At Pharos Education, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. We take your privacy and that of our students very seriously. Please read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information and that of our students. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information, your rights in relation to our students’ information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

 

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

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Moreover, with all of our school, university and education provider partners we enter into a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) that ensures that data privacy and protection is manage according to the highest standards. 

 

Pharos Education adheres to the following principles in accordance with UNICEF's guidelines:

• Informed Consent: We obtain explicit consent before collecting any personal information from you.

• Data Minimization: We only collect the minimum amount of personal data necessary for the purposes outlined.

• Purpose Limitation: Your personal data is only used for the specific purposes for which it was collected and is not shared with third parties without your consent.

• Security Safeguards: We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

• Data Subject Rights: You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data as permitted by applicable laws.

• Transparency: We provide clear and transparent information about our data processing practices, including who processes your data, why it is processed, and for how long it is retained.

• Accountability: We take responsibility for complying with data protection principles and have internal policies and procedures in place to ensure ongoing compliance.

• Special Categories of Data: We ensure heightened protection for sensitive personal data, such as health information or racial/ethnic background, and process it only where strictly necessary and legally permissible.

• International Data Transfers: If we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect your data as required by applicable laws.

• Child-Specific Protections: When processing personal data of children, we implement additional safeguards, including age verification and obtaining parental consent where necessary.

 

By using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about how we handle your data, please contact us at programs@bepharos.com. 

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Cookie Policy

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This policy sets out the basis on which information about a visitor to our website www.pharoseducation.com may be stored in the form of a cookie. This policy applies to all users of, and visitors to Pharos Education website.

 

Our website is a site operated by Appian Education Holdings a company incorporated in British Virgin Islands. We are required by law to provide you with information about the purposes for which our cookies are stored and accessed and to obtain your consent to use cookies.

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Your consent will be obtained by you positively indicating your acceptance of our terms and conditions when you register for a service and / or by you clicking the relevant button confirming that you understand and agree to the use of cookies.

 

Information about our use of cookies

 

Our Website uses ‘cookies’ to distinguish you from other users of our website.

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This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our service. On revisiting our website, we will therefore be able to obtain information about your previous visits and about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.

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Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.

• Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches and to recognise you when you return to our site.

• Generally provide a more convenient browsing experience for you.

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You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

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A cookie is a small amount of data or parcels of text that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree. Generally, such a ‘cookie’ being a file in your web browser will enable the Website to recognise your computer when you visit the site.

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These cookies contain information about you and your preferences. Generally, we use cookies to record session information such as how you reached our site; which pages you view on our site; your user journey through the site.

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You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.

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It is not advisable to use cookies if other people share your computer. You should clear ‘cookies’ stored by the web browser when using another person’s computer to avoid your e-mail address or other details being displayed in the login field to a subsequent user of our Website.

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You can accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or modify your browser to alert you of any new cookies. To clear the stored cookies, you can normally go to the Tools dropdown menu at the top of the browser window.

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Certain parts of the Website may not function without technical problems if you have ‘disabled’ the cookies file in your browser.

 

The use of cookies enables the Website to complete in our login fields with the user’s details including email addresses following registration and effectively speed up the login to the Website by users. It is used by the Website to help collect information, such as how many people visit and return to the Website, what services are subscribed for or accessed, and to ensure the proper functioning of certain parts of the Website

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You can discover independent information about cookies by researching the Internet or carrying out online searches.