MFI Polytechnic Institute Inc. respects your privacy and protects any personal information that you share with us. We are committed to safeguarding the right of the individual to privacy and to ensuring the reliability of the processing of individual’s personal information.

MFI Polytechnic Institute Inc. is committed to complying with the 2012 Data Privacy Act, which is designed to protect your privacy. We intend to abide by the principles set out in this Privacy Statement and recognize your need for the proper protection and management of any personal information. In other words, our goal is to provide protection for your privacy regardless of what types of device or application to access our Services. By using our Services, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, transferring, disclosure, and other usage of the Information described in this Privacy Statement and Terms of Service Agreement.

Information Collection

We may collect, store and transfer the following information:

• name and address
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to individual’s request and/or offers

Purpose of Collected Data

You consent that your collected Personal Information may be used:

• To help improve our data and services and customize user experience;
• To participate in and facilitate transactions;
• To engage in data mining and build up activities;
• To deliver the products and services that you have requested;
• To perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
• To provide better customer experience to the clients and improve, develop, identify and implement services;
• To follow safety, security, public service or legal requirements and processes;
• To process information for statistical, analytical, and research purposes; and
• To identify and prevent errors and inefficiencies due to misuse of the platform;
• To enforce our terms and conditions;

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

Our Disclosure of your Personal Information to Third Parties

We may share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Statement:

• we may provide your information in pursuit of legitimate objectives to the extent provided by law as an educational institution that may include a variety of academic, administrative, research, historical, and statistical purposes.
• we may provide your information to our sub-processors who perform functions on our behalf;
• third party contractors may have access to our databases. These contractors sign a standard confidentiality agreement and data sharing agreement;
• we may share your data with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, other entities under a common control or third party acquirers. We expect these other entities will honor this Privacy Policy;
• we may allow a potential acquirer or merger partner to review our databases, although we would restrict their use and disclosure of this data during the diligence phase;
• as required by law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process or requirement applicable to our Agency;
• we may transfer personal information to third parties for any legally permissible purpose at our sole discretion; and
• we may share your information with third parties with your consent or direction to do so.

Limiting Use, Disclosure, Retention

MFI Polytechnic Institute Inc. identifies the purposes for which the information is being collected before or at the time of collection. The collection of your personal information will be limited to that which is needed for the purposes identified by us. Unless you consent or we are required by law, we will only use the information for the purposes for which it was collected. If we will be processing your personal data for another purpose later on, we will seek your further legal permission or consent; except where the other purpose is compatible with the original purpose. We will keep your personal data only as long as required to serve those purposes. We will also retain and use your personal data for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Accuracy of Personal data

We do our best to ensure that the personal data we hold and use is accurate. We rely on the clients we do business with to disclose to us all relevant information and to inform us of any changes.

Your Rights with Respect to Your Information

We recognize your rights with respect to your personal data, as provided by the DPA. If you decide to exercise any of your rights, please contact our support team. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request.

Facebook Login personal data storing and personal data deletion

As regards to your Facebook data when using our app's Facebook Login function, MFI Polytechnic Institute Inc. does not store any of the Facebook users' personal data in our databases as the purpose of the Facebook Login in our MFI App is just to access the email, name and profile picture of the Facebook user's profile data and output the data in our app's "Your info" tab and "Contact Us" tab. Your personal data is deleted automatically after you either logout or exit our MFI App.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

MFI Polytechnic Institute Inc. may amend this statement at any time by posting a new version. It is your responsibility to review this statement periodically as your continued use of our products and services represents your agreement with the then-current statement.

Version updated 09 September 2024