Privacy Policy

Introduction

This policy outlines why Europe Visa Connect(EVC) collects and stores personal information, how it is collected and used, ways of disclosing information, protection and security measures, and finally, how submitted information can be corrected and/or accessed.

Types of Personal Information

Europe Visa Connect(EVC) may gather personal information from you in its standard flow of work, which might sometimes be sensitive in nature. The following are some examples:

Personal details we may collect:

Name, email & postal addresses
Date of birth and residency status
Contact information
Educational qualifications and employment history
Tax file numbers and passport details
Information necessary for visa applications (including medical and financial information)
Professional/occupational memberships

We collect this information from:

Prospective students interested in studying abroad
Clients employing our migration or visa services
Individuals interested in working for us as consultants
Participants in events sponsored, organized or arranged by EVC Study Consultants

Methods of Collection

All methods used by Europe Visa Connect(EVC) to collect information are fair and legally sound. We will only seek out your personal information from you, your authorized representative, or from a third party we have authorized to provide services.

Verification Requirements

Europe Visa Connect(EVC) does not store any sensitive information that is not crucial in its dealings, or without the consent of its users. You will need to verify yourself if you want us to work with you—false identities or information are not acceptable.

Usage and Disclosures

When we need your information, we will disclose specifically where or in which process it will be necessary. Your information will only be disclosed secondarily with your consent, if you guide us to use it, or if required by law.

Marketing Communications

We may use your information for direct marketing—but you will have the alternative of choosing not to be a part of any such future endeavours. Information might be sent to overseas organizations in relation to visa applications or migration service-related processes.

Protection and Security

1. Security Measures We Implement

We take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Information we hold against interference, loss, unauthorised access, usage, modification or disclosure, and other misuses.

Our security measures include:

Maintenance of computer technology and systems
People and process-based security measures like firewalls, network security configurations, and use of passwords
Regular updates to security systems and configurations to protect our systems from malicious activities
Restriction of access to data to only those staff members that need access to carry out our business activities
Training and ensuring that all our employees are required to treat Personal Information as confidential

2. Internet Security Considerations

If you submit information to us electronically, please be aware that the internet is not a completely secure environment. We take reasonable steps to provide a secure channel for receiving information but cannot absolutely protect Personal Information before it reaches us.

3. Information Retention

When the Personal Information that we collect is no longer required, we will destroy, delete it securely, or ensure that the information is de-identified in accordance with our information destruction and de-identification policy, unless we are required by law to retain a copy of the Personal Information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You have the right to seek access to any of your Personal Information held by us unless there is a valid reason under privacy laws for us to withhold the information.

Valid reasons for withholding information may include:

We have reason to suspect that unlawful activity or misconduct of a serious nature is involved
Giving access would be likely to prejudice appropriate action concerning the matter
Giving access would reveal evaluative information generated within us in connection with a commercially sensitive process

Correcting Your Information

If your personal details change or you believe the information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us so that we can correct our records. We shall make sure to respond to you within a reasonable time.

If you are not satisfied with the way your complaint is handled by us, you are entitled to have your complaint reviewed under applicable privacy laws.

Updates to this Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Policy from time to time. Any revisions to the Policy will be updated on this website post changes. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Website Usage and Analytics

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to measure and analyse internet usage to ensure that the site meets EVC Study Consultants' business objectives with advertisers and users. Individual privacy is fully protected unless we are trying to gain insights on how to make the site more useful for advertisers as well as our users.

Data collected from this analysis includes:

The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on our sites
The number of unique visitors
How long unique visitors (on average) spend on our websites
Common entry and exit points to our sites
Files downloaded from the site
Forms filled in on the site

Cookies

Europe Visa Connect(EVC)' websites use cookies to improve the user's web browsing experience (e.g. language preference or selected locality).

If you wish to disable the cookies on this website, you will need to follow the steps required for your preferred browser.

We currently advertise with third-party vendors, including Google, by displaying ads on the sites. These third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website.

Users may opt-out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.