Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 25, 2019

Introduction

This website and Services are operated by Masterclass Space LLP. Masterclass Space LLP offers a wide range of products in the higher education sector, via online medium all over the world. We understand that your privacy is important, and we are strongly committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. To demonstrate our commitment to you, our customer, we have created this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect and how we use such information. This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we gather when you are accessing or using our Services, but not to the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people that we don’t manage. We gather various types of Personal Information from our users, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our services, to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you and allow other users to contact you, to fulfil your requests for certain products and services, and to analyse how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some Personal Information with third parties, but only as described below.
Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using, or submitting information, to the Services. By accessing the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services. We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the Services. Your continued use of the Services affirms your agreement to such changes. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are using the information we collect.

Collection of Information

Masterclass Space LLP collects data to operate effectively and provide you the best experience with our services. You will provide some of this data directly, such as when you contact us or enrol for our program through our website or enrolment form. We also collect the information through various ways such as on social media channels, in-person communication, or during the pre-counselling process.

We also obtain data from third parties. We protect data obtained from third parties according to the practices described in this policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third-party sources vary over time, but have included:

  • Database providers from trusted sources
  • Social networks when you grant permission to Masterclass Space LLP to access your data
  • Partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities
  • Publicly-available sources such as open government databases or other data in the public domain

You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a service, you may not be able to use that service.

The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Masterclass Space LLP. The data we collect can include the following:

  • Name and contact data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, school name and other similar contact data.
  • Demographic data. We collect data about you such as your date of birth, age, gender, country, citizenship and preferred language.
  • Educational and professional background. We collect data about your employment history, education history and possibly your standardized test scores.
  • Content.Information contained in your resume or CV, information you provide regarding your career ¬and educational development interests and other information about your qualifications for MBA, Undergrad or Masters programs.
  • Videos and pictures. Photographs or video recordings may be taken during our physical events, we may use the visual or video captures of your person on our websites or promotional material. We can use photograph submitted in enrolment form and testimonial or class video on our website or promotional material.
  • Result and Score: Result of tests after studying with us, we can collect. We can put result, rank, or score on our website or promotional material.
  • Other information you may provide to us, such as in feedback forms or through the “Contact Us” feature on our Sites.
  • Information Collected By Automated Means When you visit our websites, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The information we may collect in this manner includes:
  • IP address
  • Unique device identifier
  • Browser characteristics
  • Device characteristics
  • Operating system
  • Language preferences
  • Referring URLs
  • Information on actions taken on our websites
  • Dates and times of visits to our sites and other usage statistics

A “cookie” is a file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon,” also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links webpages to web servers and their cookies and is used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. Through these automated collection methods, we may obtain “clickstream data,” which is a log of the links and other content on which a visitor clicks while browsing a website.

As the visitor clicks through the website, a record of the action may be collected and stored. We link certain data elements we have collected through automated means, such as your browser information, with other information we have obtained about you to let us know, for example, whether you have opened an email we sent to you. Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable certain types of cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of our websites. To the extent required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before collecting personal information using cookies or similar automated means.

The providers of third-party apps, tools, widgets and plug-ins on our websites, such as social media sharing tools, also may use automated means to collect information regarding your interactions with these features. This information is collected directly by the providers of the features and is subject to the privacy policies or notices of these providers.

How We Use the Information We Collect

Masterclass Space LLP uses the data we collect to operate our business and provide services, which include using data to improve our products and personalize your experience. We may also use the data to communicate with you, for example, informing you about your account, and product information or to send you promotional communication.

However, to enhance privacy, we have built in technological and procedural safeguards designed to prevent certain data combinations. For example, photographs or video recordings of our physical events will not be connected to your personal data.

Providing and improving our services: We use data to provide and improve the services we offer and perform essential business operations. Examples of such uses include the following:

Providing our services. We use data to make the connection between the prospective MBA, Undergrad, Masters candidates and the business schools / colleges, we connect students with our value added service partners such as discounted couriers, discounted foreign exchange services, discounted air tickets, education loans, discounted student health insurance etc. We use data to provide guidance services to the Undergrad, MBA and Masters candidates, including personalised candidate matching and advising, assessing candidates’ suitability for MBA and Masters programmes, and associate candidate qualifications for the specific programmes

We use data also to perform data analytics, such as using information to match individuals and potential opportunities, and analysing pipeline data (trends regarding higher education sector).

