PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
We, at Arday.com, deeply value your online privacy and acknowledge the importance of appropriate protection for your personal information. We are dedicated to applicable data protection laws and regulations that help safeguard your data. This commitment means we're always working to ensure your personal details are managed responsibly and with respect for your privacy.
This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms of Use for Arday.com website and the Mobile Application. It applies to anyone who registers on our platform, uses our services, or has their information processed by us in any way—this includes but isn't limited to, personal contact details and information related to our partners such as colleges and educational institutions. Our commitment to protecting your data is an integral part of how we operate and interact with our services and partners.
Personal information (PI) or Personal Data - means any information or data relating to an identified or identifiable living natural person using a common identifier such as a name, location data, an identification number, or any other piece of information as per applicable laws and regulations.
Data Collection
We collect data about you or your usage to offer better services to all of our users. We acquire the data in the following ways:
Many of our services in the platform require you to register/sign up for an account on Arday.com. during this process, we will ask for your personal information, including, but not limited to your name, telephone number, email address, and date of birth.
Our Website offers you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or Google logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile Information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture as well as other information you choose to make public on such social media platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Website. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
To offer you more services, we may collect your profile information, including but not limited to your educational background, and work experience.
We collect all information related to the services you use and how you use them such as activity logs and location information.
We may collect your personal data such as but not limited to bank details, and passport details to assist for study abroad program which includes services like Letter of recommendation, student profile, student visa and application to university programmes.
When you communicate with Arday.com or its Application or with other Members (such as our business partners, etc.) through “Arday.com platform, we collect information about your interaction and any other additional information you opt to provide.
Processing personal information
Arday.com may process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
We use information acquired from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, to enhance your user experience and improve the overall quality of our services. When presenting you personalized ads, we will not link an identifier from cookies or similar technologies with sensitive categories, such as health, sexual orientation, race, or religion.
Our automated systems scrutinize your content to deliver you customized search results, recommendations and specific offers and promotions.
Send notifications, include alerts, push messages and newsletter(s) to you (on condition you subscribe to the same. please visit your account settings to cancel your subscription).
Improving our platform and its content to offer better services and features.
Conducting surveys and market research with the purpose of improving our services and products.
Sending you updates about our services and products for marketing purposes and promotions.
Addressing, identifying, detecting, investigating, and prosecuting crimes (such as but not limited to fraud and other financial crimes) in any region, identity verification, conducting thorough due diligence.
Establishing, exercising, or safeguarding legal rights within legal proceedings (such as any prospective legal proceedings) as well as seeking professional or legal guidance in relation to such legal proceedings.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some of the pages in our platform “Arday.com” use "cookies" and other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small text file that could be used to collect your information about the site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to retrieve Personal Information previously referenced by a Web user. Most browsers let you control cookies, such as whether or not to accept them and how to erase them.
You may set most browsers to inform you if you receive a cookie, or you may opt to block cookies within your browser, but please note that if you opt to remove or block your cookies, you will need to login again with your original user ID and password to gain access to certain product and services of the platform.
Tracking technologies may record various data including Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; and dates and times that our site has accessed.
Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to enhance our platform and user experiences. We may also evaluate information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.
For more information related to our use of cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Third Party Services
Third parties supply certain services available on Arday.com on our behalf. Arday.com may provide information, such as Personal Information, that ‘Arday.com collects on the Web to third-party service providers to assist us deliver programs, products, information, and services. Service providers are also an important means by which Arday.com preserve its Web site and mailing lists. Arday.com will take full reasonability to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated by law to protect Personal Information on Arday.com's behalf.
Arday.com will transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties unless such is required for maintaining relevant services or for legal proceedings purposes.
When you are in a relationship with Arday.com, your personal information may be transferred to geographies outside Somalia, for the purposes indicated in this policy or to their local service providers for help in the pursuance of such purposes. Transfers outside Somalia are covered by standard data protection laws.
Please be aware that Arday.com sometimes includes links to other sites that are not regulated by this privacy policy. Guest visitors to Our Site may be directed to third-party sites for more information, such as blogs, advertisers, vendor services, content sponsorships, social networks, etc.
Arday.com makes no warranties on how your information is stored and maintained or used on third-party servers. We recommend that you consult the privacy statement of each third-party site linked to our site to consent to their use of your personal information or otherwise.
