Privacy Policy

We are based in Australia.
Our principal activity is to provide the most up-to-date directory of officially recognized Universities and Colleges in the world as well as a ranking of them according to a proprietary algorithm based on several independent web metrics; learn more about us here.
Our privacy policy covers the uniRank^™ website at 4icu.org:

Organisation:	uniRank™
Address:	15 Renown Street
City, Zip:	Canada bay, 2046
State:	NSW
Country:	Australia
Controller:	Fabio Fatuzzo
Website(s):	https://www.4icu.org

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access

You can access uniRank's home page and browse our website at 4icu.org without disclosing your personal data to us. No registration or login is required.

The communication and sharing services of our website

uniRank^™ does not enable our visitors to communicate or share with other visitors or to post information or comments to be accessed by others.

Third party websites and Cookie Policy

uniRank^™ does include links to third party web service providers, including Google AdSense and Google Analytics, which may use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media widgets, API services and/or to analyse our traffic. We may also share non personal information about your use of our site (Usage Data) with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information, including personal data, you have provided to them or they have collected from your use of their services. This personal data will be used for personalization of ads and cookies may be used for personalized and non-personalized advertising. To learn more please check how Google uses data when you use our website.

uniRank^™ may contain links to other websites, mostly higher-education related websites, that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Automatic Collection of Information

We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals and visitors of our website.

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the service of uniRank^™. Usage Data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the uniRank^™ service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

We do not use our own cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service or store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals and visitors of our website.

We do collect and/or extract non personal data and general information by:

• searching higher-education related websites for data and information of public domain
• using API services provided by Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and other providers; please read their terms of service for more information

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer to provide us while filling our online forms such as contact us form, error report form, update University form or add a University form.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

To access the table of personal data collected and purposes for which they are used, please see below.

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated in the table below.

If we wish to use your personal data collected through our online forms for a new purpose or delete it, we offer you the means to do it by contacting us by email: information @ 4icu . org (remove spaces).

To learn more how Google uses personal data when you consent and use our website please click here.

Children's Privacy

Our higher-education related service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data through our online forms, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data through our online forms from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our database.

Disclosure and Visitor Choice

We do not share or disclose your personal data collected through our online forms to any third party.
We provide visitors from countries affected by Privacy Policy legal frameworks with the choice of consenting to our Privacy and Cookies Policy in order to use our service.

Confidentiality / Security

We require visitors to our website to use a secure transmission method to send us their personal data (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure - HTTPS) through our online forms as per best practices and guidelines.

All personal data submitted through our online forms are stored locally. We do not use any form of third party service to store the above personal data.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that, stored locally, we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access

• improper use or disclosure

• unauthorised modification

• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties, state institutions and authorities except if required by law.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us, by:

• sending an email toinformation [ AT ] 4icu [ DOT ] org (remove spaces)

whether we are keeping personal data about you.

Upon request, which you can indicate by:

• sending an email toinformation [ AT ] 4icu [ DOT ] org (remove spaces)

we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you and collected through our online forms, within a month. Although we may before require proof of your identity. We will provide the information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and you may have the data:

• erased
• rectified or amended
• completed

Privacy Compliance

Our privacy policy aims to comply with the following international privacy legal frameworks:

• Australian Privacy Act - https://www.oaic.gov.au/
• European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legal framework - https://gdpr.eu/
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)- https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)

Under CCPA, Californian residents have the right to declare their preferences on the sale of data for advertising and marketing purposes. If you wish to change your preferences, click this link to launch our preference portal:

We use a third-party to provide monetisation technologies for our site. You can review their privacy and cookie policy at https://publift.com/privacy-policy/.

Tables of personal data collected and purposes for which they are used

Primary personal data/Business information

x	volunteered by each visitor when filling our online forms
-	collected from public records or bodies
-	collected from private organisations

Primary personal data	Technical administration of the Web site	Research &development	Customer Administration	Marketing	Trading in personal data
Name	x	-	-	-	-
Gender	-	-	-	-	-
Address	x	-	-	-	-
E-mail address	x	-	-	-	-
Phone/Fax number	x	-	-	-	-
other (describe)	-	-	-	-	-

Business Information	Technical administration of the Web site	Research & development	Customer Administration	Marketing	Trading in personal data
Employer/organisation	x	-	-	x	-
Job title	x	-	-	-	-
Address	x	-	-	-	-
E-mail address	x	-	-	-	-
Phone/Fax number	x	-	-	-	-
other (describe) Website information	x	x	-	x	-

Other personal details and profiling data

No other personal detail or profiling data is

-	volunteered by each visitor
-	collected from public records or bodies
-	collected from private organisations

	Technical administration of the Web site	Research & development	Customer Administration	Marketing	Trading in personal data
Personal details	-	-	-	-	-
Physical description	-	-	-	-	-
Family characteristics	-	-	-	-	-
Education and skills	-	-	-	-	-
Life style or personal tastes	-	-	-	-	-
Financial resources	-	-	-	-	-
other (describe)	-	-	-	-	-

Identifiers

No other identifiers are

-	volunteered by each visitor
-	collected from public records or bodies
-	collected from private organisations

	Technical administration of the Web site	Research & development	Customer Administration	Marketing	Trading in personal data
On-line identifiers	-	-	-	-	-
Financial identifiers	-	-	-	-	-
identifiers assigned by Public bodies	-	-	-	-	-
Biometrics identifiers	-	-	-	-	-
other (describe)	-	-	-	-	-

Specific Personal Data

No other specific personal data is

-	volunteered by each visitor
-	collected from public records or bodies
-	collected from private organisations

	Technical administration of the Web site	Research & development	Customer Administration	Marketing	Trading in personal data
Racial or ethnic origin	-	-	-	-	-
Political opinions	-	-	-	-	-
Religious or philosophical beliefs	-	-	-	-	-
Trade union membership	-	-	-	-	-
Health/Medical data	-	-	-	-	-
Sex life	-	-	-	-	-
Police/Justice data such as civil/criminal actions brought by or against the visitor	-	-	-	-	-
other (describe)	-	-	-	-	-