Effective Date: May 23, 2025
Welcome to kaunasuniversity.site, your online destination for all things related to our University. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a safe and transparent online experience. This Privacy Policy outlines how Harper collects, uses, discloses, and protects your information when you visit and interact with our website, https://kaunasuniversity.site/.
We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. This policy is designed to uphold that right by being clear, concise, and empowering you with control over your personal data. We are committed to operating in accordance with principles of data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, and confidentiality.
1. Information We Collect
As a University website, we primarily collect information to enhance your educational experience and provide you with relevant content and services. The types of information we may collect depend on how you interact with our site:
- Information You Voluntarily Provide:
- Contact Information: When you fill out forms, subscribe to newsletters, or contact us via our support email, you may provide your name, email address, and any other information you choose to share.
- Application/Enrollment Information: If you use our site for applications or enrollment processes, we may collect academic history, demographic information, and other details necessary for your admission or registration.
- Feedback and Inquiries: Information you provide when submitting feedback or asking questions.
- Information Collected Automatically (Usage Data):
- Log Data: When you visit our website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends, including your IP address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your visit, and the pages you accessed.
- Device Information: We may collect information about the device you use to access our website, including device type, operating system, and unique device identifiers.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your Browse experience, analyze site usage, and personalize content. These may include:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the operation of our website, enabling core functionalities like navigation and access to secure areas.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting information about page visits, bounce rates, and traffic sources. This helps us improve our website’s performance.
- Functionality Cookies: Remember your preferences (like language or region) to provide a more personalized experience.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: While our primary focus is on educational content, we may sparingly use these for university-related outreach if directly relevant to our mission (e.g., promoting open days or specific programs), always with your explicit consent where required.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, always with a clear justification and in line with our commitment to your privacy:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Website: Ensuring the smooth operation and functionality of kaunasuniversity.site.
- To Improve Our Services: Analyzing usage patterns to enhance website content, user experience, and the educational resources we offer.
- To Communicate with You: Responding to your inquiries, providing updates, sending newsletters (if you’ve subscribed), and delivering important university-related information.
- For Admissions and Enrollment Processes: If applicable, processing applications and managing enrollment data.
- To Personalize Your Experience: Tailoring content and recommendations based on your interests and past interactions with our site.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: Protecting our website and users from malicious activities and ensuring data integrity.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: Fulfilling our legal responsibilities and responding to lawful requests from public authorities.
- For Research and Analytics: Conducting internal research to understand our audience and improve our university’s offerings.
3. Sharing Your Information
We are committed to minimizing data sharing. We will only share your information in the following limited circumstances:
- With Service Providers: We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you (e.g., website hosting, analytics, email delivery). These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency request).
- In Case of University Reorganization or Merger: If kaunasuniversity.site or our university undergoes a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control of your personal data.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with other third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
4. Your Data Protection Rights (SCO – Subject Control & Oversight)
In line with the principle of human rights and data sovereignty, you have significant rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to enabling your Subject Control and Oversight (SCO) over your information:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data we hold.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at Support@kaunasuniversity.site. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
5. Data Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We implement a variety of technical and organizational measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include:
- Encryption: Using SSL/TLS encryption for data in transit.
- Access Controls: Restricting access to personal data to authorized personnel only.
- Regular Security Audits: Conducting periodic reviews of our security practices.
- Data Minimization: Collecting only the data that is necessary for our stated purposes.
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact Harper at:
Email: Support@kaunasuniversity.site
We are dedicated to addressing your concerns promptly and transparently.
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