TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

If you visit, post content to, or in any other way interact with or within this website, you accept these terms and conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, the terms and conditions apply for Campaigns organized or hosted by Student Competitions International AB. The Company stipulates the right to change the terms and conditions published on the website, without notice.

Definitions

The Company: Student Competitions International AB, a Private Limited Liability Company, incorporated under the laws of Sweden under the organizational number 559238-7426. Our registered office address is: Karlavägen 58, 114 49 Stockholm, Sweden

Company Website: The Company reserves the right to amend these terms to include any future websites that the Company may operate at such time without notice.

Satellite sites: Websites or other domains, wholly or partially operated by the Company or Partners, which use the Company’s platforms and/or technology, including in particular www.studentcompetitions.com. These terms and conditions apply for all Satellite sites as well, so if you register on a Campaign powered by the Company and operating under these same terms and conditions on a Satellite site, you may also become a member of other Company Websites.

Campaigns: all campaigns, quizzes, competitions, challenges, interest enquiries, forms and other opportunities uploaded to Company Website or Satellite sites intended to match one or more individuals with an education or career opportunity – most often (but not always) a Campaign consist of filling in a profile form, answering a series of questions, and/or potentially uploading a written statement, CV or similar information to engage your interest in a certain study or career opportunity.

Partners: Agents, contractors, customers, universities, companies listing career or study opportunities or other affiliated partners to the Company or to Company Website or Satellite sites.

Electronic Communications

When you visit a Company Website, any of our affiliate Satellite sites, or send emails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. We may also contact you via phone for marketing purposes if you have supplied your phone number, such telemarketing will be limited to any specific Campaigns that you have partaken in, i.e. to promote such specific Campaign and associated Partners. You may also be contacted directly by a school, university or company that you have partaken in a Campaign for through a Company Website or Satellite site.

Information about you and your visits to the site

You need to register to access certain functions on Company Websites or on our Satellite Sites used for Campaigns. By signing up, you give your consent that the Company can use your personal data and contributions for the purposes described in our Data Protection and Privacy Policy, wherein the main purpose is to try to match you with educations and career opportunities that fit your profile. We may also share your data with our Partners, in particular Partner universities and companies for which you have participated in a Campaign for. In addition, the Company can save the personal data for later usage and consequently use the information to contact you regarding other similar Campaigns on Company Website or educational programs with Partners. You can find more information about how we will use your data in our Data Protection and Privacy Policy.

By using the Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

You can at any time cancel your account or request to have your data deleted, or for us to stop sharing it with Partners by sending an email to support@studentcompetitions.com.

Copyright

All content included on this site, such as but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of the Company or its content suppliers and protected by international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of the Company, with copyright authorship for this collection by the Company, and protected by international copyright laws.

Trademarks

The Company’s trademarks, whether registered or unregistered, including but not limited to Student Competitions International AB, may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not owned or operated by the Company, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among users, or in any manner that disparages or discredits the Company. All other trademarks not owned by the Company or its subsidiaries that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by the Company or its subsidiaries.

Reliance on Information Posted

Commentary and other materials posted on the Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Our Liability

This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The material displayed on the site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, the Company and our Partners hereby expressly exclude:

  1. all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
  2. any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with the Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
    • loss of income or revenue;
    • loss of business;
    • loss of profits or contracts;
    • loss of anticipated savings;
    • loss of data;
    • loss of goodwill;
    • wasted management or office time; and
    • for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

License and Site Access

The Company grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of the Company. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of the Company. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of the Company and our associates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing the Company’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of the Company. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license.

Your Membership Account

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you are under the age of 16, you may use our website only with involvement of a parent or legal guardian. The Company and its associates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

Content

Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of intellectual property, a credit card or other content. The Company reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content. If you do post content or submit material, including any content submitted via Campaigns, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant the Company and its associates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify the Company and its associates for all claims resulting from content you supply.

Applicable Law

By visiting Company Websites or Satellite sites and participating in Campaigns organized or hosted by the Company, you agree that the laws of Sweden, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and the Company or its associates.

Disputes

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to a Company Website, participating in Campaigns organized or hosted by the Company, or to products or services you purchase from the Company shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Sweden, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate the Company’s intellectual property rights, the Company may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of Sweden, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

Change of Control

If the Company engages in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization sale of some or all of the Company’s assets or stock, financing, public offering of securities, a similar transaction or proceeding, or steps in contemplation of such activities (e.g. due diligence), some or all information that the Company has collected from its users, including personal data, may be shared of transferred, subject to standard confidentiality arrangements.

