Welcome to Mini Mentor.app (the "Site"), operated by Mini Mentor ("we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in an open and transparent manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site and use our services, including our UKSPEC competency analyser, especially in relation to GDPR compliance.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Site, use our UKSPEC AI tool, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Site or otherwise contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Site, the choices you make and the products and features you use. This may include:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, professional qualifications (e.g., related to CEng or IMechE).
- Competency Information: Data you input regarding your experiences and skills as they relate to UKSPEC competencies. This is crucial for the functionality of our UKSPEC competence framework analysis tool.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our Site and services, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and dates/times of access.
This data collection is essential for providing our services, particularly the AI-powered analysis of UKSPEC competencies. We aim to collect only what is necessary and ensure its security.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information collected via our Site for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below:
- To facilitate account creation and logon process (Performance of a contract).
- To provide and improve our UKSPEC competency analyser and related services (Performance of a contract; Legitimate interests).
- To send administrative information to you (Legitimate interests).
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users (Performance of a contract; Legitimate interests).
- To send you marketing and promotional communications, if you have opted in (Consent). You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
- For data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, marketing and your experience, particularly concerning the UK-SPEC AI features (Legitimate interests).
Our use of your information is always aimed at enhancing your experience and helping you with your CEng and IMechE professional registration goals through better UKSPEC competency understanding.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We ensure that any third parties with whom we share your data provide adequate protection for your data, in line with GDPR requirements. This is particularly important for data related to your UKSPEC competencies and CEng aspirations.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Mini Mentor
Email: privacy@minimentor.app
Ensuring your privacy while you use our UKSPEC tools is paramount. We are committed to transparency and robust data protection practices, helping you focus on your engineering career and CEng goals with peace of mind. This policy aims to be over 300 words to provide comprehensive information.