Privacy Policy

Welcome! When you register with us or use our sites, applications, and services, you provide information to us. This privacy policy explains:

  • The information that First Study Centre Limited and its affiliates collect about you.
  • How that information may be used.
  • With whom First Study Centre Limited may share your information.
  • How First Study Centre Limited protects your information.

A. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US

1. Personal Information

First Study Centre Limited and its affiliates ("we" or "us") provide its family of Internet sites, services, and applications to you (our "Services"). Registration with us is optional, but please keep in mind that you may not be able to use many of the services on our Services unless you register with us. Depending on how you interact with our Services, you provide us with information, which may include:

  • Your name, email address, age (to comply with legal requirements), user name, password, postal code, gender, and other registration information;
  • Information about your preferences;
  • Your interaction with our Services, features, and advertisements;
  • Transaction-related information, such as your orders for any services, downloads, or other features, or purchases, if any, that you make from us;
  • Information you provide us when you contact us for help; and
  • Other information specifically related to your use of particular offerings on our Services.

2. Technical and Device Information

We may receive or collect from you certain technical information when you use the Services. This information may include:

  • Your browser or operating system;
  • Your manner of connecting to the Internet (including the type of device you are using) and the name of your Internet service provider or wireless carrier;
  • Your Internet protocol (IP) address;
  • Data relating to malfunctions or problems that occur when you use the Service;
  • Log file information, including your Web request, your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, your browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, the number of clicks and how you interact with links on our service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.

B. USE OF INFORMATION

1. Our Use of Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • Deliver our services and features desired by you (including any customization features requested by you);
  • Improve our services to you;
  • Personalise content and offers that may be of interest to you;
  • Respond to your inquiries;
  • Fulfil your request for products or services;
  • Use your login user ID and password to register you on your behalf and to give you access to our affiliate websites and services as part of a "single sign-on" feature; and
  • Provide you with updates and other information regarding the Services.

2. Other Information

We may use non-personally identifiable information, like your IP address, to analyse site usage statistics and to customise our site's content, layout, and services. This information will allow us to improve our services and better understand and serve our users.

3. Sharing

  • We may share your information with the company that employed you, engaged you, or authorised you to access and use the Service.
  • We may use statistical information on an aggregate basis to measure the performance of our Service; we may share this information with third parties in a way that does not identify you personally or the identity of your company as the source of such information.
  • We may share your information with our family of companies and affiliates and with trusted business partners that we do business with who may have content and offers of interest to you. We do not share personally identifiable information with any third party for marketing purposes unless expressly authorised by you.

4. Disclosures

The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a user of the Service, may be accessed and disclosed in response:

  • To governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant, or subpoena);
  • To other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user;
  • To an emergency exists that poses a threat to your safety or the safety of another person;
  • When necessary to protect our property;
  • In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy; or
  • For us to render the service you have requested.

 

 

5. Changing and deleting information

We provide web pages and other mechanisms allowing you to update some of the information or completely delete all your data that we collect from you. We will make the requested changes to our records and/or databases as soon as possible.

If you believe some of the information needs to be updated or completely deleted, please send us a request by email: support@firststudycentre.co.uk. Please indicating the subject: "Updating Personal Data" or "Complete Data Deletion".

C. COOKIES

  • We may place "cookies" on your Web browser. Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes. This information is stored in a file on your computer's hard drive.
  • Cookies make web surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate and improve your use of the Service.
  • You can adjust your Internet browser to reject cookies; however, please note that you will not be able to access and use all of our features if you delete or refuse to accept cookies.
  • We use cookies to improve the quality of our services, store user preferences, store and retrieve login information on a user's system, and personalise content and offers of interest to our users.
  • Our advertisers and advertising networks also may use cookies, Web beacons, or similar technologies on your browser to help present offers, better target and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements by using data gathered on an anonymous basis over time and across their network of Web pages to determine the preferences of their audiences. These cookies and Web beacons do not collect any personal information from your computer, such as your email address.
  • Our advertisers' and ad networks' use of cookies and Web beacons are governed by their own privacy policies.
  • Many advertisers and ad networks participate in voluntary programs to provide tools to opt out of such interest-based advertising. You can go to https://adssettings.google.com/ to adjust your advertising preferences with our provider Google Ads. Also, please go to the Network Advertising Initiative for more information about advertising preferences by clicking here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.

