1. Introduction
1.1 You are about to use the website www.anglohigher.com, this website is owned and operated by Panethnic Limited, owner of Anglohigher.com™ and AngloHigher® The Magazine of Global English Speaking Higher Education™.
1.2 Panethnic Limited is registered in England and Wales with company registration number 06807842 and registered office address: Panethnic Limited, The Venture Centre, Sir William Lyons Road, University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry CV4 7EZ, United Kingdom, Email address: info@anglohigher.com). Anglohigher.com™, AngloHigher®, Anglohigher®, AngloHigher® The Magazine of Global English Speaking Higher Education™ (magazine and/or our magazine), Adverts for Keeps™, CORACAD™ and Panethnic™ are Trade Marks and/or trading names of Panethnic Limited.
1.3 The term “Panethnic™”, “www.anglohigher.com”, “Anglohigher.com™”, “AngloHigher®”, “Anglohigher®”, “AngloHigher® The Magazine of Global English Speaking Higher Education™” (magazine and/or our magazine), ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘ our website’, ‘our’, or ‘this website’ refers to the owner of this website Panethnic Limited (our trading names, Trade Marks, directors, employees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns).
1.4 The term ‘i’, ‘you’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’ or ‘their’ refers to the ‘user(s)’ or ‘viewer(s)’ or ‘visitor(s)’ of our website, including but not limited to ‘author(s)’, ‘author’, ‘authors’, ‘co-writer’, ‘co-writers’ all ‘third party contributor(s)’, ‘voluntarily’ and/or ‘lay-member of the editorial team’ and ‘any other individual(s)’, ‘organisation(s)’ or ‘legal entity(ies)’ that uses our website, magazine, printed materials, products or services, resources and facilities, interact and/or conduct business with us in any way.
1.5 This Privacy Policy sets out how we will treat any information that you provide us with, when you use this website, magazine, or interact directly with us in any way, including but not limited to emails and post.
1.6 If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by all parts of this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions (‘Terms of use’ and/or ‘Terms of our service’), and together govern our relationship with you, including but not limited to the use of our website, magazine, all documents accessed from our website or directly from us, our products and/or services, other materials that you may access through our website or directly from us in any way, including but not limited to emails and post.
1.7 If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions, please exit our website immediately and do not interact or conduct business with us with us in any way.
1.8 Panethnic Limited is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We respect your right to privacy. We understand that, as a user of Anglohigher.com™ and AngloHigher® The Magazine of Global English Speaking Higher Education™, you may prefer to control the level of information you wish to provide. That is why there is no requirement to subscribe or register to use Anglohigher.com™. Our website is open and accessible to all at no cost.
1.9 You may choose to receive our newsletter, in order to be kept up-to-date with significant new developments and to receive a reminder when the new issue of the magazine is available. We have kept this process simple and without the need to provide any personal sensitive information, such as your date of birth.
1.10 You may choose to restrict the collection of your personal information. For example, whenever you are asked to fill in a form on our website, you may provide only the required and/or mandatory information.
1.11 By using this website you give your agreement to the data practices described in this policy and declare that you have read and understood this document. In addition you signify that you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions, please do not use our website, products and/or services, or the products and/or services of any third-party suppliers that are featured on this website, and exit this website immediately.
2. What we Could Collect
2.1 The information we collect is gathered from several sources, such as forms and emails. When you visit our website we might collect other information, such as your IP address, statistical information on the web pages that visitor’s access and other similar information. Through the forms on our website we may collect information such as: name and job title; email address; demographic information (such as country, postcode, preferences and interests) and other information relevant to location, gender and age group. We may also collect information to conduct and/or organise activities such as competitions, promotional contests, marketing events, customer surveys, other offers and/or activities.
2.2 The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website and your customer experience. We may also use the information collected to contact you for marketing, PR (public relations), administration, sales and other related purposes, and we might, from time to time, share this information with other reputable organisations to allow them to contact you in relation to products and/or services we believe will be useful to you. If this is the case you shall receive notification and will have the option to opt out of any similar future activities.
2.3 We may share both demographic information and generic statistics about our newsletter subscribers and website users with advertisers and reputable third-party vendors for marketing, promotional purposes and other related activities. The information disclosed will not be used to identify you individually.
3. What we Do Not Collect
3.1 We will not ask you to provide any sensitive personal information, such as your date of birth, your bank or credit card details, social security number, passport number, driver’s license or national ID number.
3.2 We will not ask you for information that could be used, for example, by banks or other private and/or public agencies for security verifications, such as your mother’s maiden name or your National Insurance number.
3.3 We will not ask you to disclose any religious, political or other personal, sensitive and confidential choices.
4. General
4.1 Depending on the website facilities that you use, we may collect different types of information, which can be broadly grouped into the following five categories:
4.1.1 Information that you provide to us by submitting forms or communicating with us by email, post or otherwise. This may include demographic information, such as your name, email addresses, mailing address and telephone numbers. We use the information for admin, marketing and other related activities to provide you with the information, product or services that you request from us and/or to communicate with you. If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence.
