Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

Our goal is to help students match their personal preferences and abilities with the best possible educational institutions. Our mission is to add to the educational and cultural experience of our students, and to inspire them for greatness in their future studies and careers. We will provide our students with the best resources to pursue their dreas.We understand that booking for a course involves a great deal of trust on your part. We take this trust very seriously, and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us. Please read the following policy to learn about our privacy practices. By visiting our website, www.egida.us, you are accepting the practices described herein.

By using or accessing egida.us (our Site) or any of our websites you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to this privacy policy. You acknowledge that you are 16 years of age or older, or possess legal parental or guardian consent. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not provide us with your PI. Your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

 

• Egida Internatinal LLC. (Egida) is committed to keeping and respecting your right to privacy.
• We do not sell or rent your Personal Information (PI) under any circumstances.
• Your information can only be accessed by authorized personnel.
• We monitor external data threats and act quickly and transparently to protect your privacy.
• We retain your PI only as long as it is required. When your PI is no longer required it will be securely destroyed.
• We only share information with third parties for the purposes of executing the service you requested (examples below) or as required by law.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION, PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND SENSITIVE INFORMATION?

Personal Information (PI) consists of both Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and Sensitive Information (SI).

PII is personal data that can be used on its own or in combination with other information, to identify, contact or locate a single person. Examples include your name, address & phone numbers. It does not include anonymized or statistical data that by itself does not allow identification of you as an individual.

SI may include information about your health and medical history.

CUSTOMER SERVICE & REQUESTING INFORMATION THROUGH ONLINE FORMS:

To assist you, we usually need to ask you for some PI, such as your name, contact details, and other information related to the student-participant and this will be stored in our secure database which uses standard encryption technology. Such PI is required to respond to your inquiry and to keep a record of our interaction. Other information may be related to a child’s current school and past programs attended. This is helpful as we work to create the best possible summer experience for you.

Our online forms allow our website visitors to seek more information about our programs and/or to subscribe to our email list. Examples of forms include: Contact Us, Register Now, Register for Camp, Inquire here and Book appointment. We ask for basic information to fulfill your request, to recommend appropriate programs. Any PI that you share with us via a form on our website is securely encrypted via secure server software (“SSL”).

For our Email Itinerary Form, there is an option to email information to a friend. For those requests, we only email the friend the requested information and give them the option to subscribe to subsequent marketing emails and agree to this privacy policy.

We try to not send marketing emails more than once per trimester unless there is a timely message that we share with you (example: special offer announcements). Emails that may be personally sent to you from a member of our enrollment team that responds directly to your question or request are not considered to be a marketing email. Emails to confirm your enrollment or follow up with forms that you need to complete in order to participate are considered to be transactional emails rather than marketing emails.

Although we do business internationally our internal data storage systems are currently based in North America. As a result, your PI will be processed in North America where data protection and privacy regulations may differ from other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you share any PI with us, you agree to this Privacy Policy and consent to the transfer of your PI to the United States and/ or Canada.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH YOUR PERMISSION, TO NECESSARY SERVICES OR AS REQUIRED BY LAW:

By filling out forms and agreeing to our privacy policy, you give us permission to share your PI as follows:

1. To third party companies to help us deliver the service that you request. Examples include an adventure activity outfitter release form that includes medical information you provided. Due to the nature of our travel business, these companies may be located in another country outside of your own.
2. To other companies with trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with Data Protection Legislation, our Privacy Policy and additional confidentiality and security measures. If you require a list of our third-party data processors, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@egida.us
3. To government authorities, agencies and institutions, but ONLY as required or allowed by applicable regulations.
4. When you are ready to enroll, you might be directed to our partner website to fill in an enrollment form for your child or you will be given our partner enrolment form to be filled by us. We will ask for your Personal Information, the program member’s information, the program you wish to join, credit card Information (Card Company, Number, Expiry Date) or check/bank account details to help you process your payment.

HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Use of cookies:

If you are browsing our Site, you are anonymous to us, but we will still collect User Data, like browser type, device, and IP address, during your session through standard web analytics services to monitor site usage tracking and to improve the quality of the experience and services we present to you. This information does not personally identify you. Once this data is collected, it is stored in our web analytics services for a maximum renewable period of 26 months or until it is deemed necessary to delete. You can control the use of online cookie tracking through your browser settings. However, if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service that were put in place to help serve you better.

Some of our trusted online partners (e.g. Facebook ads or Google ads) may use cookies and /or pixel tags on the Egida website to help enhance your overall experience. To this end, Egida`s third-party advertising company may make a note of some of the pages visited on the Site through the widely accepted industry standard practices. This privacy statement only covers the use of cookies by Egida’s websites and does not cover the use of cookies by anyone else.

If you reside in the European Union, a Cookies Acceptance Banner appears when you visit our Site. By closing this banner, scrolling this page, clicking a link, or continuing to browse otherwise, you agree and consent to our use of cookies, unless you manually disable Cookies in your browser.

Other data collection methods:

On rare occasions, we may indirectly receive personal information about a person (usually a combination of first name, last name, email or phone number). This may be from your friend or contact who asks us to send you information advisors and/or schools. In these instances, we also seek to get your consent to hold your information in the first instance that we communicate with you.

DISCLAIMER OTHER WEBSITES:

This Site contains links to other websites, or to our social media profiles for example. These are shared only for your convenience and not as an indication of Egida’s approval of these websites. They may have their own privacy and website policies, which we do not control, and therefore are not covered by Egida.

Egida sometimes runs promotions or contests on third party social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram or YouTube). Any information you decide to post to our public profiles on these platforms is subject to the privacy policy of those third-party platforms and is independent of the privacy policy of Egida.

YOUR RIGHTS TO ACCESS, CORRECT OR DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

For marketing emails, you may unsubscribe at any time and you may contact us if you have any questions about your email subscriptions.

You can ask to review, revise or delete the PI we hold about you at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer at info@egida.us to express your needs and concerns.

When you make a Data Subject Right Request, you will be asked to provide details of the data requested and the reasons why that data needs correction; and proof of who you are. We will acknowledge your request and address your request as soon as possible and no later than thirty days from the date your request is received. You have the right at any time, to raise your issues with a Data Protection Authority.

If Egida is asked to destroy PI, we do so as long as it does not compromise Egida’s legal standing now or in the future. As data is destroyed, we take reasonable care to make sure there is no unauthorized disclosure during the destruction of the data. To do this, we will maintain a record of all such delete requests, including a minimum of PI required.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT:

We regularly review and on occasion update this statement to ensure it remains in line with applicable regulation. We will inform you of such changes by prior notification, usually through the www.egida.us website.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behavior on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.

2. EMBEDDED CONTENT

Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged-in to that website. Below you can find a list of the services we use:

FACEBOOK

The Facebook page plugin is used to display our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Facebook Privacy Policy .

TWITTER

We use the Twitter API to display our tweets timeline on our site. Twitter has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. Your IP is not sent to a Twitter server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Twitter Privacy Policy .

YOUTUBE

We use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.

CONSENT CHOICE

We provide you with the choice to accept this or not, we prompt consent boxes for all embedded content, and no data is transferred before you consented to it.

The checkboxes below show you all embeds you have consented to so far. You can opt-out any time by un-checking them and clicking the update button.

• YouTube

• Facebook

• Twitter

3. COOKIES

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)

• cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
• PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.

4. THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data with in order to provide the services you expect from us. Please see below:

 

5. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

When you submit a support ticket or a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

6. SECURITY MEASURES

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.

In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.