Privacy Policy
1. Who runs this site
This site is run by Talk Academy, an English language school in the Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines, operating since 2008. Anything about this policy can be sent to the address at the foot of this page.
This page covers this website only. The STEP Play mobile application has its own separate policy.
2. What we collect
There is no sign-up, no login and no contact form anywhere on this site. We never ask for your name, phone number or address, and there is nowhere here for you to type one. Every enquiry route on this site is an email link, so if you write to us we hold only what you chose to put in that email, and only for as long as it takes to answer you.
3. Analytics and cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages people actually read. It stores cookies in your browser and sends Google your IP address, the pages you open, and approximate device and location data. We read it only in aggregate, so it does not tell us who you are. This site carries no advertising, and we neither sell your data nor pass it to anyone beyond the services named here.
The site also stores one small flag in your browser session so that the language redirect on the front page does not fire twice. It holds no personal data and disappears when you close the tab.
4. The partner agency list
The agency directory on this site is filled in by your browser when the page loads, by requesting a list of partner agencies from our own server. That request carries nothing about you beyond the ordinary details any web request carries, and the list it returns contains business contact details for those agencies, not visitor data.
5. Other services that see your visit
The site carries ownership-verification tags for Google Search Console and Naver Search Advisor, which collect nothing about you. The site itself sits on shared web hosting, and that server keeps ordinary access logs.
6. Links that leave this site
We link out to partner study agencies, the CAESA association site, our Naver café and the STEP Play pages. The moment you follow one of those links you are on someone else's site under their policy, not ours. Read theirs before you enter anything personal.
7. What you can do about it
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings whenever you like — this site works perfectly well without them. To switch off Google Analytics everywhere at once, install Google's official opt-out add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to ask what is held about you and to have it erased; write to us and we will act on it.
8. Children
This site is written for adults planning a language course and is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect anything from them. Enrolment for students under 18 is arranged by a parent or guardian through a partner agency, never through this website.
9. Changes to this policy
If we add anything that changes what is collected, we will rewrite this page and move the date below. There is no mailing list to announce it, so treat that date as the honest record of when this text last changed.
Questions: clarktalkacademy@gmail.com