• We collect information about how you use the Services and your actions on the Services, including IP addresses, what software and hardware you use (such as browser types, operating systems, ISPs, platform type, device type), pages or features of English Skills Cafe used and associated dates and time stamps, links you click, whether you open messages sent to your account, and other statistics related to your usage of the Services. We may also use tools, including third-party tools, to collect analytics data. Some of this information is collected through the use of "cookies" and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons, session replay scripts, and similar technologies ("tracking technologies"). We may also work with third party partners to employ tracking technologies.

  We may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies to automatically collect information through the Services.

  Our uses of these tracking technologies fall into the following general categories:

  • Operationally Necessary. This includes Technologies that allow you access to our Services, applications, and tools that are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security or that allow you to make use of our functionality;
  • Performance Related.
    We may use Technologies to assess the performance of our Services, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use the Services;
  • Functionality Related.
    We may use Technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Services. This may include identifying you when you sign into our Services or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed.
  
  

  Location information

  We will ask you to provide your current location. We use this information to help us with the scheduling of our staff to optimise the Services we provide to you and other Users. We may also use Google Analytics to convert your IP address into a rough geolocation to understand in what areas our users are located and to improve and personalize English Skills Cafe (for example, to display time data in the correct local time). For more information about Google Analytics, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

  
  

  Aggregated and de-identified information

  We may collect information by aggregating and de-identifying other information. The aggregation and de-identification process prevents the information from being reassociated or identified with any one customer account, user, or individual. We may use aggregated and de-identified information for a wide variety of statistical and analytical purposes.

  
  

  How we use the information we collect

  We use the information we collect for a variety of purposes, and how we use it depends on what we collect and what Services you use (or features of the Services). These purposes may include:

  • Fulfilling our contract with you and providing the Services to you, such as:
  • Allowing you to use our Testing Services
  • Utilising your Test Results information together with other Customer Information to create recommendations about your further learning requirements
    
  • Responding to requests or inquiries from you
  • Providing customer support or technical assistance
  • Contacting you to provide Service updates, information about Services you have requested or purchased, marketing English Skills Cafe services and features that you may be interested in, and monitoring the performance of our advertisements and marketing efforts
  • Creating, managing, or administering your information and account, including identifying you with your account or the account of an English Skills Cafe customer
  • Billing you and processing your financial information and other payment methods for Services purchased
  • Providing access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our Services
  • Communicating with you about your account, activities on our Services and policy changes
  • Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality of a service
  • Providing Services on behalf of our customers, such as maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, and verifying customer information
  • Processing applications and transactions
  • Allowing you to register for additional Services including our Rewards programme
  • Sharing with third parties for the purposes discussed in "How we share information", below
  • Analyzing and improving our Services pursuant to our legitimate interest, such as:
  • Deriving market insights, ways to improve the Services, and other business analysis or research purposes
  • Customizing existing and future Service offerings and other aspects of the Services to you and other users
  • Securing the Services and our systems, and protecting your information and data
  • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity
  • Measuring interest and engagement in our Services
  • Undertaking research for technological development and demonstration
  • Researching and developing Services (including marketing research), marketing or security procedures to improve their performance, resilience, reliability or efficiency
  • Improving, upgrading or enhancing our Services
  • Developing new products and Services
  • Ensuring internal quality control
  • Verifying your identity and preventing fraud
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
  • Enforcing our terms and policies
  • Complying with our legal obligations, protecting your vital interest, or as may be required for the public good
  • Providing you with additional content and Services, such as:
  • Furnishing you with customized materials about offers and Services that may be of interest, including new content or Services
  • Auditing relating to interactions, transactions and other compliance activities
  • Other purposes you consent to, are notified of, or are disclosed when you provide personal information
  • Marketing Our Products and Services.
    We may use personal information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements. We may provide you with these materials as permitted by applicable law. If you have any questions about our marketing practices or if you would like to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, you may contact us at any time as set forth below.
  • Consent.
    We may use personal information for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information, or with your consent.
  • Any other legitimate business purpose that does not conflict with the statements made in this Privacy Policy.

  
  

  Personal Information

  Specifically, we may use personal information (including those contained within the Customer Information or otherwise collected by us) for the above purposes, but only to the extent necessary for the purposes for which you have provided us with the information, to respond to inquiries or requests (including requests for customer support or technical assistance), to otherwise perform our obligations or act consistently with our Terms of Service, to respond to law enforcement or other governmental or legal requests, and to otherwise use the information consistent with your instructions to us (both explicit, such as when you contact us directly with a request, and implied, such as when you engage us to provide you with the Services). If you wish to change these instructions, either by request, by correcting, amending, or deleting information we may have collected about you, or by opting out of certain data collection practices, please see "Managing Your Information", below.