Site Policies, Modification, and Severability

Please review our other policies, such as Campaign specific rules posted on Satellite sites and on this site. These policies also govern your visit to www.studentcompetitions.com. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Competitions International AB is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website remains private and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy. The terms “the Company”, “Company Website”, “Satellite sites”, “Partners”, and “Campaigns” shall have the same meaning as in the Terms and Conditions of Use.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address, all information that you fill in to the different profile forms and any quiz answers you give are held and may be used by us for the following purposes:

For matching your details (including for example if you meet a university’s eligibility requirement and to see whether your interests match a certain program) with relevant universities, schools, educations, programs and career opportunities offered by our Partners. Such matching will always happen for any specific Campaigns you have participated in, but could also be done for similar opportunities or Campaigns. So for example, if you partake in an opportunity to study for an MBA at a certain university in the United Kingdom, we may also see if you are a fit for and contact you regarding other study opportunities at the same school, in the United Kingdom, or for other MBAs (including outside of the United Kingdom). Any such matching is based on general data analysis on our users to best try to serve your interests and allow you to find a study or career opportunity that could be right for you;

For keeping you informed of the Company’s services, general news and wider developments in similar areas to what you have shown an interest for on our site;

For tailoring the version of our website you see when you log on, how you use the sites and to make it relevant to you; and/or.

For retargeting ads on social media related to Campaigns which you have participated in.

Disclosures of Your Information

We will share your information within the Company’s group of companies (including subsidiaries and parent companies) where necessary in order to provide you with our services. We will also share relevant information that you have filled in to your eligibility form, application form, or Campaign, with the Partner for which the form or Campaign is connected to. Any Partner such as a company, university or school may use the information to contact you or send further information about their programs and career or study opportunities to you.

It is possible that the Company could merge or be acquired by another business, or that certain assets of the company are sold to a third party. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers.

We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so.

Communication

To partake in any Campaign, you will be required to provide your email address, which will be used for the purpose of keeping you informed of the status of the Campaign you have partaken in and for the Company and the relevant Partner to reach out to you. The Company may also contact you about similar Campaigns and career or study opportunities with different Partners than what you have directly interacted with on this site. You may also be asked to submit other contact information such as your phone number or home address, all of which can be used for the same purpose as above.

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this communication, you may unsubscribe to newsletters, and you always have the right to reach out to us to have your email or other data removed from our systems. To do so, please contact us at support@studentcompetitions.com or update your account settings on this site.

Aggregate Information About Online Visitors

We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to this website and all of our Satellite sites worldwide, for example, which area users’ access most frequently come from and which services users’ access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate form. This information helps us determine what further development work could be most beneficial for our users and how we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience for our users. It also allows us to populate the site with more relevant content and Campaigns that our users may be interested in. We may also publish some of this information, such as but not limited to the total number of users from different regions of the world, for marketing purposes.

Access to information and right to be forgotten

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information that we hold on you. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact support@studentcompetitions.com. You also have the right to ask the Company to stop using your information or to delete it.

Other Websites

Please note that clicking on links and banner advertisements may result in your transfer to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of the Company’s. Visitors should consult the other websites’ privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be changed by the Company at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here, so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about the Company’s online privacy commitment, please feel free to email us at support@studentcompetitions.com.

Cookie Policy

At this site, we use cookies and tracking technologies on our websites and mobile apps to enable us to analyze use of our online services, to improve and personalize your experience of our services and to serve advertising which, on some services, may be tailored to you based on your browsing behavior and other data held about you.

What are Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a website to your computer or mobile device where it is stored by your web browser. A cookie contains limited non-personal data, usually a unique identifier and the name of the site. This enables a website to recognize you as you move around the site and/or each time you revisit. Cookies are used for a wide variety of purposes such as to keep you logged in or to remember your preferences and settings, to analyze how the site is used by you, and to serve advertising to you.

Cookies may be served to you by the website you are visiting (a “first party cookie”) or by another organization providing services to that website, such as an analytics organization or advertising network (a “third party cookie”). They will either be stored for the duration of your visit (a “session cookie”) or they will remain on your device for a fixed period, which could be months or even years, to remember you across multiple browsing sessions (a “persistent cookie”).

Our Cookies Policy

Student Competitions International AB respects your right to privacy and we aim to be transparent at all times about when, how and why data about you and your browsing behaviors may be used in connection with our services. We are committed to using cookies and tracking technologies fairly and in accordance with your privacy rights.

Managing Cookies

You can choose how web browser cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings including to enable, refuse or delete all cookies. If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, the website may not function properly and certain services will not be provided. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.