GDPR & Privacy

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Palm Beach Atlantic University

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This privacy notice explains how Palm Beach Atlantic University (“we”, “our”, “us”) collects, uses and shares your personal data, and your rights in relation to the personal data we hold. This privacy notice concerns our processing of personal data of past, present and prospective students of Palm Beach Atlantic University (“you”, “your”).

拼搏体育是您个人数据的数据控制者,并受1998年数据保护法(“DPA”)和一般数据保护条例(“GDPR”)的约束。.

关于拼搏体育隐私和数据保护实践的任何问题或担忧都可以直接联系DPO@pba的数据保护官.edu

 

Whose data does the GDPR protect?

The GDPR covers the personal information of all natural persons—that is, people, 但不包括欧盟内部的法人实体,如公司或非营利组织(“欧盟数据主体”)。. GDPR没有基于个人的永久居住地或国籍进行区分. The GDPR applies to all such individuals’ personal data.

 

Protection of Your Personal Information

拼搏体育采取合理和适当的措施来保护个人数据免受损失, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, 考虑到处理个人资料所涉及的风险和个人资料的性质.

 

How we collect your information

We may collect your personal data in a number of ways, for example:

  • 从您在加入我们之前与我们互动时提供给我们的信息, 例如,当你表达你对在拼搏体育学习的兴趣时;
  • 当您申请在拼搏体育学习并填写入学表格时,以及当您完成其他录取流程和程序时;
  • Information collected through disciplinary and grievance procedures;
  • Information collected through the administration of student housing; and
  • Information collected through surveys and feedback mechanisms.
  • When you communicate with us by telephone, email or via our website, for example in order to make inquiries or raise concerns;
  • 在你作为拼搏体育的学生期间,以各种其他方式与我们互动.
  • From third parties, for example from your previous or current school, college, 可能为你提供推荐信或资助你学习的大学或雇主.

 

Types of Data Collected

We may collect the following types of personal data about you:

  • Your name, and contact information such as address, email address and telephone number, as well as your date of birth, 社会安全号码(或其他税号)和您的护照号码或国民身份证的详细信息, country of residence and your nationality. We will also allocate you a unique student number
  • Information relating to your education and employment history, 你上过的学校和其他学院或大学,以及你工作过的地方, the courses you have completed, dates of study and examination results. We will also keep records relating to assessments of your work, details of examinations taken, 你的预测和实际考试成绩以及你的学生记录中的其他信息
  • Information about your family or personal circumstances, and both academic and extracurricular interests, 例如,这与评估你是否适合接受援助或为你提供适当的照顾有关
  • 有关刑事定罪和罪行的敏感个人资料和资料,包括:
    • Information concerning your health and medical conditions (e.g. disability and dietary needs)
    • Certain criminal convictions (e.g. for students on nursing programs, following completion of a background check)
    • Information about your racial or ethnic origin; religion or similar beliefs
  • Payment data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (credit card number).
  • Records related to your use of our facilities and services
  • Photographs from events and CCTV footage
  • Information about your involvement, activities, and awards

 

The basis for processing your information and how it is used

拼搏体育可能会处理您的个人数据,因为这是履行与您的合同所必需的,或者是为了在签订合同之前根据您的要求采取措施. In this respect, we use your personal data for the following:

  • 在你被录取为学生之前与你互动,作为录取过程的一部分.g. to send you a prospectus or answer enquiries about our courses)
  • To address any concerns or feedback you may have
  • For any other purpose for which you provide us with your personal data.

我们也可能处理您的个人信息,因为这是我们的合法利益所必需的.  为此,我们可能会将您的个人信息用于以下任何用途:

  • 为您提供教育服务,这些服务可能没有列在我们的学生手册中,但这仍然是我们学术和教育使命的一部分
  • To monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the university, including by training our staff or monitoring their performance
  • To maintain and improve the academic, corporate, financial, estate and human resource management of the University
  • To promote equality and diversity throughout the University
  • 就我们的权利和义务寻求建议,例如大学需要法律建议的地方
  • To recover funds owed to the university
  • For fundraising purposes

 

我们也可能为了履行我们的法律义务而处理您的个人数据. In this respect, we may use your personal data for the following:

  • To meet our compliance and regulatory obligations
  • For the prevention and detection of crime
  • 为了协助警察和其他主管当局进行的调查(包括刑事调查).

