Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 June 2026

Saturday Education Consulting (“Saturday Education”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of students, parents, and visitors who use our website and study-abroad consulting services. This Privacy Policy explains who we are, what personal information we collect, why and how we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the rights and choices you have. We have prepared it in line with the guidance of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as updated by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and with applicable data protection laws in the countries where we operate.

1. Who We Are and How to Contact Us

Saturday Education Consulting is the “controller” responsible for the personal information described in this policy. We provide study-abroad consulting services to students and parents, primarily across Asia.

  • Registered business name: Saturday Education Consulting
  • Address: Shine Tower, 5th Floor, 20, 22 Alan Pya Pagoda Street, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
  • Data protection contact: info@saturdayeducation.com

If you have any question about this policy or about how we handle your information, please contact us using the details above. We do not have a statutory Data Protection Officer, but the contact above is responsible for privacy matters and will handle your request.

2. The Information We Collect

When you book a free consultation, take our career assessment, use our AI advisor, or otherwise contact us, we may collect:

  • Identity and contact details: your full name, email address, and phone number.
  • Enquiry details: your target study destination, education level, preferred consultation type, and anything you choose to tell us about your goals.
  • AI advisor messages: the messages you exchange with our AI advisor chat widget.
  • Career assessment data: the answers you give in our assessment and the personalised results we generate from them.
  • Technical and usage data: basic information such as browser type, device information, and how you use our site, used to keep our website secure and working correctly.

We do not intentionally collect special category data (such as health, religion, or ethnicity). Please do not share such information with us unless it is necessary for your application.

Providing this information is voluntary, but if you choose not to, we may not be able to respond to your enquiry or provide our services.

3. How We Use Your Information and Our Lawful Bases

We use your personal information for the following purposes, relying on the lawful bases shown:

  • To respond to your enquiry and provide consultation and assessment services: on the basis of taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, and our legitimate interests in responding to you.
  • To match you with suitable universities, programs, and scholarships: on the basis of our legitimate interests in providing useful, personalised guidance.
  • To communicate with you by email, phone, WhatsApp, or Messenger about your application journey: to provide the service you asked for, and, for any marketing or newsletters, on the basis of your consent.
  • To keep our website secure and to improve our services and AI advisor: on the basis of our legitimate interests in running and improving a safe, effective service.

Where we rely on consent (for example, for marketing messages), you can withdraw it at any time. See “Your Rights and Choices” below.

4. Our Legitimate Interests

Where we rely on legitimate interests, those interests are: responding to and supporting people who contact us; providing relevant study-abroad guidance and university matches; keeping our website and systems secure; and understanding and improving how our services and AI advisor are used. We balance these interests against your rights, and you can object to this processing at any time (see below).

5. Automated Processing and the Career Assessment

Our career assessment uses automated processing (including profiling) to analyse your answers and generate suggested career directions, university fields, and a personalised report. This is designed to give you helpful starting points. It is not a solely automated decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects for you, and a human counsellor is involved in any advice or recommendations we give. You can ask us about the logic involved, ask a person to review your results, or object to this processing by contacting us at info@saturdayeducation.com.

6. Who We Share Your Information With

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only where necessary, with:

  • Partner universities and institutions: only when needed to process your application, and only with your knowledge.
  • Trusted service providers who process data on our behalf: our AI, email delivery, website hosting, and database providers, under contract and only on our instructions.

We may also disclose information where required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, or security of our users and our organisation.

7. International Data Transfers

Some of the providers we use process data outside the countries where we operate. This includes the United States, where our AI, email delivery, and website hosting providers operate, and Japan, where our database is hosted. When we use these providers, we put data processing agreements in place that require recognised safeguards, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses (including the UK Addendum where relevant). Where Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) applies, we make these transfers in line with its cross-border transfer rules. You can ask us for more detail about these safeguards using the contact details above.

8. How Long We Keep Your Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need it. As a general rule, we keep enquiry, consultation, and assessment records for up to 24 months after our last meaningful interaction with you, after which we delete or anonymise them, unless you ask us to delete them sooner, or we are required to keep them longer for legal or accounting reasons.

9. How We Protect Your Information

We store your information on secure, access-controlled systems, and we use encryption in transit to protect it as it travels over the internet. We limit access to those who need it to help you, and we work only with reputable service providers who are contractually required to protect your data.

10. Your Rights and Choices

You have the right to:

  • access the personal information we hold about you;
  • ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
  • ask us to delete your information (the right to erasure);
  • ask us to restrict how we use your information;
  • object to processing based on our legitimate interests, and to direct marketing;
  • ask us to transfer your information to you or another provider (data portability); and
  • withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent.

You can also opt out of non-essential communications from us at any time. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@saturdayeducation.com. We will respond within one month. Exercising your rights is free, and it will not affect the service we provide to you.

11. Cookies and Analytics

We keep our use of cookies to a minimum and group them as follows:

  • Strictly necessary: one functional cookie that remembers your language preference. This is always on, because the site needs it to work.
  • Analytics:with your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site so that we can improve it. These cookies are set only after you accept them. We also use Vercel’s privacy-friendly analytics, which does not use cookies.

We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. When you first visit, our cookie banner lets you accept or reject analytics cookies with equal ease, and you can change your choice at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in our website footer. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings.

12. Children and Young People

Our services are intended for students aged 16 and over. If you are under 18, we ask that a parent or guardian is aware of, and involved in, your use of our services. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 16 without the involvement of a parent or guardian. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, please contact us and we will delete it.

13. How to Make a Complaint

If you are concerned about how we have handled your personal information, please tell us first so we can put things right. You can raise a complaint with us at info@saturdayeducation.com. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and aim to resolve it within three months, and we will explain the outcome to you in plain language.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk (helpline 0303 123 1113), or to the data protection authority in your own country, for example Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC). We would, however, welcome the chance to address your concerns before you approach a regulator.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. When we make significant changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. If we plan to use your information for a new purpose, we will update this policy and tell you before we start. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please reach out to us at info@saturdayeducation.com or through our consultation form.