Privacy Policy

Universities Business Challenge and associated websites Privacy Policy

 

This where you can find out how we safeguard your information and how we use it to improve our products and services for the benefit of all our website users.

 (Updated 24 May 2022)

The nature of our business means that, from time to time, we’ll require some personal details from our customers and website users.

Personal information that we collect may include your name, contact details (phone numbers, email address), university / organisation, your job title, course information and a team photograph – that you supply to us in registering for one of our products , events or services.

The personal information you’ve shared with us, along with data on how you use our websites – help us to better understand our customers as a group and as individuals. This in turn helps us to provide a range of products and services that meet your needs.

 

Lawful purpose

The lawful purpose for us processing your personal data is so that we can provide online and / or live educational programmes / customised learning materials for participating students / graduates / learners and university / educator support staff.

 

How we protect your data

When you share your personal information with any company, you have a right to expect that information to be treated with total confidentiality.

Your privacy is extremely important to us. We’re committed to protecting any personal information you’ve given us, and we comply with all relevant data protection laws.

This means that:

  • We take full responsibility for the information we hold about you
  • We will protect your privacy at all times
  • We will never sell your personal information
  • We will never use them without a lawful reason to do so. We’ll use them for the purposes for which they were initially requested and as fully explained in this Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
  • These policies explain how your personal data is being managed and safeguarded by us, including:
  • what information we collect about you
  • how we collect and use this information
  • how we safeguard the information you’ve provided
  • how to report abuse

We know that you care how your personal information is used and we appreciate that you trust us to do that carefully and sensibly.

This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we and our associate companies collect and use your personal information. We want you to make informed decisions when using our websites and any features on them, including any registration and e-commerce services.

This Privacy Policy applies to all the pages on our sites linking to this Privacy Policy and any features of them and any e-commerce, purchasing or other areas which require registration on our sites. However, it won’t apply to any third-party sites which may be linked to our sites. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of any such sites that you visit as we are not responsible for them.

When we refer to our website or sites, we mean any of our websites or applications from which you have accessed this Privacy Policy.

We have included full details of who we and our group companies are at the end of this Privacy Policy.

What information do we hold?

Personal information that we collect may include your name, contact details (phone numbers, email address), organisation, your job title, course information and a team photograph – that you supply to us in registering for one of our products or services.

What do we do with your personal information?

Specific purposes are:

  • Provide personalised learning materials
  • To identify you and your team /s
  • Sending teams their results
  • Personalising a team member’s Certificate of Participation
  • Sending information to you about our corporate partner job opportunities
  • Staying in touch with you to hear about your career path

General purposes:

We and our associate companies may use your personal information, for example, to provide you with the relevant service, to process your online purchases, to inform you about products and services offered by us and our associate companies, to improve the products and services offered to you, for market research purposes, for marketing, statistical or analytical purposes to invite you to participate in surveys to better meet the needs and preferences of our customers.

We also use personal information to build marketing profiles, audit how our sites are used, and to help with the strategic development of our sites. When doing so, we remove any direct identifiers.

Participation in surveys is entirely voluntary. You may unsubscribe from being contacted for these purposes at any time. Survey information will be used for market research with the aim of improving our services.

Giving your consent

Where we rely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time. Except where stated otherwise on the site at the time such personal information is submitted, it is only processed for the purposes for which you have submitted it to us – and you are giving us your consent to use your personal information for the stated purposes. We will not allow unrelated third parties to use your personal information for marketing without your consent.

What are your rights?

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • You can ask us to tell you what personal data we have for you
  • You can ask us to delete your personal data
How do we protect your personal information?

We seek to protect the safety of all your personal information by implementing appropriate technical and organisational measures. We use appropriate security measures on our own systems, but the internet is not a secure medium and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet.

Any personal information that you voluntarily post on links to social media may be collected and used by others. Please be careful what personal information you disclose in this way. You understand that we cannot control the actions of other users.

Will we send your information outside of Europe?

We may transfer your personal information to other countries, including countries outside of the United Kingdom (“UK”), which may not have the same data protection laws as those of the country where you access our sites. Where we transfer your personal information to countries outside of the UK we will take appropriate steps to ensure your personal information is given the same level of protection as described in this Privacy Policy.

Email marketing opt-out

We will not send you marketing emails if you have opted out of receiving them. Any marketing emails we send you will include an unsubscribe link at the end of the email.

Some of our websites also provide contact details you may use if you want to contact us by email, post or telephone in order to unsubscribe. You can do this at any time and we will adjust our records accordingly.

Abuses of this Privacy Policy

Any improper collection or misuse of personal information is in violation of this Privacy Policy and of our Legal Notice. Please report it by emailing: info@ubcworldwide.com

You agree not to misuse any personal information available on our sites or to gather it or use robots or other automated scripts, codes or functionalities to do so.

We may immediately suspend or terminate your access to our sites without notice if we become aware that you are in breach of applicable terms and conditions of use or of this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will always include the date of a new version so that you know when there has been a change. If you don’t agree to the changes, please don’t continue to use our site or provide us with your personal information.

Associated companies and websites

This Privacy policy covers Universities Business Challenge and associated companies and websites including: Learning Dynamics, Campus2Corporate, The Simulation Space

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the data we hold about you, or you wish to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and kept up to date, please feel free to contact us by email at:

info@ubcworldwide.com

 

Or by post at:

UBC Data Protection Officer

Learning Dynamics Limited

21 Trafalgar Place

Lymington

SO41 9BN

United Kingdom