Privacy Policy
ISC-SABIS® Alumni Association
INTRODUCTION
ISC-SABIS® Alumni Association (collectively referred to as "Alumni", "we", "us", "our", or "ours") values and takes your privacy rights seriously. We are committed to being transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used, and with whom it is shared as set forth herein.
This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") applies to the data collected from all users of the iscsabis-alumni.com website (the "Website") and the services available on the Website (Services).
The Website is operated by:
ISC-SABIS® Alumni Association
Based at the International School of Choueifat, Choueifat, Lebanon
Tel.: +961-9-851851
The terms "you," "your," and "yours" refer to the user or visitor of the Website.
This Notice, together with our Terms & Conditions, sets out the basis on which any personal data we may collect about you, or that you choose to provide to us, and your choices and rights regarding our use of your personal data. It also explains the purpose of processing your data, how we keep it safe, and with whom we share it. Please read the following sections carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we handle it.
We reserve the right to periodically change this Notice at our sole discretion. Changes to the Privacy Notice will be posted on this page.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Policy should be addressed via e-mail at info@iscsabis-alumni.com
DEFINITIONS
Personal Data: Personal data is defined as : Personal data is defined as "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person."
Data Subject: Any individual using the Website and whose personal data is being collected, held, or processed.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
The type of Personal Data collected on our Website includes but is not limited to the following:
- Contact Details (e.g., Full name, Father’s name, Nationality, Country of residence, Photo, E-mail address, Phone number, LinkedIn profile)
- Education-related Data (e.g., High School name, Year of graduation, University Major)
- Work-related Data (e.g., Company name, Job title)
- Usage Data (e.g., interest in Website’s contents, access time)
- Online/Technical Identifiers (e.g., IP address)
The Website’s users/visitors provide their Personal Data when using the ‘Contact Us’ form and/or subscribing to our newsletters. Mandatory details are necessary to contact you and process your inquiry. Additionally, users/visitors may submit their Personal Data when subscribing to the Alumni via the website, making a payment through the website for paying membership fees, making a donation, or registering for an event. This Notice also applies to the Personal Data we collect from you via the use of cookies. You can control how you use cookies by adjusting the settings within your browser. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or your device when you visit our Website to ensure its proper operation. For further information, please see our. Cookies Policy.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We place a lot of importance on protecting the privacy of young children who may use the Website. We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Data from individuals who are under the minimum required ages specified herein. You must be at the age of majority in your jurisdiction to use our Services. Individuals under the applicable age may use our Services only through a parent or legal guardian's supervision and with their involvement. If you are a parent or legal guardian who believes your child has provided Personal Data to us without your consent, you may ask us to delete such information by contacting us at info@iscsabis-alumni.com .
PURPOSE OF DATA COLLECTION
Any of the Personal Data we collect from you may be used in the following ways:
- Personal Data you give to us voluntarily. The Personal Data collected and stored about you will be used to respond to your inquiries when you contact us or to send you our newsletters when you sign up to receive them and where you have consented to be contacted for such purpose. Your Personal Data will also be used to create your ID, process your membership, event participation, donations, participate in the chat/networking forum, apply for jobs or internships in the Career Service Center, and keep you informed about upcoming events.
- Personal Data we collect automatically about you. We use it to ensure that the content from our Website is presented most effectively for you, administer our Website, and perform internal statistical and trend analysis to improve the user experience and performance of our Website.
No automated or profiling-based decision-making would be performed.
You may request to stop receiving any marketing material by sending an e-mail to info@iscsabis-alumni.com or by clicking on the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of the marketing material received email.
DATA SECURITY
We will process (collect, store, and use) your Personal Data in a secure manner.
We have implemented administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help prevent accidental or unlawful destruction or loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, transfer, or access. Despite these measures, no data transmission over the Internet can be entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit via our Website. We make reasonable efforts to restrict access to Personal Data to only employees and agents who need it to operate, develop, improve, or deliver our programs, products, and services.
We value the security of your Personal Data collected for the above-mentioned purposes, and we will apply acceptable security measures and procedures to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
If a breach of information occurs, we will inform you by e-mail as soon as we become aware of it.
LINKS TO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PORTALS
We maintain an online presence on social media networks and platforms in order to communicate with users and interested parties and inform them about our services.
That means your Personal Data may be processed outside the country/geographical region in which you are resident. Depending on the social media provider and/or the online video hosting services (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), other data processing may be performed by them. For details, refer to the terms of use and data privacy policies of the respective platforms.
We are not responsible for third-party links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or data processing that may be generated on third-party websites and that are accessible by links or hyperlinks on our Website. We will also not be responsible for the Personal Data that they share on other websites or social media platforms. By using our Website, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Notice. Please read the Notice carefully to understand how we collect, use, and protect your Personal Data.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Our Website contains links to external websites within the SABIS® Global Network. Please refer to each of these websites’ privacy policies for more information about how data is processed on them.
USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS
The Website uses Google Analytics – a web analytics service from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. ("Google") – to generate reports on the Website activities, which help us improve our services using active IP anonymization.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, access the following link:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
To opt out of Google Analytics (relating to your use of our Website), you can adjust your cookies settings, or you can download and install the Browser Plugin available by visiting:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
USE OF GOOGLE MAPS
We use Google Maps on our Website. Google Maps is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
The Google Maps plug-in is included by embedding the service on our Website using what is known as iFrames. When loading these iFrames, under certain circumstances, Google may collect and process information (including personal data such as your location). We cannot exclude the possibility that Google may also transmit this information to a server in a different country.
We do not collect any data when you use Google Maps through our Website.
The purpose of having Google Maps on our Website is to display our address and make further information available to you by providing access routes to the respective locations.
Information on Google’s existing Privacy Shield certification and other relevant data on Google’s data processing within the framework of the use of Google services can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The legal basis for processing personal data described herein is your legitimate interest in benefiting from Google Maps's great services.
PERSONAL DATA RETENTION
We will endeavor to keep your Personal Data accurate and up-to-date and retain and process it for as long as necessary for the specified purposes. You may request to modify any erroneous, inaccurate, misleading, or incomplete Personal Data.
The Personal Data you submit under the “Contact Us” form will be stored in our databases in anonymized format for one year only and will be automatically deleted afterward.
Also, the information we collect from you for our newsletter subscription will be deleted once you unsubscribe.
We have no impact on the duration for which data held by social network operators are stored for their own purposes. For details, please refer directly to the privacy Notice of the social network you are using.
PERSONAL DATA TRANSFER AND SHARING
The Website is maintained by SABIS Educational Services S.A.L., while it is hosted in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, Europe, where the Website and related database are stored. Therefore, your Personal Data will be stored in an anonymized format in Microsoft Azure Cloud, Europe.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE PREVIOUS CLAUSE
We will not share your Personal Data with third parties without first obtaining your informed consent. However, when using the Career Service Center, your Personal Data will be shared with the companies where you have chosen to apply for a job vacancy and requested that your personal data be transferred to them. Additionally, for some events, we may share your Personal Data with the organizers. Authorized employees of SABIS Educational Services S.A.L., which provides technical support for the website, may access your data for technical support purposes.
Furthermore, the payment functionalities on the Website are provided by Areeba. To execute the payment, your Personal Data will be shared with Areeba. All queries related to your data can be sent to Areeba’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the following address: dpo@areeba.comor by phone at +961 1 954 333.
LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Our legal basis for processing your Personal Data is dependent on the purpose for the processing and may vary as described in this Notice and the Service you are using. In general, we process your Personal Data under the following legal bases:
Your informed consent
We process your Personal Data if you have consented to the processing activity. You may revoke your consent at any time by sending an e-mail to info@iscsabis-alumni.com. Doing so will bar us from further processing your personal data based on your consent but will not impact the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before it was withdrawn.
Legitimate Interests
We process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests to provide you with the Services, such as managing, developing, testing, securing, and, in limited circumstances, marketing, advertising, and making recommendations regarding our products and services. This includes our legitimate interest in providing you with the Services we offer when you become a subscribed member or when you use a specific function on the Website. Any such processing is conducted subject to appropriate measures to protect your fundamental rights and freedoms related to your Personal Data and will be subject to the restrictions provided in this Notice.
DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
In certain circumstances, you have certain rights regarding your Personal Data. A summary of each right and how you can exercise it is set out below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to info@iscsabis-alumni.com
- Right of access — You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate, irrelevant, incomplete, out-of-date, false, or impertinent data we hold about you.
- Right to request deletion – In certain circumstances, you can ask for the inaccurate, irrelevant, incomplete, out-of-date, false, or impertinent data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – under certain conditions, you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you in a structured, generic format, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another organization, where technically feasible.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing, such as direct marketing. You are allowed, for well-founded and legitimate reasons related to a particular situation, to refuse to provide your personal data or to have it subject to a certain treatment, as well as to revoke the consent you have given us and to opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – profiling-based activities are not carried out under any circumstances.
- Right to lodge a complaint – if you have a legal basis to object to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in the country where you reside, or the alleged infringement of data protection laws that have taken place.
CONCERNS AND INQUIRIES
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us by using the "Contact Us" page on this Website.
For data protection inquiries, or if you consider that we did not process your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable regulations, please contact us by sending an e-mail to info@iscsabis-alumni.com
ACCEPTANCE AND CHANGES TO THE POLICY
By using our Website, you are explicitly consenting and confirming that you have read and agree to all the terms and conditions in this Privacy Policy.
At times, we may change and/or update this Policy. Any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.