The Academic Consultancy (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information carefully, transparently, and responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal information when you:
By using our website or providing personal information, you acknowledge that your information will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy.
The Academic Consultancy provides academic guidance, research support, editing, presentation design, CV writing, and publication-support services.
For privacy-related matters, the organisation responsible for determining how your information is used is:
Business Name: The Academic Consultancy
Legal Entity Name: [Insert registered legal entity name, if different]
Website: theacademicconsultancy.com
Email: info@theacademicconsultancy.com
Phone/WhatsApp: +92 309 6004366
Registered Address: [Insert official business address]
The information collected depends on how you interact with us and which service you request.
We may collect:
We may collect information relating to your enquiry or project, including:
You may provide documents such as:
Uploaded documents may contain personal information about you or other individuals. You should remove information that is unnecessary for the service and ensure that you are authorised to share any third-party information with us.
When you purchase a service, we may collect:
Payment-card and banking information may be processed directly by a third-party payment provider. We do not intentionally store complete payment-card information on our website.
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
We may retain records of communications sent through:
We may collect personal information:
We may use personal information to:
We use the information you provide to understand your requirements, assess specialist availability, prepare a quotation, and recommend an appropriate service.
We use project information and documents to deliver academic guidance, research support, editing, presentation design, CV writing, publication assistance, or other agreed services.
We may contact you to:
We may use transaction information to issue invoices, confirm payments, maintain accounting records, prevent fraud, and manage contractual or financial disputes.
Technical information may be used to maintain website functionality, understand how visitors use the website, diagnose problems, improve usability, and protect website security.
We may process information to detect misuse, protect confidential materials, enforce contractual terms, prevent fraud, investigate security incidents, and establish or defend legal claims.
We may retain or disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws, court orders, tax requirements, regulatory obligations, or lawful requests from public authorities.
Where permitted, we may send information about relevant services, resources, or offers. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we may rely on:
Processing may be required to provide a quotation, take steps requested before entering into an agreement, or deliver an agreed service.
We may process information where reasonably necessary to operate our business, communicate with clients, improve services, maintain security, prevent misuse, and protect our legal rights, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
We may rely on consent for optional marketing communications, certain cookies, or another activity where consent is specifically requested. You may withdraw consent at any time.
We may process or retain information to comply with legal, accounting, taxation, regulatory, or law-enforcement obligations.
Information may be used where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
We recognise that academic documents, research materials, manuscripts, datasets, CVs, and correspondence may be confidential.
We take reasonable steps to:
We do not sell academic documents, manuscripts, CVs, or uploaded project files.
Confidentiality may be subject to limited exceptions where disclosure is required by law, necessary to prevent fraud or serious harm, or required to establish or defend legal rights.
Please avoid providing sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely required for the requested service.
Sensitive information may include:
Where such information is included in research data or project documents, you are responsible for ensuring that it has been collected, anonymised, transferred, and shared lawfully.
We may share personal information only where reasonably necessary with:
Relevant project information may be shared with a specialist, editor, analyst, designer, or contractor involved in providing the agreed service.
Information may be processed through providers supporting:
Transaction information may be shared with payment processors, banks, or financial service providers used to complete and verify payments.
Information may be shared with accountants, auditors, insurers, legal advisers, or other professional consultants where reasonably necessary.
We may disclose information when required by applicable law, a court order, regulatory authority, or another valid legal process.
If our business is reorganised, merged, acquired, or transferred, relevant information may form part of that transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.
Because we support international clients and may use service providers operating in different countries, personal information may be transferred, accessed, or stored outside your country of residence.
Where applicable law requires additional protection for an international transfer, we will take reasonable steps to use appropriate contractual, organisational, or technical safeguards.
By submitting documents, you should avoid including unnecessary personal information and ensure that any international transfer of research or third-party data is permitted.
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
Where required, non-essential cookies will be used only after consent has been obtained.
You can manage cookies through the website’s cookie settings or your browser. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.
For further details, please review our separate Cookie Policy.
Our website may contain links to external websites or use services operated by third parties, including payment platforms, messaging services, analytics providers, social-media platforms, and document-storage providers.
These third parties operate under their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of websites or services that we do not control.
You should review the relevant third-party privacy policy before providing information directly to that provider.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to meet contractual, legal, financial, security, or dispute-management requirements.
Our intended retention periods are:
Information may be deleted earlier where appropriate or retained longer where required by law, an active dispute, fraud prevention, or the protection of legal rights.
We use reasonable administrative, organisational, and technical measures intended to protect personal information against:
These measures may include access restrictions, password protection, secure systems, staff or contractor confidentiality obligations, and controlled document sharing.
No website, email system, messaging platform, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use care when sending sensitive or confidential information electronically.
We may send marketing communications where:
You may unsubscribe by:
Unsubscribing from marketing will not prevent us from sending essential messages about an active enquiry, payment, or service.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
These rights may be subject to legal limitations or exemptions.
To submit a request, contact info@theacademicconsultancy.com. We may ask for information necessary to confirm your identity before completing the request.
We do not intend to make decisions producing significant legal or similar effects solely through automated processing.
Website calculators may provide preliminary price estimates based on the options entered. These estimates are informational and may be reviewed or replaced by a personalised quotation after the project requirements have been assessed.
Our services are primarily intended for adults, university students, researchers, authors, and professionals.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where parental or guardian consent is legally required. If you believe that a child has provided personal information without appropriate permission, contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in:
The latest version will be published on this page with an updated effective date. Significant changes may also be communicated through the website or by another appropriate method.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise a privacy right, contact:
The Academic Consultancy
Email: info@theacademicconsultancy.com
Phone/WhatsApp: +92 309 6004366
Website: theacademicconsultancy.com
Address: [Insert official business address]
We will review privacy requests and complaints and respond within the period required by applicable law.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to complain to the relevant data-protection or supervisory authority in your country.
By submitting this form, you acknowledge that The Academic Consultancy will use the information and documents you provide to review your enquiry, prepare a quotation, communicate with you, and provide any agreed service. Please review our Privacy Policy for further information about how we handle and protect personal data.
