EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL PRIVACY POLICY

Graduates First is committed to high standards of information security, privacy and transparency,  and in view of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) we have reviewed our policies and procedures.

Please read our GDPR Statement for further information.

This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms and Conditions, outlines what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.

We update this Policy from time to time so please review this Policy regularly.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In operating our assessment portal, we may collect and process the following data about you:

1. Details of your visits to our assessment portal and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, assessment tests, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.
2. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our assessment portal, such as when you registered for information (email, name, degree grade and year expected to graduate).
3. Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically and will stored on the hard drive of your computer. The cookies in use are necessary to the functionality of the assessment portal and the service that we provide to you.

All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to access particular parts of our assessment portal.

Cookies present on the platform are indicated by a cookie banner upon entry. The banner is implemented to clearly outline the cookies in use, their function, and to indicate the location of our cookie policy within the portal.

The cookies in place include authentication cookie initiated after login, and the ASP.NET Anti-forgery Cookie used to prevent cross site request forgery.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

1. To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services.
2. To meet our contractual commitments to you.
3. To notify you about any changes to our assessment portal, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.

OPTING-IN TO RECEIVING COMMUNICATIONS

You may opt-in to having your personal information used for certain purposes. For example, if you do wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you may indicate your preference on our registration form.

STORING AND TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers based in the UK. Details entered into our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our assessment portal, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

PROTECTING YOUR DATA

Protecting your personal data is very important to us, this section sets out some of the measures we have in place.

• We apply physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personal data.
• We protect the security of your information while it is being transmitted by encrypting it.
• We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption to keep this data safe.
• We only authorise access to employees and trusted partners who need it to carry out their responsibilities.
• We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security
• We can confirm that data from the assessment portal is not shared or undertaken for research without consent from the user. No other use of the data is authorized.
• In the event of the business being sold, no data will be shared with the new owner.

DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group if you provide us with the authorisation to do so. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any).

THIRD PARTY LINKS

There are no third-party website links accessible on our assessment portal. All policies are contained within the platform and pertain only to this platform.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Data Protection Act 2018, the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR gives you the right to access the information that we hold about you, please note if you have deleted your data we will not be able to provide you with such information.

Please email enquiry@graduatesfirst.com for access requests.

CONTACTING US

We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us at enquiry@graduatesfirst.com.

GFI Group Limited
2nd Floor,
6 Queen Street
Huddersfield,
HD1 2SQ

Tel:+44(0) 845 269 0027
Company Reg: 06879927
ICO Reg: ZA191556

Our Data Protection Officer Saqib Saddiq can be contacted by email: enquiry@graduatesfirst.com