Here at Student Saviour (“we”, “us”, “our”), we are passionate about sharing savings and advice to help students land on their feet during their time at University. While we do this, there are a few things we believe need to be kept private. This includes your personal details. We promise to respect your personal data as if it was our own and to handle it in a safe and responsible way. Your privacy is our priority.

This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal data collected, and how it is processed and protected through your use of our website, app or other online services. It also explains the choices you have relating to your personal data and how you can contact us. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

These terms outlined in this Privacy Policy apply to all Student Saviour services (“Services”) and Platform (“Platform”), which include without limitation:

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

By continuing to use our Platform, you are agreeing to the terms in this Privacy Policy and that you are aware of how we will use and handle the data you have provided us with. If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].

Student Saviour is a student media & discount platform. We work with brands (“Partners”) that would like to advertise their products and services to our network of verified students (“Members”). We provide online verification for individuals in education to validate their student status, and through our Platform can gain access to exclusive promotions, discounts, and other exciting offers (“Offers”) from brand Partners. Members may also have access to further Services, such as available sweepstakes, contests, volunteer & job opportunities, polls, surveys, subscriptions, exclusive content, and other online and in-person opportunities and events. The Site & Services also provide reduced access to Non-Members (“Users”), for individuals who have not verified their student status, or created an account.

Student Saviour, the Site, App and Services are owned and operated by Seventeen7 Media Limited, who is the controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”).

Seventeen7 Media Limited trading as The Student Saviour Registered address: Student Saviour, Avenue HQ, 17 Mann Island, Liverpool, England, L3 1BP Email address: [email protected]

When you navigate the Student Saviour Platform, or sign up with an account, we gather information about you so that we can provide to you Services offered on our Site. These are grouped together into two categories:

Please note that this Website is not intended for children (those aged 16 and under) and we do not knowingly collect or process any personal data relating to people under 16 years of age. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 16 years of age.

Information You Provide to Student Saviour

We collect personal data that you provide through direct interactions with us when you register, verify your identity, or otherwise choose to share with us. We collect this personal data for many reasons, including to create and secure your account, provide our services, and protect our Platform.

You provide some data yourself through direct interactions with us. For example, when registering an account with Student Saviour you may be asked to provide:

Information Collected by Automatic Technologies or Interactions

When you use our Services we may automatically collect statistical data about your usage, including your interaction with content and Services available across our Platforms. This helps us analyse and deliver an improved more personalised service.

Information collected automatically may include:

Information Collected Via Our App

The Student Saviour App collects personal data based on your mobile device and App settings. 

When you download, access, or use our App, your web browser or mobile device may share information about your device, and its App or operating system settings. The App must access certain data on your device in order to function, but the App’s settings allow you to check or change the status of particular data collection. If you do not wish the App to access data on your mobile device, then please uninstall the App. If you change your settings, some features within the App may not function properly.

If you agree to the settings within the App, information collected may include: geo-location information, access to photos stored on your device, and you may receive push notifications. We also collect logs and usage statistics from and about your mobile device, to help us monitor when and how the App is used, identify any problems, and improve our Services to you.

To learn more about the specific data collected by the App, please check your mobile device settings, or review the disclosures on the App Platform from which you downloaded the App. To stop the collection of all data through the App, please uninstall it.

Information Collected From Other Sources

From time to time, we may receive personal data about you from our brand Partners and other third party data sources. We use this data to analyse and improve our Platform, provide our services, and carry out our business.

We may receive data about your interactions with a brand Partner’s website or app when you click through from an offer to make a purchase or redemption. We may also receive page view information from brand Partners with which we provide technical, fulfilment, advertising or other services. When we obtain data from third party data sources we require that each third party data source confirm that its sharing of personal data is transparent and lawful.

We only collect and process your personal data carefully and lawfully. We work hard to improve our Services to you with this information, for reasons that include: providing customer service, improving and protecting our Website, fraud protection and detection.

Student Saviour will only use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Platform Management

Information we collect allows us to build an understanding of how different people are using the Site, App & Services, and how we can improve the Platforms we provide to you. It also allows us to create Member’s accounts, and to verify student identity and eligibility for membership.

The data we collect allows us to do things like:

We also use data for business, regulatory and legal purposes, like verifying student status, responding to customer service team correspondence, and getting in touch if we need to tell you about something, like a change to our policies or issues with a service.

Security

At Student Saviour we promise to respect your personal data as if it was our own, and to handle it in a safe and responsible way. We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.

In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures consistent with industry standards to safeguard and secure the information we process. Additionally we impose strict internal controls over employees with access to systems used in the storage and processing of personal data. Such access is granted on a need-to-know basis only.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials. Student Saviour will treat access to the Platform through your account credentials as authorised by you.

If we become aware of a breach that affects the security of your personal data, we will provide you with notice as required by applicable law. When permitted by applicable law, Student Saviour will provide this notice to you through the email address associated with your account.

Unauthorised access to personal data and the platform – including scraping – is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.

Where Do We Process Data

If you have registered for a Student Saviour account this will allow you to login to third party Partner websites and apps. To provide you with a seamless experience, it may be necessary to share your personal data with third party Partner websites you choose to use your Student Saviour login to access. Where your personal data is transferred by us or on our behalf, we use appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with this policy. Your Student Saviour account will always be covered by this Privacy Policy.

Generally, we process personal data in the United Kingdom, and we will transfer data only as permitted by applicable law. Some of our service providers are based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) some of your data may be transferred outside the EEA.

By ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

Third Party Data Processors

Student Saviour occasionally shares personal data with third party organisations that help us operate our Platform and Services, and to help us make sure we are operating as efficiently and responsibly as we can. Third party data processors help us to, for example, manage and service our data, distribute emails, research and analysis, manage brand and product promotions as well as administering certain services and features.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Student Saviour Platform, which means that we keep your personal data inside Student Saviour, unless we are required by law to disclose your data or you ask us or give us your permission to share it, for example to provide you with a discount or access to a brand partner’s platform, or if you agree to marketing emails and relevant messaging on social media platforms which include personalisation of content and discounts we think you’ll enjoy, and affiliate networks to track sales originating from our service.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal data processing by brand partners on their own websites or other third party websites, even when those websites are linked to or from our website. When you interact with an offer or otherwise visit a third party’s website or app, those third party’s policies and terms will apply. Your access to all third party websites is at your own risk. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policy before disclosing personal data to anyone.

Third Party Brand Partner Platform Data

If you have registered for a Student Saviour account this will allow you to log in to third party brand Partner websites and apps. To provide you with a seamless experience, it may be necessary to share your personal data with third party partner websites you choose to use your Student Saviour User login to access. We will only share what we need to in order to provide the service you are using and we will never routinely share all of the data we hold about you.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Student Saviour Platform. When you interact with an Offer or visit a third party’s website or app, those third party’s Terms or Privacy Policies will apply. Please carefully review the privacy policies and other terms of use for all linked services before you submit any personal data to these websites. Student Saviour is not responsible for and does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the contents or use of linked Services and third party websites.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collect it and also where we have a legitimate business need in doing so. For example, to provide you with a service you have requested; or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements; or to protect against fraud.

We may retain your personal data for a longer period to address a complaint that may arise after you cease to engage with us, or where you sign up to receive email marketing from us we will retain your e-mail address after you ‘opt-out’ of receiving emails in order to ensure that we continue to honour and respect that request.

We may anonymise personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case the resulting data are no longer personal data subject to this Privacy Policy and we may use these data without restriction.

If you have not used your Student Saviour Member’s account in a while, Our policy is to delete or anonymise your personal data three (3) years after your membership is classed as dormant and your membership will be terminated, along with associated data deleted. Please check your inbox to see if we’ve sent you any emails about this recently.

Ofcourse you may ask us at any time, to access, rectify or delete your personal data. See your ‘Privacy Rights’ below for further information.

The Student Saviour Website uses web browser cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your web browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Cookies cannot harm your computer and do not contain any personal or private information. 

The following types of cookies may be used on our Platform, Website, App or other Services:

By using our Platform you agree that this Site can set or access cookies. You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies. Please note that If you do disable or refuse cookies some parts of this Site may become inaccessible or not function properly. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We may use data we have collected to form a view on what we think may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you, we call this marketing.

Advertising

Based on the data we collect, we may also share adverts with you about Student Saviour discounts and services that are personalised based on the information associated with a member’s account. These may be on the Student Saviour Website or on other websites, such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Email Newsletter

This Site operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this Website. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an email marketing service provider, that through third party software applications allow us to send email campaigns to a list of subscribers. Users can subscribe through an online automated process, but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user. We only send our emails to those users who have specifically requested us to do so. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at any time.

Email marketing campaigns published by this Site may collect data, which is stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Data collected may include statistics on opening of emails, link clicks and subscriber activity within email marketing messages. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws, GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 we give you the opportunity to unsubscribe, or manage your preferences or the information we hold about you at any time. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign.

Sponsored Links, Affiliate Tracking & Commissions

The Student Saviour Platform may contain adverts, sponsored links or affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners, brand partners, or are self served through our own means. We may feature them on our Platform, Website, App, across our social media communications, in emails, etc.

We only use trusted Partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. We actively audit and approve adverts that are published, however sometimes we may not have full control of the actual advert content displayed by our advertising Partners. Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested, ‘non-personalised’ cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse. We may not have control over, or access to, third party cookies or the information they contain. Third parties manage any information that they collect via cookies, and they are in accordance with their privacy policies.

Some of our adverts and sponsored links are affiliate links, which may be displayed as a website URL like this; “www.domain.com” or “domain.com” or as a titled text link like this: “example text link”. Through these links, data may be collected by using a cookie sent to your device. Further information regarding cookies can be found in this Policy, refer to Cookie Policy. In most cases we earn a small commission from the advertiser or advertising Partner. This is at no cost to yourself, whether you make a purchase on a Partner’s website or not. Thanks to our advertising Partners, via these methods we help generate an income from our Platform, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information. If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.

You can always reach out to us with any questions or concerns regarding your data privacy rights. You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. For personal data for which we are the data controller, we honour the following privacy rights.

You have the right to:

Cookies or similar technologies; you can refuse to accept cookies or similar technologies by choosing the relevant settings in your browser or mobile device. Please note, this may result in a loss of functionality when using our Website.

What is Student Saviour’s lawful basis for processing personal data?

We only collect and process personal data according to and within the applicable law. If you have any questions, need further information concerning the legal basis on which we process your personal data, or are unhappy with any aspect of how we collect and use personal data, please contact us by emailing [email protected].

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, we would be grateful if you would contact us by emailing [email protected], so that we can try to resolve it for you. Please refer to our 

 here for further information. You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (

).

If you are located in the UK, or European Economic Area, the data controller for the personal data that Student Saviour collects is Student Saviour, Avenue HQ, 17 Mann Island, Liverpool, England, L3 1BP. The ICO registration number is ZA789451.

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We may update this privacy policy for Student Saviour in the future by updating this page, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy please contact The Data Privacy Manager by email at