For more information on your privacy rights with us, please see our Cookies Notice.

D. ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

1. Advertisers

  • We use third-party companies to collect information and serve ads when you visit the Services. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements on the Services about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
  • We will not provide any personally identifiable information about you to third parties. If you would like more general information about this practise and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

2. Analytics

We use third-party services such as Google Analytics to help us analyse our performance and our delivery of services and advertising to you. We use Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.

  • Using the Ads Settings, visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads.
  • You can prevent your data from being collected by Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by going to this URL: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
  • We use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online.
  • Third-party vendors, including Google, may show your ads on sites across the Internet.
  • We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimise, and serve ads based on someone's past visits to our website.
  • We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.

E. AGENTS

We may use agents and contractors in order to help operate our Services and fulfil your request for products and services. If such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

F. INVITATION SERVICES

We may offer you the opportunity to use our invitation service and application so that you can tell your friends about the Services. The service will enable you to import at your direction your contact list from certain email services that you may be using and to send an email on your behalf, from your email address, inviting your friend to try the Services. The information you provide will be used solely to facilitate your sending of the invitation and will not be stored or used by us for any other purpose. If you are a recipient of an invitation and have elected to opt out from receiving any further invitations from us, we will retain your email address solely for the purposes of honouring your opt-out from further invitations.

G. YOUR CHOICES

You can make choices about how your information may be used by us to provide information and offers to you. You may visit the "Account" area on the Services and review and revise your marketing preferences, including opting out of commercial messages or unsubscribing to newsletters. You may opt out of further commercial messages by clicking on the "opt out" or "unsubscribe" link provided with each message. These preferences do not apply to communications that are related to your registration with us, required or important notices related to your use of our Services, or the fulfilment of a specific transaction.

H. MINORS

Children under the age of thirteen (13) are not eligible to use our service and must not submit any personal information to us.

I. LINKS AND OTHER SITES

  • This Privacy Policy applies only to our information practises on the Service.
  • This policy does not apply to the other websites and social media sites you access and use.
  • You are subject to the privacy policies of those Web sites.

J. CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP

In the event that our ownership changes as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your Service information may be transferred. We will provide you with notice prior to any such transfer of your information.

K. SECURITY

We take steps to help protect your personal information. We require password protection physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. We limit access to personal information about you to employees and authorised persons who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services. We cannot guarantee that your information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorised acts by third parties that violate applicable law or our policies).

L. CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy and will post a notice of any significant changes on our website. You should visit this page periodically to review any such changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this website or our service and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.

M. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or its implementation, or if you believe there are inaccuracies in your account information, you may contact us as follows:

By Email:
support@firststudycentre.co.uk

By Post:
First Study Centre Limited
Suite 12, 2nd Floor, Queens House
180 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7PD
United Kingdom

If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights set forth above, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of your personal information with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. California law provides that you have the right to submit a request to us at the designated address and receive the following information:

  • The categories of information we disclosed to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year;
  • The names and addresses of third parties that received such information, and
  • If the nature of a third party's business cannot be reasonably determined from the third party's name, examples of the products or services marketed.
  • The Services currently do not respond to "do not track" mechanisms featured in any Internet browser.

You are entitled to receive a copy of this information in a standardised format, and the information will not be specific to you individually. Our designated email address for such requests is support@firststudycentre.co.uk.

O. CHANGES

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to our information practises, you will be provided with an appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from us, as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.

Last Updated: April 12, 2023