Privacy Policy

 

ABOUT US

This Privacy Notice explains the nature of the personal information that the Company collects through our website, when you provide your details to us at events or via online enquiry forms, from publically available sources, or via third parties that have passed us your contact details as you have expressed an interest in hearing from us. It also explains how your data is used and informs you of your rights under data protection laws.

Educom Overseas is a Data Controller in respect of the information that we process about you.  Our contact details are:

Educom Overseas ,136 Martakla Center, 2nd Floor, Jal El Dib

P.O.Box: 70195 Antelias, Lebanon

Telephone: +961 4 715 575

 Mobile: +961 3 304 349

 Fax: +961 4 716 669

 Your privacy is important to us, so if there is anything in this privacy notice that is unclear or you do not understand, please contact Our Data Protection Officer at: info@educomoverseas.com

 

DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We operate a number of different websites and pages that support and enhance engagement with us and our services, both for the benefit of students and other visitors. Some of those websites or webpages may be specific to a certain department, subsidiary or specific activities conducted across our campuses - and may have additional information about how they collect and use personal data for their specific purposes. We encourage you to read those carefully in addition to this more general notice.

 

Information that we collect directly from you

We ask you for a range of personal information when you complete our online forms for specific purposes: We collect personal data in order to:

 

- Communicate with you about events and activities at the Company

 

- Provide you with information you have requested

 

- To tailor our communications to you

 

- To manage our websites and troubleshoot any problems

 

- To track the effectiveness of our websites and monitor how users interact with them

 

We will collect information about you if you place an order with us for a service, such as a prospectus, booking a place for a meeting or event, subscribing to a newsletter or when you make an enquiry.

 

Automatic Data Collection

We collect personal information about website (s) usage through Google Analytics and server logs, which track the IP addresses of users visiting our site and the pages they visit. Information collected via the Company's server logs includes users' IP addresses and the web pages visited; this will be used to manage the web system and troubleshoot problems. The Company also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") to understand how visitors engage with our website and so we can improve it.

 

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where you provide personal information in order for us to contact you or provide you with optional information, such as subscribing to an electronic newsletter, joining an email mailing list, or subscribing to SMS updates we will be processing your personal data on the basis of your consent where you provide personal information for the purposes of booking or applying for a university, booking onto an event. We will be processing your data for the purposes of administering a contract with you and in order to deliver those services to you.

Where we use your personal contact details to contact you with information we think may be of interest to you, we will be processing your data on the basis of legitimate interests, for the performance of our public tasks, or with your consent. When we use your personal postal mail address or contact telephone number (s) to contact you with information, we will be processing your data on the basis of legitimate interests, for the performance of our public tasks, or with your consent.

Where we use your information to manage our websites and troubleshoot any problems, or to track the effectiveness of our websites and monitor how users interact with them this will be on the basis of our legitimate interests.

Where we are required by law we will process your data on the basis of a legal obligation.

WHO WE MAY SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

The University will not sell, license or trade your personal information without your consent. We will not share your personal information with others unless they are acting under our instructions or we are required to do so by law.

RETENTION OF YOUR DATA

We will retain your data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Where you have requested to be added to marketing or mailing lists your details will be retained until you choose to unsubscribe to those communications. We may contact you from time to time to check that you are still happy to receive those communications.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

Your personal information is stored securely within the Company and our staff is trained about the secure handling of personal information. We may also use third party providers to deliver our services, such as externally hosted software or cloud providers. Were we do this, we have measures and terms in place with those providers to ensure that they also protect your data.

KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION UP TO DATE

The accuracy of your information is important to us. You can update your information, including your address and contact details, at any time. If you need update the details we hold about you, or believe we hold inaccurate data please contact the relevant department or the Data Protection Officer.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under data protection law you have the right to:

Withdraw your consent where that is the legal basis of our processing

Access your personal data that we process

Rectify inaccuracies in personal data that we hold about you

Be erased, that is your details to be removed from systems that we use to process your personal data

Restrict the processing in certain ways

Obtain a copy of your data in a commonly used electronic form; and object to certain processing of your personal data by us

Some rights are dependent on the lawful basis for processing your information. If we have legitimate grounds to not carry out your wishes, these will be explained to you in response to your request.


QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS NOTICE


If there is anything in this notice that you are unclear about, please contact us on the details below, who shall be happy to answer any queries you may have concerning this privacy notice or the way in which we process your personal data:

Educom Overseas ,136 Martakla Center, 2nd Floor, Jal El Dib
P.O.Box: 70195 Antelias, Lebanon
Telephone: +961 4 715 575
 Mobile: +961 3 304 349
 Fax: +961 4 716 669
 

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this notice, our Company Data Protection Officer can be contacted at :

EDUCOM OVERSEAS

P.O.Box: 70195

Antelias, Lebanon

Telephone: +961 4 715 575

Email: info@educomoverseas.com

 

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