Privacy policy

Updated October 2025

Efekta Education Ltd (“Efekta”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our potential and existing customers and learners.

This Efekta privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) applies to all Personal Data (as defined below) collected or submitted through our website www.efekta.com, through our official social media pages or through other channels online and offline as further described below (the “Efekta Sites”).

This Privacy Policy describes how we will make use of your Personal Data, describes your data protection rights, including the right to object to some processing which Efekta carries out.

Controller

Efekta Education Ltd, incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 15012429 whose registered office is at 22 Chelsea Manor Street, London SW3 5RL United Kingdom is the controller for the processing of your personal data.

Personal Data

Personal Data” is information or pieces of information that could allow you to be identified. We may collect, store and use the following information about you:

  • Name and contact details (e.g. email address, telephone number);

  • Country of residence;

  • Job or institution related information: job title or role, client organisation & business sector, previous experience and expertise;

  • Other information you provide during a phone-or video call or a chat; or

  • Technical information, e.g. screen/username, IP address, browser and device data, information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies, server log file data, app usage data and location data, page views and website navigation.

How do we collect Personal Data?

We collect Personal Data in a variety of ways:

  • Directly from you: Personal Data is collected directly from you:

    • Offline: We collect Personal Data from you offline, for example when you contact our customer service or sales staff, or provide information to us in writing.

    • Online: We collect your Personal Data through the Efekta Sites, for example if you sign up for a newsletter or a brochure, enrol in a product or service. We also collect Personal Data through cookies. Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer or device for recordkeeping and other purposes. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure that allows you to decline the use of cookies. For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our cookie policy.

  • From our corporate affiliates or business partners. We may receive Personal Data from other parties in conjunction with your course/program, including:

    • Our corporate affiliates that resell our services and/or offer customer service in your country of residence and provide us with the Personal Data that is needed to come to an agreement with you or the company you represent, or the training facility in your destination country that provides some of the services that you or the company you represent have ordered, or our affiliate that is responsible for part of the performance of the contract with you for any of Efekta Group’s offers.

    • Business partners, such as local sales agents that promote the sales of our services in your country of residence as further described below.

  • From other sources. We may receive your Personal Data from other sources, such as public databases; social media platforms, including but not limited to LinkedIn; from people with whom you are connected on social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. Furthermore, we use cookies to track members of social media networks as further explained in our cookie policy.

  • If you browse our sites. We may also collect information about your use of our services through your browser to trace activity on our sites, such as your Media Access Control (“MAC”) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and service provider. In addition, an IP Address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you visit the Efekta Sites, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. You can read more about collection of your IP address and other browsing data in our cookie policy.

How do we use Personal Data?

We will use your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • Your Personal Data will be processed by Efekta for customer acquisition, customer service, storing and answering inquiries, administrative services or as otherwise necessary to perform the contract between you or your employer/institution and us or as further described in this policy.

  • This includes:

    • for statistical purposes, system maintenance, backup, calculating usage levels, and helping diagnose server problems with the Efekta Sites, for business development as well as to ensure that the Efekta Sites function properly;

    • to provide customer service or send service related information, via various channels such as SMS, messenger services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, chat bots or email;

    • where relevant, to establish, exercise or defend legal claims;

    • to detect, investigate or prevent information security incidents, fraud, misrepresentation or crime;

    • to meet applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements;

    • we may process your Personal Data for marketing purposes, including:

      • to analyse and improve our offers by identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and tailoring the Efekta Sites experience and content based on your past activities on the Efekta Sites.

      • to market our products and services, including special promotions based on your interests, for example through email marketing solutions such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s management software which maintains mailing lists and schedules and modifies email messages based on what recipients read, click-on or forward, or through other channels such as SMS, other instant messenger services or chat bots, telephone calls with operator (so-called telemarketing) or traditional mail. All such communication will include a clear unsubscribe link or offer another opt-out function.

