Privacy Policy
Privacy and data protection
To review the full terms of use of the website, Check Terms of Use
5.1 Your right to privacy is important to us. The following terms are provided to explain how we collect and use information about you so that you can make an informed choice about using the Website.
5.2 Data protection
5.2.1 BSCM is keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring that you obtain full value from the products and services it provides, while ensuring that it complies with all protection the Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the Act’) and the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) affords to you. BSCM will hold your personal data securely in accordance with the Act, under which it is fully registered and the GDPR.
5.2.2 The main purpose of the Act and GDPR is to contain the possible threat to individuals from the misuse of personal data relating to them held in manual records or on computing equipment. BSCM complies with all requirements of the law on protection of personal data held on computer or in manual records. The same requirements apply to any records held by individual students about identifiable living individuals.
5.3 Collection and use of personal data
5.3.1 Personal data is not stored nor captured through the Website without the prior knowledge and consent of Users. Where personal information is captured (eg through web-based forms for feedback, registration, requests, etc), the User will be informed as to what personal information is being collected, who will use it, and for what purpose(s) it will be used.
5.3.2 Any personal data that you give us will be treated with the utmost care and security. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as it is still used for the purpose stated when originally requested.
5.3.3 BSCM is keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring that you obtain full value from the products and services it provides, while ensuring that it complies with all protection the Act and GDPR affords to you. BSCM will hold your personal data securely in accordance with the Act, under which it is fully registered.
5.3.4 Should you request that we amend or suppress records containing your personal data, we will endeavour to do so as promptly as practical. However, you may receive communications for a transitional period while we process your records.
5.3.5 The Act and GDPR gives you the right to see the personal information BSCM holds on you.
5.4 Cookies
5.4.1 This Website uses cookies – a small piece of information stored on your computer in the form of a file – where strictly necessary for the purposes of making the Website work, for monitoring performance or facilitating functionality.
5.4.2 You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting the settings of your web browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website.
5.4.3 By using this Website, you consent to the use of cookies and use of the data they provide.
5.4.4 For more information, see COOKIES
5.5 Log files
5.5.1 Continuous logs are kept of requests received by the Website’s web servers as it is accessed. These logs are used to analyse usage of the Website.
5.5.2 Each log entry includes the internet protocol (IP) address of the client used (typically, though not necessarily, the IP address of the personal computer (PC) used), the type of client used (typically, though not necessarily, the type and version of web browser used), the URL of the page (or object) requested, the URL of the previous page (or object) requested (known as the ‘referrer’ and could relate to this Website or another), and the reference number stored in a cookie created by the Website (if one exists). BSCM logs additionally contain the username used to access restricted areas of the Website. This username is not collected by nor shared with Nedstat or Google Inc.
5.5.3 BSCM is only able to link log entries to individuals where it holds personal data that can be associated with log entries using IP address, username, or reference number from cookies. This is only possible in relation to Users connected directly to the BSCM network (ie using an BSCM IP address) and Users using an BSCM account (ie using an BSCM username). We will only use this information to identify you where we are required to by law or where we suspect that there has been a breach of the law or of the Terms of use
Terms of use
Please read the terms of use and privacy policy carefully. They contain important information about your rights and obligations.
Terms of use
Please read the terms of use and privacy policy carefully. They contain important information about your rights and obligations.
1.1 These terms and conditions of use (‘Terms of use’) refer to the official website of The Business School of Commerce and Management (‘BSCM’, ‘our’, ‘we’ or ‘us’), which is accessible via the address https://www.bscm-edu.org and its variations (‘Website’). By using, or contributing to, the Website you (‘User’ or ‘you’) agree to these Terms of use. In particular, we draw your attention to clause 2 (Disclaimer and limitation of liability), clause 3 (Copyright and intellectual property rights) and clause 4 (Contributing to our Website). You may print and keep a copy of these Terms of use.
1.2 Together these Terms of use, About this page and About this site sections, and any web page-specific terms and conditions that may be shown on the Website from time to time, form the entire agreement between you and us (‘Agreement’). If you do not agree to be legally bound by this Agreement please leave the Website immediately. Your continued access and use of the Website will amount to acceptance of these Terms of use.
1.3 BSCM reserves a right to change the Agreement at any time and will post a ‘highlight’ to the About this site section if changes are made. You should review these Terms of use on a regular basis to ensure that you are aware of any changes made as you will be legally bound by any amended terms if you continue to use the Website after the changes.
2.1 BSCM does its best to ensure that all information on the Website is accurate. If you find any inaccurate information on the Website please let BSCM know by sending an email to Web Services at info@bscm-edu.org and we will correct it, where we agree, as soon as practicable.
2.2 BSCM gives no warranty or assurance about the content of the Website. As the Website is under constant development its contents may be incorrect or out-of-date and are subject to change without notice. While BSCM makes every effort to ensure that the content of the Website is accurate, BSCM cannot accept liability for the accuracy of all content at any given point in time.
2.3 BSCM makes every effort to ensure that its computer infrastructure is error- and virus-free but does not warrant that any material available for downloading from the Website will be free from infection, viruses and/ or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.
