Privacy Policy

Ready Study Global LTD ("we", "us", "our"), Company Number 14329535, registered at 60 Tottenham Court Road, Office 265, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW, is the Data Controller responsible for your personal data.

We are a UK-based education consultancy that provides free study abroad guidance to international and UK home students. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you visit our website, contact us, or use our services.

We are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

If you have any questions about this policy, contact us at hello@readystudyglobal.com.

Information you provide directly:

Your name, email address, phone number, and country of residence. Your nationality, age, and current location. Your study interests, academic background, qualifications, and educational goals. Your preferred study destination, programme level, and intake date. Your budget and funding preferences. Messages, enquiries, and any other information you submit through our website forms, email, or WhatsApp. Application-related documents such as transcripts, personal statements, reference letters, and passport copies when you choose to work with us.

Information collected automatically:

Your IP address and browser type. Pages you visit and time spent on each page. Device information and operating system. Referring website or traffic source. Cookie data (see Section 9 for details).

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

To respond to your enquiries and provide information about our services. To provide personalised study abroad guidance, course matching, and application support. To share your details with partner universities — only with your explicit consent — so they can process your application. To send you relevant updates about your application status. To send you occasional newsletters, guides, or promotions — only if you have given explicit consent, and you can unsubscribe at any time. To improve our website, services, and user experience. To comply with legal obligations.

Under UK GDPR, our legal bases for processing your personal data are:

Consent — when you submit a form, contact us, or opt in to marketing communications.

Legitimate interest — to provide and improve our services, respond to enquiries, and operate our website.

Contractual necessity — to process your application and deliver the services you have requested.

Legal obligation — to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

Partner universities and education institutions — only with your explicit consent and only when necessary to process your application or enquiry.

Hosting provider — Vercel Inc., which hosts our website.

Form processing — Formspree, which processes data submitted through our website forms.

Analytics — Google Analytics, which collects anonymised usage data to help us understand how visitors use our site.

Fonts — Google Fonts, which may log your IP address when loading fonts on our pages.

We will never sell your personal data to third parties. We only share your data where it is necessary to provide the services you have requested or where we have a legal obligation to do so.

Our study destinations and university partners are located in countries outside the United Kingdom, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates. Some of our service providers (Vercel, Formspree, Google) are based in the United States.

When your data is transferred outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with UK GDPR, including standard contractual clauses or adequacy decisions where available.

We retain your personal data for no longer than necessary. Our standard retention periods are:

Enquiry and contact form data — 3 years from the date of your last interaction with us.

Application data — for the duration of your application process plus 2 years after completion.

Marketing consent records — until you withdraw consent or 3 years from your last interaction, whichever comes first.

Website analytics data — as defined by Google Analytics retention settings (currently 14 months).

After these periods, your data is securely deleted or anonymised. You can request deletion of your data at any time (see Section 8).

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

Right to erasure — request deletion of your data where there is no compelling reason to continue processing it.

Right to restrict processing — request that we limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.

Right to data portability — request a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.

Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interest or for direct marketing purposes.

Right to withdraw consent — withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@readystudyglobal.com. We will respond within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with how we handle your request, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):

Our website uses cookies to improve your experience and analyse site usage. The cookies we use include:

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings at any time. Disabling cookies may affect some website functionality.

For more details, see our Cookie Policy.

Many prospective students are under the age of 18. We take the protection of children's data seriously.

If you are under 18, we require that a parent or legal guardian provides consent before you submit personal data through our website or engage with our services. When we become aware that a user is under 18, we will seek confirmation of parental consent before proceeding.

Parents and guardians can contact us at any time to review, update, or request deletion of their child's personal data by emailing hello@readystudyglobal.com.

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encrypted connections (HTTPS/SSL), secure hosting infrastructure, and access controls limiting who within our team can view your data.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, legal requirements, or data practices. The latest version will always be available on this page with the updated "Last updated" date at the top.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we handle your data, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us: