Terms & Conditions

Consent

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share and protect information about you. When you interact with or use the products, services or websites of BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS (“Services”), you consent to such collection, use and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, our Terms and Conditions for our websites and the Terms and Conditions provided in relation to specific services and products.

If you do not consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not continue to use our Services.

Website visit

When you provide information during a login process, when you access certain portions of our website, when you ask us to provide more information.

Personal data we collect: When you visit our website you are not required to provide us with any personal information.

The only cases where we ask you for your personal information are:
During the online registration form for participation in training seminars, where the user/visitor may voluntarily provide some personal data. In this case we ask you for the following data:
– Full name
– Your name and email address
– E-mail address (email address, email address)

When subscribing to our newsletter where the user/visitor may voluntarily provide some personal data. The person concerned can unsubscribe from the list of recipients of the Newsletter whenever he/she wishes and the data registered for the above purpose will be deleted. In this case we ask you for the following data: E-mail address (email)
When you visit our website, information such as the IP address (Internet Protocol address) of your computer may be automatically collected.
For more information, please see our relevant cookie policy below or in our Terms of Use.
Our company has a page on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, but we do not process any personal data on these platforms. It is possible to contact the administrators of each of our company’s pages by sending a message. In the event that the administrator of the respective page receives messages containing personal data of natural persons, these are completely confidential and their use serves exclusively the purpose of communication with us and after fulfilling the purpose for which they have been collected, they are deleted.

Our company does not and cannot exercise influence and control over the nature and extent of the personal data collected and held by the social networking platforms as a condition or result of their use and bears no responsibility for the collection and processing of personal data carried out by them. For more information on the purposes of the collection and further processing and use of personal data by the social networking platforms, as well as on the rights and arrangements available to protect your privacy and personal data, please consult the privacy policy of the respective social networking platform.

Purpose and principles of personal data collection: 

Our company collects and processes the personal data of visitors/users exclusively and only in the context of fulfilling its purposes and functions and more precisely for the purpose of communicating with you and in the context, of providing services and marketing purposes. The processing is limited to the personal data that are necessary and appropriate for the fulfilment of the purposes and functions of the portal. The processing is subject to the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation and the relevant EU law, Greek legislation and relevant international treaties and conventions.

Use of the personal data we collect
The personal data that we collect from the communication platform we have on our website, as well as any other data that may be sent to us through our profiles on the various social networking systems, are used only for the purposes of communicating with you and for your convenience. Cookies, when browsing the website, are only used to analyse the traffic on our website. No further processing, promotion or exchange takes place on this data. In any case, for the above use of your personal data, your consent is requested from you beforehand.
Cookies Policy. The use of cookies makes it easier for the website to remember information about the user’s visit, such as your preferred language, remembering your preferences in terms of safe search, calculating the number of visitors or facilitating registration to our services.

Browsing the Site and courses, creating an account, signing up to receive more information about courses, and communicating collects information from you when you create an account and/or sign up to receive more information about courses offered on the Site. For example, we require your name, username, email address and other details when you create an account. We also require your contact details when you sign up to receive more information about courses, otherwise we cannot send you this information, and we collect information from you when you send messages to us (whether on the Site or on other platforms, e.g., social media sites). You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” on the emails you receive from us.

BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS also automatically collects information about your visit to the Site when you browse courses, as explained in our Cookie Policy.

Enrolling in courses

BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS (BIT) collects information from you when you enroll in courses on the Site. For example, if you enroll in any course on the Site that requires payment to access the course and/or be eligible for a Verified Certificate of Achievement, we require Personal Information to enable you to pay for that course, so that our third-party vendor can process payment. A Verified Certificate of Achievement (“Certificate”) is a virtual certificate that shows that you have successfully completed your course or program or other product or service. You can also provide additional information if you wish to apply for financial assistance to pay for a course.

Note that B.I.C. does not itself collect or store financial account numbers or identification issued by a governmental entity, employer, or other authority. Instead, if you choose to make a purchase on the Site, you will be directed to third-party payment processor. If you do not wish to submit the required payment information, then you will not be able to move forward with your purchase.

BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS also automatically collects information about your visit to the Site when you enroll in courses, as explained in the Cookie Policy.

Participating in courses

BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS collects information from you when you participate in courses offered on the Site. For example, we collect the information that you submit as part of your participation in the course, that you include in messages to us (including messages to learner support), that you provide in user surveys, or that you provide on public forums, webinars and other interactive experiences on the Site. We also require Personal Information when you earn a Certificate (the certificate will have your name on it). We also collects usage information about your participation in courses.

When you participate in a course, the Member that offers the course will receive Personal Information about your activity and performance in the course.

Information Collected from Other Sources

Where permitted by law, we collect or receive information about you from Members, your employer or potential employer, third parties to which you indicate that you would like to learn more about a course or program offered on the Base Official Site, organizations that are our partners, companies to which you’ve provided your information for professional or continuing education opportunities in order to update or supplement the information that you provide or that we collect automatically when you visit the Site. We use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services or other offers that may be of interest to you, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes. We collect Personal Information from Other Sources with your consent where such consent is required or, otherwise, for the purposes of our legitimate interests, as further described below in How BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS uses your Personal Information.

When you interact with or use our Services, and when you enter any personal information into any of our other Services, you are consenting to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Although we do not normally collect any sensitive personal information (such as ethnicity or race, religious beliefs or medical conditions), your entry of any such sensitive information in using our Services is your express consent to the collection, use and transfer of such information.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How BASE INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS uses your personal information

BIC uses information, including Personal Information, to carry out the following purposes:

Operate and improve the Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving features that support the community and enable Site usage at scale. This also includes personalizing the Site, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most useful and helpful experience for our learners.
Create, administer, provide, and teach courses — We use information we collect for this purpose, including creating and improving the delivery of massive open online courses and programs on the Site. This also includes personalizing courses, so your learning experience is tailored to your interests and needs, assessing your performance, and awarding Certificates. We do this to meet our legitimate business interests in offering the most useful courses possible.
Offer and improve products and services — We use information we collect for this purpose, including enabling you to navigate the Site, to enroll and participate in courses and programs on the Site, to learn effectively in such courses and programs, to purchase or obtain products and services on the Site such as Certificates, and to invite you to participate in market research. We offer products and services on the basis that it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you under the Terms of Service and improve our products and services to meet our legitimate interests in offering the highest-quality online courses and programs available.
Develop and maintain the security and performance of the Site — We use information we collect for this purpose, including tracking Site outages and creating software solutions, detecting violations of the Honor Code and Terms of Service, and monitoring uses, misuses, and potential misuses of the Site. We do this to meet our legal obligations to keep Personal Information secure and to meet our legitimate business interests in keeping the Site available at all times.
Communicate with you — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including answering your course and platform questions and notifying you of course and Site maintenance and updates. We do this on the basis of our legitimate interests in keeping learners up to date about our platform and responding to learner questions.
Promote courses and programs — As permitted by law, we use information we collect for this purpose, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. We send marketing and advertising to you about course offerings, programs, news, and related products and services of or affiliates , as well as communications about products or services of selected business partners that may be of interest to you. Where required by law, we only send you marketing that you have asked for or that you have given your consent to receive. In other cases, we send marketing to meet our legitimate business interests to promote our business.
Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations —All use of Personal Information is subject to applicable law.