Privacy Policy

Here at Utopia Egypt, we take all personal information you provide us with very seriously. For that reason, we have designed and implemented clear and integrated procedures that will allow us to protect and safeguard all the information we hold about you. All information submitted by you is treated in a confidential and secure way, using technical and organisational measures, and with the most efficient protection of your personal data in mind at all times.

This Privacy Policy intends to help you understand how your personal data are collected, used and processed, as well as to inform you clearly of your rights with regards to the protection of your personal data.

We strongly advise you to spend some time to read and understand how we treat and protect your personal data, and we encourage you to contact us with any questions or queries you may have regarding the protection of your personal data.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies to all websites and applications provided by Utopia Publishing.

OUR REGISTRATION

Utopia Publishing is a company registered in the Egypt under registration number 3331 and has a wide number of branch offices and representatives all around Egypt. It is engaged in the provision of a variety of services, including innovative teaching materials, interactive digital platform services and Certification for Vocational English.

All issues in relation to the personal data you provide to us and the way we use them are handled by our branch office in Giza, Egypt, which is responsible for the processing of your personal data under the applicable data protection law.

For any question you may have regarding this Privacy Policy, the way we deal with personal data, or if you want to access any of your rights, as set out below, please contact us at the address indicated below:

Utopia Publishing 

52 Gezeirat Al Arab Street

Giza Government, Egypt

Or call us on: 1116060000

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Depending on the use of our services and the level of your interaction with us, we may collect any or even all of the following information:

·       contact information such as full name, address and telephone number

·       account settings, such as e-mail address and password, in case you choose to open an account with our website

·       personal information, such as date of birth or gender

·       order history, payment & delivery information in case you place an order for our products

·       educational & professional status information, for example, if you are a teacher entitled to special offers & products

·       navigation and browsing history when using our website and services, in order to improve our services or the way our products are displayed via our website/application

SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

Special categories of personal data include personal information pertaining to medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union memberships and any information defining sexual orientation of an individual.

Utopia Publishing will never request, seek or receive information pertaining to special categories of personal data from you.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU

In most cases this information will be submitted directly by you, after we explain to you what kind of information we require on your behalf and for what purpose we need such information. Any such information may be collected when you are registering and/or using our website/application, when you order our products and services or when you contact us with a query etc.

HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION

We will use your information for the purposes listed below either on the basis of:

·       performance of a contract with us and the provision of our services to you;

·       your consent (where we request it); or

·       our legitimate interests (see details below).

Indicatively, we may use your information for the following purposes:

- to administer and manage orders placed on your behalf through our website and to share your information with our warehousing and delivery service providers, as well as to manage your payments (on the basis of performing our contract with you);

- to provide you with access to our website, applications and other services in a manner convenient and optimal and with personalised content relevant to you based on your orders history or your preferences for our products (on the basis of your consent when registering on our website and our legitimate interest to ensure our website is presented in an effective and optimal manner);

- to keep in contact with you about our news, events, new website features or services or new books and products that we believe may interest you (either on the basis of your consent where we have requested it, or our legitimate interests to provide you with marketing communications where we may lawfully do so);

- to provide customer service and support (on the basis of our contract with you) and to deal with enquiries or complaints about the website or your orders (on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing the correct products and services to our website users);

- to carry out aggregated and anonymised research about general engagement with our website, to develop and improve our services and products, to adopt a more user-friendly approach and to upgrade our IT systems (on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing the right kinds of products and services to our website users);

- to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorised, or illegal activity, to comply with our policies and procedures and enforce our legal rights (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business or where we have a legal obligation to do so);

- to analyse your personal information and create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively (on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing the right kinds of products and services to our website users).

What does the term "legitimate Interests" mean

Where we refer to using your information on the basis of our “legitimate interests”, we mean our legitimate business interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, including the legitimate interest we have in:

- personalising, enhancing, modifying or otherwise improving the services and/or communications that we provide to you;

- detecting and preventing fraud and operating a safe and lawful business;

- improving security and optimisation of our network, sites and services.