2.4 Neither BSCM nor any of its agents, employees and sub-contractors shall be liable to you or any other party for any claim, loss, demand or damages whatsoever (whether such claims, loss, demands or damages were foreseeable, known or otherwise) arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website or information, content or materials included on the Website.
2.5 In no event shall BSCM or any of its agents, employees or sub-contractors be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss or damage including, without limitation, any;
2.5.1 loss of actual or anticipated profits (including loss of profits on contracts);
2.5.2 loss of revenue;
2.5.3 loss of business;
2.5.4 loss of opportunity;
2.5.5 loss of anticipated savings;
2.5.6 loss of good will;
2.5.7 loss of reputation;
2.5.8 loss or damage to or corruption of data;
2.5.9 loss of use of money or otherwise,
and whether or not advised of the possibility of such claim, loss, demand or damages and arising in tort (including negligence), contract or otherwise, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
2.6 The Website provides hypertext links to other sites operated by other people. Using such a link means you are leaving the Website. BSCM takes no responsibility for, and gives no warranties, endorsements, guarantees or representations in respect of, linked sites. BSCM is not responsible for the privacy practices, nor do we accept any liability in connection with the content of, such websites, including those of our group entities, which will in some cases have their own privacy policies tailored for the particular business practices and educational sectors in which they operate. Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its website administrator or web master.
2.7 We are a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and users of the internet. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, or users, are those of the authors or distributors and not of us. We do not necessarily endorse nor are we responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Website.
2.8 The information on the Website is not intended to address your particular requirements. Such information does not constitute any form of advice or recommendation by us and is not intended to be relied upon by you in making (or refraining from making) any specific educational, or other, decisions. You should take your own advice and/ or make specific enquiries and independently verify any information before relying upon it.
2.9 If you make an arrangement with anyone named in or connected with the Website this is at your sole risk.
2.10 Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits BSCM’s liability for:
2.10.1 death or personal injury caused by BSCM’s negligence; or
2.10.2 fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
2.10.3 the tort of deceit; or
2.10.4 any other liability which may not be limited or excluded by law.
3.1 The Website contains copyright material, trade names and marks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos and graphics, and may in future include video, graphics, music and sound (‘Content’). The Content is protected by copyright law, registered and unregistered trade marks, database rights and other intellectual property rights.
3.2 BSCM, its licensors, or authorised contributors own the copyright, database right and other intellectual property rights in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such Content, as well as in the Content original to it. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit, any of the Content, in whole or in part except as provided in these Terms of use.
3.3 You may download information from the Website for your own personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without our express permission or that of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyright material.
4.1 Where you elect, or are invited, to submit any contribution or material to the Website (including any text, message board content, photographs, graphics, video, audio or logo) (‘Contribution’) or otherwise consent to the use of the Contribution, then by submitting the Contribution or consenting to its use, you grant BSCM a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your Contribution worldwide and/ or to incorporate your Contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your Contribution. If you do not want to grant to BSCM the rights set out above, please do not submit your Contribution to the Website. The BSCM shall have no liability to you for any misuse by any third party of any Contribution that is distributed by us through the Website or in respect of any infringement of the intellectual property rights in any Contribution by any third party.
4.2 By submitting your Contribution to the Website, you:
4.2.1 warrant and represent that your Contribution:
(a) is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to BSCM for all the purposes specified above and that it does not breach or infringe anyone else’s rights such as copyright or in is in any way illegal;
(b) is not defamatory, libellous, obscene, menacing, threatening, offensive, abusive, fraudulent or criminal;
(c) will not and does not contravene any relevant local, national or international law or incite or encourage the contravention of any such law;
(d) is not related to the conduct of a business;
(e) does not advertise or market anything in any way; and
(f) is not otherwise offensive;
4.2.2 agree at all times to follow our message board rules of posting, which will be shown next to the message board;
4.2.3 agree to indemnify and keep BSCM indemnified on demand against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by BSCM as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
4.2.4 agree to waive any moral rights in your Contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Website and the purposes specified above to the fullest extent permitted by law.
4.3 We reserve the right to identify you in response to a court order or threat of legal action.
4.4 If you see any information on the Website that breaches your or anyone else’s rights or may be illegal, defamatory or otherwise should be removed, let us know immediately by e-mailing Web Services at info@bscm-edu.org and, where we agree, we shall do our best to remove it as soon as possible.
4.5 We reserve the right to remove any Contribution from the Website (including any text, message board content, photographs, graphics, video, audio or logo) at any time and without notice and shall not be obliged to give a reason for doing so. In the event that we remove any Contribution from the Website we shall in no way be liable for any loss, liability, cost or expense suffered by you as a result (whether direct or indirect) of such removal.
4.6 We reserve the right to edit, remove postings to message boards, delete or use electronic methods to block or filter any Contribution left on or sent to the Website at our discretion, including without limitation any message that contravenes any of these Terms of use, but we do not have an obligation to do so.
4.7 You must indemnify (pay) us, and keep us indemnified, on demand for any losses we suffer if you breach this provision or any other provision of these Terms of use or the message board rules of posting.