      • for the transmission and communication to third-party companies or companies within the Efekta Group for their marketing purposes, including direct marketing activities and telemarketing.

    • to analyze our interactions to improve our sales process and quality control.

 How do we share Personal Data?

We share your Personal Data as described below and in this Privacy Policy, and as permitted by applicable law:

  • Corporate affiliates

Our corporate affiliates provide internal service functions such as IT, legal or other shared services.

  • Third party service providers

We share Personal Data with third parties in connection with the delivery of services to you and the operation of our business, for example, providers of IT systems in order to manage customer relations; providers of software and services for digital marketing automation and analytics; advertising platforms; for customer service, business analytics, and fraud prevention and compliance services; to serve you with advertising tailored to your interests.

  • Business partners

We may share your Personal Data with business partners, for example if we are promoting a program or offer a service or product in conjunction with a third-party business partner or when we use local sales agents that promote the sales of our services in your country of residence. In most of those cases, the program or offer will include the name of the third-party business partner, either alone or with ours, or you will be redirected to the website of that business with notice.

  • Corporate transactions.

In the event that our business is sold or integrated with another business, your Personal Data may be disclosed to our advisers, a prospective purchaser and any prospective purchaser’s advisers and will be passed to the new owners of the business.

  • Legal rights and obligations

We also share Personal Data as we believe to be necessary: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions or a contract; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

International Data Transfers

Efekta has business activities in several different countries, and your Personal Data may be shared with affiliates of Efekta or other recipients as described above having a need to receive such data for the purpose of performing the services you have requested, or according to this policy. Such recipients may be located outside your own country, including countries outside the country where you are domiciled, including USA and India. Unless the European Commission or the equivalent authority in your home country has decided that a country ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data, Efekta will use contracts based on the European Commission’s standard data protection clauses for international transfers of personal data to ensure compliance with applicable law, or other transfer mechanisms required by the law in your home country. You have a right to ask us for a copy of the standard data protection clauses (by contacting us as set out in the Contact Us section below).

On what do we base our right to collect and use Personal Data?

We have documented the lawful bases for our processing activities below.

On some occasions, we process your Personal Data on the basis of your consent (for example, when you agree that we may set cookies other than those that are strictly necessary, or opt-in to receive marketing communications). Where we do process data based on consent, your consent is revocable at any time.

The processing of some of your Personal Data is necessary in order to provide services to you pursuant to the agreement that you or your employer or institution enters into with us. Without this information, we would not be able to provide certain services to you.

On other occasions, we process your data when we are required to do this by law (for example, if we are required by court order or any applicable law to process data or we otherwise need to do so in order to meet our legal obligations in either case).

We also process your Personal Data when it is in our, or a third party’s, legitimate interests to do so, provided that your data protection rights do not override these interests.

Type of and purpose of processing

Lawful basis for processing

For customer service, storing and answering inquiries, administrative services administrative services.

Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

For statistical purposes, system maintenance, backup, calculating usage levels, and helping diagnose server problems with the Efekta Sites, for business development as well as to ensure that the Efekta Sites function properly.

Legitimate interest in administering and improving the Efekta Sites for the benefit of users.

To provide customer service or send service related information, via various channels such as SMS, messenger services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, chat bots or email.

Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Legitimate interest in providing services to you as agreed with your employer/institution.

To establish, exercise or defend legal claims or for debt collection.

Legal obligation

Legitimate interest in bringing and defending legal claims or for debt collection to protect the business.

To detect, investigate or prevent information security incidents and/or report fraud, misrepresentation or crime.

Legal obligation

Legitimate interest in detecting, investigating or preventing information security incidents, misrepresentation and crime to protect (a) users of the Efekta Sites, and (b) our directors, employees and consultants.

To meet applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements, including but not limited to sanctions laws.

Legal obligation

Legitimate interest in ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

To analyse and improve our offers by identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and tailoring Efekta products experience and content based on your past activities.

