Faculty of Leadership and Resource Management (SOMLA) Privacy policy 

• • SOMLA is the data controller of the personal information we collect about you (i.e., the entity that determines the means and purposes of collecting, using, and disclosing the personal information).
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• • We collect personal information including account registration details such as name and email, details of Content Offerings you undertake, survey information (where you provide it), identity verification data, and information about your use of our site and Services.
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• • We use your personal information for reasons which may include ensuring the security and performance of our online platform, conducting research relating to our contents and services, sharing information with our Content Providers and our stakeholders, in-house promotional purposes, performing statistical analysis of the use of our site and Services. 
  

• 1. Information relating to your use of our Site. We use information from site usage use used to build higher quality, more fine-tuned Services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of our Site. We may also use this information to ensure the security of Services on our online platform. 
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• 2. Personally Identifiable Information provided directly by you: Except as outlined in this Privacy Notice or as specifically agreed to by you, SOMLA will not disclose any of your Personal Data. In addition to the other uses outlined in this Privacy Notice, we may disclose and otherwise use Personal Data as described below. 
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  • Providing the Site and our Services. We use Personal Data that you provide to us to allow you to access and use the Site and to provide any information, products, or Services that you request from us.

• Technical support and security. We may use Personal Data to provide technical support to you, where required, and to ensure the security of our Services and the Site. 

• Updates. We require Personal Data collected when you opt to sign up for update services such as emails, to send you messages in connection with the Site or Content Offerings. This information may also be secured to be used for future communications with you, as legally seen fit to do. 

• Forums. You should not post any personally identifiable information or other information of a personal or sensitive nature, whether relating to you or another person, within a Forum post. If you choose to post personally identifiable information, such personally identifiable information may be collected during your use of the Forums. We may publish this information via extensions of our platform that use third-party services, like mobile applications. We reserve the right to reuse Forum posts that contain personally identifiable information in future versions of the Content Offerings and to enhance future Content Offerings. We may archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you and/or your designee(s), and/or provide it to the Content Provider, business partners, or the instructor(s) associated with the courses you have taken. We may also use or publish posts submitted on the Forums without using personally identifiable information.

• Participation in Content Offerings. We use the Personal Data that we collect from you when you participate in a Content Offering through the Site for processing purposes, including but not limited to tracking attendance, progress, and completion of the Content Offerings. We may also share your Personal Data and your performance in a given Content Offering with the instructor or instructors who taught it, with teaching assistants or other individuals designated by the instructor or instructors to assist with the creation, modification, or operation of the Content Offering, and with the Content Provider(s) with which they are affiliated. We may also use the information generated when taking a Content Offering or using the Services for predictive analysis of your performance in the Content Offerings. Also, we may archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you, where we are legally entitled to do so. 

• Identity Verification. For Services that require identity verification, we may use the Personal Data that we collect for verifying your identity, and for authenticating that submissions made on the Site were made by you. This service may be provided through a third-party identity verification vendor. Your photo identification document will be deleted after the successful verification of your profile information. 

• Communications with or from SOMLA. When you send us an email message or otherwise contact us, we may use the information provided by you to respond to your communication and/or as described in this Privacy Notice. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you where we are legally entitled to do so. Where we send you emails, we may track the way that you interact with these emails (such as when you open an email or click on a link inside an email). We use this information to optimize and better tailor our communications to you. 

• Communications with SOMLA Business Partners. We may share your Personal Data with Content Providers and other business partners of SOMLA so that Content Providers and other business partners may share information about their products and services that may be of interest to you where they are legally entitled to do so.

• Research. We may share general course data (including quiz or assignment submissions, grades, and forum discussions), information about your activity on our Site, and demographic data from surveys operated by us with our Content Providers and other business partners so that our Content Providers and other business partners may use the data for research related to online education. 

• Disclosure to SOMLA Operations and Maintenance Contractors. We use various service providers, vendors, and contractors (collectively, "Contractors") to assist us in providing our Services to you. Our Contractors may have limited access to your Personal Data in the course of providing their products or services to us, so that we in turn can provide our Services to you. These Contractors may include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to the operation and maintenance of the Site or the Content Offerings. Access to your Personal Data by these Contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the Contractor to perform its limited function for us.

• For your convenience, we may provide links to sites operated by organizations other than SOMLA ("Third Party Sites") that we believe may be of interest to you. We do not disclose your Personal Data to these Third Party Sites unless we have a lawful basis on which to do so. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Sites. If you choose to click on a link to one of these Third Party Sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Site collects and uses your Personal Data. 

• Retention of Personally Identifiable Information. We keep your Personal Data for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Data is collected and processed. The length of time we retain Personal Data depends on the purposes for which we collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws and to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.