4.8 We expect many of those contributing to our message boards to have strong views about the matters discussed, but the Website is subject to the laws of libel and you and we could be sued if you are not careful in what you say. You should not make libellous postings or any postings that are illegal or breach copyright, database or other related rights. It is your responsibility to check this. We do not accept any liability in this respect.
4.9 You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We reserve the right to report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and in such an event we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
4.10 Where we create a link from our Website to any website operated by you, we shall have the right to remove such link at any time without obtaining your prior consent. In the event that we do remove a link from our Website to any website operated by you, we shall in no way be liable for any loss, liability, cost or expense suffered by you as a result (whether direct or indirect) of such removal, including, without limitation to the foregoing generality, where such loss, liability, cost or expense results from a loss of search engine positioning, ranking, placement or optimisation.
Cookies are small files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. They are used by many websites to make them work, or to help them work more efficiently. They also provide us with information about how you use the website.
Website operators are required by law – specifically the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (UK Regulations) – to provide clear and comprehensive information about the use of cookies, and ensure that users have consented to this use.
The BSCM website is a large and complex service comprising various sub-sites. Various cookies are in use across the BSCM website, with the cookies in use subject to changes as the website develops. The following table details the cookies used on the BSCM website following our latest audit (May 2018).
Session cookie
These are created temporarily in your browser’s subfolder while you are visiting the website. Session cookies allow you to proceed from webpage to webpage quickly and easily so you don’t get asked for the same information you’ve already given to the site. The cookie is then automatically deleted when you leave the website.
Persistent cookie
These remain in your browser’s subfolder and are activated again when you re-visit the website. It helps us to remember your information and settings when you visit the website again, resulting in a faster online experience for you.
Functional cookie
These enable additional functionality to improve your experience on the website. For example, recording settings for future visits so as to save users having to repeat making the same choices.
csrftoken
mid
rur
urlgen
Used to enable sharing on social media.
Strictly necessary cookie
These are technically essential to the provision of the BSCM website. For example, some cookies are used to enable secure login to restricted areas.
BSCM
cb-enabled
This cookie is associated with a free script which shows the cookie alert notice on the website. It is used to record when the user has dismissed the notice to prevent it re-appearing on return visits.
Contensis
ASP.NET_SessionId
Used to enable state for interactive services, such as forms, and to enable authorisation to access restricted areas of the LSE website.
BSCM
JSESSIONID
Used to facilitate authorisation to access restricted areas of the BSCM website.
WordPress
PHPSESSID
Used to enable state for interactive services, such as forms, and to enable authorisation to access restricted areas of the BSCM website.
Performance cookie
These monitor and assess the BSCM website and its use. For example, recording visits to reveal how a website is used and which parts are most popular.
Google Analytics
__ga
__gat
__gid
__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmt
__utmz
Used to monitor usage of the BSCM website. This information allows BSCM to assess how the BSCM website is used. Anonymous data about usage (eg number of visitors, visitors’ country, number of times each page is visited) is collected and aggregated to produce website performance reports.
Baidu
HMACCOUNT
Hm_lpvt
Hm_lvt
Used to monitor usage of the BSCM website. This information allows BSCM to assess how the BSCM website is used.
Google Tag Manager
_dc_gtm
Used to help identify website visitors in Google Analytics by DoubleClick.
Bing
_uetsid
MUID
MUIDB
Used to help identify website visitors. Provided by Microsoft Inc.
Funnelback
user-id
Used to track user search experience across the website.
Hotjar
_hjClosedSurveyInvites
_hjDonePolls
_hjMinimizedPolls
_hjShownFeedbackMessage
_hjid
_hjRecordingLastActivity
_hjTLDTest
_hjUserAttributesHash
_hjCachedUserAttributes
_hjLocalStorageTest
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
_hjIncludedInSessionSample
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
_hjFirstSeen
hjViewportId
_hjRecordingEnabled
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.
Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.
Advertising/targeting cookies
These use an identification number to monitor personal preferences for the purposes of personalising pages and gathering further information. For example, presenting adverts or promotions for products similar to those previously viewed or purchased.
These include
- Facebook Pixel
- LinkedIn InsightTag
- Google/Doubleclick
Google / Doubleclick
1P_JAR
CONSENT
NID
DV
UULE
IDE
Used to remember preferences and gather website statistics.
Sharing information via social media platforms
BSCM websites and applications may have links embedded into pages on various social media platforms. Cookies generated by those sites are outside of the School’s control and may change without notice. When you share a page or link those sites may set cookies on your device or browser and may also make information about you publicly available or stored elsewhere. For more information about privacy and the cookies used by these services, as well as information on how to opt-out, please visit the respective social media platforms.
You can use your website browser to:
- Delete all cookies
- Block all cookies
- Allow all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Clear all cookies when you close the browser
- Open a ‘private browsing’ / ‘incognito’ session (allows you to browse the internet without storing local data)
- Install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality, for example Google have created a Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On for Chrome.
More information can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office website, https://ico.org.uk , http://aboutcookies.org/ and http://www.allaboutcookies.org/