Where we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure that we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you. Our legitimate interests don’t automatically override yours and we won’t use your information if we believe your interests should override ours, unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation). If you have any concerns about our processing of data, please refer to details of “Your Rights to the Information We Hold about You” below.

WHO WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

In connection with the purposes and on the lawful grounds described above and in addition to the recipients of your information as described above, we may share your personal information with third parties that we work with such as:

- third parties we work with to deliver our business (including, for example, hosting or operating the website and our databases, website analytics providers in order to analyse our customer online behaviour, providers of technical assistance and support, courier services for delivering your orders, financial institutions for the receipt of payment of your orders, media agencies and technical suppliers for distribution of direct marketing material etc.);

- our group of companies and any selected third party, provided that you consent to our sharing your information with them for marketing purposes;

- third parties connected with the provision of our services & products, such as teachers, language schools or parents with regards to personal data of their children and solely to the extent this is required for the successful provision of our services to you and the use of our products.

Please, be informed that we require third parties to maintain appropriate security to protect your information from unauthorised access or processing.

NOTE: Utopia Publishing will never sell or transfer without proper authorisation your personal information to any hird party.

HOW WE LOOK AFTER YOUR INFORMATION 

We operate a policy of “privacy by design” by looking for opportunities to minimise the amount of personal information we hold about you. We use appropriate technological and operational security measures to protect your information against any unauthorised access or unlawful use, such as:

- ensuring the physical security of our offices, warehouses or other sites;

- ensuring the physical and digital security of our equipment and devices by using appropriate password protection and encryption;

- maintaining a data protection policy for, and delivering data protection training to, our employees;

- limiting access to your personal information to those in our company who need to use it in the course of their work.

We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us or until you withdraw your consent (when we hold your personal data on the legal basis of your consent) or for as long as we reasonably require to retain the information for our lawful business purposes, such as for the purposes of exercising our legal rights or due to a legal obligation or where we are permitted to do so for purposes of academic or research purposes. We operate a data retention policy and look to find ways to reduce the amount of information we hold about you and the length of time that we need to keep it.

You have the right to delete your account at any time and we will comply with such a request by deleting all personal data we hold about you, provided we have no obligation by law to keep them or if we are entitled to keep them on a different legal basis, such as for the purpose of executing an order or if a dispute is open with our company.

YOUR RIGHTS TO THE INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

Informing you about your rights under the Data Protection legislation and facilitating you in understanding and exercising your rights is of great importance to us here at Utopia Publishing. In this section you can find information about the rights you have and the way you can exercise any of them with Utopia Publishing:

a.     the right to know what kind of personal data we hold about you and how we use them and receive a copy of such information directly from Utopia Publishing (right to access);

b.     the right, when we hold information about you by automated means on the legal basis of the performance of a contract with you or on the basis of your consent, to request that we transfer such information to another service provider in a structured, commonly-used, machine readable format (right to portability);

c.     the right to request the rectification, correction and/or update of your personal information (right to rectification);

d.     the right to ask us to limit and restrict the processing of personal information about you (right to restriction) in one of the following cases:

·       if you believe that your data with us are incorrect, we will restrict their processing until we confirm the accuracy of such data;

·       if the processing is illegal and you oppose the deletion of your data, you may request the restriction of their processing by us;

·       if you object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, we will restrict the processing of your data until our legitimate interest is verified as prevailing over yours.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for our own record-keeping and research purposes or when we are obliged to do so by law. We may also need to send you service-related communications relating to your website user account even when you have requested not to receive marketing communications.

IN CASE OF DATA BREACH

In the event of a suspected breach relating to personal data and depending on the extent and seriousness of the breach, we will undertake immediately certain actions, including:

·       Notification of breach to the Authorities

·       Restriction of the breach and recovery of data