Privacy Policy

SY Consultants, INC (the “SY Consultants”) is a business-to-consumer visa consultancy company that provides service to the client or third-party companies (the “Clients”). Those service includes all sort assistance required in obtaining study visa, comprehensive research of admissions in the universities of Canada and America, change of visa status, filling for immigration visas, preparation of mock visa interviews and etc (the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy describes how SY Consultants, INC and its subsidiaries and affiliates (SY Consultants, IL, USA and SY Consultants, Pakistan) (collectively, “Suppliers” “we” or “us”) collect and use personal information, to whom we disclose personal information, how we protect this information, and privacy rights regarding the personal information of consumers who interact with or whose personal information is processes for the Services (the “you”, or “your”) that we provide to our business Clients and partners.

GDPR

For the users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For the users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDRP as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

For the users in the United States of America, we adhere to the Regulation AB 375 of the California State Assembly and of the Council on 28 June 2018, known as the California Consumer Privacy Policy Act (the “CCPA”).

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

When you interact with a website, mobile application, media platform or third party that participates in out interact with our Services, we collect the following of your personal information:

Contact Information, this includes your name, username, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and mailing address.
Online Identifiers, including browser and device information such as your device’s inter protocol address (“IP”), unique device identifier such as advertising, hardware or operating system device identifiers (e.g. IDFA for iOS and AAID for Android, Windows NT 6.1 for computers, etc), information about the type of internet browser, browser language, and operating system you use on this device, you connection type (wired or wi-fi), location, and the mobile carrier if available;
Commercial Information, including products and services you obtained, purchase, or considered on this website;
Internet Activity, including information about your behaviour or activity on the website and other third parties that participate in or interact with our Services, access dates and times; and geolocation (latitude and longitude coordinates, but only of the website or the application has enabled location services on your device and you have granted permission to collect this information);
Advertisement performance information for ads served, viewed or click on, such as information about the type of ad, the online location where the ad was served, whether it was clicked on, and the product and offers viewed while browsing and searching.
Inferences drawn by us such as age range, demographics, and product interests, from information collected about you to create a profile or place you in a segment to reflect or predict your preferences and behaviour in relations to ad interaction and conversion.

Please note that we do collect any personal information primarily in-aligned with storing Client’s interaction or assistance with our Services. No other personal information is being stored or kept for any other purpose as mentioned-above which is defines as “sensitive personal information” under California privacy laws (the California Consumer Privacy Policy Act of 2018 (CCPA)) or any other U.S. state privacy laws, nor any “special categories” of personal data per the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/UK GDPR).

The Service are not intended to process personal information of children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect, sell, or share any personal information from children under the age of 18. If you as a parent or guardian, believe that your child is under the age of 18 has interacted with our Services and caused Suppliers to unknowingly collect their personal information to the extent it is our records.

Sources of Collection of Data

Data Collected Automatically

Cookies and tracking technologies: When you interact with websites, advertisements, or affiliate links, subject to opt-in or opt-out, depending on the applicable laws in your location, we may set cookies, or use other tracking technologies like pixels, web beacons or similar technologies, to collect categories of personal information described above.

Data Collected Non-Automatic Way

Information we receive from Data Providers: Our advertisers, publishers, and other third-party partners may supply us with personal information about the consumers who, for instance visit their websites, interact with their advertisements or affiliate offers.

How We Use Personal Data

Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purpose specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.

The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes:

To perform and provide Services to our Clients;
To perform and provide assistance or address query related tou our Service to Clients;
To perform and provide our Media Services to our Clients, including receiving and transmitting information in their context of our ad exchange, third-party ad exchanges and ad servers to enabler advertisers to serve targeted ads related to our Service as mentioned in this Privacy Policy to out Clients on our publisher properties such as websites, email, webinar and fairs;
To perform and provide an exposure or preparation regarding visa interview to Client by our experienceable team virtually or physically; and
To organize a visa, career, and admission fairs to our Clients virtually or physically.

The data we collect, when the user perform the certain functions, as mentioned-above, we may be used in the following purposes:

To store all personal data related to Services being obtained and/or interact by our Clients;
To store all sort of personal data and special category of personal data as defined in the CCPA or GDPR, including documents or information related background history, travel history, academical history, financial information, career history and personal information of our Clients in any communication channel as mention on our website;
To store all sort of no-textual data collected through images, videos and documents being transferred while interaction and/or obtaining our services though all possible mediums; and
To store all sort of data in-terms of personal data and special category of personal data as defined in the CCPA or GDPR, including documents or information related background history, travel history, financial information, academical history, career history and personal information of our Clients collected through all sorts of fairs conducted either virtually or physically.

