Privacy Policy

EduMart Privacy Policy was last updated on 20 May 2021.

About EduMart:

We “EduMart”, hereinafter referred to the rest of this document as EduMart.

Our registered address is:

SF3, D1/3, DLF Ankur Vihar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, 201102 INDIA

Our Corporate address is:

A1C, Sector 16, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201301 INDIA

For detailed information, please visit: https://www.edumart.net.in

EduMart believes protecting your data and privacy and hence we care how it applies to you i.e. user, since you are using our website from time to time as a user of our products/website(s). In this Cookies Policy (Hereinafter called ‘Policy’), you can find information in detail about how, whether, and why we collect & use your personal data/information. This ‘Policy’ applies to any or all personal information that is gathered when you use or intend to use our services/website(s), or otherwise interact with us through other mediums like phone calls, emails, WhatsApp etc. The Policy has been divided into different sections. Before you start or intend to start please go to the relevant section below for further information. We process of your personal data complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’), the Dutch GDPR Execution Act and the Dutch Telecommunications Act.

In the GDPR and Cookies Policy, please note that we act in two different ways as some of the information processing described in the policy we act as controller of the data however in some other data or information processing, we act as processor and here the institutions located within India and outside including other organizations for whom we shall have to collect the data are the controllers, where we may disclose your personal information. For more information on the education institutions or other organizations as how they process your personal information, you may refer to their privacy policy.

Data EduMart collects and how?

It’s your right to know what data EduMart collects and how?

Most of the time we collect data directly from the you i.e. user through our marketing platforms, we may also collect data for third party organizations like marketing affiliates and service providers whom you have registered for certain services that you intend to opt for. Below is the detailed description as to what data we collect and how we collect:

EduMart collects and process Data, for our own use being controller of the personal information on behalf of one or more educational institutions or other service providers such as Banks for providing an Education Loan, Accommodation providers outside India etc. Following are the categories of personal information that we collect and process:

Data of personal nature we collect and process

General Data

Your Fist and Last Name

Your Gender
Your Date of Birth
Your Nationality
Your Country of current and permanent residence
Education History and achievements and/or Language Test Scores
Your working experience during studies and post studies of your career
Your Financials and funding situation and funding forecast
Your Permanent Account Number and Your National Identity such as Aadhaar
Your Passport Information including your travel history and other identifying information

Your contact details and personal account/registration details

We may collect your contact details such as: your telephone/mobile number and email address. Also, when you create a personal account with us through any platform such as website, by filling a physical form or during recorded phone call for any service, we may also record your registration/sign-in details and other information you provide when you create your personal account with us or fill in a registration form during registration process.

Our communication with you

When you send us an email, or chat with us online or via social media or request through phone, we intend to save your correspondence with us.
Information collected during your visit to our Website
- When you visit our website or use our website services, we may register your IP address, operating system, type of browser, referring website, web-browsing behavior etc.
- We may receive a notification automatically when you open (or open a link from a newsletter or campaign.

Data in relation to your social media accounts

We always offer you signup option to receive EduMart marketing and promotional communications and other such information like online webinars, events etc. through the third-party websites including social media platforms such as Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram etc. or through our newsletter or email campaigns. By doing so we may collect the basic information about you such as, your name and contact information to provide you future updates and tips from EduMart. During this process we may record publicly available information about you and you grant us access to the personal information on your social network profile, including your contact details, interests etc.

Details you choose to share with us

You are always welcome to share information with us. For example, when change your address, change your telephone or communication methods or you leave a comment or review for us on social media, fill out any survey to us, submit an application form, submit your entry for any contest organized by EduMart or its associates or any scholarship request. By doing so you have opted to share personal information with us and we may record for future use of your personal information.

Cookies and similar technologies

There is lot of say about cookies and how they work. With the following example you may understand what cookies mean and how does it work.