4.1.2 We collect web usage information when you visit our website from a number of sources. These include: statistics from our website internet server providers, statistical information about URLs that may be passed to us when you enter our website, generic third-party statistical information collected by external organisations such as Google Analytics or other service providers, “tags” placed in web pages that send information to us or our processors, and a selection of search engine related information, both internal and external. We may also collect website usage information during your visits to our website, including information on the date, time, location, region, page/topic viewed or searched for, resources used, and other information relating to your browsing activity on our website. We collect information to update, enhance and further develop our services so that we can meet your needs more effectively. Also the collection of information helps us to evaluate the efficiency of our marketing, PR and admin/record keeping functions. It also puts us in a much better position to inform you about services and/or products, which we believe to be relevant and of potential benefit to you.
4.1.3 We may collect information about your computer, including your IP addresses, region, operating system, web browser type and other related information. This may be used for statistical purposes, administration, marketing, to analyse trends, track users' movement, identify regional use of our services, and gather broad demographic information and other similar activities. Information related to IP addresses and other statistical data is a generic log of users' browsing actions and patterns; it is not linked to personally identifiable information and does not identify any individual.
4.1.4 We may use cookies, small files that are often created when you visit a website, and ask permission to be placed and stored temporary or not in the cookies directory of your computer. Once you agree, the file is added allowing the cookie to help us analyse web traffic. Cookies provide general internet usage information and contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. We may use traffic log cookies to identify which web pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does not, in any way, give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Different websites can send their own cookies to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it. The transfer of cookies-related information from your computer is controlled by you; you can choose to accept or decline cookies. You do not have to accept cookies, since you can decide if you want to accept cookies or not, by changing the settings on your browser. Therefore you can always choose to set your browser to refuse cookies by disabling this function. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our and other websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system may issue cookies when you visit our site. Depending on the web browser that you are using, you can accept all cookies, reject all cookies, accept cookies from a particular website, and/or receive notification when a cookie is sent to your computer.
4.1.5 We may use JavaScript, a simple web-scripting language, for interaction with users and collect web usage information for the purposes described above.
5. Reasons Why we Gather Information
5.1 We gather information for administrative, statistical, accounting, recordkeeping, advertising, sales, marketing, informational, public relations and other related purposes.
5.2 We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. This may include:
5.2.1 Accounts, staff administration and internal record keeping.
5.2.2 Advertising, marketing and public relations. This may include the use of information to improve our products and services, or to contact you about third party products and services that we believe will be useful to you.
5.2.3 We may periodically send you a promotional email about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting, using the email address you have provided. If you submit your email address to us using one of the Forms on our website, or in any other way including by post, we will automatically add your details to our newsletter mailing group. You can ask to unsubscribe at any time.
5.2.4 From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or post.
5.2.5 We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
6. Linking to Other Websites and Third-party Services
6.1 Our website may contain links to and from other websites, third-party applications, and/or services provided by third parties. These third-party applications may provide you with some of the services that you use on our website, such as Google search.
6.2 During your use of any third-party websites, products and/or services, information about you may be passed to these third-party providers. However, once you have used these links, you should note that we do not have any control over other websites’ products and/or services. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites. The services, products and content of third-party websites are not governed by this privacy statement.
6.3 If you chose to use any of the links to visit and/or use any third-party websites, products and/or services please note that these organisations operate their own privacy policies and that we have no control over the operation of their websites. Thus we cannot accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
6.4 It is your responsibility to check and agree to these policies before using their services.
6.5 Any use of third-party websites, products and/or services and any reliance that you may possibly place upon their services and information, is at your own risk.
6.6 In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage, including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from use, and/or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website, of any kind.
7. Third-party Applications and Ad Servers
7.1 We are committed to providing you with information and services that you will find interesting and useful. That is why we have third-party applications, such as Google map, and other facilities and information available to you through our website.
7.2 We also feature carefully selected adverts from third parties and may allow ad server companies to place adverts on our website pages. As a result, when your visit our website, ad server companies may collect information about you. This information might include your location, IP address, pages you have visited and/or clicked and streamed information from.
7.3 The use of such information is governed by the privacy policy of these third party organisations; we have no control over the operation of their websites. Therefore, please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices governing any other websites, products and/or service providers, and we will not accept any liability for any loss or damage, including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from use, and/or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of these websites, products and/or services, of any kind.
7.4 You should be aware that we encourage you to always read the Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, and any other ‘Terms of use’ documents, of all other websites, products and/or service providers that you may visit and/or use.
8. Accessing, Correcting, Updating and Disclosure of your Information
8.1 We may disclose or share your personal information with governmental agencies and/or other third parties if we are under a legal obligation to do so. We will normally notify you by email if we receive such a request, therefore it is important that we have your correct and up-to-date details and email.
8.2 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, vendor and/or subcontractor, or any member of our company, which includes any future potential members of our business group, official partners, subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.
8.3 We may use web-usage information collected during your visits to our website to create statistical data regarding the use of our website. We may use this information internally or disclose this statistical data to others for marketing, PR, administration, product/service development and strategic development purposes; individuals will not be identified in such statistical data.
8.4 We may also disclose information provided by you to other third parties (this may include emails, names and other information) where this is necessary for marketing, sales, PR, administration and other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimer, and Copyright and Permissions, which forms part of these Terms and Conditions.
8.5 We will not sell, rent or disclose your information to any third parties for purposes not mentioned in this Privacy Policy without your consent.
8.6 If your use of our website falls under the Data Protection Act as a personal user, you have a right to request a copy of any information held about you.
8.7 You have also the right to ask us to amend your personal data.
8.8 If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at: info@anglohigher.com and then verify your request by a follow-up letter to our registered office address. A small fee will be payable, currently £25 British pounds sterling. This fee is non-refundable and must be paid by cheque (send together with your letter) made payable to: “Panethnic Limited Only”. We must receive payment prior to processing any application.
8.9 Please note that since we do not ask for any sensitive information that could be used to identify an individual, such as your date of birth, ID number, mother maiden name and/or passport or driving licence details, the details on your request letter must be identical to those we have on file. Otherwise, to protect the information of the individuals that we may have on record, we will be unable to reply to your request and provide information that may belong to a third party.
8.10 Please note that the fees payable, currently £25 British pounds sterling, are non-refundable and will not be refunded in this (8.9) or any other case and for any reason.
8.11 If you believe that the information we have about you is incorrect you may request to correct and/or update it by emailing us at info@anglohigher.com or writing to us as soon as possible at the above address.
8.12 Your email must be sent from the email account that we have on record.
8.13 There is no charge for correcting and/or updating your information.
9. E-mail, Postal and Telephone Communications
9.1 We may automatically add to our mailing list any email addresses sent to us in any way including by not limited.
9.2 You have the option to unsubscribe at any time.
9.3 If you have communicated with us via email, registered for our newsletter or any other products and/or services that we may offer in the future, please note that we may use a third party application or service to communicate and/or develop that product and/or service.
9.4 You may also receive updates from us, from time to time, concerning products and/or services that we think you will be interested in.
9.5 At that time you will be given the opportunity to opt out of any similar future activities if you so wish.
9.6 While some of our online Forms may ask for a postal address and/or telephone number, please note that our preferred method of communication is via email.
9.7 Nevertheless you may at some point receive post or telephone communication about new products and services from us or selective third parties.
10. Timescale for Opting Out and Security
10.1 Depending on the circumstances it may take up to 2 months to process an opt out, do not mail or unsubscribe request.
10.2 Please note that you may continue to receive communications from us or other third-party companies until your request is processed.
10.3 Despite the fact that we do not request sensitive personal information, such as date of birth, passport numbers or ID cards, we take the security of your information seriously.
10.4 We have protected our website with the industry standard SSL certificate, especially on the parts of the website where you submit information to us.
11. Where your Information Could be Stored
11.1 Please note that the data we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Union (EU) and/or European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff working outside the EU/EEA either for us or for one of our suppliers, vendors and/or partners.
11.2 By submitting any information to our website, you agree to this transfer, storing and/or processing. We take all reasonable steps to securely store the information you provide to us. Nevertheless, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Therefore, while we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk.
11.3 We are committed to continuously updating and enhancing our services. Therefore, please ensure that whenever now and/or in the future, you choose or are given a password, which may enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and secure.
11.4 We ask you not to share any information submitted by you to our website and/or any potential future accounts you may have with us and/or any passwords with anyone.
12. Underage
12.1 Our website is dedicated to higher education and it is therefore suitable for general use by the public. To contribute you must be 18 (eighteen) years old and above.
12.2 We do not knowingly collect information about people under the age of 16 (sixteen) and we do not send them any communication.
12.3 Internet in general could potentially contain hazards for underage individuals but unfortunately we do not have any way of identifying the age of visitors to our website.
12.4 Nevertheless, despite the fact that we are not an adult-only website, we do implement a policy of not accepting newsletter subscriptions from individuals under the age of 16 (sixteen).
12.5 Moreover, we request that anyone under the age of 16 (sixteen) should have parental and/or guardian permission before using our website, especially children under the age of 13 (thirteen), who must have the supervision of a parent, guardian, teacher or other adult while using our website.
13. Notification of Changes
13.1 Panethnic Limited reserves the right to replace, improve, revise, add, amend, modify or update this policy at any time without notice.
13.2 Any such changes will be posted on our website and will be effective straight away.
13.3 You should check this page often and review the current version of our Privacy Policy to ensure that you are happy with any changes before you continue using our website and its services, our magazine and/or any other materials that you may access through our website or directly from us in any way, including but not limited by emails and post.
14. Privacy Policy Changes
14.1 This document was created and/or last amended on the 16th of August, 2009.
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