Privacy Policy

1. When you come to our website, and select to participate in one of the events, fairs, hosted by us, you provide us with the following. Not all the following details are mandatorily required by us, certain identifiers are collected from you, to provide specific Services, and are collected on a need to process basis.

• Name, e-mail address, phone number (where required)
• Physical address
• Domicile and nationality information
• Gender, date of birth
• Username and password
• Identification (where required)
• Education, professional data, resumes, work experience
• Recommendations and references
• Financial data
• Passport details (where required)
• any specific details which may be relevant for the event that you wish to register for, participate in;
• any specific details which may be required from full-time & part-time employees, interns, etc.

2. When you come on to our website, and review our content, and Services, there are certain identifiers which get automatically collected by us:

• unique device information, URL, pages you view, access, time-stamps, other diagnostic data;
• IP address, general location, cookies, web beacons;
• location based data;
• type and version of your web browser, and operating system;
• enquiries about our Services;
• purchase information and history;
• consent and privacy preferences.

3. When you come on to our website, through any other service provider, platform, there are certain identifiers which are shared with us, and we receive them from such third parties:

• information from any other website, service provider, where you have provided your consent, and where it is necessary for us to provide you with our Services;
• information you may have shared publicly, including on social media (particularly in respect of job applications);
• information you may have shared with the educational institutions we work with;
• third party log-in information.

4. In case of institutional requests, we receive only such information which is provided by the educational institutes for availment of our Services.

5. We use your information as per this Privacy Policy, and use it for the purposes of ensuring continued availability of our Services to you:

• create and register your profile, and enable registration with us;
• process your request, enable correspondence, process billing information, track orders;
• to monitor, maintain upkeep and continued delivery of Services, to detect, prevent, and address technical issues;
• to allow you to participate in our interactive features;
• to allow you to attend our events;
• personalize our Services, and make recommendations to you;
• to enter and perform a contract with you or to perform any steps you require from us before entering into the contract;
• perform data analytics ( such as market research, trend analysis, financial analysis and customer segmentation;
• to pursue our legitimate business interests in providing and marketing our Services;
• to interact with educational institutions, third parties on your behalf in furtherance of the Services availed by you;
• to offer other value added services, like provide you with information about entities who may provide you with financial support;
• to comply with our legal obligations and establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
• maintain and enhance the safety and security of our products, services, online channels, network services, information resources and employees;
• other purposes which we have communicated to you, and you have consented to.

6. We may share your information, with your consent, with educational institutions and organizations in the international higher education student recruitment sector that we collaborate with, and with third-party service providers who support us with marketing, sales, and customer support, providers of technical infrastructure and related services, business, financial, and legal support providers, logistics and ticketing/event management providers, contact and correspondence management systems, and our group entities, in order to offer you more personalized services. All such sharing will be done strictly with your prior consent.

7. There could be links to other websites and service providers on our website, and should you choose to access such links and visit their websites, note that you must familiarize yourself with their policies. Our policies will not govern your interaction with such third parties, and you will be subject to such policies during your usage of their services.

8. There are certain exceptional circumstances in which we may disclose your information to third parties. This would be where we believe that the disclosure is:

• required by the law, or in order to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders or legal or regulatory proceedings;
• necessary to protect the safety of our employees, our property or the public;
• necessary for the prevention or detection of crime;
• proportionate as part of a merger, business or asset sale, in the event that this happens we will share your information with the prospective seller or buyer involved.

9. We want you to know that when you share your information with us, you also have the right to know about how we use your information, manage and store it with us. More importantly, there are certain rights, which are available to you, and that you can use them to exercise meaningful choices about your information. You have the right to:

• request access to your information by submitting a request to legal@seedglobaleducation.com;
• update, alter, or amend your information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• withdraw any consent you have provided in respect of our use of your information;
• object to certain uses of your information;
• request the deletion of your information, or restrict its use, in certain circumstances;
• lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority in your jurisdiction;
• nominate a person as your legacy contact, in certain jurisdictions.

10. You need to understand that the rights which are afforded to you may vary depending on the region you are accessing our website and availing our Services. Our intention is to ensure that all our users have comparable rights afforded to them, but certain jurisdictions afford either a higher level of protection, or do not allow for certain rights to be bestowed on the residents domiciled in such jurisdictions. Accordingly, we strive to ensure that you are able to exercise your rights, as per the place you are residing in.

11. As a parent or a legal guardian, you may write to us, to understand the rights that you are entitled to, and how to enforce those rights. There may be instances where we may require verifiable consent from you, depending on the jurisdiction you are residing in, for processing your ward’s personal information.

12. It is important for you to note that when you exercise some of your rights, there may be parts of our Services which may be rendered inaccessible to you, for instance, where you object to further processing of your information for specific purposes.

13. You further agree to provide us with accurate and most recent information about yourself, when you are interacting with us.

14. We retain your personal information for such time that it is necessary, and permitted under the law. There are defined statutory timelines for retention of certain categories of personal information, and we abide by the same. In the absence of the same, we retain the information till we have a contractual obligation, your consent, or a legitimate interest for processing such information.

15. We will actively review the information we hold and delete it securely, or in some cases anonymize it, when there is no longer a legal, business or customer need for it to be retained. If you stop interacting with us as a user, we will remove your information as per the law.

16. Yes, we use cookies, which help us improve our website, marketing activities and your experience. Our use of cookies is governed by our Cookies Policy.

17. We maintain servers around the world, and work with third parties serving us, and institutions who are our clients and engage us to provide you with Services. Accordingly, we may process your information on servers located outside of the country where you live. As the data protection laws vary, we apply the same levels of protection and compliance as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We also comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the transfer of data, such as the frameworks which are prescribed in law, for transfer of data, which may be in the form of standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, bilateral privacy frameworks, binding corporate rules.

18. We consider your privacy to be important, and we are governed by the applicable data privacy laws. We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards, consistent with legal requirements where the personal information was obtained, designed to protect against unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of, or access to, the personal information provided to us through the channels.

19. We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that payments made by you are through an SSL (secure sockets layer), which is an industry-standard protocol for encryption over the Internet.

20. We limit access to your information to only such employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.

21. Policy Updates:

In the event we change this Privacy Policy, we will let you know about the changes by publishing the updated version on www.seedglobaleducation.com. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and will continue to do so in any future changes we make to this Privacy Policy.

22. This Privacy Policy came into effect on 1 January 2025, replacing our earlier Privacy Policy. Please write to the Data Protection Officer if you would like to find out more about any matters to do with this Privacy Policy, including to be able to access our earlier Privacy Policies.

23. Contact Information:

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or if you would like us to update information, we have about you or your preferences, please reach out to us using the list of privacy contacts below or write to us at:

24. In case you are not satisfied with the resolution provided to you by us, you may reach out to the regulatory authorities of the jurisdiction that you are based out of, for further actions.