Umissions

Introduction

Umissions Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with the Website Terms of Use and any other documents referred to in them) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. If you are under 18 years of age and do not understand anything in this policy, you may want to ask your parents/guardians to explain it to you.

By using www.umissions.com (“our site”), you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy (including, if you are a parent or guardian, on behalf of any children you allow to use our site). If you (whether children or parents/guardians) do not accept and consent to the practices described in this policy, you must not use our site.

Any reference in these terms of use to “you” shall be deemed to include both parents/guardians and their children, as appropriate.

For the purpose of the data protection legislation in force from time to time, the data controller is Umissions Limited. We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 08943714 and have our registered office at 20 Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6BG.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give to us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you use our site and the service provided through it or request further services, and/or when you report a problem with our site. The information you provide may include, without limitation, your name, address, email address, phone number, gender, date of birth, location and other personal information (including your academic record, your extracurricular interests and an indication of the universities you might apply to, as well as the focus of your studies in the US). If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site, we may automatically collect certain technical information (this is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual), as well as certain information about your visit to our site (including items you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages and page interaction information).

Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide from time to time. We may also receive information about you from third parties if you use any websites or social media platforms operated by third parties (for example, Facebook, Twitter or Google) and, if such functionality is available, you have chosen to link your profile on our site with your profile on those other websites or social media platforms. Any data received from such other sources may be combined with data collected on our site. We may also work closely with other third parties (including, for example and without limitation, business partners, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers) and may receive information about you from them.

Profile

If, once such functionality is available, you register to use our site, you will control your user profile. This means that you will be able to access your details at any time by going to your profile page on our site where you may review, correct and/or update the majority of your information.

If you do not register an interest in our site or register to use our site, we will not collect any personal information about you.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and/or services that you request from us (including, without limitation, information about independent consultants located in the United States who are able to provide advice on the US college admissions process (“Independent Consultants”));
to provide you with information about us and about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already made use of or enquired about and to send you newsletters, links to blogs, etc.;
to notify you about changes to our service; and
to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
to improve our site and to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

Information we receive from other sources. We may combine information we receive from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure of your information

We may share your personal information with selected third parties, including:

Independent Consultants; analytics and search engine providers that assist in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

if Umissions Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users will be one of the transferred assets; and
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use [INSERT A LINK TO WEBSITE TERMS OF USE] or any other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of Umissions Limited, our clients or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction and with law enforcement agencies or court officials.

Where we store your personal data

will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

How long do we keep your data?

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

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 requirements.

Your rights

You have the right in certain circumstances to:

Request access to your personal data (a "data subject access request").
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.

For more information on these rights and when they apply is available here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights).
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to us by email at info@umissions.com or in writing to:

Umissions
20 Arkwright Road
London
NW3 6BG

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