Children
To use our Site, you consent that you must be of minimum age or older. In case you are located in the European Union region, the minimum age shall be 16, however, if local laws necessitate that you must be older in order for Arday.com to legally provide the services on the Site to you then the applicable minimum age shall apply accordingly.
In all jurisdictions outside the European Union, if you are under the age of 18 or the age of majority in your regional jurisdiction, you must use Arday.com under the guidance of your parents, legal guardian, or legally responsible adult.
Information Sharing
We control access to your Personal Information for employees who need to know/or that information in order to fulfil their jobs to operate, develop, improve, or provide our products or services.
Arday.com does not sell, rent, or share your personal information with other people or non-affiliated companies except:
to provide services or products you've requested,
when we have your permission and consent,
or under the following situations and circumstances:
We provide the information to our trusted business partners who work on behalf of or with Arday.com under confidentiality agreements. These business partners may use your personal information to support Arday.com and communicate with you about offerings from ‘Arday.com and our marketing partners. However, these partners do not have any independent legal right to disseminate this information.
We reply to subpoenas, legal processes, or court orders, or to establish or exercise our lawful rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is vital to share information in order to examine, investigate, prevent, or act against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations like potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ‘Arday.com terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if ‘Arday.com is acquired by or incorporated with another company.
We may share your personal information with educational institutions, or our business partners etc. based on your browsing behaviors or expression of interest to courses, specializations, and institutions or in case of applications for admission to such educational institutions, who may further communicate with you and process your information for the said purposes.
Arday.com displays targeted advertisements on the basis of personal information. Advertisers (such ad serving for example, women aged 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
Arday.com does not share any personal information with the advertiser when you engage or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with an ad you are legally consenting to the extent of possibility that the advertiser will presume that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Arday.com advertisers include but are not limited to financial service providers (such as banks, mortgage lenders, insurance agents, and stockbrokers) and non-financial companies (such as airlines, stores, and software companies).
We may disseminate personal information (such as name, telephone number, and email address) with carefully selected educational institutions based on your expression of interest regarding specializations, courses, and institutions so that they may consider further marketing campaigns or recruitment measures. Some of those educational institutions may have legal access to your personal information to verify or adjust the status of your application or enrolment. We will inform the educational institutions that they are legally prohibited to use your personal information for any purpose other than indicated above. Users should acknowledge however that, how these educational institutions utilize this data is not legally governed by our privacy policy. Hence, we cannot be legally held responsible for how the data is used once it is shared with them. Educational institutions have independent policy practices for which Arday.com has no legal responsibility or liability. For further information on how such institutions utilize your information, please review the applicable privacy policy of that institution.
Arday.com cooperated with partners, vendors, advertisers, and other service providers in various industries and categories of business. For further information regarding providers of services or products, please refer to the section “Third party services” of this policy.
Retention of personal information
Your personal information processed by Arday.com are stored in a form which allows your identification for no longer than is required for the purposes for which the personal data are processed in line with law, regulatory, contractual, or statutory obligations as applicable.
At the end of such periods, your personal information will be kept archived to comply with legal/contractual retention obligations or on the basis of the applicable statutory limitation periods.
Personalization of services
To the extent allowed by law, Arday.com may record and monitor your interaction with us to confirm compliance with our regulatory and legal obligations and our internal policies. This may include the recording of conversations through telephone.
You may have the right to appeal certain rights (as per applicable laws and regulations such as GDPR) regarding your personal information being processed by the Platform.
The Platform may be permitted by law, in particular in case of excessive or obviously unfounded request, to charge a fee for delivering your request, subject to applicable conditions.
You are lawfully entitled to request further details of the personal information we may be keeping about you. The platform allows you to keep your personal information accurate and up to date. If at any time you would like to amend, erase, or limit the processing of your personal information, or you would like to acquire confirmation whether or not your personal data is processed by it, access your personal data, practice your right to data portability or remove your consent to the processing, please contact us.
You are entitled to register a complaint with a competent Data Protection Authority where available, regarding the Platform’s compliance with the applicable data protection laws and regulations.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (Gdpr).
If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights, covered by GDPR. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed of what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you;
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete;
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data;
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information;
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format;
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your personal information;
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Please note, we may not be able to provide Service without some necessary data.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Your Data Protection Rights Under The California Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy”, and can easily be found on the home page of our website;
users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page;
users are able to change their personal information by emailing us at the contact details mentioned in “Contact Us” clause.
Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals:
We honor Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track browser mechanism is in place. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.
CCPA/CPRA
“Shine the Light” and “Eraser” Laws: Residents of the State of California may request a list of all third parties to which we have disclosed certain information during the preceding year for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)/California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, provides California residents and/or their authorized agents with specific rights regarding the collection and storage of their personal information.
Your Right to Know: California residents have the right to request that we disclose the following information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Upon verification, we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we have collected about you.
The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information.
The categories of third parties to whom we have sold or shared your personal information if any, and the categories of personal information that we have shared with each third-party recipient.
Your Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information by submitting a request as directed on the homepage of our website or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that we do not knowingly sell the personal information of any individuals under the age of 18.
Where we are sharing your personal information with third parties for the purposes of cross-context behavioural advertising or profiling, you may opt-out of such sharing at any time by submitting a request as directed on the homepage of our website or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Your Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: California residents have the right to request that we limit our use of any sensitive personal information to those uses which are necessary to perform the Services or for other specifically-enumerated business purposes under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA.
Your Right to Delete: California residents have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information collected from you and retained by us, subject to certain exceptions. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Once your request is verified and we have determined that we are required to delete the requested personal information in accordance with the CCPA, we will delete, and direct our third-party service providers to delete, your personal information from their records. Your request to delete personal information that we have collected may be denied if we conclude it is necessary for us to retain such personal information under one or more of the exceptions listed in the CCPA.
Your Right to Correct: Under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which we are processing such personal information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such inaccurate personal information about you.
Non-Discrimination: You will not receive any discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
Verifying Your Request: Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. In the case of access and deletion, your request must be verifiable before we can fulfil such a request. Verifying your request will require you to provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or a person authorized to act on your behalf. We will only use the personal information that you have provided in a verifiable request in order to verify your request. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority. Please note that we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on a request if such request is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at the contact information mentioned in the “Contact Us” clause.
Confidentiality and Security
The security and confidentiality of your Personal information is vital to us and Arday.com has invested notable resources to protect the safety and confidentiality of your personal information. When using external service vendors serving as processors, we require that they comply with the same standards as Arday.com. Regardless of where your personal data is transferred or kept stored, we take all necessary steps reasonably to ensure that personal information is kept secure.
We have electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with the laws and regulations prevalent in Somalia to protect personal data about you. We intend to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Information Technology prevalent laws made there to ensure the protection, safety, and preservation of your privacy.
Social media
Arday.com operates pages, channels, and accounts on some social media sites to reach, assist and engage with you. Arday.com monitors and records posts and comments made on these channels about Arday.com.com in order to improve its services and products. Please acknowledge that you must not engage with Arday.com through such social media sites the following information:
Sensitive personal information includes (i) unique categories of personal data meaning any information disclosing racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, or trade union membership, and the processing of biometric data, and genetic data for the aim of uniquely identifying a natural person, data related to health or a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation and (ii) other sensitive personal information such as criminal convictions and offences and national ID number ;
Excessive, offensive, inappropriate, or insulting information towards individuals.
Arday.com is not legally responsible for any information posted on those websites other than the information disseminated by its employees on its behalf. Arday.com is merely responsible for its own use of the personal data received through such sites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Arday.com keeps the right to update, modify, or change this policy at any time. The policy shall be effective from the date of such update, modification, or change.
Disclaimer
Arday.com shall not be legally liable for any damage or loss sustained by reason of any disclosure (unintentional or otherwise) of any information regarding the user's account and/or information concerning online transactions using debit/credit cards and/or their verification process and particulars nor for any inaccuracy, omission, or error with respect to any information so revealed and used whether or not in pursuance of a lawful process or otherwise. Arday.com does not store any Debit / Credit card details.
Any other personal information provided by you which is not asked for by Arday.com during registration, either optionally or mandatorily; accounts to willful and inadvertent furnishing; and Arday.com will not be liable for violation of such information.
If you have any concerns, questions regarding this privacy policy or the legal protection of your personal data, please contact Arday.com’s Data Protection support team at support@arday.com
