THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS POLICY IS APRIL 1, 2019
Your privacy is important to us. St. Samuel School and its subsidiaries or affiliated companies hereinafter referred as ‘Samuel school,’ is committed to respect your privacy while using our website. This policy applies to information collected by us on our website.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use the Website, we collect and store your personal information
which is provided by you from time to time. Our primary goal in doing so is to
provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us
to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to
customize our Website to make your experience safer and easier. More
importantly, while doing so we collect personal information from you that we
consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who you are or
revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your
personal information, you are not anonymous to us. Where possible, we
indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have
the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service
or feature on the Website. SAMUEL and its affiliates may share this personal
information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. We
may automatically track certain information about you based upon your
behaviour on our Website. We use this information to do internal research on
our users’ demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect
and serve our users. This information is compiled and analysed on an
aggregated basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from
(whether this URL is on our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether
this URL is on our Website or not), your computer browser information, and
your IP address.
we use your personal information
- The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on SAMUEL’s latest product announcements, offers, and upcoming events.
- We also use personal information to help us create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes.
- We may use your personal information, including date of birth, to verify identity, assist with identification of users, and to determine appropriate services.
- From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Please note as this information is important to your interaction with SAMUEL, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.
- We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our products, services, and customer communications.
COLLECTION AND USE OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
- We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where SAMUEL product and/or service is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
- We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search This information may be used to improve the relevancy of results provided by our services. Except in limited instances to ensure quality of our services over the Internet, such information will not be associated with your IP address.
- With your explicit consent, we may collect data about how you use your device and applications in order to help app developers improve their apps. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
A “cookie” is a small piece of information stored by a web server on a web
browser so it can be later read back from that browser. Cookies are useful for
enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user. We
place both permanent and temporary cookies in your computer’s hard drive.
The cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.
SAMUEL use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the
Website to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to learn about
user behavior on the site, to improve our product and services, measure
promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety and to gather
demographic information about our user base as a whole. SAMUEL may use this
information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content
on the Website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a
separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We
track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics
and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications.
“Cookies” are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our
services. We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a
“cookie”.
We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during
a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your
interests. Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are
automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case
you may not be able to use certain features on the Website and you may be
required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
At times SAMUEL may make certain personal information available to strategic
partners that work with SAMUEL to provide products and services, or that help
SAMUEL market to customers. For example, when you purchase any product
and/or services from SAMUEL, you authorize SAMUEL to exchange the
information you provide during the activation process to carry out service.
Personal information will only be shared by SAMUEL to provide or improve our
products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for any
marketing purposes.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SAMUEL shares personal information with companies who provide services such
as information processing, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to you,
managing and enhancing customer data, assessing your interest in our products
and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. These
companies are obligated to protect your information.
OTHERS
It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from
public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence
− for SAMUEL to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose
information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security,
law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary
or appropriate.
We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is
reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our
operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or
sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant
third party.
INTEGRITY AND RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
SAMUEL makes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate,
complete, and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the
period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can help ensure that your contact information and preferences are
accurate, complete, and up to date by logging in to your account. For other
personal information we hold, we will provide you with access for any purpose
including to request that we correct the data if it is inaccurate or delete the data
if SAMUEL is not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes.
We may decline to process requests that are frivolous/vexatious, jeopardize the
privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise
required by local law.
LOCATION-BASED SERVICES
To provide location-based services on SAMUEL products, SAMUEL and licensees
may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time
geographic location of your computer or device. Where available, location-based
services may use GPS, Bluetooth, and your IP Address, along with crowd-sourced
Wi-Fi hotspot and, and other technologies to determine your devices’
approximate location. Unless you provide consent, this location data is collected
anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by
SAMUEL and our licensees to provide and improve location-based products and
services. For example, your device may share its geographic location with
application providers when you opt in to their location services.
THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SERVICES
SAMUEL websites, products, and services may contain links to third-party
websites, products, and services. Our products and services may also use or
offer products or services from third parties, which may include such things as
location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We
encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.
SAMUEL’S COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy
and security guidelines to all SAMUEL employees and strictly enforce privacy
safeguards within the company.
PRIVACY QUESTIONS
If you have any further questions or concerns about SAMUEL’s Privacy Policy or
data processing or if you would like to make a complaint about a possible
breach of local privacy laws, please contact us. You can always contact us by
contact details provided in our website
All such communications are examined and replies issued where appropriate as
soon as possible. If you are unsatisfied with the reply received, you may refer
your complaint to the relevant regulator in your jurisdiction. If you ask us, we
will endeavour to provide you with information about relevant complaint
avenues which may be applicable to your circumstances.
SAMUEL may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the
policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the
updated Privacy Policy.