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Student Privacy Policy



Meto, Inc. is a non-profit organization with its offices at 1802 Vernon Street NW PMB 2252, Washington, D.C. 20009 (EIN: 84-2456429) ("Meto", “we”, “us” and “our”).


Meto has developed an online “meeting place” (the “service”) that enables students (hereafter referred to as “you" and “your”) to create unique profiles in order to access and connect with universities and other educational institutions (hereafter referred to as “Educational Institutions").


This Privacy Policy describes how we process your personal data to provide you with our service.


Types of Personal Data Collected

We collect your personal data when you create an account to access our service or when you provide your data directly to us. When you access the service and create a profile, we may ask you to provide personal data, including:

  • Basic information (e.g. name, age, gender, date and place of birth, disability information, etc.)
  • Contact information (e.g. email address, phone number, etc.)
  • Nationality information (e.g. citizenship, asylum information, etc.)
  • Family information (e.g. educational attainment of parents, etc.)
  • Educational information (e.g., predicted grades, exam scores, etc.)
  • Financial information (e.g., funds available to contribute to costs of educational opportunities)
  • University-preference information (e.g., desired start date, desired courses of study, etc.)
  • Extracurricular information (e.g., how time outside of class is spent, etc.)

Collection and Use of Personal Data

We use your personal data to create a user profile on our service to enable you to connect with Educational Institutions to pursue educational opportunities. Where applicable laws require a legal basis to process your personal data, we rely on the following:

  • Consent – to the processing of your personal data when you create a profile on our service;
  • Performance of contact – providing the service in accordance with our terms of use;
  • Legitimate Interests – processing your personal data to enhance and improve our service or to verify the accuracy of or supplement the information you provide to us; and
  • Legal Obligations – where we are subject to applicable legal obligations that require us to process certain personal data.


Sharing and Transfer of Personal Data

In order to provide our service, we share or receive your personal data from the following parties:

Meto receives data from:

  • You. Meto usually receives your personal data directly from you.
  • High schools, other academic institutions, your supporting organization or your country’s ministry of education or examination boards. We may also obtain your personal data from your high school (e.g., teachers, guidance counselors and other high school officials), representatives from your supporting organization, or your country’s ministry of education or other related ministries or examination boards.

Meto may share your personal data with:
  • Educational Institutions. Educational Institutions access our service and view student profiles to identify students for educational opportunities.
  • High schools, other academic institutions, your supporting organization or your country’s ministry of education or examination boards. We may share your information with these institutions as well.
  • Software providers, suppliers or service providers. We may share certain personal data with our service providers, suppliers and software providers for limited purposes such as providing you with the service and technical support when using the service.
  • We are based in the United States. Our service may involve the processing of your personal data in jurisdictions outside of your country of residence that do not offer the same data protection safeguards. Where this is the case, Meto will take measures to ensure your personal data is protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Where such laws require your consent to data transfers, by providing your personal data to us, you agree to the transfer of your personal data to the United States.

Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right, subject to certain exemptions (where applicable), to access your personal data, correct, object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal data, as well as the right of erasure and data portability regarding your personal data. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. To exercise any of these rights, please email us at [email protected].


In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of your personal data with your local supervisory authority.


Retention of Your Personal Data

We retain your personal data for as long as necessary in order to provide you with the service. Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer required in connection with the service, or upon your request. Please note that where applicable laws require us to do so, we may keep certain limited personal data after you cease to use the service (e.g., where subject to academic reporting requirements).


Security

Meto is committed to protecting the security of the personal data you provide us, and we implement rigorous technical and organizational security measures to protect such data while it is under our control. However, like all other online services, we cannot ever guarantee 100% security against data breaches.


Contact Information

If you have any questions about our data processing practices or how we process your personal data, please contact us at [email protected].