We may also process your personal data where:

  • It is necessary for medical purposes (e.g. medical diagnosis, provision of health or social care or treatment, or a contract with a health professional)
  • It is necessary for emergency medical purposes
  • It is necessary to protect your or another person’s vital interests or
  • We have your specific or, where necessary, explicit consent to do so.

 

How PBA Uses Current and Prospective Student Information

我们可能会将我们从您那里收集的个人信息(包括敏感个人数据)用于以下目的:

  • Recruit and/or admit you as a student at Palm Beach Atlantic University
  • Facilitate academic matters, including for:
    • The provision of our core teaching, learning, and research services (e.g. registration, assessment, attendance, managing progress, academic misconduct investigations, certification, and graduation)
    • Maintaining student records
    • Assessing your eligibility for bursaries and scholarships
  • Provide library, IT, media, and other information services
  • Provide support of our core services in non-academic matters, including:
    • Providing support of our core student services in non-academic matters
    • Monitoring of equal opportunities
    • Safeguarding and promotion of students’ welfare
    • Ensuring students’ safety and security
    • Managing student employment, assistantships, and internships
    • Managing student accommodations
    • Managing the use of social media
    • Managing facilities on campus, including parking
  • 管理财务,如学费,奖学金,联邦和州补助金,或财政援助
  • Provide other administrative functions, such as:
    • Carrying out research and statistical analysis
    • 进行审计以确保遵守我们的法规和法律义务
    • Providing operational information
    • Promoting our services
    • Preventing and detecting crime
    • Dealing with grievances and disciplinary actions
    • Dealing with complaints and inquiries
  • Provide for archiving and statistical purposes
  • Preparing the commencement booklet; and
  • Promoting and archiving the ceremony on our website.

 

Data Retention Timeframe

我们将根据需要保留您的个人信息,以满足法律文件保留义务的合规要求.  即使您已经对您的个人信息行使了一项或多项(下文)权利, 我们将有权保留您的个人信息以履行法律义务, for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes, for statistical purposes, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

 

Your Rights with Respect to Your Personal Information

根据《拼搏体育》(GDPR),您拥有以下权利:

  • To obtain access to the Personal Information that we hold about you
  • 在您认为我们的处理活动对您的利益有不成比例的影响时,根据您的特殊情况反对我们的处理活动, rights, and freedoms
  • If you believe that your Personal Information that we possess is, or has become, incorrect or is incomplete, you may request to review, revise, correct, or update any of the Personal Information we may have about you free of charge
  • 限制与您的个人信息相关的处理活动(以及, where our processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent, 在不影响我们基于撤回前同意的处理的合法性的情况下)
  • To request that we erase your Personal Information erased
  • To have Personal Information, which you have voluntarily provided to us, produced in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, including for the purpose of transmitting it to another party; and
  • To require us not to send you marketing communication.

Please note that the above individual rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where certain exceptions apply.  If you have given your consent and you wish to withdraw it, 请使用本文档末尾提供的联系信息通过电子邮件与校园数据保护官联系. 请注意,在何处处理您的个人数据取决于您的同意以及您随后在何处撤回该同意, 我们可能无法向您提供全部或部分服务,及/或可能影响服务的提供.

 

Privacy and Children

The Privacy Notice is not directed to “children”, and we do not seek, nor do we knowingly process, Personal Information from children. Where a prospective or current student is classified as a child, 我们将作出合理的努力,以核实同意是由对儿童负有父母责任的人给予或授权的, where Personal Information of the child is to be processed.

 

Revisions to this Privacy Notice

Palm Beach Atlantic reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, 或以其他方式随时修改我们的政策和本隐私声明的部分内容, consistent with the requirements of applicable law.  When we do, we will post the revision(s) here on this page. 如果此政策发生重大变化,PBA将提供适当的通知.