  
  

  Use of Content

  Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy to the contrary, we will not use or access your Content except in the following cases:

  • for providing the Services to you; where you (or, if you are an end user, the English Skills Cafe customer through which you have an account) explicitly approve access (e.g., during a customer support inquiry);
  • where compelled to do so in response to lawful requests by law enforcement or government regulators;
  • where necessary to ensure the stability and security of the Services and our systems (e.g., where we have reason to believe specific Content is degrading server stability); and
  • where necessary to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of you, us, or others.
    

  
  

  We may also analyze metadata related to Content (such as total number of records, file size, API volume, access logs, etc.).

  
  

  How we share information

  Except as provided below, we do not share, disclose, or sell your personal information.

  We disclose information we collect in the following cases:
  • You asked us to, or otherwise gave your specific consent.
  • With vendors we engage to provide you with aspects of the Services, such as data storage, hosting, and payment processing.
  • With third-party service providers who enable certain features or functionalities of the Services that you’ve requested (for example, by asking our contracted Assessors to assess your language abilities).
  • With vendors we engage to help us with marketing and email campaigns, to advertise, gain insights, and perform analytics into how the Services are used and how they might be improved.
  • As necessary to comply with applicable law, including governmental requests, law enforcement requests, and otherwise to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of you, us, or others.
  • As necessary in the event of a proposed or actual reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, financing, or other disposition of all or any portion of English Skills Cafe business, assets, or stock.
  • With others for any legitimate business purpose that does not conflict with the statements made in this Privacy Policy.

  
  

  Data Retention

  We retain the information we receive for as long as you use the Services or as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

  
  

  How we secure your information

  We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect and store. Unfortunately, no security measures are 100% foolproof, and as such no network or system (including ours) can be guaranteed to be 100% secure against destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to information we collect and store. If you believe your information may not be secure for any reason, please contact us immediately at support@englishskillscafe.com.

  
  

  Managing Your Information

  You have many choices to access information we collect about you and about how we use or disclose that information. This section details many of those choices, including how you can exercise rights you may have with respect to your information (including personal information), how you can opt out of collection and use of certain types of information for certain purposes (such as marketing), and how you can use your browser or third-party tools to disable certain collection methods (such as cookies or tracking technologies).

  In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:
  (i) request confirmation of whether we are processing your personal information;
  (ii) obtain access to or a copy of your personal information;
  (iii) receive an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or ask us to send that information to another company (the “right of data portability”);
  (iv) restrict our uses of your personal information;
  (v) seek correction or amendment of inaccurate, untrue, incomplete, or improperly processed personal information;
  (vi) withdraw your consent; and
  (vii) request erasure of personal information held about you by us, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.

  If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com. Please note that we may retain information that is otherwise deleted in de-identified and/or aggregated form, in archived or backup copies as required pursuant to records retention obligations, or as otherwise required by law.

  We will process your requests in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy, we may take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.

  We may use some of the information we collect for marketing purposes, including to send you promotional communications about new English Skills Cafe features, services, events, or other opportunities. If you wish to stop receiving these communications or to opt out of use of your information for these purposes, please contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com to advise us of your request to opt out. Depending on where you live, you may have a right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority. For more information, please contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies – How to Opt Out

If you would prefer not to accept cookies or otherwise wish to disable our use of tracking technologies, most browsers and mobile devices allow you to change your settings so as to notify you when you receive cookies or other tracking technologies are being used, and to choose whether or not to accept/allow it. Most browsers also allow you to disable or delete existing cookies or to automatically reject future cookies. Disabling cookies may limit your ability to use the Services.

Certain tracking technologies we use are related to advertising networks, and through those technologies we may share certain information such as IP addresses. Please note that the information we share with those advertising networks might be combined with other information about you that those networks may have collected from other sources. To learn more about advertising networks and how to opt out of sharing information with them, please click here and here. If you’re in the EU, you can find additional information about your choices with respect to advertising networks and online behavioral advertising by clicking here.

Certain tracking technologies we use involve the use of session replay scripts or other scripts that run directly from your browser.

If you have any questions about how we or our third-party service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies that aren’t answered in this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com.

International Transfers

We process and store information on servers located in the Singapore, and we may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By using the Services, you agree to the transfer of information (including Customer Information and personal information) to locations that may be outside of your country of residence, in order for English Skills Cafe to provide the Services. You acknowledge and agree that, as a condition of providing any information, we can legally transfer it to another country.

Information from Children

English Skills Cafe is not directed to children under the age of 12 (or other age as required by local law) and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information from our files as soon as is practicable, once we have identified or been notified that the information pertains to a person under the age of 12. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Any information that we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may revise the Privacy Policy from time to time. If a revision is material, as determined solely by us, we will notify you, for example via email. The current version will always be posted to our Privacy Policy page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@englishskillscafe.com.