UCO Business · Legal & Service Governance
Privacy Policy
Privacy & Data Rights
- Effective Date
- 09 October 2026
- Last Updated
- 09 October 2026
- Version
- Draft 1.0
This Privacy Policy explains how UCO Business collects, uses, stores, shares and protects personal information when you use the Services. The legal operator is the entity identified in our Terms of Service.
1. Information We Collect
- Account information
- name, email address, telephone number, authentication identifiers and profile details.
- Education and application information
- academic history, qualifications, programme interests, country preferences, application records, uploaded documents, communications, interview notes and related information you choose to provide.
- Career information
- CV/resume data, skills, employment history, saved jobs, applications or opportunity interactions where supported.
- Transaction and service records
- purchases, invoices, bookings, support requests and service history where applicable.
- Technical information
- IP address, browser/device information, security logs, session information, cookie preferences and diagnostic data.
- Marketing and consent information
- subscription status, consent choices, timestamps and source of consent.
- Recruitment information
- when you apply to work with us, including application materials, interview records and, where notified, recordings/transcripts.
2. Why We Use Information
- Provide accounts, guidance, application and career features.
- Process requests, applications, bookings and communications.
- Maintain security, prevent fraud and protect users and systems.
- Improve content, usability and service performance.
- Comply with legal, accounting, audit and dispute-resolution obligations.
- Send marketing only where permitted and subject to your communication preferences.
- Maintain evidence of consent and privacy choices where reasonably necessary.
3. Sensitive or High-Risk Information
Where application support requires identity, academic, financial, immigration or similar documents, we process them only for the relevant service purpose and subject to access controls. Do not upload information that is unnecessary for the requested Service.
4. Sharing
We may share information with authorised staff, service providers and, where you request or authorise an application or submission, relevant universities, institutions, employers, recruitment partners or other recipients necessary to perform the requested Service.
We do not sell personal information to advertisers.
5. International Processing
Some service providers may process or store information outside India. We use reputable providers and apply contractual, security and legal controls appropriate to the Service and applicable law.
6. Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, account functionality, application history, security, legal compliance, dispute handling or other lawful requirements. Retention periods may differ by data category.
7. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards, including access controls, authentication, encryption where supported, logging, restricted administrative access and vendor security controls. No online system can be guaranteed completely secure.
8. Your Choices and Rights
- Access or export eligible account information.
- Correct materially inaccurate profile information.
- Request deletion of eligible account information.
- Withdraw optional marketing consent or change cookie preferences.
- Raise a privacy concern or request clarification about processing.
Rights may be subject to identity verification, legal retention requirements, security needs, third-party rights and applicable law.
9. Children
The Services are not intended to encourage unsupervised collection of children’s data. Where a Service is used by a person below the applicable age threshold, we may require parent, guardian or other lawful authorisation as required.
10. Recruitment Privacy
Recruitment applicants may be subject to a separate Candidate Personal Data Collection, Recording & Recruitment Process notice where interviews or group discussions are recorded or transcribed.
11. Contact
- Privacy enquiries
- connect@ucobusiness.com
- Recruitment privacy enquiries
- hr@ucobusiness.com
