Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 2026
1. Who We Are Discern Education ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your personal data. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Cyprus Data Protection Law 125(I)/2018, we act as the Data Controller. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at: sophiadingli@discerneducation.com.
2. The Data We Collect and Why To provide our educational services, specifically "The Thinking Diagnostic" and ongoing academic pathways, we collect:
Standard Personal Data: Name, email address, age/school year, and academic essays. We process this under the lawful basis of Contractual Necessity to deliver our tutoring services.
Special Category (Sensitive) Data: Information regarding student wellbeing, such as academic anxiety or burnout, collected via our pre-session questionnaire. We process this strictly with your Explicit Consent to tailor our coaching to your specific needs.
3. How We Store and Protect Your Data All student essays, questionnaires, and reports are stored securely using encrypted cloud services. We do not store student essays in our email inbox.
4. Data Retention We adhere to data minimisation principles. If a student completes a diagnostic session and does not continue with our ongoing pathways, their submitted essays and wellbeing questionnaires will be securely deleted 6 months after the session date.
5. Your Rights Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
Access the personal data we hold about you.
Request correction of inaccurate data.
Request the erasure of your data (the "right to be forgotten").
Withdraw your consent for us to process your sensitive wellbeing data at any time without affecting the legality of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
6. Complaints If you have concerns about how we handle your data, we ask that you contact us first. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Cyprus Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (dataprotection.gov.cy).