Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Effective June 12, 2000
1. YOUR CONSENT
By submitting your personal data to www.ef.com (hereinafter EF.com) you
automatically accept that EF International Language Schools B.V. or any other
corporate entity in the EF Group ("EF") registers and stores said personal data for
the specific purposes outlined below in this Privacy Policy. You also agree to that
your personal data may be transferred to and stored in a country that is not a
member of the European Union or part of the European Economic Area. Please note
that the reference to EF in this Privacy Policy covers all entities within the EF
group of companies.
2. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
When you make a reservation for a course or request brochures on our site, we will
need to collect certain information about you such as your name, address, email
address, sex, phone number and date of birth. We do not share personal information
about you with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete your
reservation.
The personal information you provide when making a reservation or placing an order
for brochures is only used to complete that reservation or order. We will not use
such information in order to send updates, brochures on our new products and
services or other marketing material to you, unless you have explicitly indicated
this in the request form you have completed.
When answering emails, we will use return email addresses. Such addresses are not
used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
3. INFORMATION ABOUT A FRIEND
If you wish to send a digital postcard or tell a friend about a particular program,
we will ask for the recipient's name, email address and phone number. The
information provided will only be used to confirm message delivery and it will not
be shared with outside parties except to the extent necessary to confirm that
message.
The information you provide to create a message is only used for that purpose and
it is only disclosed to the recipient.
4. INFORMATION ABOUT ALL VISITORS OF EF.COM
EF may gather certain usage information from EF.com, like the numbers and frequency
of visitors to our web site. Such information may be provided to reputable
third-party vendors. The data is only used on the aggregate and does not include
any personally identifying information.
5. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
For the protection of children's privacy, we require parental consent from users
under the age of 16 who wish to make a reservation for a course.
6. USE OF COOKIES
EF uses a technology nicknamed "cookies". Cookies are pieces of information that a
web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record keeping purposes. They
tell us how and when pages on our site are visited and by how many people.
Cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, although they do
identify a user's computer. We do not combine information collected through cookies
with other personally identifiable information in order to detect who you are or
what your screen name or e-mail address is.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your
browser to prevent this. If you do so however, you may not be able to take full
advantage of our web site. The complete online reservation process can for example
only be accessed if you accept cookies.
7. ACCURACY
EF will at your request or on our own initiative replenish, rectify or erase any
incomplete, accurate or outdated personal data on you.
8. DATA SECURITY
Personal information collected by EF.com is stored in secure operating environments
that are not available to the public.
9. AREAS NOT COVERED BY THIS PRIVATE POLICY
Personal information that you provide through chat sessions or email exchanges are
not covered by this Privacy Policy. We will protect your privacy to the best of our
ability by monitoring the sessions, but please keep in mind that you control the
information you disclose when you are in a public forum. You should always be
careful when distributing your personal information in this manner.
Moreover, it is important to be aware of that this policy only applies to EF.com
and not to other company's or organization's web sites to which we may link.
10. AMENDMENTS
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy we will post any amendments on this page
so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances we disclose it to other companies.
11. YOUR OPINION
EF.com welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy via our email
address webmaster@ef.com