Last Updated: 7 September 2026

Scuuze (“Scuuze”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of parents, students, guardians, schools, educators, and other people who use our platform.

This Privacy Policy explains how Scuuze collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares personal information when you visit or use the Scuuze website, platform, applications, dashboards, search services, school discovery services, and related products and services.

Scuuze is designed to make it easier for parents and students to discover, compare, evaluate, save, and connect with schools and education-related services.

We aim to collect only information that is reasonably necessary for the services we provide and to use that information for clear and legitimate purposes.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms of Service and any other notices we provide when collecting specific information.

1. WHO WE ARE

Scuuze is an education discovery and technology platform that helps users discover and interact with schools and education-related services.

For purposes of applicable data protection law, Scuuze may act as a data controller when we determine how and why personal information is processed.

In some circumstances, Scuuze may also process information on behalf of a school or another organisation. In those circumstances, the relevant organisation may be the data controller and Scuuze may act as a data processor.

Scuuze Operator: [INSERT LEGAL COMPANY NAME]

Registered Address: [INSERT ADDRESS]

Email: [INSERT PRIVACY/GENERAL EMAIL]

Data Protection Contact: [INSERT DPO/DATA PROTECTION CONTACT, IF APPLICABLE]

2. OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

We recognise that personal information belongs to the person it relates to.

Our approach is based on the following principles:

We collect information for specific and legitimate purposes.
We try to collect only information that is reasonably necessary.
We aim to keep personal information accurate and up to date.
We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards.
We do not sell users’ personal information.
We do not use personal information for unrelated purposes without an appropriate legal basis or permission.
We provide users with appropriate choices and rights regarding their information.
We take additional care where our services involve children, students, or information relating to minors.

Our privacy practices are intended to align with Ghana’s Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) and applicable data protection requirements.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Depending on how you use Scuuze, we may collect different categories of information.

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you create an account or use certain Scuuze features, we may collect information such as:

Full name
Email address
Telephone number
Password or authentication information
Profile information
User type, such as parent, student, guardian, educator, or school representative
City, town, area, or general location
School preferences
Education preferences
School search preferences
Saved schools
Compared schools
Recently viewed schools
Information submitted through forms
Messages or enquiries submitted through Scuuze
Application-related information
Other information you voluntarily provide to us

We only request information that is relevant to the feature or service being used.

4. INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENTS AND CHILDREN

Scuuze is an education platform and may therefore be used by parents, guardians, students, and schools.

We recognise that information relating to children and students requires additional care.

Where information relates to a child or student, we encourage parents or legal guardians to provide or manage that information where appropriate.

We do not intentionally collect more information about children than is reasonably necessary for the relevant educational service.

Where a service requires parental or guardian involvement, we may require the parent or guardian to provide information or take an action before the service can be used.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child’s information has been submitted to Scuuze improperly may contact us using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.

5. INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM SCHOOLS

Schools and authorised school representatives may provide information about their institutions for publication on Scuuze.

School information may include:

School name
School address
School location
Contact information
School website
School type
School level
Curriculum
Facilities
Programmes
Admissions information
Fees or fee-related information
Images
School descriptions
School representatives’ contact information
Other information relevant to the school’s public profile

Some school information displayed on Scuuze may be considered public institutional information rather than personal information.

However, where information identifies an individual school representative, employee, teacher, administrator, or other person, that information may constitute personal information and will be handled accordingly.

6. LOCATION INFORMATION

Some Scuuze features use location information to improve school discovery.

For example, we may use your approximate location to help you:

Find schools near you
Calculate approximate distance to schools
Sort or filter schools based on proximity
Improve local school recommendations
Display location-based search results

Where the feature requires access to your device’s location, we will request permission where required.

You can generally disable location permissions through your device or browser settings. If you do so, some location-based features may not work correctly.

Scuuze does not need to continuously track your precise location simply for you to browse schools.

