Privacy Policy

The Advance Centre for Professional Education fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share information with the centre. Any personal information processed by the Advance Centre for Professional Education will be treated in accordance with relevant Data protection legislation.

The website pages listed below provide details to each of the Advance Centre for Professional Education, Higher Education partner Institutions privacy statements that cover each of their main data processing activities.

The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to tell you what information the Advance Centre for Professional Education collects from you, how and when it may be collected and what happens to it. For the purpose of this Privacy Notice, "we" and "us" refers to the Advance Centre for Professional Education.

Personal Information is any personal identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address, telephone number, bank details or online identifier, which can directly or indirectly identify you. We refer to it as "Personal Information" here.

When do we collect information about you?

Information you give us. You may provide Personal Information when you: (i) access the Advance Centre for Professional Education website, (ii) request, purchase and use a service from us, (iii) communicate with the Advance Centre for Professional Education via phone calls, chat, email, web forms, social media and other methods of communication, (iv) subscribe to the Advance Centre for Professional Education marketing material, (v) attend our events, or (vi) provide services to the Advance Centre for Professional Education.
Information we collect about you via automated means. Each time you visit our website, view a Advance Centre for Professional Education advertisement on a third party-owned website or read an Advance Centre for Professional Education, marketing email, we may automatically collect information about you via cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies. You can control all but strictly necessary cookies via the cookie consent options on our website. Cookies are collected via cookiepro (link here)
Email communication. We use pixel tags and cookies in our marketing emails so that we can track your interaction with those messages. We use tools like pixel tags and cookies so that we can determine interest in particular topics and measure and improve the effectiveness of our communications.
Information we receive from other sources. Some services that we provide require the involvement of third parties. We have carefully selected these third parties and taken steps to ensure that the Personal Information is adequately protected. The third parties include our business partners, suppliers, sub-contractors, advertisers (we do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but will provide them with aggregate information to help us serve more relevant advertisements to a cohort of visitors and/or customers on various advertising platforms) analytics, search engine providers, evaluation companies.
Social Media Platforms. We may receive certain information that’s stored or processed by third parties, such as the social media sites, Twitter, Facebook® and LinkedIn® when you interact with us through these social media platforms.

The types of data we collect

Contact Information includes your name, company name, company contact details, job title, telephone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of the Advance Centre for Professional Education.

Transactional Information includes information about the Services you use, and how you interact with us and the Services.

Information collected by Automated Means includes information that the Advance Centre for Professional Education collects through commonly used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and web beacons, with your permission. Such information includes standard information from your web browser (such as browser type and browser language) and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address.

Why we collect your personal information

We collect and use your Personal Information because it is necessary to obtain certain details including Personal Information from you in providing you with the service you have requested and it is in our legitimate interests in the course of operating our business, including:

Providing the requested service and/or information to you.
Responding to your queries.
Transmitting Personal Information between our functions for internal administrative purposes and between our partner Higher Education Institutions, IT Sligo, UCD and TU Dublin Tallaght.
Hosting and maintaining our websites.
Ensuring network and information security.
Carrying out direct marketing.

How we use your information

Unless otherwise stated herein, we use your information for providing you the Services that you have requested from us, as referred below:

To contact you. We use your Contact Information to get in touch with you. Here are some examples of reasons why we might contact you to: communicate with you about your Orders or the Services you use; discuss your interest in taking a modules/course with us; conduct surveys; send you announcements about the Centre; notify you about our upcoming events; administer surveys, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us or our business partners.
For marketing purposes. We use your Contact Information to recommend products and services that might be of interest to you, to send you marketing and advertising messages such as newsletters, announcements, or special offers or to notify you about our upcoming events. To provide you with marketing communications is not essential for the maintenance or existence of the legal relationship we may have with you at a certain point; thus, you may opt-out from receiving such communications. From time to time the Advance Centre for Professional Education may share data with IT Sligo, UCD and TU Dublin Tallaght, for the purpose of enhancing the experience of alumni and current students who avail of the Advance centre services.

You are entitled to opt-out from receipt of marketing communication at any time and free of charge by using the "unsubscribe" option included in any marketing e-mail or other marketing material received from us.

Your decision to opt-out from our marketing communications will not affect your ability to continue receiving the Services from us.

To enable education providers to provide services to you, in the instance of courses we run in partnership with other education providers, we may need to provide your contact information to these third parties providers so that they may engage with you about your interest and engagement with a study programme. You may opt out of this communication at any time.
To protect our business, we use information we collect to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our websites and the Services, and to identify and protect our business from fraudulent transactions.

How long do we store personal information for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

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, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Security and confidentiality

We employ appropriate security measures to help protect your Personal Information and guard against access by unauthorised persons. Information storage is on our secure servers or on the secure servers of third parties who provide services so that they may carry out technical, logistical, or other functions on our behalf.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure so we cannot guarantee the security of your information when it is transmitted to our website or from third party websites, any transmission is at your own risk, however we use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

The site may from time to time contain links to and from the websites of our networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, we cannot accept any responsibility or liability and you will have to agree to such company’s privacy notice. Please ensure you agree to such policies before submitting your personal data.

We acknowledge that the information you provide may be confidential. We do not sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise make Personal Information commercially available to any third party, but we may share information with our service providers for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will keep your information confidential and protect it in accordance with our Privacy Notice and all applicable laws.

Your rights

You may withdraw your consent to receiving marketing at any time by changing your preference through your account or by contacting us. It is important to us that you are in control of your own information. As a result, we offer the following controls:

You may request access to or copies of the Personal Information that we hold about you. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us at info@Advancecentre.ie
If you believe that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us info@Advancecentre.ie as soon as possible. We will take steps to seek to correct or update any information if we are satisfied that the information, we hold is inaccurate. You may request that we restrict our processing.
You may request that your Personal Information be deleted, where it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it is being processed and provided there is no other lawful basis for which we may continue to process such information.
To the extent we are processing your Personal Information to meet our legitimate interests (as set out above), you may object to the processing of your Personal Information by us. If we are unable to demonstrate our legitimate grounds for that processing, we will no longer process your Personal Information for those purposes.
You may object to our processing as set out above.
You may withdraw any consent given to processing.
Where we are processing your Personal Information automatically for the purposes of performing our contract with you, you may have the right to request that the Personal Information we hold about you be transferred to a third-party data controller.

Please contact info@Advancecentre.ie and we will assist you and provide you with all rights to which you are entitled in relation to your Personal Information under applicable data protection law. The Advance Centre for Professional Education has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. Any changes we make to our Privacy Notice will be posted and dated on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you in email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes and remain informed and up to date on how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your Acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Notice, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the site, or if you would like to contact us to exercise your rights as stated in this Privacy Notice, you may contact us at info@Advancecentre.ie for assistance.