Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This policy outlines how we handle your personal data.

Last Updated: October 26, 2023

1. Introduction

Welcome to MarketingEducation.ie. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in an open and transparent manner. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or use our services.

2. Data Controller

MarketingEducation.ie, located at 123 Digital Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, is the data controller responsible for your personal information.

3. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of information about you:

  • Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, and billing information when you enroll in a course.
  • Account Information: Username, password, and course progress when you create an account on our platform.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

  • To provide and manage your access to our courses and services.
  • To process transactions and manage your enrollments.
  • To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure the effectiveness of the advertising we serve.
  • To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
  • To comply with legal obligations and protect our legal rights.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

We will only process your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances: where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you; where it is necessary for our legitimate interests; or where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

6. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information with our business partners and trusted affiliates for the purposes outlined above. We may also use third-party service providers to help us operate our business, such as payment processors and email marketing services.

7. Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. When you first visit our site, a cookie consent banner will appear, giving you the option to "Accept All" or "Decline" our use of non-essential cookies. Your choice will be stored in your browser's localStorage and respected on subsequent visits.

Choices you can make:

  • Accept All: This allows us to use both essential and non-essential (e.g., analytics, marketing) cookies.
  • Decline: This will prevent us from setting non-essential cookies. Only strictly necessary cookies for site functionality will be used.

8. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

10. Your Legal Rights under GDPR

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These include the right to access, correct, erase, restrict processing, and data portability. You also have the right to object to processing and to withdraw consent.

11. International Transfers

Some of our external third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA), so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. We ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring adequate safeguards are in place.

12. Third-Party Links

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.

13. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer via our contact page or by emailing us at [email protected].