Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important for us! This Privacy Policy explains how we respect the personal data of the users that is why we inform you that this website complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016 (GPDR), the Spanish Act 15/1999 of 13 December (LOPD), the Royal Decree 1720 /2007, of 21 December on the protection of personal data, the Act 34/2002 of 11th July, on Information Society and E-commerce Services (LSSICE) and all the other data protection legislation in force.

EUROPEAN COLLEGE – EC BUSINESS SCHOOL S.A.U. (from now on EU Business School) respects the protection of personal data -stated above- the privacy of users and the confidentiality and security of the personal data, and adopts for this purpose technical and organizational measures to avoid the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access and theft of the provided personal data, taking into account the current state-of-the-art, nature of the data and the risks to which they are exposed.

This Privacy Policy can be subject to periodical revisions with the aim to update the changes in accordance with the legislation in force in order to update our practices regarding collection, use and disclosure of the information. Those changes will be in force since the publication on the website. For this reason the periodical revision of this Privacy Policy in order to keep it updated.

Controller of the Treatment

Your data will be incorporated into a file which EU Business School provided with C.I.F. A63265110, telephone number 932 018 171 and domiciled for Data Protection purposes at Av. Diagonal 648 bis, 08017 Barcelona (Spain) with the purpose of managing and processing any application you make with any of the forms and contact forms that are at your disposal in this website.

Regarding the GDPR the personal data you give us through the web form will be treated as “Web users”.

PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO YOUR DATA

During the treatment of your personal data we will apply the following principles according o the GDPR:

Lawfulness, fairness and transparency: we will always require your consent for the treatment of your data for a specific purpose that we will inform you about.
Minimization, purpose limitation: We will collect data for a for a specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes and those data will be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
Time limitation of conservation: personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed according each purpose.
Integrity and confidentiality: Your data will be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.

PURPOSES

Data collected through this website will not be categorized as special, but general personal data, according to the GDPR.

The main purpose why we collect data through this website is the rendering of services in order to comply with the purposes of EU Business School. The services rendered are the following:

Provide information and advice about the EU Group.
Provide information and advice for Admissions.
Offering publicity and advertisement about the educational programs.
The possibility to apply for a job
The possibility to subscribe and receive a newsletter

We never ask for personal information unless it’s really necessary to render our services.

HOW HAVE WE OBTAINED YOUR DATA

The personal data treated by EU Business School obtained from this website come from:

Through the general contact Form
Through the application Form

A part from the website: EU Business School will process personal data you gave us your data (previous authorization) but in any case we will treat your personal data obtained from third parties.

TRANSFERING DATA TO THIRD PARTIES

EU Business School and any EU Group Entities share information of their clients and users:

Among entities of the EU Group, which are also subject to this privacy policy or follow Data Protection policies under the Commission Decision of 26 July 2000 pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequate protection of personal data provided in Switzerland.
With services renderers: EU Business School and the EU Group entities hire other companies in order to develop certain function on their behalf. Some of those functions are: managing payrolls and offering legal and economic services, cleaning services, collection and destruction of documents, IT services, security services. Consequently, those third parties will have access to personal information which is necessary to develop their functions, but they will not use it for other purposes or addition objectives. Moreover, they will treat that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable legislation in Data Protection matters.
The EU Group entities are the following:

EU SA, ID number CHE-468.540.872 (Spanish N.I.E. N0394020B), domiciled at Villa Ormond, Rue du Lac 18, 1815 Clarens-Montreux, Switzerland.
EU Business School Munich GmbH, ID number DE266910318, domiciled at Theresienhöhe 28 80339 Munich, Germany.
EU Business School SA, ID number CHE-110.187.018, domiciled at Villa Ormond, Rue du Lac 18, 1815 Clarens-Montreux, Switzerland.

Nonetheless, we inform you that EU Business School and the EU Group entities will be allowed to transfer information about the used whenever the Law provides so and when Administrative and/or Judicial Authorities require it.

Furthermore EU Business School and the EU Group entities also reserve the right to disclose and/or transfer Personal Information to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale all or part of the business or assets. If such sales or transfers are carried out, EU Business School and the EU Group entities will make all reasonable efforts in order to make the buyer or transferee to use such information in a compatible way with our Privacy Policy. Once made the purchase or transfer, the use will be able to contact with the acquiring entity to formulate any doubts regarding his/her treatment.

