StudyQA — Website Privacy Policy Announcement

Your Data

We collect personal information and share it with trusted third parties to analyze and provide us with feedback, suggestions and strategies to improve our business processes and the services we provide. In addition, from time to time, we may share personally identifiable information (such as name, email address and phone number) with carefully selected Higher Education Institutions and study abroad agents, to verify the status of application or enrolment. We will inform the Higher Education Institutions and study abroad agents that they are not allowed to use your personal information for any other reasons than to verify the status of your potential application or enrolment.

However, the use of this data by these educational institutions is not governed by our Privacy statement and we can therefore not be held responsible for their use of the data we share with them. Educational institutions have separate policy practices for which StudyQA has no responsibility or liability. For further information on such institution’s use of your information, please visit the applicable privacy policy of such institution. We reserve the right to release personal information without your consent or without consulting you, when we believe that this is appropriate to comply with our legal obligations, to enforce our terms and conditions, to protect the security of this website or to prevent fraud.

Delete or withdraw your data

You may opt-out or delete your data at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails, or by logging in to your student account. You may also unsubscribe by e-mail info@studyqa.com

Request access to your data

You may at any time request access to the information we process about you by contacting us by e-mail or by logging in to your student account. You may also request to have the information corrected. You may also have your personal data transferred upon request. Furthermore, you may request restriction of processing personal data or object to the processing in accordance with relevant legislation. Please use our contact email info@studyqa.com.

Storage Providers

In accordance with the requirements of Russian Federal Law No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data", we store users personal data on our secured servers in Russia. The databases are copied to the Hetzner Online GmbH Services’ data center (Gunzenhausen, Germany):

  • Storage provider in Russia: Yandex.Cloud (LLC "Yandex", st. Silicatnaya, 19, 141001, Mytishchi, Russia), privacy policy: https://cloud.yandex.ru/security#standards
  • Storage provider in Germany: Hetzner Online GmbH (Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany), privacy policy: https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/datenschutz

Links to Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to third-party sites that are not owned or controlled by StudyQA. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. StudyQA has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services. In addition, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from this Website or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. We strongly advise you to read the terms of use and privacy policy of any third-party site that you visit.

Governing Law

This Agreement (and any further rules, polices, or guidelines incorporated by reference) shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Delaware, United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify StudyQA and its affiliates and any of their owners, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of your breach of this Agreement, your use of the Site, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

Changes to This Agreement

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms of Use by posting the updated terms on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. Please review this Agreement periodically for changes. If you do not agree to any of this Agreement or any changes to this Agreement, do not use, access or continue to access the Site or discontinue any use of the Site immediately.

Suggestions and Improvements

By sending us any ideas, suggestions, documents or proposals ("Feedback"), you agree that your Feedback does not contain the confidential or proprietary information of third parties. In addition, we are under no obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Feedback and that we may have something similar to the Feedback already under consideration or in development. Also, you grant us an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to use, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, distribute and sublicense the Feedback, and you irrevocably waive, and cause to be waived, against StudyQA and its users any claims and assertions of any moral rights contained in such Feedback.

Liability Disclaimer

The information, images, videos, links published on this website may include inaccuracies or errors. StudyQA do not guarantee the accuracy of, and disclaim all liability for any errors or other inaccuracies relating to the information and description of the schools (language schools, high schools, universities and colleges, summer camps) and agents (including without limitation, the pricing, photographs, information about schools, descriptions, etc.). StudyQA does not take responsibility of any information provided by agents or schools to students. StudyQA make no representations about the suitability of the information contained in the website for any purpose, and the inclusion or offering of any products or services on this website does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of such products or services by StudyQA All such information, software and services are provided "As is" without warranty of any kind.

StudyQA disclaim all warranties and conditions that this webstie, its servers or any email sent from StudyQA, are free of viruses or other harmful components. StudyQA hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, and services, including all implied warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, and services, including all implied warrant. In no event shall StudyQA (its officers, directors and affiliates) be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of, or in a any way connected with, your access to, display or use this website (including, but not limited to, your reliance upon opinions appearing on this website; any computer viruses, information, software, linked sites, products, and services obtained through this website; or otherwise arising out of the access to, display of or use of this website) whether based on a theory of negligence, contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise, and even if StudyQA has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The limitation of liability reflects the allocation of risk between the parties. The limitations specified in this section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in these terms is found to have failed of its essential purpose. The limitations of liability provided in these terms inure to the benefit of StudyQA.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us at info@studyqa.com.