Privacy Policy
Last Updated 18 January 2024
This Privacy Policy includes important information about your personal data, and we encourage you to read it carefully.
We, Verdict Consultancy Limited provide online legal tutoring services to individuals.
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the Personal Data we collect, how we use and share it along with details on how you can reach out to us with privacy – related inquiries. Additionally, the Policy outlines your rights as a data subject and choices you have, including right to object to certain usages of your Personal Data by us. For further information about our privacy practices, please contact us at info@verdict.ae
In this Policy, “Verdict”, “us”, “we” or “us” refers to the Verdict Consultancy Limited entity responsible for the collection, use, and handling pf Personal Data as describes in this document. Depending on your jurisdiction, the specific Verdict Consultancy Limited entity accountable for your Personal Data might vary.
“Personal Data” refers to any information associated with an identified or identifiable individual, which can include data that you provide to us, and we collect about you during your interaction with our Services.
“Services” refer to the products and services provided by Verdict.
“Website” refers to www.verdict.ae
“You” refers to the user, subscriber, purchaser, inquirer of the Services
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INFORMATION COLLECTION
1.1 DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY USER
Verdict collects personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for our Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when you participate in activities on the Website or otherwise when you contact us.
1.2 PERSONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU
The information that we collect depends on the context of your interaction with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the features you use on the Website. The personal information may include the following.
1.2.1 Name, including first and last name
1.2.2 Phone numbers
1.2.3 Email addresses
1.2.4 Usernames (once you become a member)
1.2.5 Billing addresses
1.2.6 Debit/ credit card numbers
1.3 SENSITIVE INFORMATION
When necessary, with you consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive information.
1.3.1 Student Data
a. Payment Data
We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases of our Services, such as your payment instrument number, and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe. You may find their privacy policy link here: https://stripe.com/ae/privacy
b. Social Media Login Data
We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media accounts like Facebook and Google, or other media account.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
2. PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION
2.1 We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the applicable laws and regulation. We may also process your information for other purposes with you prior consent.
2.2 We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
2.2.1 To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create log in to your account, as well as keep your account in order.
2.2.2 To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our services, details on the services purchased, details on subscriptions purchased, and other similar information.
2.2.3 To fulfil and manage orders. We may process your information to fulfil and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchange s made through the Services.
2.2.4 To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the information you send to us for marketing purposes, if this is in your marketing preferences. You can opt out of out of our marketing emails at any time by contacting info@verdict.ae
3. SHARING USER PERSONAL INFORMATION
3.1 We may share information in specific situation described in this section and/ or with the following third parties.
3.2 Verdict may need to share your personal information in the following situations.
3.2.1 Business Transfers. Verdict may need to share or transfers your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or portion of our business to another company.
4. USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
4.1 We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
4.2 We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information with the help of Wix. For more information read more about Wix private policy here https://www.wix.com/about/privacy
5. DURATION OF RETAINING YOUR INFORMATION
5.1 Verdict retains information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.
5.2 We only keep your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirement and obligations).
5.3 No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account on our Website.
5.4 When Verdict have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible due to automatic backups stored in archives, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from aby further processing until deletion is possible.
6. KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
6.1 Verdict aims to protect your personal information through a system of organization and technical security measures.
6.2 Verdict have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process.
6.3 However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
6.4 Verdict cannot guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal or modify your information.
6.5 Although we will ensure the protection of your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should ensure you only access the Services within a secure environment.
7. COLLECTING INFORMATION FROM MINORS
7.1 We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
7.2 We do not knowingly solicit data or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or the guardian of such minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services.
7.3 If Verdict learns that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measure to promptly delete such data from our records. If your become aware if any data we may have collected from minors under age 18, please contact us at info@verdict.ae
8. USER PRIVACY RIGHTS
8.1 You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
8.2 Withdrawing your Consent. If you are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/ or implies consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
8.3 However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds and other consent.
8.4 Opting out of marketing and promotional communications. You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communication at any time by or by contacting us using the details provided in section 8.9 herein below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, Verdict may still communicate with you – for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and us of your account, to respond to services requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
8.5 Account Information. If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you.
8.5.1 Log in to your account setting and update your user account.
8.5.2 Contact us using the contact information provided.
8.6 Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our legal terms and/ or comply with applicable legal requirements, laws and regulation.
8.7 Cookies and similar technologies. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies.
8.8 If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.
8.9 If you have further inquiries and comments about our privacy rights, you may email us at info@verdict.ae
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most Web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile application include Do-Not-Track (‘DNT’) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
10. POSSIBLE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
10.1 The Policy will update as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
10.2 We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be available promptly on the Website, www.verdict.com.
10.3 We encourage all users to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed with how we are protecting your information.
CONTACT US
If you have any further question or comments about this Policy, you may email us at info@verdict.ae or contact us by post at
Verdict Consultancy Limited
VD – First Floor Incubator Building Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.