DAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE PRIVACY POLICY
DAM Technical College is committed to respecting the privacy of information and data that may be used to identify you (your “personal information”). This Privacy Policy describes our policies and practices regarding the most common ways we collect, use, disclose, or otherwise process your personal information. In certain circumstances, we may provide you with supplemental disclosures regarding our data processing activities.
Information We Collect and How We Use Your Personal Information
Applicants and Prospective Students
Personal Information We Collect
DAM Technical College collects and uses personal information about applicants and other prospective students, including students interested in our summer programs (referred to collectively as “applicants”). If you are or have been an applicant, we may collect and use the following types of personal information about you:
- Information and supporting documentation that you provide in your application, including through third parties, such as The Common Application, The Coalition Application.
- Related application materials (g., recommendations, references, and test scores)
- Information that you have permitted a third party, such as The College Board, to release (e.g. demographic information, family information, academic information)
- Contact information for prospective students that we receive from other institutions and from vendors who conduct advertising activities for us
- Financial information, including financial information about your family members (g., information collected in connection with applications for financial aid, loans, and scholarships)
- Survey responses (if you choose to respond to a survey sent by us or on our behalf)
How We Use Your Personal Information
Your personal information is used primarily to evaluate your application and related activities, such as evaluating requests for financial aid, communicating with you about your application, and other administrative functions related to the admissions and enrolment process. We may also use or disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
- To consider requests for accommodations
- For research and statistical purposes
- To provide you with information about DAM Technical College and events that you might be interested in attending.
- To send surveys for research purposes
- For compliance with legal obligations, to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, and to enforce our agreements
- To prevent or investigate fraud or other unlawful activity, and to protect the security of DAM Technical College’s property, website, and other systems
- To meet the obligations of private organizations with oversight over DAM Technical College, such as accreditation organizations
- To protect the health, safety, or rights of you, other students, staff, and visitors
How We Share Your Information
We may share your information with the following individuals and entities:
- Individuals who assist in the application process, such as Academic departments and outside consultants
- Other departments within DAM Technical College, including our fundraising offices
- Your financial institutions and funders (g., as necessary for obtaining loans, scholarships, or other funding)
- Other educational institutions (g., in order to send you information about jointly hosted informational events)
- Vendors who provide services to DAM Technical College
- Governmental bodies as necessary for compliance with law, with law enforcement authorities when necessary, and other third parties to enforce our legal rights
- Private organizations with oversight over DAM Technical College, such as accreditation organizations
Students, Academic Departments, and Staff
Personal Information We Collect
When you are a student at DAM Technical College, or a member or prospective member of the Academic Department and staff, we maintain records containing your personal information. We may collect and use the following types of personal information about you, as applicable:
- Your contact information and biographical data (g., name, address, date of birth, race, ethnicity, family information)
- Application materials and supporting documents (g., applications for admission or employment)
- Copies of identification documents and other official documents (g. driver’s license, passport/visa information)
- Employment and/or educational records (g., job history, job reviews, transcript information)
- Academic work product and related information (g., research and course-related content)
- Records about your other activities (g., involvement in clubs, disciplinary actions and similar incidents)
- Financial information (g., payroll information, information related to tuition payments)
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use this information for the following purposes as applicable:
- To provide educational, employment and/or related services (g., maintaining relevant records of your studies or employment, providing you with access to facilities and support services, such as counselling and IT services)
- To protect the educational integrity of the school (g.disciplinary actions)
- For research and statistical purposes related to our educational and/or other services
- To provide basic contact information in student, Academic Departments, and/or staff directories
- For the general operations of DAM Technical College and related administrative functions
- For compliance with legal obligations, to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, and to enforce our agreements
- To prevent or investigate fraud or other unlawful activity, and to protect the security of DAM Technical College’s property, website, and other systems.
- To meet the obligations of private organizations with oversight overDAM Technical college, such as accreditation organizations
- To protect the health, safety, or rights of you, other students, Academic Departments, staff, and visitor
Alumnae and Other Supporters
Personal Information We Collect
DAM Technical College holds personal information related to its alumnae and other supporters (such as donors, volunteers, and family members of students). If you are an alumna or other supporter, we may collect and use the following types of personal information about you:
- Academic information (g., major, transcript)
- Biographical information (e.g., name, date of birth, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation)
- Contact information (g., email address, phone number)
- Your activities at DAM Technical College (g., club memberships)
- Your involvement with DAM Technical College and other interests (g., attendance at events, philanthropic interests)
- Family information (g., marital status, name of spouse)
- Health information (g., disability, food allergies)
- Employment information
We collect data about alumnae and other supporters from various sources, including directly from the individual (for example, by filling out a form on our website) and from other individuals (for example, students provide information about family members). We also retain information from your student records if you studied here. We also collect information from publicly available sources, such as social media.
Website Visitors
Personal Information We Collect
The DAM Technical College website is an information system intended to present an integrated view of the College to prospective students, alumnae, the members of the DAM Technical College community, and others with an interest in DAM Technical College. If you visit this site to view or download information, or submit information to us, we or our third-party vendors may automatically collect the following types of personal information:
- the name of the domain from which you access the Internet
- the date and time of your visit
- the page/s you visit
- your computing platform
Some of this information may be collected through the use of cookies, which are text files that are placed on your hard disk by a web server, or similar technologies, such as web beacons. Some of these cookies are managed by third parties that we do not control, such as Google Analytics. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by changing your browser settings. If you choose to decline cookies, some features on this website may not work properly.
How We Share Your Personal Information
Personal information collected automatically on this website is not disclosed to third parties unless the third party is an institutionally authorized provider of services to the College. Information collected through website forms is used as specified on the form or as otherwise described in this policy.
This web site contains links to many sites that are beyond our control. DAM Technical College is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these other sites. Users of these services are subject to the privacy policies established by the third-party provider.
Retention of Data
DAM Technical College retains personal information about students and alumnae indefinitely for the purpose of alumnae relationships, academic record-keeping, and archiving purposes. Other personal information will be retained in accordance with applicable DAM Technical College data retention policies.
Individual Rights
You may have the following legal rights under applicable law with respect to the personal information processed by DAM Technical College:
- To withdraw consent at any time, if we are processing your personal information on the basis of consent
- To access the information that DAM Technical College has about you
- To request that DAM Technical College rectify or erase your information
- To request that DAM TechnicalCollege restrict the way it uses your information
- To object to the way DAM Technical College uses your information
- To ask DAM TechnicalCollege to transfer your information to someone else
DAM Technical College’s ability or obligation to comply with your requests may be limited by applicable law.
To request to exercise one of these rights, please contact us at e-mail braam@damtraining.com
Changes to this Privacy Policy
DAM Technical College reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason, without notice to you. Any changes will be published here and you should check our website to access our current Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated September 2021.
Contact Information
The controller of the personal information described in this Privacy Notice is:
DAM Technical College
77 Dekorte Street
Braamfontein
2001
Email braam@damtraining.com
DAM Technical College’s legal representative is:
Geraldine Moya Anderson-Kriel LLB. HDip Cyber Law (RAU)
(011) 326 1066 / 1829 c: (084) 584 7145 (086) 659 9050
geraldine@anderson-kriel.co.za
Questions, concerns, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Notice and the processing of personal information by DAM Technical College should be directed to braam@damtraining.com