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK) or any other U.S. states and certain other jurisdiction, we must have and disclose our legal basis for collection and otherwise processing the personal information described above, which will depend on personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect and process it. If you are located in the EEA, the UK or any other U.S. states, the data controller of your personal information is ________________ dba ____________. We rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

Legitimate interest: We process certain of your personal information to serve our legitimate interests to provide or improve our Services, to make it more accessible, easier to convey and to break down complex process in manageable steps to our Clients, to bill and collect payment for our Services and to manage relationship with Clients. When we process personal information to meet our legitimate interest, we conduct a legitimate interest analysis and put in safeguards to ensure your privacy is protected and to assess whether our legitimate interest are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Consent: we rely on consents to collect, use, and share your personal information (including without limitation, technical data, cookie data, usage information, and general geo-location data) for personalized or interest-based consulting purposes.
Legal obligations: In some cases, we may have a legal obligations to collect, maintain, or disclose personal information about you in relation to the Services as mention through this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about or needs further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us as provided in the Contact Information selection of this Privacy Policy.

How We Share or Transfer Personal Data

We disclose personal information, we disclose it to the following categories of recipients for the following business and commercial purposes:

To third-party representatives or ad-publishers, only if their request fall to our Services;
To third-party legal agencies, data protector, data aggregators, analytics entities, ad servers, and background history verification entities behalf that assist us to improve our Services; and
To technology, infrastructure, operations and other services provider to help us to enhance and protect the infrastructure necessary to provide Services to our Clients.

We may also disclose information about you to following personals:

If we are required to do so by law or legal process, including in response to a valid request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials;
When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
In connection with a cooperate organizations or a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets; or
To any other person with your consent to the disclose.

Selling and Sharing Your Personal Data

We as an entity, believes in protection of your personal information, being faithfully precautious to your privacy, fundamental rights and legal obligations as defied in CCPA and GDPR. Certain disclosure of personal information is only subject events pertaining to fulfillment of purposes or functions in which personal information are shared only to those entities, as mention-above with in this Privacy Policy, that specifically fall within our domain of Services.

However, we as an entity share personal information only to certain events that a legal obligation applies, such as to comply with investigations or resolving disputes as initiated before law enforcement agencies, to disclose personal information of Clients who approach us directly. Therefore, we do not sell any sort of personal information of our Clients, collected through any medium as mentioned within this Privacy Policy, to any entity or cooperation, only in the circumstance of merger and acquisition. In this circumstance, we will update our Clients, in advance, before transferring of operation to newly acquired and/or merged entity.

If any of Client(s) have any questions about or needs further information concerning this development, they’re legally obliged to acquire information, and refrain their personal data to be sold-off and can contact us, as provided in the Contact Information selection of this Privacy Policy.

How We Retain and Secure Personal Information

Data Retention

Supplier retain personal information about you for as long as it necessary to fulfil the obtained Services purposes as described above, unless you request it to be deleted before then. Even some of your personal information may be retained in our systems after your request for deletion, in the event that a legal exception applies, such as in order to comply with our legal obligation, collect fees, submit to a tax or accounting audit, resolve disputes, and undertake any investigations necessitated by the foregoing. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or if this not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives or save in cloud), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing util deletion.

Information Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorize alterations, disclosure or detention of personal information. This include the necessary physical, electronic and managerial procedures designed to protect data integrity, accessibility and confidentiality. Please note that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. As a result, we strive to protect personal information but cannot ensure or warrant the security of your information against any possible loss or unauthorized access.

Your Privacy Rights as a User

You may have certain rights regarding your persona information, based on applicable local privacy law(s), which may include the following:

To Know about our processing of your personal information/data – you may request that we provide you:
- Confirmation as to whether we are processing your personal information/data
- The categories of personal information we process about you
- The purposes of processing, including our business or commercial purpose for collecting or sharing your personal information.
- The categories of sources from which we collected your personal information
- The categories of personal information we disclosed for a business purpose
- The categories of personal information we sold or share with third parties while providing Services
- Expected retention periods
To Access your personal information/data portability – you may request that we send you (or another organization, under certain conditions) a copy of your personal data in our possession, in a readily usable and portable format;
To Rectify/Correct inaccurate personal information the information we hold about you;
To Erase/Delete your personal information – you may request that we delete your personal information under certain conditions or subject to certain legal circumstances;
1. To Restrict/Limit our processing of your personal information – you may request that we restrict our processing of your personal information, under certain circumstances;
To Obtain our Processing of your persona information – you may object to our processing of your personal information, under certain circumstances;
To Withdraw you Consent – you may request to withdraw your request for processing that is based on your consent;
To Not Be Subject to Discrimination for exercising your rights – We will discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights by deserving you goods or services, charging you or suggesting you may receive different prices or rates of goods or services, or providing you a different level or quality of goods or services of exercise you rights; and
To Lodge Complaints – We appreciate the opportunity to address any complaint you may have about our processing of your personal information or handling of your rights request, so please direct your concerns to us via email at _____________.

How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to any our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Effective Data” at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our user periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy. If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your persona data, if we have to disclose your personal data and to who we disclose your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other right under the GDPR and CCPA, please contact our data protection office here:

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Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in this Privacy Policy’s “Contact Information” section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting the:

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Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our data protection officer _____________, at:

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Effective As Of: July 18 2024