Mr. John visited one hotel in Los Angeles first time and described his preferences to the hotel staff such as room and food preference. Hotel staff creates his profile in system and generate a code, the same code given to the guest (Mr. John) and hotel staff informed him that whenever you book next, please mention that code on booking form so that we can identify that its you and provide you the similar services that you preferred for?

The next time when Mr. John visited, he got the all his preference done without informing to the hotel staff again.

The similar way, when you use our website for the first time, a cookie notice is shown as a pop up or highlight to register your preference. During your visit to our website cookies works best when you stay long and read more article to identify your liking and disliking. The next time when you visit to our website using the similar browser you will have better experience altogether.

EduMart uses the information collected through cookies strictly for the purposes stated in the Cookie Statement, you may find the below.

EduMart collects personal information along with other data in many ways. For example, information is obtained when you visit our website, call us, email to us, register on our website, subscribe to our newsletter or communicate with us via social media

We may also receive personal information about you from our associated organizations such as educational institutions, our subsidiaries and partners and/or other service providers.

We may pull out information, collect and store by accessing your publicly available data, such as your Facebook or LinkedIn public profiles.

EduMart purposes of storing and processing your data of any kind such as personal

We process personal information for the following purposes:

Providing services to you

EduMart collects and processes data of personal nature to provide its services. For example, when personal data is processed, the following will happen:

To get you the best user experience and provide you the fast services, we may provide you the technology where you can make application to the universities of your choice and track your application status, by doing so we may use your personal information and other data and combine all information provided by you or obtain through different channels like social media profile such as Facebook/Instagram/Linkedin etc or third-party organizations or through our campaigns.
To get you best experience in our services, easier and effective, we may assess how you use our services by collecting different information through different sources as mentioned above and combine this data with information collected already available with us in different form such as via your registration details with us, your personal account information, cookies, and other similar technologies we use. This combination enables us to make your experience more effective, for example, optimize our search tools provides greater results on your admission chance matched with education opportunities available to you.
You can connect with education institutes through our channels, by means of an electronic form. By sending an enquiry, or the technology we may provide you where you can create your own user account, which allows you to view the inquiries you sent to universities/colleges through EduMart or its associates.

There are some of the EduMart purposes of collecting personal data, sorting and processing it accordingly, EduMart collects and processes the following personal data: Your First Name and Last Name, Your contact details in digital form, your demographic information such as your location, programmes shortlisted/chosen including disciplines and countries of interest, your funding situation such as available funds to process the application to such institutes, your preferred start period, your work experience, your previous education information etc.

Through this process, EduMart is allowed to process your personal data for these purposes and to pursue its own legitimate interest being controller of the personal data or being processor of your personal data to the educational institutions and other organizations; with the legitimate interest being to allow EduMart to provide the best service it is able to, in order to align you with the educational institutions or service providers such as accommodation providers, education loan providers of your choice etc.

Make communication with you;

We at EduMart processes your contact details in order to communicate with you for many reasons such as answer your questions, make necessary changes to your application (if any – in case of students) or handle your complaints etc. These processes apply to both students including future students/clients/customers and partners.

During the above process, EduMart processes the following personal data such as: communication history with you, your last name, your first name, your digital contact details and messages that transmitted between you and EduMart. For (potential) clients/students, the following data is also processed: your phone number, your employer, your country etc.

To make applications to specific universities/colleges etc. on behalf of student

Your personal information is being record and processed by EduMart enable you (students) to make application to specific university/college through EduMart rather than through any other channel such as university website. During this process EduMart will work as processor of your personal data and other information as required by the institute from time to time.

In this process, EduMart will processes the following personal data or any other personal information requested by and on behalf of the educational institution: your last name, your first name, your analog contact details, your digital contact details, your passport details, your educational transcripts, your project report (if any), your Resume/CV, your demographic information, your English Test Reports and other aptitude test reports such as GRE/GMAT etc, various credentials, your chosen/shortlisted programmes including disciplines and countries of interest, your funding situation such as available funds to make that application, your previous education information and work experience, your preferred start period etc.

