PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is an Agreement on the protection of personal data of Website Users (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) that has been developed in accordance with the AIFC Data Protection Regulations No. 10 dated 20 December 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the Law) and regulates the relations on the Collection and Processing of Personal Data of the Personal Data of the Users by the private company AIFC Academy Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Company).

 

1. Terms and definitions

For the purposes of the Agreement, words and expressions set out with capital letters and not specified in the Agreement have the meaning and (or) the definition regulated by Law.

1.1 Website – an Internet resource of the Company (including Company’s subsidiaries), i.e. information (in text, graphic, audio-visual or other form) placed on a hardware and software complex that has a unique network address and (or) domain name and operates on the Internet;

1.2 User – a Subject of Personal Data who has provided the Company with their Personal Data.

1.3 Parties – the parties to the Agreement are jointly the Company and the User.

1.4 Personal Data – the following information related to the User, as well as changes and (or) additions occurring in them in the future, recorded on electronic, paper and (or) other material media, including, but not limited to:

1.4.1 last name, first name, patronymic (if any);

1.4.2 IIN;

1.4.3 date of birth;

1.4.4 phone number(s);

1.4.5 place of work and position;

1.4.6 postal address (residential address, registration address, home, work, mobile phone numbers, e-mail address).

1.5 Collection of Personal Data – actions aimed at obtaining Personal Data.

1.6 Personal Data Processing – the Company’s actions to collect, systematise, accumulate, clarify (update, change), use, distribute (transfer, including cross-border transfer), depersonalise, block, destroy, permanently store Personal Data.

 

2. General Provisions

2.1 The User’s consent to this Agreement, as the context requires, may be expressed:

2.1.1 By using the Company Websites by the User;

2.1.2 By filling out forms and pressing the “Submit” / “Register” / “Buy” / etc. buttons;

2.1.3 Otherwise, by sending their Personal Data to the Company in any form that allows to keep a record of the information contained therein and can be reproduced in material form, including by electronic means.

2.2 This Agreement applies only to the Company’s projects. The Company does not control and is not responsible for the websites of third parties, to which the User can follow the links available on the Company’s Websites.

2.3 Also, the Website may collect and process depersonalised data about Users (including “cookies”). The Company processes anonymised data about the User if it is allowed in the User’s browser settings (saving “cookies” and using JavaScript technology is enabled).

2.4 The Company may verify the accuracy of Personal Data provided by Users for the purposes of this Agreement.

 
 

3. Subject of the Agreement

3.1 Users provide the Company, as the controller of Personal Data, with their Personal Data and full and unconditional consent, made by their own will, to the Processing of Personal Data by the Company in electronic form and/or on paper for the purposes specified in this Agreement.

3.2 The date of issuance of written consent to the Processing of the User’s Personal Data is the date of the actions specified in clause 2.1. of the Agreement.

3.3 Consent is valid indefinitely and may be revoked by Users at any time by written notice sent to the Company by registered mail. The User’s consent to the processing of Personal Data is considered revoked 10 days from the date the Company receives such written notice from the User.

3.4 The Company Processes the User’s Personal Data for the following purposes:

3.4.1 to fulfill its obligations, including, but not limited to, notification of the services provided by the Company, identification and interaction with the User;

3.4.2 to conduct research aimed at improving the quality of services provided by the Company;

3.4.3 to conduct marketing programmes, statistical research, verification, research and analysis of the data obtained, allowing to maintain, improve and develop new types of services provided by the Company;

3.4.4 to promote the services provided by the Company, including by sending advertising to the User (including personalised (targeted), by making direct contacts with the User using various means of communication, including, but not limited to: mailing lists, e-mail, telephone and (or) fax communication, the Internet, etc.).

3.5 The Company undertakes to take the necessary measures to protect the User’s Personal Data, ensuring:

3.5.1 prevention of unauthorised access to the User’s Personal Data;

3.5.2 timely detection of the facts of unauthorised access to the User’s Personal Data, if such unauthorised access could not be prevented;

3.5.3 minimising the adverse consequences of unauthorised access to the User’s Personal Data.

3.6 The Company’s obligations to protect Personal Data arise from the moment of receipt of the User’s Personal Data and are valid until their destruction or depersonalisation.

3.7 The User’s Personal Data will never, under any circumstances, be distributed in public sources, except in cases related to the implementation of applicable law.

3.8 In case of detection of inaccuracies in Personal Data, the User can update them independently by sending a notification to the Company’s e-mail address aifcacademy@aifc.kz marked “Updating Personal Data”.

 
 

4. Dispute Resolution

4.1 The governing law of this Agreement shall be the Acting law of the Astana International Financial Centre.

4.2 If any dispute arises in the course of fulfilment of obligations under this Agreement, the Parties shall take all necessary measures to settle the disputes without recourse to the litigation.

4.3 If the Parties have not come to a settlement or in case either Party avoids conduct of negotiations, any dispute, whether contractual or non-contractual, arising out of or in relation to this Agreement, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, may first be submitted to mediation at the AIFC International Arbitration Centre (“the IAC”) under its Arbitration and Mediation Rules 2022. If the dispute is not resolved by mediation, then the Parties shall refer the dispute to arbitration at the IAC. In that case, then any dispute, controversy, difference or claim, whether contractual or non-contractual, arising out of or in relation to this Agreement, including its existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the IAC in accordance with the IAC Arbitration and Mediation Rules in force on the date on which the Request for Arbitration is filed with the Registrar of the IAC, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated into this clause. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The arbitrator shall be appointed by Parties of the Agreement. The seat of the arbitration will be Astana International Financial Centre, Astana, Kazakhstan. The language of the arbitration proceedings shall be the English language.

 
 

5. Miscellaneous

5.1 The Agreement comes into force from the moment provided for in paragraph 2.1. of this Agreement, and is valid until the withdrawal of consent to the Collection and Processing of Personal Data by the User in accordance with clause 3.3. of the Agreement.

5.2 If, for one reason or another, one or more provisions of the Agreement are declared invalid or unenforceable, this does not affect the validity or applicability of the remaining provisions.

5.3 The Company has the right to make changes to this Agreement without the consent of the User.

5.4 The new Agreement comes into force from the moment it is posted on the Website, unless otherwise provided by the new version of the Agreement.