7. GOOGLE ACCOUNT INFORMATION

Scuuze may allow users to connect a Google account to their Scuuze account.

If you choose to connect Google, we may receive information from Google that is necessary to authenticate or maintain your account, such as:

Name
Email address
Google account identifier
Profile information made available through the applicable Google authentication process

We do not request access to your Google password.

Google authentication is handled through Google’s authentication systems.

You may disconnect your Google account from Scuuze through the applicable Scuuze account settings.

Information obtained through Google authentication is used only for purposes consistent with the authentication and account features for which you authorised the connection.

8. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY

When you access Scuuze, we may automatically collect certain technical information, including:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages visited
Search activity
Referring pages
Approximate location derived from technical information
Date and time of activity
Platform interaction information
Error and diagnostic information

We may use this information to:

Operate Scuuze
Maintain security
Detect abuse
Prevent fraud
Diagnose technical problems
Improve performance
Understand how users interact with the platform
Improve our search and recommendation systems
Produce aggregated analytics

9. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Scuuze may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

Keep users signed in
Remember preferences
Maintain sessions
Improve platform functionality
Understand platform usage
Improve search and recommendations
Measure performance
Improve security
Analyse traffic and user behaviour

Some cookies may be provided by third-party services that help us operate or analyse Scuuze.

Where required, we will provide appropriate cookie choices or notices.

Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of parts of Scuuze.

10. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

Account Management

To create, authenticate, maintain, and manage your Scuuze account.

School Discovery

To help you search for, discover, compare, save, and evaluate schools.

Personalisation

To provide more relevant search results, recommendations, notifications, and educational content.

Saved Schools and Preferences

To remember schools and preferences that you choose to save.

School Comparison

To allow you to compare schools selected by you.

Applications and Enquiries

Where applicable, to facilitate school enquiries, admissions-related interactions, applications, or communication between users and schools.

Notifications

To send service-related notifications, account notifications, school alerts, reminders, and other communications that you have enabled or that are necessary to provide the service.

Security

To protect Scuuze, our users, schools, and systems against fraud, abuse, unauthorised access, and other security threats.

Platform Improvement

To understand how Scuuze is used and improve our products, features, search systems, recommendations, and user experience.

Communication

To respond to questions, support requests, feedback, and other communications.

Marketing

Where permitted and where appropriate consent or another lawful basis exists, we may send information about Scuuze products, services, features, events, or educational opportunities.

You may opt out of marketing communications.

Legal and Regulatory Requirements

We may process information where required to comply with applicable laws, legal processes, regulatory requirements, or lawful requests.

11. SEARCH, RECOMMENDATIONS AND PERSONALISATION

Scuuze is designed to help users find schools that may be relevant to their needs.

We may use information such as:

Search terms
School preferences
Location or approximate location
School level
Curriculum preferences
School type
Previously viewed schools
Saved schools
Comparison activity
Other interactions with Scuuze

to improve search results and recommendations.

These systems are intended to assist users in discovering schools.

A recommendation does not constitute an endorsement, guarantee, admission decision, or statement that one school is objectively better than another.

Users should independently evaluate schools and verify important information directly with the relevant school.

12. INFORMATION SHARED WITH SCHOOLS

One of Scuuze’s purposes is to help parents and students connect with schools.

Where you intentionally submit an enquiry, application, request for information, or other interaction directed to a school, information you provide may be shared with that school for the purpose of responding to or processing your request.

For example, depending on the feature being used, this may include:

Your name
Contact information
Student-related information you choose to provide
School preferences
Application information
Your message or enquiry

We will not treat simply viewing a school’s public profile as an instruction to send that school your personal information.

Where a feature allows you to control whether information is shared, your choices will apply to that feature.

Once information has been shared directly with a school, the school’s own privacy practices may also apply.

13. THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS

Scuuze may use trusted third-party providers to help us operate the platform.

