Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Privacy Policy for EDC4IT. We are committed to protecting the privacy and personal information of our users and visitors.

The purpose of this policy is to describe your right to access, restrict and correct our use of your personal information and how this information is collated, used, stored. Our ultimate goal is to improve your experience as a prospective or existing customer by making sure your information collected is reasonable, lawful and relevant to our activities.

This Privacy Policy applies to you, if you are:

• A visitor to the EDC4IT website.
• A prospective customer of our services with a desire to purchase any of our business and enterprise products.
• A student of EDC4IT.
• A user of our website, online service or any related service such as marketing, promotional, sales and social media activities.
• Carrying out offline interactions with EDC4IT.

You may not access our website or request our services If you are younger than 18 years old or do not have legal capacity to conclude legally binding contracts.

We collect certain data from you directly, such as information you provide when you visit our website, opt in to our marketing ads on the internet, submit an inquiry to us or enrol/participate in any of our classes and any other optional information you provide to us.

In general, you can visit https://www.edc4it.com without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself but when you register to join our educational classes, we will collect personal information from you, which may include your name, email address, name and address of employer and other information that identifies you. By providing your Personal Information to us, you expressly agree to our collection, use, storage, and disclosure of such information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We record or log information from your Devices, their software, and your activity accessing or using our Services. This information may include:

• The Device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address
• Identification numbers associated with your Devices
• Device event information, such as crashes, system activity, and hardware settings
• Location preferences
• Date and time stamps of transactions
• System configuration information
• Other interactions with our Services

Kindly note that when you visit other website before entering our site, those websites might place personal information within your URL and we do not have control over such websites.

We kindly refer you to our Cookies Policy

We do not share your Personal Information with:

1. Other Consulting/Educational Institutions for joint marketing purposes without your consent.
2. Affiliated companies for their everyday business purposes; or
3. Any third parties so they can market to you.

We may share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties:

1. If you request or authorize it;
2. If the information is provided to: (a) comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders, or subpoenas; (b) enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements; or (c) protect our rights, property, or safety or the rights, property, or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection, etc.);
3. If the information is provided to our trusted third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.);
4. For our everyday business purposes;
5. For publication of our events and competitions on digital and print media.
6. To help us provide you with effective support, we use Zendesk Chat to collect information from you when you visit our website by embedding content and inserting links.

When you are no longer our User, we may continue to share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to receive offers or other notices from us in the future, you can "opt-out" by contacting us as indicated in this Privacy Policy or by following the "unsubscribe" instructions in any communication you receive from us.

Beyond your right to opt out of our processing Personal Information, you also have the option of exercising any of the below rights with respect to your Personal Information:

• Request for Correction of your Personal Information: We respect your wishes to correct inaccurate information and as such you must notify us of any change in your personal information by contacting us through the email provided.
• Request Access to your Personal Information: You have the right to request for your personal information. However, when you make such request, we shall be asking for proof of your identity and if you are unable to do so, we reserve the right to not grant your request.
• Request us to refrain from doing certain things with your data or restrict the extent of our collection or processing of your data: You may object the processing of your personal data where you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which overrides your rights and freedom.
• Request partial or complete erasure of your Personal Information: You may request for us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to keep processing it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.
• Request the transfer of your Personal Information to another party: You may request for us to transfer your personal data to yourself or another organization. This right is only applicable to the Personal Information that you have provided and it may be subject to certain conditions or limitations as required by law. You can send this request to info@edc4it.com.

• in accordance with applicable law;
• when you fill our opt-in form or provide us with any registration information.

We may send email updates and administrative messages about our services, we may also send messages to keep you informed about new courses, special offers and information regarding our services which we think may be of interest to you.

This means that in some cases, we may also send you primarily promotional messages. We will not send you promotional messages unless you have chosen to opt-into them. But we may send you one message asking you to opt-into promotional messages without you having opted-into promotional messages.

Our Services are not directed or intended to be attractive, to children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, Please do not use our Services or submit any information to us.

The security of all personal information collated is taken very seriously and we will continue to do our best to comply with all applicable data protection laws. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, systems cannot be 100% secured, but we can guaranteed that your personal information will be secured from unauthorized access by third parties.

Personal Information will only be retained for as long as it is necessary for us to fulfil the purposes explicitly set out in this policy unless;

• retention of the record is required or authorized by law; or
• you have consented to the retention of the record.

During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by our non-disclosure obligations and will not share or sell your personal information.

We may retain your personal information in physical or electronic records at our discretion.

We may make changes to this policy from time to time and we will take all reasonable steps to inform you when we make this change by updating our web page or sending you a notification email. If you do not agree to this change, you can stop using our website or service following a notification of the change to our terms. You will be deemed to have accepted our updated terms if you continue to use our services or website.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or the way in which we handle your personal information, please forward your messages to info@edc4it.com. You also have the right to lay your complaint to the Regulator of data protection in your Country.

However, we would appreciate an opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach your domicile Data Protection Regulator.