MREI's Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to MREI Education LTD. (“MREI”). This Privacy Policy explains how MREI collects, uses, discloses, and retains personal information, including information collected through our websites, blogs, apps (including but not limited to messaging services), and our correspondence with you (for example, by e-mail) and when providing you with our products and services.

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1. Your Consent

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If you are located outside the European Economic Area, by providing MREI with your personal information, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of that information by MREI in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

 

You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and on reasonable notice to MREI, but then you might not be able to proceed with your intended interactions or transactions with MREI or otherwise receive the full benefit of MREI’s products and services.

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2. Data Controller

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For purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), we are the data controller for the purpose of data protection law, in respect of your personal information collected and used through your use of the website, products, and services. This is because we dictate the purpose for which your personal information is used and how we use your personal information.

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3. Personal Information Defined

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In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about you and which identifies you, such as your name and email address, but does not include (to the extent permitted by law) information that is publicly available in a telephone directory or that is the business contact information that enables an individual to be contacted at a place of business.

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4. Personal Information MREI Collects

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We collect personal information about you in the course of providing the websites, blogs, apps (including but not limited to messaging services), products and services, and our correspondence with you. The information may include the following:

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Category Description

Personal contact information: Name, personal address, personal email address, and personal telephone number

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Business contact information: Name, business address, business email address, and business telephone number

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Account information: Username and account preferences

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Payment information: Payment card number (credit or debit card), bank account number, billing address, or other financial account numbers and account details

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Financial aid application information: Contact information, link to social media profile, education and employment information, annual income, country of residence, aid preferences, answers to questions about your financial situation, and academic or professional achievements

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Course and enrolment information: Online registration information, record of attendance information, and assessments

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Social Media: Information relating to your social media profiles, including (but not limited to) LinkedIn

Marketing preferences, marketing activities, and customer feedbackMarketing preferences or responses to voluntary customer satisfaction surveys, interactions with and responses to marketing communications, reviews, and endorsements provided regarding our courses

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Other information you provide to us: For example, if you write a review of our products, submit a “Contact Us” form, or provide other information in the course of your use of our websites, products, or services

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5. How MREI Collects Information

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(a) Information You Provide

You may be asked to voluntarily give your personal information to MREI when you interact with us. This information may be provided:

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• in the course of communications between you and us (including by phone, email, chat, in person, via social media, website, or otherwise);

• when you register for an account;

• when you request information about or use a product or service provided by us;

• when you subscribe to a newsletter;

• when you attend tradeshows and other events; and

• when you report a problem with our websites, products, or services.

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In certain circumstances, you can choose not to provide certain requested personal information, but then you might not be able to proceed with your intended interaction or transaction with MREI or otherwise receive the full benefit of the desired product or service.

If you give MREI the personal information of another individual, then you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws, including obtaining the individual’s valid consent, regarding your collection and disclosure of the personal information to MREI and to MREI’s use, disclosure, and retention of the personal information.

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(b) Automated Collection

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MREI may automatically collect certain information regarding your use of MREI’s websites, such as the dates and times that you use the websites, the browsers, operating systems, software, and devices that you use to access the websites, and details of your use of the websites.

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MREI’s websites, email messages, and advertisements may use technologies (e.g., cookies, web beacons, tokens, pixels, or tags) to collect information that assists MREI to improve its products, services, customer communications, and advertising and to prevent fraud. MREI may use information collected through technological means to recognize you as a user of MREI’s websites, to facilitate and improve your use of MREI’s websites, to confirm that messages have been delivered to and opened by you, and to provide you with targeted advertisements. You may choose to decline or disable cookies if your web browser or device permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of a website.

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Some of the information automatically collected by technological means is non-personal information (because the information does not identify you), and MREI will deal with that non-personal information as explained below in this Privacy Policy unless applicable law requires otherwise.

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MREI shall have a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicenseable, irrevocable, perpetual, unrestricted license to use or incorporate into the Services any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, or other feedback provided by you relating to the operation of the Services, including but not limited to beta offerings, or products or features that are provided at no cost.

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(c) Cookies

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Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enable the website’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we may use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart and to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We may also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

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We use cookies to:

• help remember and process the items in the shopping cart;

• understand and save user’s preferences for future visits;

• keep track of advertisements; and

• compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

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You may choose to decline or disable cookies if your web browser permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of MREI’s websites. However, you will still be able to place orders.

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(d) Internet-Based Advertising

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MREI may use interest-based advertising services (sometimes called “remarketing” or “retargeting”) provided by third-party vendors (such as Google, Bing, LinkedIn, and Facebook) to display advertisements on third-party websites and social media sites visited by users of an MREI website. Advertising vendors (such as Google, Bing, LinkedIn, and Facebook) use cookies, pixels, or tokens – unique identifiers of a web browser on a specific computer that are installed on the computer when it accesses MREI websites – to display ads based on the computer’s past access to MREI websites. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a remarketing vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer opt-out page.

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(e) Information from Other Sources

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MREI may collect personal information from various publicly available sources and other third parties that are lawfully entitled to share your personal information with MREI.

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If MREI refers you to an independent business (e.g., a sales partner) for a proposed transaction, then MREI may collect from that independent business information regarding the transaction for use by MREI to update your confidential profile for use by MREI as set out in this Privacy Policy.

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MREI may combine your personal information collected by MREI through various sources.

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6. How MREI Uses Personal Information

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(a) General

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Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, for example:

 

• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;

• for our legitimate interests (see below) or those of a third party;

• for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; or

• you have given consent.

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A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. Where we rely on our legitimate business interests or those legitimate interests of a third party to justify the purposes for using your personal information, this will include:

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• pursuit of our commercial activities and objectives, or those of a third party;

• compliance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations and any codes of conduct;

• improvement and development of our business operations and service offering, or those of a third party; or

• protection of our business, shareholders, employees, and customers, or those of a third party