By way of this policy, EduMart reserves the right to process the personal data for this purpose since EduMart has its own legitimate interest to develop and optimize this particular service, if you have any object to this process, you may shout loud on the basis of your particular situation.

For making a research statistically

EduMart use many automatic tools to perform statistical research into general trends to predict future and to provide better services accordingly. Using such tools EduMart processes your personal information for optimization of our services and for the development thereafter. We examine how you as our users behave towards our services to make necessary research and development as well as the preferences our users set to get you best experience every time you visit again. This Statistical research always helps EduMart to develop best services and offerings, change or improve the design and content on our Website and social media channels.

During the above process, EduMart processes the following personal data such as: Your last name, your first name, your digital contact details, your demographic information, programmes shortlisted/chosen including disciplines and countries of interest, your funding situation such as available funds to process the application to such institutes, your preferred start period, your work experience and your previous education information etc. IP address, device specifications, cookies and comparable services, referring website, browsing behavior and website interactions, browser data, social media likes. We may also combine such aggregated data with information we receive from our subsidiaries, educational institutions, or from public sources.

Making efforts for Allowing you to provide reviews

When you leave a review about a specific matter such as educational institution or a specific program, EduMart processes personal information to make necessary changes and conduct a research based on the information provided by you in your review.

During this process, EduMart processes (whether or not by means of a rating) the following personal data: your programme, your educational institution such as university or college, your personal life and overall experience with respect to the educational institute and its location and the programme you study there. EduMart may then provide such information along with your overall rating of the institution to other future students, which will appear on our portals along with any extra comments you have made so that they can take appropriate decision.

To the best efforts please note that any written reviews made by you may be checked by EduMart or its partner associates associated directly or indirectly with the institutes before making it public. This can happen automatically or manually based on the information provided in your review. EduMart would like to make sure that only high-quality reviews are being exposed. We may only remove reviews in the following situations:

When the review has intention to promotes illegal and/or commercial activities.
If reviews repeatedly address fellow reviewers on a personal level.
In case EduMart or another third-party organization or institution itself can prove a respondent did not study at the reviewed institution or said program.
When the review includes swearing, abusive language, threatening, discriminatory remarks, or sexual, personal political, unethical and religious viewpoints.
When the reviews are not the personal experience or opinion of the respondent.
In case the review has been submitted by a reviewer 3 or more years after they have studied at the institution.
If reviewers pretend to be another person or organization than itself.
If reviews are exposed in a repeatedly disturbing way.
If we suspect that a review isn’t genuine; for example, might be used to target a competitor.
If it includes personal details such as contact details like phone numbers, addresses or links to other websites etc.
If a review contains content that violates the rights of another person or an organization, intellectual property rights, and privacy rights.
Reviews entered by the threat of extortion.
If a review doesn’t contain information about the university or programme in detail.

If you come across a review that includes any of the above, let us know: media@edumart.net.in

Having said above EduMart is allowed to process personal data such as your email address, your statement used for review, your student ID information such as student enrolment number, programme of study, year from to till date etc because this is necessary for pursuing its legitimate interest or that of the educational institutions. These legitimate interests such as student reviews have found to be extremely helpful when aligning potential students with the best fitted educational institution or programme which is the core of EduMart’ services.

For the purpose of direct marketing

EduMart processes personal information for (direct) marketing purposes. This means that we may use your personal information to send you newsletters and other information such as promotions, or other marketing communications where we describe the services provided by us or our associates such as English Test Preparation, Education Loan Assistance, Part Time Work Assistance during your studies etc. During the process of direct marketing, we use the results of our analysis to tailor our marketing communications to your specific interests and preferences. For example, if our analysis shows that you may be interested living near to your institution or within, we may customize our direct marketing communication such as newsletter and Website with content that are relevant to you only. We may use different channels for our marketing communications, such as email, social media, and your personal online account.