Consent

For customer acquisition; to market our products and services, including special promotions based on your interests.

Consent

Legitimate interest, for direct marketing of products or services similar to the one(s) you have already purchased from that same legal entity within a limited period of time or to a corporate contact when it is within their reasonable expectations.

For the transmission and communication to third-party companies or our affiliates for their marketing purposes, including direct marketing activities and telemarketing.

Consent

To analyse our interactions to improve our sales process and quality control.

Legitimate interest in improving our business.

How long do we store personal data?

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it has been collected or in accordance with time limits stipulated by law and market practice, unless further retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or unless a specific time period has been communicated.

When you represent an employer or institution who is or may become a client of ours, we will keep limited parts of your Personal Data which are necessary for marketing for a maximum of 5 years after your last interaction with us, or until you withdraw your consent or object to this processing, whichever is earlier.

Security

We use appropriate organizational, technical and administrative measures to keep the Personal Data under our control accurate and up-to-date, as well as to protect the Personal Data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and the accidental loss, destruction or damage of the Personal Data.

Unsubscribe

If at any time you wish to stop receiving marketing communications from us you can use the unsubscribe feature in the marketing communication you received, change the privacy setting in the online school or let us know by using the contact information listed in the “Contact Us” section. In your request, please indicate that you wish to stop receiving marketing communications from us.

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Please note that changes may not be effective immediately. We will endeavour to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within legally stipulated deadline.

Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties. The inclusion of a link on any Efekta product do not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

Additionally, we may provide you with access to third-party functionality that permits you to share your activities on Efekta Sites to your social media account(s), for example Facebook or LinkedIn. Please note that any information that you provide through the use of this functionality is governed by the applicable third party’s privacy policy, and not by this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and shall not be responsible for, any third party’s use of information that you provide through use of this functionality.

Sensitive Data

We do not generally seek to collect nor infer any sensitive Personal Data. Sensitive Personal Data is data related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health or medical condition, criminal background or trade union membership. In certain limited situations, this might however be necessary (for example in order to provide you with the services and products you have ordered). We will make sure that we receive your explicit consent to such processing or otherwise meet a legal condition to do so, and we will treat this information securely.

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Updates To This Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not significantly reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without informing you. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, prior to implementing such changes, we will provide a more prominent notice. Where required by law, we will seek your prior consent to any change.

Your Rights

We respect your rights to access and control your information and will respond to requests in according with applicable privacy and data protection laws. We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details to help us to respond to your request.

Depending on the lawful basis for processing upon which we rely, you have a right to:

  1. request access to your Personal Data;

  2. request that we correct or complete Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete;

  3. request that we erase your Personal Data, which we will do where required by applicable privacy and data protection legislation;

  4. restrict our processing of your Personal Data, in certain circumstances;

  5. request that we provide you with copies of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or transfer it across different services;

  6. object to certain types of processing, including where we process your Personal Data on the basis of our legitimate interests and for direct marketing purposes; and

  7. where we have asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw this consent.

These rights are limited in some situations under applicable privacy and data protection legislation – for example, where we can demonstrate that we are under a legal obligation or have other legitimate grounds to process your data.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details below. We hope that we can satisfy any queries you may have about the way we process your data. However, if you have unresolved concerns you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities.

AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING

If you have explicitly given your consent for marketing purposes by ticking the relevant checkbox (for clarity, agreeing to this Privacy Policy does not constitute marketing consent), Efekta may collect Personal Data for the purpose of profiling in order to serve promotional information tailored to your interests, for example to analyse or predict aspects concerning that your economic situation, personal preferences, interests, behaviour, approximate location or movements. This type of profiling does not produce any legal effects on you.

Contact Us

If you would like to have a copy of the information Efekta holds about you; a copy of the standard data protection clauses or would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at our address above.

If you have complaints about our handling of your Personal Data, please first contact our contact our DPO here. You also have a right to contact the supervisory authority in the country where you live.