Legal

Privacy Policy

How Rubrics IELTS collects, uses, stores and shares personal information — including what our Facebook and TikTok integrations do and do not access.

Last updated: 8 August 2026

Effective date: 8 August 2026

This policy explains what personal information Rubrics IELTS collects through this website and its connected services, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It applies to students, teachers, applicants and visitors.

1. Who we are

Rubrics IELTS ("Rubrics", "we", "us") provides IELTS preparation courses and related teaching services. We are the controller of the personal information described in this policy.

Legal entity [REGISTERED COMPANY NAME]
Registered address [REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Business registration no. [REGISTRATION NUMBER]
Privacy contact [PRIVACY EMAIL ADDRESS]

2. Information we collect

Information you give us

  • Account details. Your email address, full name and phone number when you register. Your password is stored only as a cryptographic hash and is never readable by us.
  • Google Sign-In. If you choose to sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and basic profile information from Google. We never receive your Google password.
  • Course registrations and enquiries. Your name, email address, phone number, preferred start date, the courses you selected and any message you write.
  • Contact form submissions. Your name, email address and the content of your message.
  • Teacher and job applications. Your name, email address, phone number, location, professional licensing status, academic background, work experience, availability, salary expectations, portfolio links and any cover letter or notes you provide.
  • Teacher profiles. If you teach with us: a profile photo, introduction video, biography, education, specialisations, languages and teaching style. Profile content may be displayed publicly on our website.
  • Media you upload. Images and video added to our media library. These may contain images of identifiable people, so we treat them as personal information.

Information created as you use the service

  • Learning records. Your test and skill results, lesson bookings, class schedules and progress within a course.
  • Technical and diagnostic data. Server logs and error reports, which may include your IP address, browser type, the pages you requested and the time of the request. We use these to keep the service working and to investigate faults.

3. How we use information

Purpose Information used
Creating and securing your account Email, name, password hash, verification and password-reset tokens
Delivering courses and lessons Account details, bookings, schedules, learning records
Responding to enquiries and applications Contact, registration and application details
Sending service email (verification, password reset, booking confirmations) Email address and name
Publishing our own marketing content to our own social accounts Content and media we have chosen to publish — see section 4
Keeping the service reliable and secure Technical and diagnostic data
Meeting legal and accounting obligations Transaction and contact records

We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for automated decision-making that produces legal effects.

4. Social media integrations

In short: our Facebook and TikTok integrations are used to publish our own marketing content to our own company pages and accounts. They are not used to log you in, and they do not collect information about you from Facebook or TikTok.

Facebook / Meta

We use the Meta Graph API to publish posts to Facebook Pages that Rubrics IELTS owns and administers. An administrator of our own Page authorises the connection; we then store an access token that lets us post to that Page.

  • What we store: the Page identifier, the Page name, an access token, and the record of each post we published (its identifier, link and status).
  • Permissions we request and why: pages_show_list to let the administrator choose which of their Pages to connect; pages_manage_posts to create the posts; pages_read_engagement and business_management to confirm the connected Page is valid and that we still have permission to publish to it.
  • What we do not do: we do not offer Facebook Login, we do not read your Facebook profile, friends, messages or activity, and we do not collect audience, follower or engagement data about individual people.

TikTok

We use the TikTok Content Posting API to publish videos and photo posts to TikTok accounts that Rubrics IELTS owns. The account holder authorises the connection through TikTok, and we store the resulting tokens so scheduled posts can be published.

  • What we store: the account's TikTok identifier (open_id), its display name, access and refresh tokens, and the record of each post we published.
  • Permissions we request and why: user.info.basic to identify which account was connected and to confirm what it is allowed to post; video.publish to publish the post.
  • How media reaches TikTok: when we publish, TikTok downloads the image or video directly from our media storage over a link we provide.
  • What we do not do: we do not offer TikTok Login, we do not read your TikTok profile or activity, and we do not collect information about people who view or interact with our posts.

Google

We use Google services to sign users in (Google OAuth), to send service email (Gmail API) and to schedule and host online lessons (Google Calendar and Google Meet). Where a lesson is held on Google Meet, Google processes that session under its own privacy policy.

Content you post to our social pages

If you comment on, message or otherwise interact with our Facebook Page or TikTok account, that interaction happens on the platform and is governed by the platform's privacy policy. We may see your public comments in the ordinary course of running those accounts.

5. Who we share information with

We share personal information only with service providers that help us run Rubrics IELTS, and only as far as they need it:

Provider What it does for us
Google Sign-in, service email delivery, lesson scheduling and video lessons
Meta (Facebook) Publishing our marketing posts to our own Pages
TikTok Publishing our marketing posts to our own accounts
Sentry Error monitoring and diagnostics
[HOSTING PROVIDER] Application hosting, database and file storage

We may also disclose information where we are legally required to, or to establish or defend legal claims. If Rubrics IELTS is ever involved in a merger or acquisition, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, and we will tell you before it becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

6. International transfers

Some of our providers process information outside Vietnam, including in the United States and the European Union. Where we transfer personal information abroad, we take steps to ensure it remains protected to the standard described in this policy and required by applicable law.

7. How long we keep information

Information Kept for
Account and learning records While your account is active, then [RETENTION PERIOD] after closure
Course registrations and enquiries [RETENTION PERIOD]
Teacher and job applications [RETENTION PERIOD] after the decision
Email verification and password-reset tokens Until used or expired
Published post records and media Retained while the post remains published, as the record of what we published
Server logs and error reports [RETENTION PERIOD]

8. How we protect information

Passwords are stored only as hashes. Access tokens for connected social accounts are treated as secrets, are never displayed in full and are never included in logs or exports. Access to personal information is limited to staff who need it, and administrative functions require an authenticated staff account. Traffic to our site is encrypted in transit.

No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal information and creates a risk to you, we will notify you and the relevant authority as required by law.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • access the personal information we hold about you;
  • correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
  • delete your personal information;
  • object to or restrict certain processing;
  • receive a copy of your information in a portable format;
  • withdraw consent where our use relies on it; and
  • complain to your local data protection authority.

To exercise any of these, contact us using the details in section 14. We will respond within the period required by applicable law, and we may need to verify your identity first.

10. Deleting your data

You can ask us to delete your personal information at any time.

  • If you have an account: sign in and use the account settings to request deletion, or email us from the address registered to the account.
  • If you do not have an account — for example you submitted an enquiry or an application: email us at [PRIVACY EMAIL ADDRESS] with the subject "Data deletion request" and tell us the email address or phone number you used, so we can find your records.

We will confirm your request, verify who you are, and delete the information within [DELETION PERIOD] days. We may keep the minimum required to meet legal, accounting or fraud-prevention obligations, or to resolve a dispute, and we will tell you if that applies.

Deleting information we hold does not remove posts already published on Facebook or TikTok, or content held by those platforms. Those must be removed on the platform itself.

11. Children's privacy

Our services are intended for learners aged [MINIMUM AGE] and over. Where a learner is under the age at which they can consent on their own behalf, we require a parent or guardian to register and provide consent. If you believe a child has given us personal information without the necessary consent, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Cookies

We use cookies that are necessary for the site to work: keeping you signed in, maintaining your session and protecting forms against cross-site request forgery. These cannot be switched off without breaking the service.

We do not currently use advertising or third-party analytics cookies on this website. If that changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our services change. The date at the top shows when it was last revised. If a change materially affects how we use your personal information, we will give you notice — by email or a prominent notice on the site — before it takes effect.

14. Contact us

For any privacy question, or to exercise the rights in section 9: