contact us and stop getting them. In addition, the notifications users get when their data is used can also break off when they want. Your privacy and personal data are our responsibility, so you can feel relaxed, calm, and accessible while sharing it with us.
Correction and deletion
The users with access to their data also have access to correction and deletion. You can edit and correct any mistake you find in the data you share with it. For example, if you have changed your nationality or upgraded your education level, you can update it in your data. The same is true in the case of deletion. If a user wants to delete any aspect of its data from the records of our website, he can do so. However, if that aspect of data is crucial for proceeding, he must replace that information with something else so our system can’t stop working.
Notice to Users
The company doesn’t share users' data with any third party. However, when a user enrolls in our courses with our affiliate partner or refer program, his data will be available to both International Certified and to the individual or organization with which reference he join us. All the access we provide to such a user is on behalf of that reference. Thus, his data will remain between the company and the referenced third party.
User Consent
International Certified recognizes the significance of user’s consent. Using one’s personal and non-personal information without consent is nothing more than an immoral task. Whether we ask for the data directly from the user or gather it by research, we never do it before we get consent from that user.
We obtain consent from the user by voluntarily collecting their data, accepting our policy, or purchasing our products or courses. Every user has the opportunity to provide us with consent. If we obtain permission from our users, we will use the data for the abovementioned purposes. On the other hand, if the consent is rejected, we can neither proceed nor send them promotional emails or content.
Our Terms of Service
This privacy policy is part of our terms of service. Users who agree to our terms of service automatically approve the policy and give us consent to store and use their data for record-keeping and other company purposes. Our terms of service and privacy policy strictly follow the principles and laws of privacy.
Disclosure of Personal Data
We respect the privacy of every individual connected with International Certified and take action to maintain it. We don’t disclose or share their data without their consent or informing them. This whole privacy policy aims to clarify for our students or team members where and how their data can be used. Moreover, our users get a notification if we try to disclose their data without their consent.
Data Subject Rights
The users of International Certified have subject rights in terms of the data they share with us. Here is the list of those rights:
- Right to Access
- Right to Editing or Correction
- Right to Deletion
- Right to Give Consent
- Right to Accept or Reject Cookies
- Right to Approve the transfer of data to third-party right to choose the bank for the transaction
- Right to allow or break off marketing content or emails
We provide access or rights to the individual only after having complete information about his identity.
Data Security
International Certified has designed appropriate security measures for your data. These measures ensure that there is no risk of disclosing your private information. The privacy and security team regularly checks our manual and digital systems for high security.
At International Certified, we regularly check data accuracy in our systems. Moreover, we use computer screen blanking to ensure that any data from our users is not left on the screen. We don’t transfer the files of users' data in laptops or USBs that may have a risk of theft.
User International Data Transfer
International Certification is an online learning platform offering certification courses to students worldwide. Thus, its website and mobile app are operated worldwide. Our subcontractors, service providers, partners, instructors, and third parties are from different parts of the world, so users' data can move internationally.
This privacy policy clearly states that the user’s data can move internationally yet safely. There is not a single chance of danger or revealing users' privacy. Our whole system is safe and secure. We take every action under our privacy laws, so you can fully trust International Certified.
Records Management
We ask for our user’s data to keep records of our offers and sales. That record is managed safely, and the risk of its disclosure is reduced to zero. Those record files are used only for company purposes or to share with our affiliates. We take a record of the data of our students, instructors, and other team members under the principle of privacy.
Our Organization And Responsibilities
International Certified is a large platform that deals with worldwide students. It is divided into various organizations or sectors. Each organization fulfills its responsibility with determination.
The Data Protection Officer is responsible for data protection. He ensures the privacy of users' data and follows every privacy rule. The marketing team works on marketing campaigns and informs users of new launches and products. We also have a research team that observes and analyses users' online activity on social media.
Conflicts Of Law
This privacy policy follows all the rules and regulations regarding privacy. In case of any conflict between users, we will review the rules again and update the policy if we make any mistakes.
Retention Of Personal Data
International Certified keeps a record of its users' data. We retain the data until the purpose for which it was collected is fulfilled. The time of retention of our users' personal data depends on the purpose, the procedure, and the user’s demand for our products or courses.
However, International Certified promises its users or website visitors that their data remains safe and secure as long as we store it. There will never be any privacy issues from our side.
Our Procedures
When a user visits our website and purchases its course, the company must provide him with all access and rights. Once the student enrolls in the course or logs in to his account, he will get access to the course material, LMS, and recorded lectures. Users are prohibited from sharing course material and other things. That’s how our system works.
Breach Notification
However, we do our best to protect your privacy and personal data. Still, if we learn about anything related to privacy that is in danger to any user, we will inform that user as soon as possible. Our team will send him a breach notification so that he can take action to protect his data.
External Links of Our Website
Our website content, blog, articles, or any other web page may have external links to the website. We clearly state that we are not responsible for any personal data you share on that website. Our team is only responsible for the data you share on International Certified's user-friendly website or mobile app. We suggest reading and providing your data carefully on any website.
Information Security
International Certified has designed security measures our team follows to protect the policy of our website users. Our users provide us with personal, non-personal, financial, and bank information; we are responsible for storing and using it securely. Therefore, we never take any risk of problems in the privacy of our users and students. Specifically, we only use reliable and authentic bank partners for bank transactions.
Testimonials
To build our authority, we use testimonials and feedback from our website users and students on our websites. The testimonials are published with the full name of the user. The users have the authority to remove it from our website. You can contact us for it.
Policy Updates
International Certified may change and update the privacy policy over time. Therefore, it’s suggested that all users revisit the website and review the policy again after some time.
FAQ’S
01What is a privacy policy?
A privacy policy is an essential document that includes information about how a company collects, stores, and safe data of its users.
02What is the purpose of collecting user data?
The purpose of collecting user data is to record the users and customers of a website or a company.
03How does International Certified protect its users' data?
International Certified never uses its users' data without their consent. It stores its users' data on company computers and never transfers it to any USB or laptop that goes outside the company.
04What are the responsibilities of a Data Protection Officer?
The Data Protection Officer is responsible for data protection. He ensures the privacy of users' data and follows every privacy rule.
05How does International Certified inform its users if their data is at risk?
The team at International Certified sends breach notifications to inform its users if their data is at risk so that the user can take immediate action to protect the data.
06Which methods are used for data collection?
The most common method International Certified uses for data collection is to ask directly from its users. Other methods include Seminars or Webinars, User Feedback, Exams or Assessments of Online Courses, and Surveys.
07How long does International Certified keep a record of its user’s data?
International Certified records its users' data until the purpose for which it was collected is fulfilled. The time of retention depends on the purpose, the procedure, and the user’s demand for its products or courses.
08Is International Certified responsible for adding external links to its website?
International Certified adds external links to its website page to educate users about content. It is not responsible if users provide any of their data to those external links.
Contact Us
Do you have any queries related to our privacy policy? Do you have any complaints regarding our privacy policy? Or do you want to suggest ways to improve it? Do you want to get access to edit and update your data? You can do it all simply by connecting with our customer support team.
You can contact our customer support team through our official phone number or by email at our official email address.
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