CLOUD COMPUTING

In EU Business School we use a cloud computing system. Through it thee personal data will also be transferred to the cloud computing managed by Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd located in the Region Europe, Modul4 serveis informatics s.l. located in France and Calvet, Vila & Arriaga consulting s.l.u. located in Italy, they are all located under GDPR territory and thus, covered by the same data protection legislation.

Therefore, data will be kept no longer than necessary to achieve the purposes of this agreement, and once accomplished just the strictly necessary data will still be stored the necessary time to fulfill all the obligations stated by Law.

SOCIAL MEDIA

EU Business School has presence at different social media. The process of personal data following the official profiles of EU Business School will not only be treated by this privacy policy, but also by the terms of use, privacy policies and regulations to access belonging to that specific social network. The main purpose is to correctly manage the presence at the social network, informing about activities, products or services rendered at https://www.euruni.edu/ or any other purpose allowed by the legislation of the social networks.

ACCURACY AND VERACITY OF DATA

The user sending the information to the website and other gates is the only responsible of the veracity and correction of their data, exonerating EU Business School and the EU Group entities of any responsibility on this regard. The users will guarantee and answer, in any case, about the precision, validity and authenticity of the personal data provided and undertaken to keep them up to date as required.

ACCEPTANCE AND CONSENT OF THE USER

The sending of personal data through the forms available on the Web or, if necessary, the sending of messages by email requesting information or services implies the user's consent for their personal data to be used in accordance with the aforementioned purposes and the acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

The user may revoke at any time their consent to sending commercial and advertising communications by communicating by mail to privacy@euruni.edu or sending a letter to Av. Diagonal 648bis 08017 Barcelona (Spain).

FOR HOW LONG ARE YOUR DATA PROCESSED

The controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of the storage or as far as this is granted by the legislator or by other legislators in laws or regulations, to which the controller is subject to.

If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.

Moreover, data will be erased when the requirement from the interested subject is made.

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

Right of confirmation

Each data subject shall have shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed.

2. Right of access

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller free information about his or her personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European legislator grants the data subject access to the following information:

the purposes of the processing;
the categories of personal data concerned;
the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22 (1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation.

3. Right to rectification

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

4. Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies and as long as the processing is not is necessary:

The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6 (1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9 (2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (2) of the GDPR.
The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8 (1) of the GDPR.

5. Right of restriction of processing

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:

The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the Controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

6. Right to data portability

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6 (1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9 (2) of the GDPR or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 (1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

7. Right to object

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6 (1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

HOW TO EXERCISE ALL THOSE RIGHTS:

The User may exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure, object, restriction of processing and portability of their personal data, under the terms and conditions set forth in the GDPR and the LOPD, by sending a signed request and including a copy of their ID to privacy@euruni.edu or by sending a letter together with a copy of their ID at:

EUROPEAN COLLEGE – EC BUSINESS SCHOOL S.A.U. provided with C.I.F. A63265110, telephone number 932 018 171 and domiciled for Data Protection purposes at Av. Diagonal 648 bis, 08017 Barcelona (Spain).

For the resolution of any doubt or question regarding our Privacy Policy you can send us an e-mail to privacy@euruni.edu or contact the Accounting Department that is available to you from Monday to Friday from 9-17h at the telephone number 932 018 171.

Furthermore, interested subjects will also have the right to lodge an appeal before the supervisory authority if the treatment of the data is considered contrary to the GDPR. In this case the Authority will be the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos.

SECURITY MEASURES

EU Business School guarantees that they have adopted the appropriate technical, administrative and organizational measures in their facilities, systems and processes, necessary to guarantee the security of their personal data and to prevent their alteration, loss, theft, disclosure or unauthorized use; all in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Legislation in force.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

COMMERCIAL MAIL

In accordance with the LSSICE, EU Business School does not SPAM. We do not send commercial mails unless they have been required by the web used. Consequently, in each website Form, the user can check the box to give his/her consent to receive advertising.