We use data to connect professionals who are interested in education sector and would like to use our services as mediator in their connection with business schools.

Product Improvement. We use data to continually improve our services. For example, we use your feedback forms to add features to our services or to change them according your experience.

Communication. We use data we collect to communicate with you and personalize our communication with you. For example, we may contact you by phone or email to inform you when we need clarification on the data in your personal account, when your subscription is ending or to discuss educational opportunities that you may be interested in, according to your preference settings.

Additionally, you can sign up for email subscriptions and choose whether you wish to receive promotional communications from Masterclass Space LLP.

In addition, we use information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, web server logs and other automated means for purposes such as (i) customizing our user's use of our websites; (ii) delivering content tailored to our users’ interests and the manner in which our users use our websites; and (iii) managing our websites and other aspects of our business. To the extent required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before collecting information using cookies or similar automated means.

We also use third-party analytics services on our websites, such as those of Google Analytics. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyse your use of our websites. The information collected through these means (including IP address) may be disclosed to these analytics providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate use of the websites. To learn more about these analytics services and how to opt out, please visit the following sites and any sites contained in the country-specific addenda:

Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Interest Based Advertising

The Services may include third party advertising and links to other websites. These third party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their own behalf, sometimes use technology to send, directly to your browser, advertisements that appear on our website. They may also use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect anonymous information in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. To learn more about behavioral advertising or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/. Note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. In addition, note that if you use a different browser or erase cookies from your browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice.

International Users

The Services may be accessed by an international audience. By visiting the Services and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in this policy. In addition, such data may be stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction and in jurisdictions which may have less stringent privacy practices than your own. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.

Third-Party Websites

This website may contain links to third-party websites that are not affiliated with masterclassspace.com, and which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. Once you leave the Services or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you may no longer be governed by this Privacy Policy or the Services’ Terms of Service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other Services and encourage you to read their privacy statements before disclosing any personal information. Please contact those websites directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

Your Rights and Choices

  • You should know that at any time you can ask us what information we hold for you, and you can ask us to correct it if it is inaccurate.
  • You may withdraw your consent to process your data at any time.
  • If we are processing your personal data for reasons of consent or legitimate interest, you can request that your data be erased.
  • Finally, in some circumstances you can ask us not to reach decisions affecting you using automated processing or profiling.
  • To submit a request regarding your personal data by email, post or telephone, please contact us as indicated in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy.

Data Transfers

We transfer the personal information we collect about you to countries outside of the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, we will comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information to recipients in countries outside of the EEA or Switzerland.

Intra-group international data transfers will be subject to legally binding agreements referred to as Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) which provide enforceable rights for data subjects.

Providing Your Personal Data to Others

We may share information with third parties in some circumstances, including; (1) to a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards; (2) with academic or non-profit researchers, with aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonomization; (4) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; (5) to protect the vital interest of others, when we have reason to believe that doing so will prevent harm to someone or illegal activities.

Our categories of service providers and partners are:

  • Education Loan providers
  • Forex Card
  • Travel and Tours
  • Student’s Insurance
  • Courier Service
  • Airlines
  • Universities/ colleges

Our Retention of Personal Data

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly. In any case we will keep it for period no longer than five years.

Security

We maintain reasonable and appropriate measures designed to maintain information we collect in a secure manner. We have taken certain physical, electronic, and administrative steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from Services visitors. Even though we follow reasonable procedures to try to protect the information in our possession, no security system is perfect and we cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your information will be secure in all circumstances.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise your rights or would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contacts us at:

  • Address: Given on Website
  • Phone: Given on Website
  • Email: Given on Website

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We regularly review and, if appropriate, update this privacy policy from time to time as our services and use of personal data evolve. If we want to make use of your personal data in a way that we have not previously identified, we will contact you to provide information about this and, if necessary, ask for your consent.