Effective date: 21st of April, 2023
COVENANT CAPITAL BUSINESS SCHOOL ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains our data privacy practices at Covenant Capital Business School (“CCBS”, "we”, “us”, or “our”) in connection with your use of https://ccbs.covenant-capital.org/ (our website) or any of our other websites (“Websites”) and other CCBS services.
Our Services include business education programmes, online (including mobile) products, of CCBS, CCBS Community and Alumni. Although CCBS is a unit of Covenant Capital which is an arm of The Covenant Nation (TCN), this Policy does not apply to the personal data processing practices of Covenant Capital, The Covenant Nation or any other organisation associated with them.
Your use of our Services is subject to the CCBS terms of use and other additional terms as may be applicable. Please note that the terms override this policy in the event of any conflict.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND THE SOURCES FROM WHICH WE COLLECT IT
At CCBS, we gather personal information from users who sign up for an account, download our application, participate in our programmes, or communicate with us in any way. This information includes any data that can identify you as an individual and help us to effectively render services to you. Some examples of the personal data that we collect are contact address, educational information, your business information, feedback information from surveys, inquiries, etc. Others may include:
Account Information: your username and password.
Posted Data: your likes, comments, and other interactions with our online channels.
Transactional Information including your bank and payment details.
Online and Electronic Information: your browser ID, browser type, device ID, device type, operating system, network carrier or data providers, and IP address.
Usage Data: information such as cookies, content viewed or posted, frequency of visits, other website browsing information, and preferences.
Location Information: non-specific location data.
Mobile Information: the date, time, and content of text messages you send us, and any other mobile information you or your wireless carrier provide.
WHERE DO WE GET INFORMATION?
We may obtain information from you directly, a sister organisation, or from third parties especially where your participation in our services was facilitated by the third party.
USE OF INFORMATION
The information you provide us may be processed for the following reasons:
- Provide our products and services as well as providing support.
- To manage business needs like monitoring, analysing and improving the services we offer and our website’s performance and functionality.
- To manage risk and protect the sites, the services and you from fraud by verifying your identity.
- To communicate with you and also share marketing and promotional materials about the services you have ordered or other services that may be of interest to you.
- To manage business needs like monitoring, research (including academic research), analysing and improving the services we offer and our website’s performance and functionality.
- To manage risk and protect the sites, the services and you from fraud by verifying your identity.
- Personalise our services, evaluate admissions criteria and analyse individual and aggregate progress, performance, and completion of academic works.
- We process data to comply with law. For example, we use the age of our customers to ensure we meet our obligations to protect children’s privacy. We also process contact information and credentials to help customers exercise their data protection rights.
- To comply with our obligations and to enforce the terms of our sites and services to you including defending our contractual and legal rights.
- To aggregate and/or de-identify your personal data so that the information cannot be traced back to you or your device. We may use the aggregated and/or de-identified information for any purpose, including, but not limited to, research and marketing purposes, and may also share such data with third parties, including advertisers, promotional partners, and sponsors.
For these purposes, we combine data we collect from different contexts and our processing of personal data includes both automated and manual methods of processing.
INFORMATION SHARING
We only share your personal data with your explicit consent or when necessary to provide the Services for which you enrolled with us We may share some of your information with CCBS faculty, staff, sister organisations with aims that are relevant to you, third parties that render support to us that are relevant to our services to you, third parties that enrolled you whether as employer or in any other status, and other participants in your programme.
We do not protect the privacy of any information that you post on any of our platforms which is visible to the public or to other CCBS participants. Please bear this in mind when you post such comments or other information.
COOKIES POLICY
When you visit our Sites, use our Services, or visit a third-party website for which we provide online Services, we and our sister companies or partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) to recognise you as a User and to customise your online experiences, the Services you use, and other online content and advertising; measure the effectiveness of promotions and perform analytics; and to mitigate risk, prevent potential fraud, and promote trust and safety across our Sites and Services. Certain aspects and features of our Services and Sites are only available through the use of Cookies, so if you choose to disable or decline Cookies, your use of the Sites and Services may be limited or not possible.
HOW TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You can also make choices about the collection and use of your data by Us. You can control your personal data that We have obtained, and exercise your data protection rights, by contacting Us or using various tools we provide. In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal data will be limited, as required or permitted by applicable law. How you can access or control your personal data will also depend on which products you use. For example, you can:
- Control the use of your data for interest-based advertising from Us by visiting our opt-out page or opting out manually.
- Choose whether you wish to receive promotional emails, SMS messages, telephone calls, and postal mail from Us.
- Access and clear some of your data.
- You can withdraw consent to use your personal data at any time.
- You can request access to, erasure of, and updates to your personal data.
- You can also object to or restrict the use of your personal data.
THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS AND WEBSITES
This website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, we are not responsible for their privacy statements and we do not accept any responsibility for their use of your personal information. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
SECURITY
We have in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration and destruction. Our security systems are designed to prevent the loss, unauthorised destruction, damage and/or access to your personal information from unauthorised third parties.
You should endeavour to keep your passwords safe and read the security tips and updates on our websites regularly to make sure that you benefit from our security systems, and stay updated with the latest fraud scams and trends.
RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes it was collected for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
COLLECTION OF DATA FROM CHILDREN
Our Services are primarily intended for users who are 18 years or older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 13, and our Website and Services are not intended for individuals under 13 years of age. However, we may occasionally offer specific Services to users under 18 years of age or partner with organisations that render services to them. In such cases, additional registration or access requirements may be necessary, including the approval of a parent or other authorised person. If we become aware that we have collected or processed personal data of a person under 13 years of age, we will promptly delete such information from our records.
WE MAY CHANGE OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this privacy statement. We will publish all changes on our websites. By registering for, accessing or using the Website or any of our Services after any changes have been made, you signify your agreement to the modified Policy and all of the changes. If the changes are not acceptable to you, you should discontinue use of the Website and/or Services immediately.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Policy, our handling of your personal data, or you would like to request prior versions of this policy, please email us info@covenant-capital.org.