Privacy Policy
Stellar Co. (collectively with its affiliated offices, “Stellar”, “we”, “us” or “our”) values your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal information you provide to us. This privacy notice applies to the www.emkaneducation.com website (the “Website”). It describes the types of personally identifiable information we may collect from you when you visit this Website and our practices for collecting, using, storing, disclosing, and transferring that information. It also informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
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Stellar Co. (together with its global associated offices, “Stellar”, “we”, us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal data that we may hold. This privacy notice applies to the www.stellar.sa website (the “Website”). It describes the types of personally identifiable information (“personal data” or “personal information”) we may collect from you either when you visit this Website or offline and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, disclosing, and transferring that personal information (“Privacy Notice”).
By accessing the Website, you agree to this Privacy Notice. Stellar reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time and to use user information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Notice. If our information practices change at some point in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. Your continued use of the Website after such changes are made is considered your acceptance of those changes.
This Website is not directed at children 16 years of age or younger. Stellar, therefore, will not intentionally collect information about any user under the age of 16.
If you have any questions or if you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where personal identifiers have been removed (anonymous data).
When you access our Website, Stellar will collect and store certain information, such as the domain name and host from which you access the Internet, the browser software and operating system of your computer, the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, the pages accessed or visited on the site, the Internet address of the site from which you directly linked to Stellar’s Website, as well as your browser’s country setting. If you leave our Website via an external link to another site/domain name, we will not collect any information that you share on the external site/external domain name.
By writing (including by way of email) to Stellar or by, filling out certain forms or data requests from Stellar, or otherwise voluntarily requesting or supplying information to Stellar, you are volunteering to provide such information, including but not limited to your contact information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number or fax number, to us. If you e-mail us, we will collect your e-mail address and IP address.
We also collect, use, store, and share Aggregated Data, such as statistical or demographic data, for our or third-party use for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your use of this Website data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature or content. However, suppose we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you. In that case, we treat the combined data as personal data, which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice or any other privacy notice we may have sent or provided you access to at the time or soon after its collection.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic and biometric data, etc.).
Our Website uses “Cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Website to store certain preferences and information. Your browser includes instructions to allow you to establish certain settings on your computer to warn you before a Cookie is stored, block all Cookies or erase Cookies from your hard drive, if you wish to do so. If you do decide to disable cookies, you may not be able to access some areas of our website. By continuing to use our Website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described above.
Our Website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. The use of cookies in these ways is to improve the functionality of our Website and your experience when using it. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within our website, and allow any information you enter to be remembered. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow our Website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our Website in the future. Persistent cookies expire after a set period of time. Cookies are used in the following ways on our Website:
Contact Forms – We use a session cookie in our contact forms to allow you to contact us via our Website.
Content Management System – we use persistent cookies and session cookies in our content management system to enable the Website to work effectively and to remember your preferences and settings.
Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how you use our Website. We use this information to compile statistics and to help us to improve our website and the services we offer. Google uses cookies to collect anonymous information, including the number of visitors to the Website, where they have come to the Website from, the pages they visit, and the length of time they have spent on the Website.
E-mail Subscriptions Service – session cookies are used in our e-mail subscriptions service to track recipients’ interaction with our e-mail updates and to facilitate our online subscription manager website.
LinkedIn – session cookies are used to track basic demographic information of LinkedIn visitors to our website.
Video Content – we use an online video software provider to host and play our video content. That provider uses session cookies to collect certain information about you when you view our videos, including your IP address and other non-personally identifiable information such as browser type, Internet Service Provider, and operating system. They also collect information relating to how videos are played, including when and for long and whether they are played in full-screen mode. This information helps them to monitor how their software is being used and us to monitor how our videos are being viewed.
You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Stellar will only use your personal data when the laws of Saudi Arabia allow it. Most commonly, we will use your personal data where Stellar has a legitimate interest in, or other legal bases for, processing your information, including where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation or in relation to legal claims. We may also process your personal data where we have your consent to do so, and when we rely on your consent for processing, you may withdraw such consent at any time. Another lawful basis for us processing your data may be that such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract we have entered into or, at your request, are entering into with you. However, please note that where we have relied on more than one legal basis for processing, we may continue the processing without your consent.
The information we collect from you may be used to improve the content of our Website, to fulfill your requests for information, provide services and marketing information to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants and otherwise communicate with you, and serve the appropriate region data to you. We may also keep your personal data and use it to contact you in the future.
Data submitted on the Website will be used for the purposes specified in the relevant part of the Website and, where relevant, for other purposes for which you give your consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent where this has been provided or to unsubscribe to mailings lists or registrations at any time by contacting us.
Stellar does not sell or license personal information to third parties. We may disclose the information collected to third-party marketing service companies, which may process your data on our behalf and under our instruction. These third-party service providers include companies who assist us in maintaining our Website, analyzing our Website traffic, and in providing services and information to users of our Website. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with applicable law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process it for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Stellar reserves the right to disclose your information in accordance with legal requirements or to abide by legitimate legal or regulatory processes in order to protect Stellar’s rights.
The www.stellar.sa website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
The www.stellar.sa Website may allow you to sign in and associate your social network accounts with Stellar. This includes but is not limited to LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. The Website may also allow you to log in to an Stellar account using your social network credentials. By doing this, you consent to us accessing the personal data that you have made publicly available on the social media platform, which could include but is not limited to your email address, your profile name and picture, and your location. We will process this information in accordance with this Privacy Notice, but we are not responsible in any way for the terms of use of the social network, their privacy notice or how they process your data. To manage the information that is shared through your account with Stellar and other third-party applications or to disconnect a social media account from us, please refer to the privacy notice of your social network account.
Stellar has put reasonable and appropriate security, technical, and administrative measures in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed unauthorizedly, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. For the processing of data subject to Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), these third parties will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We will also deal with personal data breaches and notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Despite these precautions, Stellar cannot guarantee the security of the information collected from third parties or transmitted through our website or guarantee the security of emails. Therefore, we assume no liability for any disclosure of information collected arising from the acts of third parties or other events, acts or omissions outside of our control, including, but not limited to, interruption of service or any issues related to internet use. We are not responsible for circumventing any privacy settings or security measures on the Website.
Stellar will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including, where applicable, 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 unauthorized 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.
By getting in touch with us, you can request information on the retention policies that apply to your personal data. Personal information collected in relation to money laundering requirements will be kept for up to 10 years. In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data.
We may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes. We may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Stellar collects and processes personal data in the course of our recruitment processes. We are committed to maintaining the privacy and protection of the personal information submitted to us.
If you want to apply for a role at Stellar, you can send your resume directly to [email protected]. By sending your resume, you give consent for Stellar to process your personal information for recruitment purposes.
Your personal data will be used to evaluate your qualifications for any current and future job opportunities at Stellar, and to communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. Only authorized Stellar staff members who are involved in our recruitment processes will have access to your data.
Please note that by submitting your resume, you are providing explicit consent for us to store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. If you have any questions or concerns about how we handle your data, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Under Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), you have certain rights in relation to your personal data. These rights include the right to:
Request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request a correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
Request the erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data without a good reason for us continuing to process it. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request for erasure for specific legal reasons, which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
You can contact us for questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices by e-mailing [email protected]
