Didasko Academy Privacy policy

1. Introduction

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.

This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

In this policy, "Didasko", "we", "us" and "our" refer to Didasko Academy, a ministry of World Outreach International.

2. Credit

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).

3. How we use your personal data

Information that Didasko Collects

Didasko collects information when you do one of the following:

  • Sign up for a Didasko user account and create your user profile.

  • Enrol and participate in our online courses.

  • Send email messages to us, including support requests.

  • Participate in discussion forums, surveys, and other interactive activities on our site.

We also collect usage information to keep track of where you are in your course.

We require your personal Information only when you register for a Didasko user account (name, username, email address).

Usage data

How we process data about your use of our website and services.

The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services, both for enterprise use and academic research. The legal basis for this processing is to monitor and improve our website and services and to further knowledge about online learning.

We reserve the right to quote anything you write on the discussion forums for promotional purposes. To protect your privacy, we will not disclose the author of such texts. An example is the "testimonies" page on our website.

Your account data

Your account data includes your name and email address. The account data may be processed for the purposes of providing our course material and to communicate with you concerning course material. The legal basis for this processing is your consent when you create an account.

We may process your personal data that that is provided in the course of the use of our services ("service data"). The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, and ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent when you sign up.

We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services ("publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent when you sign up.

We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is your consent.

We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.

In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

4. Providing your personal data to others

We may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

5. International transfers of your personal data

The hosting facilities for our website are situated in Singapore.

6. Retaining and deleting personal data

Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. The data you provide when you register will be retained until you delete your account.

We may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

7. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are satisfied with any changes to this policy.

8. Your rights

In this Section 8, we summarise the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.

You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by visiting https://edu.dasko.org/account/settings when logged into our website.

You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

You can erase your personal data on https://edu.dasko.org/account/settings when logged into our website. This will block further access to our courses.

In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is your consent when registering on the site. Such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by de-registering your account on https://edu.dasko.org/account/settings when logged into our website. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us.

9. About cookies

9.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

9.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

9.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

10. Cookies that we use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) Authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.

(b) Status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website.

(c) Personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you.

(d) Security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally.

(e) Advertising - we reserve the right to use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you.

(f) Analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services.

11. Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

12. Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of our website. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

13. Our details

This website is owned and operated by Didasko Academy, a ministry of World Outreach International. World Outreach is registered in a number of countries. See https://world-outreach.com/contact/offices/.

Our principal place of business is at 2 Kallang Ave, #04-09 CT Hub, Singapore 339407.

You can write to us:

(a) By post, to P.O. Box 97230, Manukau, 2241, New Zealand.

(b) By using our website form. Click on this link.

(c) By telephone, on +65 64648698.

(d) By email, using “privacy AT dasko.org”.

14. Data protection officer

Our data protection officer's contact details are: “privacy AT dasko.org”.