Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: Aug 19, 2024
This Privacy Policy outlines our college policies and procedures for the collection, use and disclosure of information when you use the service and informs you about your privacy rights and the protection laws. We use your personal information to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation: is an explanation or interpretation of what something or a word means. A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase or symbols).
Definitions: For the purposes of this Privacy Policy
Account: is a personalised account set up for your use.
Company: (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our” or “UFC” in this agreement) refers to University Foundation College, Otba Bin Mohammed Street 794, Aspire Zone 54, Mehairja, Doha, Qatar
Cookies: are referred to as small files which are placed on your device such as a computer, mobile, tablet or similar by a website that contains your browsing history.
Country: refers to Qatar.
Device: any electronic device that can access the internet e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone.
Personal Data: is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service: refers to the Website.
Service Provider: refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the company in analysing how the service is used.
Third-party Social Media Service: refers to any website or any social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.
Usage Data: refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself.
Website: refers to University Foundation College – Knowledge Today ,Lead Tomorrow, accessible from www.ufc.edu.qa
You: refers to an individual person who is accessing or using the service. Or a company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as required.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Personal Data: when using our service, you may be asked to provide us with certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address
- Previous password
Usage Data: is collected automatically when using the service. Usage data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that is visited, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, some information will be automatically collected, including but not limited to, the type of mobile device, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies: we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our service. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies – Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.
- Flash Cookies – Certain features of our service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies.
- Web Beacons – Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording and analysing the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Using web browser settings to manage cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser although please bear in mind that this may affect your experience of navigating and using our website. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our service: also, to monitor the usage of our service.
To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.
To contact you: contact will be by email, phone call, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.
To provide you: with news and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are like those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
To manage your requests: to look after any requests submitted.
For other purposes: we may use information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our services and marketing.
Retention of Your Personal Data: the company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions: if the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement: under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements: the Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: www.policies.google.com/privacy
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Please read the Privacy Policy of each site.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
By email: enquiries@ufc.edu.qa
By visiting this page on our website: www.ufc.edu.qa/contact-us
By phone number: +97444441291