Privacy Policy

At QMA Education, we are committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection.

We have always had a robust and effective data protection program in place which complies with existing law and abides by the data protection principles. However, we recognise our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the demands of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 and the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA).

Whilst we already have a consistent level of data protection and security across our organisation, it is our aim to be continuously compliant with all applicable regulations. In this regard, we periodically conduct reviews of our policies and procedures, which affect in revisions to this policy. You are thus highly encouraged to review this page whenever you visit this website.

WHAT WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT THEM

FORMS
All information you provide in the various forms (contact forms, appointment form, etc.) in the website shall be used for the purposes declared. In most cases, personal information collected shall be used to facilitate identification of and/or onward communication with you. Wherever and whenever usage of the information is required beyond this purpose (e.g. marketing), express consent shall be obtained from you prior to use.
In the event where your register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit (except your username), or delete your personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
COMMENTS
When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
COOKIES
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

THIRD PARTIES WE MAY SHARE DATA WITH

We may share information with the following third parties:

Business partners, account beneficiaries, or others who are a part of providing your products and services or operating our business.
Governmental and regulatory bodies.
Other organisations and businesses who provide services to us such as back up and server hosting providers, IT software and maintenance providers, document storage providers and suppliers of other back office functions.
Market research organisations who help us to develop and improve our products and services.

DATA RETENTION PERIOD

Personal information shall be held based on the following criteria:

For as long as we have reasonable business needs, such as managing our relationship with you and managing our operations;
For as long as we provide goods and/or services to you and then for as long as someone could bring a claim against us; and/or
Retention periods in line with legal and regulatory requirements or guidance.

YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

These requests, or any other enquiry you may have on our Privacy Policy, can be made by reaching out to us.