Privacy Policy

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

I. General issues

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
  2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
  3. Web – site https://www.concordia.edu.ua/uk/ (further – Site) is owned by the Private Higher Educational Establishment-Institute “Ukrainian-American Concordia University”, code 24265677 (further – University). All intellectual property rights held on the Site, unless it is separately stated, are owned by the University.
    4. This Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy (further – Privacy Policy) is within the framework of the Educational Process Organization Regulation (https://www.concordia.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/fgf.pdf) and does not apply to third party websites.

II. How we collect your personal data

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  1. Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system
  2. Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
  3. Information that you enter when you register with our website, such as your email website.
  4. Information that you enter in order to set up subscription to our emails and/or newsletters.
  5. Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
  6. Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet.
  7. Any other personal information you send to us.

III. Using Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:

  1. Administering our website and business.
  2. Personalizing our website for you.
  3. Enabling your use of the services available on our website.
  4. Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.
  5. Sending you on-marketing commercial communications.
  6. Sending you email notifications you have specifically requested.
  7. Sending you our email newsletter if you signed up for it (you can unsubscribe at any time).
  8. Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of third parties which we think may be of interest to you.
  9. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users.
  10. Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website
  11. Keeping our website secure and prevent fraud.
  12. Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
  13. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

We will not, without your expressed consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

 IV. Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

  1. the payment of a fee;
  2. the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

V. Retaining personal information

  1. This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section IV, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
  4. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  5. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
  6. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
  7. The place where consumer personal data is stored is the Private Higher Education Establishment-Institute “Ukrainian-American Concordia University “.
  8. The location of the University (actual address): Ukraine, 01054, Kyiv, Turhenievska street, 8-14.

VI. Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
  5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

VII. Destruction of personal data

  1. Collected, stored, and used personal data should be deleted in the case of:
  • Ending the legal relationship between the consumer and the University;
  • The issuance of a relevant order from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights or the officials of the secretariat of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights;
  • The court’s decision to delete or destroy personal data.

VIII. Security of your personal information

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
  3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
  5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

IX. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.