Who We Are

The Academy responsible for the processing of your personal information is QnS Academy London, a brainchild of Dr Abdus Salam Azadi, an influential scholar in the British-Bangladeshi Muslim community, founded with an aim of teaching the mass people in the global arena. It was founded in January 2020 as an online Islamic educational project, QnS Academy London registered as an academy in May 2020. QnS’s office is currently based in London, UK. From its inception, using modern technology and cutting-edge educational tools as the key, the Academy is offering a variety of full-time, part-time and self-paced learning programs by a band of renowned scholars and professionals.

What We Might Collect

Data is only obtained, processed or stored when we have met the lawfulness of the processing requirements of the GDPR. We may collect the following information to effectively and compliantly carry out everyday business transactions:

• Name and designation.
• Contact details including email address, mobile and landline numbers.
• Addresses such as postcode, along with preferences and interests.
• Other information relevant to program enrollment, surveys and promotions.
• Where needed, financial information like bank/credit/debit card details (although we do not retain complete card payment information).

How the information is collected:

Most of the personal information we hold about you is that which we collect directly from you. Personal data can be collected in one or more of the following ways:

• When you communicate through email, phone or website.
• When you apply to enroll in our programs or purchase our courses or services.
• When you register to receive information from us.
• If you interact with us, respond to communications or surveys.
• When you accept cookies on our website.

What we do with the information we gather and the legal basis for processing

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• It is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us, and essential for our legitimate interests and legal obligations including payment details.
• To process payments and assess financial risks by carrying out credit reference checks etc.
• To fulfill our obligations owed to a relevant regulator, tax authority or revenue service as is necessary for compliance with our legal and regularity obligations.
• We may use the information to improve our outputs and services.
• To send communications about new courses, services, offers and promotions or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email which you may have provided.

Information sharing

• We will not pass personal data to third parties for any purpose without your prior explicit consent. We only share personal data where we are required to do so by law, where it is necessary to fulfil our statutory obligations and in limited circumstances with certain third parties acting on our behalf in order to provide a service you have requested from us.
• We undertake to share only information which is relevant and necessary for the provision of the relevant service. People we share your information with are obliged to keep your details securely and use them only to fulfil your request.
• In necessary and limited circumstances, the information will only be transferred outside the Academy to comply with our legal or contractual requirements and that is too.

Data breach

The General Data Protection Regulations defines a personal data breach as “a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data”. This includes breaches that are the result of both accidental and deliberate causes. Personal data breaches can include:

• Access by an unauthorized third party.
• Deliberate or accidental action (or inaction) by a controller or processor.
• Sending personal data to an incorrect recipient.
• Computing devices containing personal data being lost or stolen.
• Alteration of personal data without permission.
• Loss of availability of personal data.

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. If you suspect any misuse or loss of or unauthorized access to your personal information, please let us know immediately by emailing the Data Controller at our email addresses provided in the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question and make sure you are satisfied with how that information is collected and shared.

How long do we keep personal data?

We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to allow us to carry out our services or where appropriate as required to be kept by law, regularity requirements or in connection with any anticipated litigation.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulations, you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. You have the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data, the right to restrict processing, object to processing as well as in certain circumstances the right to data portability. You have the right to obtain access to and copies of personal information we hold about you which you have provided to us, including for the purpose of you transmitting that data to another data controller. We will provide this information at the earliest opportunity, but at a maximum of 30 days from the date the request was received.

We have ensured that exercising your right to the above is as clear and straightforward as possible, and can be done so by stating your request in writing to the QnS Academy London’s website support team. Please note that these rights may be limited by data protection legislation, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply. If for any reason, we are unable to act in response to a request for erasure, we always provide a written explanation to the reasons why.