Privacy and cookie policy

Privacy and cookie policy

This page contains details of the Kaplan International Pathways Privacy Notice, cookie policy and website terms of use. Use the links below to view each section. 

Kaplan International Pathways Privacy Notice 

Introduction

Kaplan International Pathways is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, share and protect your personal data. 

It is important that you read this Privacy Notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using your personal data. 

This Privacy Notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below: Who we are 

Data Protection Officer 

What is personal data? 

Data protection principles 

How we use your personal data 

The personal data we collect from you 

When and how we share your personal data with others 

Transfer of your personal data to other countries 

The security of your personal data 

Our storage and retention of your personal data 

Your rights as a data subject 

Changes to this privacy notice 

Kaplan International Pathways group companies 

1. Who we are 

Kaplan International Pathways is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. Where we act as a data controller, we are required under data protection legislation to notify anyone who provides personal data to us, either directly or through a third party, of the information contained in this Privacy Notice. 

Kaplan International Pathways is made up of different legal entities, details of which can be found in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of the Kaplan International Pathways group so when we mention “Kaplan”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the Kaplan International Pathways group responsible for processing your data. 

2. Data Protection Officer 

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below: 

Contact details 

Email address: dpo@kaplaninternational.com 
Postal address: Palace House, 3 Cathedral St, London SE1 9DE, England, UK. 

If you are an EU national or resident in an EU country, and wish to contact our EU Representative: 
Kaplan Ireland Education Limited, 13/14 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, D02 WC04 Ireland 

If you are a UK national or resident in the UK, and wish to contact our UK Representative: 
Kaplan UK Limited, UK Data Protection Representative, Palace House, 3 Cathedral St, London SE1 9DE, England 

If you are a citizen or resident in China, and wish to contact our China Representative: 
Shanghai Kaibo Management & Consulting Co., Ltd, 29D, Building B, No. 1188, Kai Xuan North Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. To find out more about how we handle the data of Chinese citizens please see our privacy notice here: https://www.kic.org.cn/privacy/ 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance. 

3. What is personal data?

Personal data is any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. Your name, address, phone number and bank account number are examples of personal data. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). 

4. Data protection principles 

We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be: 

5. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances: 

We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common: 

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

6. The personal data we collect from you

Enquiries

When you request information or make enquiries about any of our services or programmes, we may use the personal data you provide in order to fulfil your request or respond to your enquiry. It is in our legitimate interests to use your personal data in this way so that you receive the information you have requested. 

Applications

If you make an application to study on one of our programmes or related to accommodation we may collect the following categories of personal data about you: 

Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses. 

It is in our legitimate interests to collect and use the above information in order to consider and process your application. 

We may also ask you to disclose information regarding any criminal convictions you may have as part of your application. We need to use this information in order to comply with our legal obligations. 

Study and accommodation 

If we enter into a contract with you relating to study or accommodation, we may collect additional personal data relating to you including: 

This information, together with the personal data provided to us above at application stage, will be used by us to perform the contract we have entered into with you. 

We will also collect further personal data relating to your visa application and immigration status as we have a legal obligation to use this information. 

During your studies we will collect information about your academic experience and progression. This is in order to fulfil our contract with you but it is also in our legitimate interests to use this personal data in order to monitor the provision of our service to you. 

We may also collect personal data about your health in order to make appropriate arrangements and reasonable adjustments for you regarding your welfare, attendance or accommodation. We use this information in order to perform our contract with you and also to fulfil our legal obligations. 

We may also collect personal data about you if you are named as an emergency contact for an individual. We use this information as it is in the vital interests of such individual. 

CCTV is used within all our Colleges and Residences in internal and external communal areas, the footage captured is intended to ensure the safety of students, employees and visitors and to safeguard their property. 

If you use an agent to arrange your application and study with us, we may collect the categories of personal data described above from your agent. 

If you are an International Year One (IYO) student. Then you will be asked (but not required to provide) information about gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion/belief, sexual orientation, in care and parental education. This information is treated with strict confidence. Your special category data is processed to comply with our reporting requirements from the office for students (OfS), the independent regulators of higher education in England and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). The data will be shared with OFS/HESA to comply with the Equality Act 2010. 

Marketing

Where you have explicitly consented to do so, we may use your personal data to inform you of special offers and new or existing services that we believe may be of interest to you or to send surveys or questionnaires so that we can learn more about your needs and interests. 

If you would prefer that we do not send such communications to you, please follow the opt-out links on any marketing message or contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice. 

Internal business purposes 

We also may use your personal data for our internal business purposes. This is in our legitimate interests in order to operate as a business and monitor and improve the services we provide. Where possible we will anonymise this information. Please contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice if you would like more information. 

Automated technologies or interactions 

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy on our website for further details. 

If you fail to provide personal data 

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time. 

7. When and how we share your personal data with others

We may share your personal data with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to perform our contract with you or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so. 

Such third parties may include the following: 

8. Transfer of your personal data to other countries 

As we are an international business with employees, entities and service providers all over the world, we may need to transfer the personal data you provide to us to other countries which may be outside the European Economic Area (EEA). 

The data protection laws in such countries may not be as comprehensive and provide the same level of protection for your personal data as those within the EEA. In these circumstances, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that your personal data is handled as described in this Privacy Notice.  These steps will include appropriate contractual mechanisms.  Please contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice if you would like more information. 

9. The security of your personal data 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, service providers, business partners, agents and other third parties who have a legitimate need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions or as otherwise agreed and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so. 

10. Our storage and retention of your personal data 

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. Please contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice if you would like more information. 

