Privacy Policy

For the purposes of our Privacy Policy, personal information shall include the following:

  • Name
  • Email Address
  • Phone number
  • Education background and application records
  • Professional background and credentials
  • Ongoing student records
  • Payment information and details
    (“Personal Information”)

Personal Information also includes information or an opinion forming part of a database, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.

Your Personal Information will be handled in accordance with Abcodo’s Privacy Policy. Having said that, we reserve the right at any time to disclose any personal information that is deemed necessary or required by applicable law, legal process, or the requirements of a government or regulatory authority.

We may collect person information when you:

  • Create an account
  • Explore programs
  • Create a student profile and/or apply to an educational program or course on the platform
  • Use an Abcodo email account
  • Post something on our Website/Portal
  • Communicate with us
  • Process payment for programs and courses
  • Sign up for promotional emails and other communication materials
  • Participate in our surveys
  • Sign up for contests and promotions
  • Apply to become an Abcodo institution partner

Storing Your Data in Other Jurisdictions

Due to the nature of Abcodo being an international operation, and that we from time to time contract for the services of third party contractors that reside outside of Canada, you acknowledge that your Personal Information may be stored in foreign servers and jurisdictions other than in Canada, that of which we may have no direct control. Your Personal Information may be subjected to the laws of the jurisdiction where it is located or to the terms and agreement in place with the owner of that server.

De-Identification of Your Personal Information

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best service to you, you authorize and allow Abcodo to grant access to third parties to use our database or provide them with your Personal Information as a way for us to improve our services, perform analytics, create marketing strategies for Abcodo, and enhance the user experience. Third parties will only be allowed to access the Personal Information in a way that does not identify you or compromise your personal privacy. Any profit or analysis done with the use of this Personal Information is part of our intellectual property rights.

Limitation of Liability

By using the Abcodo Portal (the “Portal), you agree that Abcodo (a division of M Square Global Education Solutions Inc.) is not liable for any contracts or legal transactions of any kind you may have entered into with a third party as a result of using the Portal. We are also not responsible for, nor obligated to verify or justify information given by colleges and universities, and affiliated agents with Abcodo and MSM Unify (“ Partners”), institutions, and individuals utilizing the Portal. This includes comments, reviews, program and course descriptions given by them or made by them on the Portal. We advise you to use all available resources online and offline to verify the information and representation you may encounter from third parties utilizing the Portal and use all due diligence accordingly.

Further we are not responsible nor do we have any control over the links provided by third-parties and you should use all diligence and safeguards to ensure that any website you visit is free of destructive items such as worms or viruses. Links available to outside websites on the Portal are meant for convenience only. No endorsement of any third party products or services is expressed or implied by any information or content that is included on, or linked to or from the Portal.

In the event of a system error, or catastrophic event, or other reasons beyond our reasonable control that leads to the Portal not being operational, we are not held responsible for any breach of our terms of service including any fundamental term or negligence that would lead to damages owing to you or any third party, including loss of opportunity, loss of profits and loss of business opportunities that result in any way from our providing access to the Portal, or its various services.

M Square Global Education Solutions Inc. shall not be liable for, and you shall indemnify and save shaw harmless from and against all suits, claims or judgments howsoever arising out of claims for libel, slander, infringement of copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights or contractual rights of any third party or based on any other legal theory howsoever arising from the material, data or other content from the services provided for on the Portal. For the purposes of this section, any reference to M Square Global Education Solutions Inc. shall include its subsidiaries, Partners or associates, or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, servants, contractors or agents.

Unacceptable Use

We do not condone the use of the Portal for the purpose of propagating malicious or harmful software and content. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:

  • Posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating unlawful material, including without limitation, child or other pornography, any content, data or other material that is libelous, obscene, hateful, unlawful, threatening, reaction or ethnically offensive, defamatory or in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense;
  • Disseminating material which violates copyright or intellectual property rights, where the user assumes all risk regarding whether material is in the public domain;
  • Posting or disseminating material that is harassing, bullying, or considered stalking;
  • Pyramid or other illegal soliciting schemes; or
  • Fraudulent activities, including but not limited to impersonating any person or entity, or forging anyone’s digital or manual signature.

Breach of any of these provisions is a serious violation of the Privacy Policy and agreed Terms and Conditions, and may at our sole discretion lead to your immediate suspension or termination of use of the Portal.

Governing Law

By using the Portal, you consent and agree that the Terms and Conditions of using the Portal and our Privacy Policy (this document) will be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the province of British Columbia and of Canada. Each party irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the province of British Columbia for the resolution of any matter arising under the Terms and Conditions or the Privacy Policy for which judicial relief is sought.

Changes to Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to change or modify the Privacy Policy at any time we deem fit. Continued use of the Portal means you accept and are willing to comply with these changes. Before using the Portal, we advise you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you use the Portal to check for updates that may affect you and your use.

Changes to Abcodo

At any given time, we reserve the right to suspend, terminate, or discontinue the Portal and all information available on the Portal without prior notice.

Right to Edit and Remove Your Personal Information

Abcodo reserves the right to review your Personal Information stored in our servers to make sure that it complies with the Privacy Policy. At our discretion, we may edit or remove any information we deem as obscene, vulgar, offensive, abusive, threatening, or otherwise objectionable or otherwise qualifies as unacceptable use, in our sole discretion.

Suspension or Termination

  • Abcodo can restrict or terminate your access to the Portal, or any services found in the Portal, if we find that you have breached the Terms and Conditions or our Privacy Policy. You will be notified of any changes to your account as is reasonably practical.
  • We also reserve the right to revoke your access to Abcodo for any abusive, threatening, fraudulent, or otherwise harmful activity on the Portal, and termination could either be temporary or permanent. Any actions that could threaten or undermine our system, our third party networks, files, documents, and other necessary data would also result in termination.
  • Abcodo may also limit your activity, suspend temporarily or permanently, or provide a warning to any users who: (a) would breach any part of our Terms and Conditions, (b) are unable to verify, authenticate, or provide accurate information, (c) whose actions can cause legal and financial liability to themselves, to Abcodo, and to our Partners, (d) or, who have been found to provide false, misleading or fraudulent information. We may also take other legal or technical actions not stated above if we deem it necessary.

Investigations

Abcodo reserves the right to investigate any suspected violations of the Privacy Policy. In the event of an investigation, you agree to reasonably comply with all legal and government authorities, third party investigators of academic fraud and misinformation, system administrators, and other related network handlers.

Contact

If you have any questions, complaints, claims, or other legal concerns regarding terms and conditions or anything related to our content and business, you can contact us through info@abcodo.com.