Data Privacy Terms and Conditions for Websites
We are committed to protect the privacy of our website visitors and we will only collect, record,
store, process, and use your personal information in accordance with Republic Act No. 10173 or
the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and other pertinent laws. The outline below provides for the manner
by which we manage the personal information that we will obtain from you if you visit our website.
Collection of Personal Information
We primary collect your name, e-mail address, contact number, address and other personal
sensitive information as required by our form when you contact us through our website. Aside
from these, we also obtain the following information:
1. Your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, which includes your IP
address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral
source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
2. Your social media profile, which may include your pictures, gender, date of birth,
relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and employment
details, or any other matters which are readily accessible if you link your account with
our website;
3. Those which you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications
and/or newsletters;
4. Those that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is
generated in the course of the use of those services including the timing, frequency and
pattern of service use;
5. Those that you post to our website for publication on the internet which includes your
user name, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
6. Those that relate to any communication that you send to us or send through our website
which incudes the communication content and metadata associated with the
communication; and
7. Any other personal or official matters which you choose to send to us.
We will only collect your personal information if you voluntarily submit the information to us. If you
choose not to submit your personal information to us or subsequently withdraw your consent to
our use of your personal information, we may not be able to adequately respond to your inquiries
or avail of our services.
If you provide personal information of any third party to us, we assume that you have obtained
the required consent from the relevant third party to both the disclosure and the processing of
his/her personal information in accordance with this policy.
Purpose of Collecting Your Personal Information
We mainly use your personal information to provide clear and competent responses to your
inquiries with regard to the services that we offer. In relation thereto, we may use your personal
information to:
1. Administer our website and business;
2. Personalize our website for you;
3. Enable your use of the services available on our website;
4. Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, collect payments from you;
5. Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
6. Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
7. Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if
you no longer require the newsletter);
8. Send you marketing communications relating to our business [or the businesses of
carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to you, by post or,
where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can
inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
9. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties
will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
10. Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
11. Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
12. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website
including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging
service; and
13. Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise
use that information in accordance with the permission that you will give us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and
can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for
the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
Disclosure and Retention of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers,
professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as necessary for the purposes
set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies such as
Southeastern College, Red Circle Global, Two Commas IT Solutions, among
others, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may likewise disclose your personal information:
1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information
to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
4. To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent
authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable information,
such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal
information.
With the exception of item (d), the retention of your personal information may also be done under
the foregoing circumstances. As a general rule, however, we only keep your personal information
until such time that we have attained the purpose by which we collect the same.
Under the foregoing circumstances and to the extent permissible by applicable law, you agree
not to take any action against us for the disclosure and retention of your personal information.
Security of Personal Information
We will implement reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational precautions to
prevent the loss, destruction, misuse or alteration of your personal information. To ensure utmost
protection of your personal information, we will store the same on our secured services. However,
we cannot guarantee that data sent over the internet will be fully secured considering that the
transmission of information online is inherently insecure.
Cookies
The site may use cookies to optimize user experience. A cookie is a small text file containing an
identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is
stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser
requests a page from the serer.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal
information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from
cookies.
Some internet browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. However, blocking all cookies will
have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be
able to use all the features on our website.
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. It is
recommended that you check this page occasionally to ensure that you are amenable to any
changes made in this policy. We may also notify you of changes to this policy by email or through
the private messaging system on our website.