Privacy Policy

1. When you participate in our events or use our services, you provide us with:

• 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)
• Event-specific details relevant to your registration
• Employee and intern information (for full-time & part-time positions)

2. Information automatically collected when you visit our website:

• Unique device information, URL, pages you view, access times, 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. Information received from third parties:

• Information from other websites and service providers (with your consent)
• Publicly shared information, including on social media
• Information shared with educational institutions we work with
• Third-party log-in information

4. Institutional requests:

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 to ensure continued availability of our Services:

• Create and register your profile, and enable registration with us
• Process your request, enable correspondence, process billing information, track orders
• Monitor, maintain upkeep and continued delivery of Services
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• Allow you to participate in our interactive features and attend our events
• Personalize our Services and make recommendations to you
• Enter and perform contracts with you
• Perform data analytics (market research, trend analysis, financial analysis)
• Pursue our legitimate business interests in providing and marketing our Services
• Interact with educational institutions and third parties on your behalf
• Offer value-added services, including financial support information
• Comply with legal obligations and establish, exercise or defend legal rights
• Maintain and enhance security of our products, services, and network
• 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 sector
• Third-party service providers supporting marketing, sales, and customer support
• Technical infrastructure and related service providers
• Business, financial, and legal support providers
• Logistics and event management providers
• Contact and correspondence management systems
• Our group entities for personalized services

7. Third-Party Links:

There could be links to other websites and service providers on our website. You must familiarize yourself with their policies, as our policies will not govern your interaction with such third parties.

8. Exceptional circumstances for disclosure:

• Required by law or to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal proceedings
• Necessary to protect the safety of our employees, property, or the public
• Necessary for the prevention or detection of crime
• As part of a merger, business, or asset sale (information shared with prospective parties)

9. When you share your information with us, you have the right to:

10. Regional Variations:

The rights afforded to you may vary depending on the region you are accessing our website from. Our intention is to ensure that all our users have comparable rights, but certain jurisdictions afford different levels of protection.

11. Parental Rights:

As a parent or 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 for processing your ward's personal information.

13. Your Responsibility:

You agree to provide us with accurate and most recent information about yourself when interacting with us.

14. Retention Period:

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 statutory timelines, we retain the information until we have a contractual obligation, your consent, or a legitimate interest for processing such information.

15. Data Deletion:

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. Cookie Usage:

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. International Data Transfers:

We maintain servers around the world and work with third parties serving us and institutions who are our clients. Accordingly, we may process your information on servers located outside of the country where you live. As data protection laws vary, we apply the same levels of protection and compliance as detailed in this Privacy Policy.

18. Security Measures:

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

19. Payment Security:

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. Access Control:

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. Effective Date:

This Privacy Policy came into effect on January 1, 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 at:

24. Regulatory Authorities:

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.