These providers may include services supporting:

Hosting and infrastructure
Authentication
Email delivery
Analytics
Maps and location services
Search functionality
Security
Payment processing
Communications
Customer support
Database and storage services
Other technical infrastructure

Third-party providers may process personal information only as necessary to provide their services to Scuuze or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Where appropriate, we require service providers to implement reasonable security and confidentiality measures.

14. PAYMENTS

Where Scuuze offers paid services, payment information may be processed through third-party payment providers.

Scuuze may receive information such as:

Payment status
Transaction reference
Amount
Date of transaction
Customer/account information necessary to identify the transaction

Depending on the payment method, payment card or other sensitive payment credentials may be collected and processed directly by the relevant payment provider rather than stored by Scuuze.

Scuuze does not need to store your full payment card details simply to confirm a successful transaction.

15. SCUUZE PAY AND FUTURE SERVICES

Scuuze may introduce additional services, including Scuuze Pay, Scuuze Learn, Scuuze Tutors, and other education-related products.

These services may involve additional categories of information or different processing activities.

Where a new service requires information that is materially different from what is described in this Privacy Policy, we may provide additional privacy notices or update this Privacy Policy before or when the relevant information is collected.

16. WHEN WE MAY SHARE INFORMATION

We may disclose personal information:

To schools when you intentionally interact with them through Scuuze
To service providers supporting Scuuze
To payment providers where required for transactions
To authentication providers where you choose to use third-party authentication
To analytics and security providers
To professional advisers where reasonably necessary
Where required by law
Where necessary to protect the rights, safety, security, or property of Scuuze or others
In connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction, subject to applicable legal requirements

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

17. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including:

Providing Scuuze services
Maintaining accounts
Maintaining security
Resolving disputes
Enforcing agreements
Meeting legal or regulatory requirements
Maintaining appropriate business and financial records

The specific retention period may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

When personal information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymise, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.

18. ACCOUNT DELETION

Where available, users may request deletion of their Scuuze account.

Account deletion may result in the removal or anonymisation of information associated with the account.

However, certain information may need to be retained where required by law, necessary to resolve disputes, prevent fraud or abuse, protect security, enforce agreements, or satisfy legitimate record-keeping requirements.

Information that has already been shared with another organisation, such as a school, may also be subject to that organisation’s own retention policies.

19. DATA SECURITY

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:

Unauthorised access
Unauthorised disclosure
Loss
Destruction
Alteration
Misuse
Accidental disclosure

Security measures may include access controls, authentication mechanisms, encryption where appropriate, secure connections, monitoring, backups, and other technical safeguards.

However, no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Users are also responsible for protecting their account credentials and should notify us if they believe their account has been compromised.

20. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Subject to applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

Know whether we process your personal information
Request access to personal information we hold about you
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
Request deletion or destruction of personal information in appropriate circumstances
Object to certain processing
Prevent or restrict certain processing where applicable
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Opt out of direct marketing
Request information about how your information is being processed
Raise a complaint about our handling of your personal information

Ghana’s Data Protection Commission recognises data-subject rights including access, information, objection, prevention of processing, rectification, and compensation in circumstances provided for by law.

21. HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

To make a privacy request, contact us using:

Email: [INSERT PRIVACY EMAIL]

Please provide enough information for us to understand your request and verify that the request relates to you or that you are authorised to make the request.

We may need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before providing access to personal information or making significant changes to an account.

We aim to respond to valid requests within the time required by applicable law.

Under Ghana’s Data Protection Act, the Data Protection Commission states that an access request should generally be handled promptly and, subject to the Act, within forty days of receipt.

22. DIRECT MARKETING

Where we send promotional communications, you may choose to stop receiving them.

You can generally unsubscribe using the unsubscribe mechanism included in marketing communications or contact us directly.

Service-related communications, such as security alerts, account notices, transaction confirmations, or important changes to our services, may still be sent where necessary.

