By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.
FZCO CENTER OF SOCIALLY DRIVEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
Email address: sales@as-tra.academy / Postal address: Dubai Silicon Oasis, DDP, Building A1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This privacy policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to reflect changes in our information practices or relevant laws.
What data do we collect about you, for what purpose, and on what ground do we process it?
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered, but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this, please email us at sales@as-tra.academy. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose, we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication sata
That includes any communication that you send to us, whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records, and to establish, pursue, or defend legal claims.
Customer data
That includes data relating to any purchases of services, such as your name, title, billing address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and your card details. We process this data to supply the services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
User data
That includes data about how you use our website and any online services, together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain backups of our website and/or databases, and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services, and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
Technical data
That includes data about your use of our website and online services, such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is our analytics tracking system and online academy platform. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is consent, which is managed via our cookie policy. For our online academy, our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
Marketing data
That includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions, such as competitions, prize draws, and free give-aways, to deliver relevant marketing content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our legal ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business, and to decide our marketing strategy.
Use data
We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook ads or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is consent, which is managed via our mailing list platform and cookie policy. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
We do not collect any sensitive data, which refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. Also, we do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We may collect data about you when you provide the data directly to us (for example, by filling out forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the UAE, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the UAE, search information providers such as Google based outside the UAE, and providers of technical, payment, and delivery services such as data brokers or aggregators.
We will also collect personal data when you register to attend an event.
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, we will get your express consent.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by emailing us at sales@as-tra.academy at any time.
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, and if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including contact, identity, financial, and transaction data) for six years after they stop being customers.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.