Privacy Policy

Last modified: January 1, 2025
1.Introduction
iae GLOBAL Pakistan (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are
committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you
(i) visit the website https://iaeglobalpakistan.net/ (our “Website”);
(ii) send us an email; info@iaeglobalpakistan.net
(iii) contact us in any other way;
(iv) And our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
 on this Website; https://iaeglobalpakistan.net/
 in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us; and
 Offline or through any other means.
However, it does not apply to information collected by:
 Us via any other website operated by us (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); 
 Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website or providing us with your data in order for us to provide services to you, you agree to us collecting, storing and using your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Section 10 – Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
2.Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website and services are not intended for children under 16 years of age without consent from a parent or legal guardian. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16 without parental consent, please contact us at info@iaeglobalpakistan.net.
If you are under 16 years of age and wish to use our services, your parents or legal guardian must provide their agreement on your behalf to our privacy policy and the other terms and conditions applicable to the service offering you wish to use.For clarity, we will have no obligation to provide any services and may accept or reject any request for services in our sole discretion.
3.Information We Collect About You
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and services, which we have grouped together as follows:
 Identity Data – this may include your name, title, date of birth, nationality
and gender.
 Contact Data – this may include your postal address, email address, telephone number, WhatsApp or other messaging application contact information, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
 Application Data – this may include details of your education, qualifications, grades, subject interests, educational institutions of interest and any other information to be include on your application to an educational institution.
 Technical Data – this includes information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
 Health Data – this may include any information about a disability or health condition that you choose to provide to us in connection with an application to an educational institution.
 Financial Data – this may include evidence or other information you provide relating to your finances or ability to pay the fees and expenses required by an educational institution as part of your application.
4.How We Collect Information
We collect your information:
 Directly from you when you provide it to us.
 Automatically as you navigate through the Website.
(i) Information You Provide to Us Directly
The information we collect from you directly may include Identity Data, Contact
Data, Health Data and Financial Data as follows:
 Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our info@iaeglobalpakistan.net
 Email list, and sending us messages via the Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
 Information you provide when you correspond with us by email, phone or otherwise and records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
 Information you provide to us as part of the evidence required for your application to an educational institution (for example, this may include official identification documents, certificates of education, references, personal statements and evidence of your ability to pay the fees for the educational institution).
 Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions.Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
(ii) Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
 Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
 Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
 Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
 Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
 Speed up your searches.
 Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
 Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
 Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
5.How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
 Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
 Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
 Where we need to comply with a legal obligation. We have set out below a description of the ways we use your personal data. Note
that we may use your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful ground for processing including basis of legitimate interest To provide information, register you as a student and to make an application to an educational institution on your behalf
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Application
(d) Health
(e) Financial
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To manage provision of our services including storing a record of our communications with you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Application
(a) Performance of a contract with you and updating you about the status of your application

(d) Financial

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated) To manage our relationship with you which may include responding to any questions, notifying you of changes to our services and asking you to provide feedback or respond to a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how students use our products/services) To administer and protect our business and Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant Website content to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the information we provide to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how students use our services, to develop our services, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) To use data analytics to improve our Website and services
(a) Technical Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our strategy) To send you details of our services that we think may be of interest provided you have not opted out of receiving such communications
(a) Contact Disclosure of Your Information Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our services, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
(i) To educational institutions as part of your application If you confirm that you would like us to make an application on your behalf to any
educational institution, we will share your personal data with the educational institution as part of your application. This may include Identity Data, Contact Data, Application Data, Health Data and Financial Data.
(ii) To other third parties We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law:
 To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
 To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our customers and Website users is among the assets transferred. We require our third party service providers to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only
permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in
accordance with our instructions. We may also disclose your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
(iii) Anonymised and aggregated data We may use and disclose aggregated information about the users of our services without restriction, provided that individual users cannot be identified from such information.
7.Choices About How We Use Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
 Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
 Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote our own services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@iaeglobalpakistan.net. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
8.International Transfers
As a UK-based company, we process and store your personal data within the UK. However, we will transfer your data outside the UK in the circumstances set out below.
(i) Transfers to educational institutions If you confirm that you would like us to make an application on your behalf to any educational institution which is based outside the UK, this will involve a transfer of your personal data outside the UK. If any educational institution is not based in a country which has been deemed by the UK government (or by the EU Commission, if you are an individual based in the
EU) to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data, the transfer will be made on the basis of Article 49 of the UK GDPR (or EU GDPR as appropriate), which allows us to transfer your personal data to a country or an international organisation outside the UK or EEA where the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us or concluded in your interest. You acknowledge that where your personal data is transferred outside the UK or EEA, controls on data protection may not be as wide as the legal requirements within the UK or EEA.
(ii) Transfers to service providers. We use third party service providers based outside the UK to securely process Personal data you provide to us. In such circumstances we:
 Will only allow our service providers to transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed by the UK government to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data;
 Ensure our service providers transfer personal data using specific contracts approved for use in the UK or EU which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK or EU; or
 Obtain your consent to such a transfer.
9.Your Rights
You have certain rights in connection with the information we collect from you as follows:
Access: You can ask us to give you a copy of the personal information that we hold about you.
Correction: You can ask us to change or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal information held about you.
Erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, you have withdrawn consent, or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it.
Objection: You can object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Restriction: You can ask us to restrict our use of your personal information in the following circumstances: a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) if you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Transfer: You can ask us to provide you or a third party with some of the personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, electronic form, so it can be easily transferred. Note that this right only applies if we process information by automated means and use it to perform a contract with you. Withdraw consent: If you have given us your consent to use personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time. To request to exercise any of these rights please email info@iaeglobalpakistan.net. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is
particularly complex or you have made a number of requests in which case we may extend our time to respond by up to 2 additional months. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. As part of this process we will verify the identity of the individual requesting the information prior to providing access or making any changes. If we cannot fulfill your request, we will respond and provide you with an explanation.
10.Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
11.Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm
from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances we may aggregate or anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in
which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
12.Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page.The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
13.Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, or to register a concern, contact us at:
Address: First Floor, 16-G Aghaz Plaza, Office #1, Kohistan Rd, F-8 Markaz, Islamabad,
44000
Email:info@iaeglobalpakistan.net
If you have any complaint about how we are using your personal data or otherwise in relation to this Privacy Policy, please contact us in the first instance and will we do our best to resolve it. If we do not resolve it to your satisfaction, you have the right to make a complaintn at any time to your relevant supervisory authority for data protection issues. If you are based in the UK, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk).