1. Introduction

Welcome to Geoglu LinguaLeap. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at info@geolingualeap.com.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our website https://geolingualeap.com and any related services, sales, marketing, or events (we refer to them collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "Services").

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information You Disclose to Us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • Contact Data: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address
  • Educational Information: Academic background, language proficiency, educational goals
  • Career Information: Work experience, career objectives, vocational interests
  • Communication Data: Messages, inquiries, and other information you send to us

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and other technical information.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below:

  • To provide and facilitate service delivery: To provide you with our Services, including student admission support, language programs, and vocational training placement.
  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support: To respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
  • For administrative purposes: We may use your information for business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and to evaluate and improve our Services, marketing, and your experience.
  • To send administrative information: We may use your personal information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
  • To protect our Services: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure.

4. Sharing Your Information

We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
  • Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

Note: We may share your information with educational institutions in Germany for admission purposes, language certification bodies, and vocational training providers as necessary to provide our services to you.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To enable certain functions of the Services
  • To provide analytics
  • To store your preferences
  • To enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising

6. Data Retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. 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, so we cannot promise or 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.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@geolingualeap.com.

9. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Germany and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to Germany and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

10. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last updated" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) by email at info@geolingualeap.com or by post to:

Geoglu LinguaLeap
Data Protection Officer

Branch Office Address
Asokoro Modern Market
Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja,
Mammy Extension Shop number G26

Head Office Address
Head Office Address
Cloppenburg, 49661
Germany