Welcome to Exam.net (the “Service”), provided by Teachiq AB, a Swedish corporation located at Granparksstigen 5, 18273 Stocksund, Sweden (”Company”, “we” or “us”) through / (the “Website”)
This document (”Privacy Policy”) is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, how we process and store it and your rights with regard to your personal data. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, any information that can directly or indirectly be connected to an identifiable living natural person shall be defined herein as ”Personal data”.
Please note that if Exam.net is used at the direction of an educational institution, this Privacy Policy may not apply in full, and we ask you to contact your educational organization with any questions on Personal data processing.
We strive to collect the minimum of data required to operate Exam.net and provide our services.
When you use Exam.net, we will collect and store the following Personal data:
The following data will be automatically collected when you use the Service:
We will never use your information for targeted advertising. We use your Personal data for the following purposes:
We collect and process your Personal data based on the following legal grounds:
You have the right to object to the processing of Personal data based on a legitimate interest. If we receive your objection, we will inform you on the basis on which we have balanced our legitimate interest against yours as an individual.
We do not sell your Personal data to any third party for marketing purposes. We only share your Personal data with a third party in the following situations:
Your Personal data is stored within the EU/EEA. You can acquire further information by contacting us at privacy@exam.net.
We may be required to disclose Personal data in response to a lawful request by a public authority. We reserve the right to access, read, retain, and disclose Personal data as necessary to comply with any law or court order; to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Exam.net, employees, users of the Service, or others.
Exam.net collects data using technology like cookies, beacons, and local storage (e.g. on your web browser or your device). For information on how we use this type of technology, please refer to our cookie policy.
Exam.net is committed to ensuring that the Personal data you provide to us is secure from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We have implemented suitable physical, electronic, and organizational measures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorized access, modification, and disclosure.
– All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
– We restrict access to Personal data to employees, contractors and agents who are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and legal action, if they fail to meet the obligations for data confidentiality and integrity;
– Areas of our website that collect personal data use encryption or other types of pseudonymization;
– In the event of a physical or technical incident, Exam.net will be able to restore the availability and access to Personal data in a timely manner;
Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. The security and safety of your Personal data is also your own responsibility. We advise you to keep your account log-in details confidential and not share them with anyone to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal data.
When you are a registered user (teacher, staff), we retain your Personal data for 3.5 years (1275 days) counting from the date of the latest login. After that, your account and your Personal data will be deleted. Personal data may still be stored in backup files for 30 days after the deletion, whereafter it is permanently erased and cannot be re-created.
If you are a student and use Exam.net at the direction of your school or your teacher, your Personal data is managed by your school organization. If your teacher or school organization does not delete any data beforehand, your Personal data is sent to a temporary archive in our database for 180 days after an exam was created or uploaded by your teacher. Your Personal data remains archived for 3 years, and while in the archive, the data is not visible or used. After 3 years in the archive the data is deleted. Personal data may still be stored in backup files for 30 days after the deletion, whereafter it is permanently erased and cannot be re-created.
Exam.net takes the privacy of students very seriously.
This website and the Services are not intended for use by users under the age of 18, provided however, that students (including students under the age of 18), may use the Services for educational purposes at the invitation and direction of their school. Other than for students using Exam.net at the direction of their school, we do not knowingly collect information from users under the age of eighteen (18). If you believe that we have collected Personal data from a child under the age of 18 that is not at the direction of the school, please contact us at privacy@exam.net.
When students under the age of 18 are directed to use Exam.net by their educational institutions, the verifiable parental consent, if any, for such use shall be provided to and collected by the educational institution attended by the student. It shall not be our obligation to directly obtain parental consent.
Parents or legal guardians have certain rights with respect to their student’s data. These rights can be exercised by contacting the student’s school. The school may submit such requests to info@exam.net.
The rights in this section refer to the Personal data processed by Exam.net when Exam.net is the so called data controller. If your Personal data is obtained from you in your role as an employee, owner, director, officer or contractor of a company/organization and within the context of Exam.net providing its services to such company/organization, please consult your company/organization for advice on your personal data rights.
If you are a student, your Personal data is always collected, stored and processed at the direction of your school and we never use it for marketing or for any other purpose than to provide our services to your teacher or school. Please consult your school for additional information on your Personal data rights.
You have an absolute right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing. You also have the right to withdraw your prior given consent, if applicable. Please note that we may continue processing your personal data based on other legal grounds, except for direct marketing.
You have the right to access your personal data and to obtain a copy of the personal data that we process relating to you free of charge twice (2) every calendar year, and you have the right to request further information concerning the processing of your personal data. You may also request that we correct, rectify, complete, erase or restrict the processing of your personal data.
You may also have the right to data portability. Data portability means that you can receive the personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and have the right to transfer such data to other data controllers.
To enforce your rights as described in this section, or if you have any questions about our Personal data processing, please contact us by sending an email to privacy@exam.net or a letter to Teachiq AB at Granparksstigen 5, 18273 Stocksund, Sweden. To ensure quick handling of your request, please state your full name and the e-mail address that your account is connected to. Please note that we may require you to provide verification of your identity to authenticate your request.
You may also have the right to make a GDPR complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available here.
If there is a change of control in our business, we may transfer your Personal data to the new owners for them to continue to provide the Services.
We reserve the right to, at our own discretion, make changes to this Privacy policy. If we do so, we will inform you on the Website, or by email if changes are extensive. If the changes require your consent, we will give you further notice about this in a way that is suitable under the circumstances and ask for your consent.
If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or concerns regarding this Policy, you can contact us anytime at the following address: privacy@exam.net. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
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