During this process, EduMart may processes the following personal data: you last name, your first name, your digital contact details, your demographic information, your shortlisted programmes including disciplines and countries of interest, your funding situation, your previous education information and work experience, your preferred start period, IP address, device specifications, cookies and comparable services, browser, browsing behaviour and website interactions, referring website, social media profiles and likes.

We may also combine such aggregated data with information we receive from our subsidiaries, educational institutions, or from public sources.

EduMart is allowed to process personal data for this purpose because you gave consent or because EduMart has a legitimate interest. The consent can be withdrawn at any moment, and you can object at any moment to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes when such processing is based on EduMart or the educational institutions’ legitimate interest. The withdrawal of consent or exercise of your right to object does not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the moment of withdrawal or exercise of the right to object.

You may object or revoke your consent for receiving marketing communications at any time, by following the instructions in the relevant marketing communication or by sending an email to – media@edumart.net.in

Third party websites

Our Website contains links to third-party websites. If you follow these links, you will exit our Website or may open the information in separate Tab. This Policy does not apply to third-party websites. EduMart cannot accept liability for the ways in which these third-party websites use of your personal data. You use these websites at your own risk. For more information on how these third parties treat your personal information, please check their respective privacy policies (if available).

Other countries

EduMart may process your personal data to countries outside of your country of residence. This might occur in the course of sharing information with education institutions or our subsidiaries, with whom we have explicit agreements with how they can or cannot use the data. In most cases, these agreements will be in the form of a written and signed Data Processing Agreement. Some of these countries may not have an adequate level of personal data protection compared to the level of protection provided in your own country. EduMart does not systematically store your information outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), and does not transfer your data outside of the EEA without either your consent or after ensuring adequate safeguards that allow the safe transfer of your personal information.

If you contact, apply to, or enroll at, an education institution through EduMart which is located outside the European Economic Area, your data will necessarily be transferred to that country.

Security and retention

EduMart takes the safeguarding of your information very seriously. EduMart will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against loss or unlawful use. These measures include but are not limited to: facilities protected by appropriate security measures, encryption of devices, version tracking and access to our databases is limited to key personnel and IP addresses and use of it is logged. Personally, identifiable information and account activity are also protected through the use of user names and passwords. In order to help maintain the security of your information, you should protect the confidentiality of your user’s name and password.

Your personal data will be retained for as long as required for the purposes described in this Policy, or insofar as is necessary to comply with our contractual or statuary obligations, and to solve any disputes. In most cases, your personal data will be retained for forty-eight (48) months after your last activity, or until you request deletion. EduMart retains your data for that period to optimize their services to you throughout your educational period, which statistical research has shown to usually span a period of more than thirty-six (36) months.

Your Rights

You can request access to or a copy of your personal data collected by us. You may also request the rectification and removal of personal data or the restriction of the processing of your personal data, if there is a reason for doing so. You also have the right to data portability. You also have the right to object to a processing on grounds relating to your particular situation or against the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise your right(s), please send your written request, to: media@edumart.net.in

EduMart

A1C, Sector 16, Noida 201301, Uttar Pradesh INDIA

In order to ensure that the request you are submitting on your behalf is legitimate, in some cases it may be necessary for us to obtain further proof of identity either in person or via webcam. This is only necessary in those cases where we have doubts about the identity of the person submitting the request.

Modifications to this Policy

This Policy is effective as of 20 May 2021 and replaces our previous privacy policy (if any). We reserve the right to alter or otherwise make changes to this Policy. We will notify you of any changes by posting the revised policy on our Website and notifying you through a banner or in case of very material changes to the Policy, via email. Changes take effect as soon as the Policy is posted.

Questions or complaints

If you have any question or complaints about the processing of your personal data, please send an email to us at media@edumart.net.in and we will be happy to assist you.

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