23. INTERNATIONAL DATA PROCESSING

Some of the technology and service providers used by Scuuze may operate outside Ghana.

As a result, personal information may sometimes be processed or stored in another country.

Where personal information is transferred or processed internationally, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are applied and that the processing is consistent with applicable data protection requirements.

24. DATA FROM THIRD PARTIES

We may receive information from third parties in circumstances such as:

Google or another authentication provider when you choose to connect an account
Schools when they provide or update information
Service providers supporting the platform
Publicly available sources where appropriate
Other users where they submit information relating to you as part of a legitimate Scuuze feature

Where we receive personal information from a third party, we will handle it in accordance with applicable law and this Privacy Policy.

25. PUBLIC INFORMATION AND SCHOOL PROFILES

Scuuze is a school discovery platform.

Some information displayed on school profiles is intended to be publicly accessible.

Schools and authorised representatives are responsible for ensuring that information they submit to Scuuze is accurate and that they have the appropriate rights or authority to provide information, images, and other content.

If you believe that a school profile contains inaccurate, misleading, private, or improperly published personal information, please contact us.

26. USER-GENERATED CONTENT

Some Scuuze features may allow users or schools to submit content such as:

Reviews
Questions
Messages
Photos
Feedback
School information
Other content

Users should avoid submitting sensitive personal information in publicly visible areas of the platform unless it is necessary and appropriate.

Content submitted for public display may be visible to other users.

27. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Scuuze recognises that many of our users are parents, guardians, students, or schools dealing with children.

Where a Scuuze feature involves information about a child, we aim to apply appropriate safeguards and collect only information reasonably necessary for the service.

Parents or guardians may contact us regarding personal information relating to a child under their care.

If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child in circumstances where appropriate authorisation was required but not obtained, we will take reasonable steps to address the situation.

28. DATA ACCURACY

We aim to keep personal information accurate, complete, and current.

However, some information on Scuuze — particularly school information — may be provided by schools or other third parties.

School information can change, including:

Fees
Admission requirements
Programmes
Contact information
Facilities
Locations
Opening or closing status
Availability

Users should verify important information directly with the relevant school before making an important education or financial decision.

29. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Scuuze may contain links to third-party websites, including school websites and external services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.

30. THIRD-PARTY AUTHENTICATION AND SERVICES

Where you choose to use services such as Google authentication, maps, payment services, analytics, or other third-party integrations, those providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.

Your use of such third-party services may therefore be subject to their separate terms and privacy policies.

31. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes may be necessary because of:

New Scuuze features
Changes to our services
Changes in technology
Changes in applicable laws
Changes to how we process information
Security or operational improvements

When we make significant changes, we may provide an appropriate notice through the platform or other communication channels.

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when the policy was most recently updated.

32. CONTACT US

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the way Scuuze handles personal information, please contact us.

Scuuze

Privacy Email: [INSERT EMAIL]

General Email: [INSERT EMAIL]

Business Address: [INSERT ADDRESS]

Data Protection Contact: [INSERT CONTACT, IF APPLICABLE]

We encourage users to contact us first so that we can investigate and address privacy concerns.

You may also have the right to contact the Data Protection Commission of Ghana, the statutory body responsible for regulating data protection and privacy in Ghana.

33. GOVERNING LAW

This Privacy Policy is intended to operate in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ghana, including the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), together with other applicable laws and regulations.

Where mandatory data protection laws applicable to you provide additional rights or protections, those rights remain unaffected by this Privacy Policy.

34. IMPORTANT NOTICE

This Privacy Policy describes Scuuze’s intended privacy and data-handling practices.

It does not replace professional legal advice.

Before publishing this policy as the final legal policy for Scuuze, Scuuze should confirm its actual legal entity, operating structure, data flows, third-party processors, retention periods, international transfers, children’s-data practices, payment architecture, and Data Protection Commission registration status.

Last Updated: 7 September 2026

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