Rotterdam School of Business and Public Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date:  30th August 2024

  1. Introduction

Welcome to Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy (RSBPP). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

  1. Information We Collect

You are hereby informed that the personal data requested when you register in this website, by telephone or on any of our printed forms are strictly necessary for formalizing and managing our relations with you.

We will process your personal details in order to manage its relations with you and to send you commercial communications via any means, even after our relations with you have terminated, in order to keep you informed about our products and services similar to those you have contracted.

Consequently, we may collect the following types of personal information:

  • Personal Identification Information: Name, contact details (email address, phone number), date of birth, and gender.
  • Educational Information: Academic records, transcripts, test scores, and enrollment history.
  • Financial Information: Payment details, financial aid information, and tuition fees.
  • Employment Information: Current employment status, job history, and resume/CV details.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our website and services, including IP addresses, browser types, and access times.

 

 

  1. How We Use Your Information

You are hereby informed that, for the purpose of offering you the products and services of Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy, or third-party companies in line with your interests, as well as to improve your user experience on our website, we create a ‘commercial profile based on the information you provide and other information derived from your consumption and browsing habits and obtained from social media.

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Admissions and Enrollment: To process applications, communicate admission decisions, and manage enrollment.
  • Academic and Administrative Services: To facilitate course registration, and academic transcripts
  • Financial Management: To manage tuition payments, financial aid, and scholarships.
  • Communication: To send updates, newsletters, and important information related to your studies
  • Research and Improvement: To analyze trends, improve our services, and conduct institutional research.

Furthermore, your personal data and commercial profile will be transferred to the rest of entities that form part of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV so that they can send you commercial communications about their products and services or the products and services of third-party companies that belong to or are unrelated to Messe Rand Consulting Group BV. For this purpose, these companies will, in turn, create their own commercial profile with the aforementioned data and profiles, as well as any other data and profiles related to you that they may already have or obtain, all in order to ensure that the communications sent to you are of interest to you as they will be aligned to your tastes, consumption and browsing habits, and commercial preferences. This processing will therefore involve cross-referencing and enhancing the databases of the various companies that form part of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV.

You can check out the list of companies that form part of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV by clicking the following link www.messerand.com.  These companies conduct their activities in the sectors of advisory, training, strategic meetings/ events management.

In all cases, the third-party companies unrelated to our group in relation to which, if applicable, we send you commercial communications will conduct their activity in the same sectors as the companies of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV, as specified above.

  1. How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with:

  • Internal Parties: Authorized employees and contractors who require access to perform their job functions.
  • Educational and Administrative Partners: Third-party service providers who assist with academic, financial, or administrative services.
  • Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required by law, to comply with legal processes, or to protect the rights and safety of our institution and its members.
  1. Data Security

We implement a range of security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. This includes physical, administrative, and technical safeguards.

  1. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal requirements, or as otherwise necessary for our operations.

Therefore, in the event that you do not provide this data, we will be unable to maintain these relations. In all cases, this primary purpose is not contingent on your consent to process the data that are not necessary for this primary purpose.

As mentioned above, the prospective communication of our own and/or third-party products and services, as well as the creation of commercial profiles and the transferal of such profiles and your personal data to third-party companies of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV, are additional forms of processing your data conditional on the consent requested from you. Under no circumstances will the refusal or withdrawal of this consent affect the maintenance of our relations with you.

Personal data provided and the data obtained from your browsing and consumption habits, and the commercial profile obtained therefrom, shall be kept as long as you do not request their deletion or withdrawal.

Only in the event that you give us your consent to this effect, your personal data and, if applicable, your commercial profile will be communicated to the rest of the companies that form part of Messe Rand Consulting Group BV for the purposes specified in the section “How We Use Your Information ” of this Privacy Policy.

  1. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

  • Access: The right to request a copy of your personal data.
  • Correction: The right to request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Deletion: The right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Opt-Out: The right to opt-out of certain communications or data processing activities.

Anybody has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not, at Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy, we are processing personal data that concerns them.

Moreover, the interested parties have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of incorrect data and, if applicable, its deletion or withdrawal when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was gathered.

Under certain circumstances, the interested parties can request that restrictions be applied to the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep the data for exercising or defending against any possible claims.

Under certain circumstances and for reasons related to their specific situation, the interested parties can oppose the processing of their data. In such case Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy, will stop processing the data, except for cases in which they are legally obliged to do so, or to exercise or defend against any possible claims.

Moreover, the interested parties have the right to receive the personal data related to them that they have provided in a structured, legible and common format, and to transfer this data to another responsible party.

Interested parties can exercise these rights and the withdrawal of their consents, if applicable, at any time by sending written notification to Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy, Westplein 12-143016 BM Rotterdam Netherlands or by email to info@rsbpp.nl, Attn: Data Protection Manager, or by email to info@rsbpp.nl or by post to Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy.

 

You may exercise the rights of access, deletion, rectification, opposition, limitation and portability, by post to Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy, Westplein 12-14

3016 BM Rotterdam Netherlands or by email to info@rsbpp.nl. Likewise, if the interested party considers it appropriate, they can lodge a claim to the Dutch Data Protection Authority via Postbus 93374, 2509 AJ Den Haag.

 

In this respect, please note that forms to exercise these rights are available on the website of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en). If the interested party considers it appropriate, they can lodge a claim to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, particularly when they do not believe that we have duly enabled them to exercise their rights. Any such claims can be presented to this authority via any of the channels offered on their website.

  1. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated policy on our website or through direct communication.

  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Rotterdam School of Business & Public Policy

Westplein 12-14

3016 BM Rotterdam

Netherlands

Tel: +31103072137

info@rsbpp.nl