Privacy Policy
Last Updated: February 19, 2026
1. Introduction
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our sites, specifically focusing on the Civil Service Exam directory at cse.excusat.com and your enrollment in our CSE Mastery Program.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age, or have the consent of a parent or guardian to use our educational services.
Excusat.com is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
Contact Details Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Excusat.com
Contact us via email: [Insert Support Email Address]
Postal address: Baganga, Davao Region, Philippines
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us.
2. What Data We Collect, Purpose, and Legal Grounds
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data. We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication Data: Includes any communication that you send to us whether through the contact form on our website, email, text, social media messaging, or any other communication. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record-keeping, and for the establishment, pursuance, or defense of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, keep records, and establish, pursue, or defend legal claims.
Customer Data: Includes data relating to any purchases of our review courses such as your name, title, billing address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and your card/payment details. We process this data to supply the courses you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us.
User Data: Includes data about how you use our course platform and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website (such as forum posts or reviews). We process this data to operate our website, ensure relevant review content is provided to you, ensure the security of our website, maintain backups, and enable administration of our business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests.
Technical Data: Includes data about your use of our website such as your IP address, login data, browser details, length of visit to pages, page views and navigation paths, time zone settings, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. We process this data to analyze your use of our platform, to administer and protect our business, and to deliver relevant content. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests.
Marketing Data: Includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties. We process this data to enable you to partake in promotions, deliver relevant website content, and measure the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Sensitive Data We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example, by filling in enrollment forms on our site or sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers (e.g., Google), advertising networks (e.g., Facebook), and providers of technical, payment (e.g., GCash, PayMongo, PayPal), and delivery services.
4. Marketing Communications
Our lawful ground for processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at any time. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of course purchases, account registrations, etc.
5. Disclosures of Your Data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
Service providers who provide IT, course hosting, and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, accountants, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
6. International Transfers
Because we may use international third-party service providers (such as cloud hosting or payment processors), your data may be transferred outside the Philippines. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the Philippines, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring that the provider is compliant with standard international data protection protocols and safeguards that align with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012.
7. Data Security
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees, contractors, and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers for a specified number of years after they stop being customers.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173), you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to be informed, to access, to object, to erasure or blocking, to damages, to file a complaint, to rectify, and to data portability.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the National Privacy Commission (NPC), the Philippine supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.privacy.gov.ph). We would be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
10. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
11. Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.