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us. 

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. 

11. Your rights as a data subject 

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to: 

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice. 

If you wish to make a rights request please click here.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances. 

What we may need from you 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. 

Your right to withdraw consent 

In circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact us using the contact details in this Privacy Notice. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law. 

12. Changes to this Privacy Notice 

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information. 

13. Kaplan International Pathways group companies 

Name of college or operation Kaplan International Pathway group company 
(all registered at Palace House, 3 Cathedral St, London SE1 9DE, England)
HeadquartersKaplan International Colleges UK Limited 
(Company number 05268303) 
Bournemouth University International College Kaplan Bournemouth Limited 
(Company number: 08291927) 
Glasgow International College Kaplan Glasgow Limited 
(Company number: 05976922) 
Kaplan International College LondonKaplan International College London Limited  
(Company number: 06533974) 
Nottingham Trent International CollegeKaplan NT Limited 
(Company number: 05268287) 
University of Brighton International College Kaplan Brighton Limited 
(Company number: 07331979) 
University of Essex International College Kaplan Essex Limited 
(Company number 10846169) 
University of Liverpool International CollegeKaplan Liverpool Limited 
(Company number: 06217892) 
University of Nottingham International College Kaplan Nottingham Limited 
(Company number: 10199220) 
University of West England, Bristol’s International College Kaplan UWE Limited 
(Company number: 08102562) 

Cookie policy

The cookie policy on this page is for www.kaplanpathways.com and subdomains, except: 

The UK Government has passed new legislation with regards to the use of cookies. The following section explains which cookies Kaplan International Pathways uses and why we use them. 

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier as well as the site name. 

Cookies do lots of different jobs, including letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Most websites you visit will use cookies to improve your user experience by enabling that website to “remember” you, either for the duration of your visit (using a “session cookie”) or for repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). 

What cookies do we use? 

This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify any individual users without their permission. 

Type of Cookie Cookie owner Data collected and why Expiry range 
NecessaryCloudflareCookies are used by our content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic by collecting and anonymising IP addresses. It is essential to the effective running of the website. Find out more about Cloudfare cookies.1 month 
NecessaryFormstackRegisters which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. Session, 7 days 
FunctionalLinkedInUsed by LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services. Up to 2 years 
PerformanceBingThis cookie is used to measure the use of the website for analytics purposes. 7 days 
PerformanceGoogle Analytics We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website. 
 
Google Analytics stores IP addresses anonymously on its servers in the US. Neither Kaplan nor Google associates your IP address with any personally identifiable information. 
 
These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a returning visitor to the site and to track the pages that you visit during your session. Find out more about Google cookies. 
90 days 
PerformanceHotjarWe use Hotjar to understand how users are interacting with the content on our website. Usage behaviours and basic device information are collected anonymously by these cookies. Find out more about Hotjar cookies collected here. Up to 2 years 
PerformanceIgodigitalCollects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web-campaign content. Up to 10 years 
PerformanceMicrosoftThe cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. 1 year 
PerformanceSiteimprove This cookie is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. This information is then used to improve the user experience on this website. 2 years 8 months 
PerformanceTikTok Used by TikTok for tracking the use of embedded services. Up to 2 years 
PerformanceVimeoCollects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. 2 years 
TargetingDoubleClick Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. Up to 1 year 24 days 
TargetingFacebookCookies are collected by Facebook and store anonymous usage on the website in order to improve the relevancy of Facebook advertising. Find out more about Facebook cookies3 months 
Functional, Necessary ClickThis cookie is used to remember user preferences so that the website can be customised for them. Up to 27 years 
Functional, Necessary Live Chat We use LiveChat on our site to enable real-time customer support. This cookie will anonymously track usage information to deliver a personalised experience. Personal information is only collected and stored when voluntarily inputted by the user. Find our more about LiveChat cookiesUp to 3 years 
Functional, Performance SnapchatThe cookie detects the efficiency of the ads and collects visitor data for further visitor segmentation. Up to 1 year 
Functional, Targeting TwitterThe cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website on to their Twitter profile. 2 years 
Performance, Necessary YouTube This cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.Up to 16 years 9 months 
Performance, Targeting Google Collect anonymous data on how visitors use a website.Up to 17 years 

How can you disable cookies? 

Performance and targeting cookies 

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analysing the actions you take on it. Doing so will protect your privacy but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users. 

Performance and targeting cookies are set only after you give us permission to use them. You can manage your cookie preferences by clicking on the cog in the bottom left corner of the screen. Please refresh your browser after changing your preferences to reflect. 

Google: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ 
Facebook and Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacyshield 
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en 
Bing: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-us/opt-out and http://www.aboutads.info/ 
Snapchat: https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy/ 
 

Functional cookies 

You may choose to prevent this website from dropping functional cookies. Doing so will protect your privacy but will also prevent some functions from working on the site. On this site, these functions include Live Chat and Google Maps. 

Manage your cookie preferences by clicking on the cog in the bottom left corner of the screen. Please refresh your browser after changing your preferences to reflect. 

Necessary cookies 

If you would like to prevent Kaplan International Pathways from collecting necessary cookies when you visit www.kaplanliving.com, please update the privacy setting in your chosen web browser. 

You can directly control cookie acceptance from there, however, please note that doing so will affect the functionality of the website. 

Find out more about how to disable cookies on your browser on the browser privacy pages: 

Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/ 
Mozilla Firefox: www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy 
Internet Explorer: windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/change-internet-explorer-privacy-settings#1TC=windows-7 

Our website may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal information. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to such third party websites. 


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Last updated: August 2021