Privacy at UTS College
UTS College Sri Lanka is committed to maintaining the privacy of all individuals who we deal with. This Policy sets out how UTS College Sri Lanka collects, secures, uses, handles and discloses your personal information.
Your interaction with UTS College Sri Lanka, use of any of our services and use of utscollege.edu.lk or any other website through which you communicate with us (including through social media profiles) indicates that you accept this Privacy Policy, and consent to our collection and use of your personal information (including sensitive information) according to the terms of this Policy.
Website privacy notice
The purpose of this privacy notice is to let visitors to the Educonnect (Lanka) Limited (UTS College Sri Lanka) website know what information is collected about them while they are accessing UTS College Sri Lanka webpages, how the information is used and whether or not it is disclosed. This privacy notice does not apply to any non-UTS College Sri Lanka webpages which may be reached via links from this website.
Your personal information
UTS College Sri Lanka uses this website to promote UTS College Sri Lanka including our course offerings, services, activities, facilities, benefits and events. As a pathway provider to UTS, UTS College Sri Lanka also uses this website to promote UTS course offerings and activities.
Providing your personal information to UTS College Sri Lanka is voluntary and enables us to provide certain services to you. The personal information we collect through this website may include:
- the contents of any electronic forms you submit through this website, requesting us to provide services or information which may include personal information such as name, email address and phone number; and
- any messages or comments you submit to us through this website, or to email addresses displayed on this website, which may include personal information such as name, email address and phone number.
On this website, there may be separate privacy notices dealing with the collection of personal information for the above activities. Any personal information you provide to us will only be used and disclosed for UTS College Sri Lanka’s purposes, or a directly related purpose, unless you consent to another use or disclosure, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
Email
Email addresses provided through this website will be used to respond to specific user queries and for student marketing and recruitment.
Web statistics and cookies
A cookie is a package of data which a website requests be stored on your computer to identify you as a user of that website. Cookies are used to store information about a user’s preferences, and to enable the dynamic display of a website according to a user’s preference when they return. You may choose to disallow cookies through your web browser settings.
Google Analytics is a tool to measure website traffic and usage. You can opt out of the collection of this information using a tool like the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
As part of our digital marketing, UTS College Sri Lanka may collect data from you through Google Analytics, by using cookies or by other automated means (such as a server or proxy logs). The information collected using these tools may include your server address, your domain name, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser and device you used. These tools do not match any data collected with any personal information, which means that you can browse the UTS College Sri Lanka website anonymously.
From time to time, we also allow third party vendors, such as Google, Facebook, Ad Roll, Double Click and LiveChat, to use cookies to collect or receive information for the purpose of delivering targeted advertising to users who have previously visited the UTS College Sri Lanka website (e.g. you may see one of our adverts on the Google display network or on Facebook after browsing our website).
Social media services
UTS College uses a range of social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, When you communicate with us using these services we may collect your personal information and use it to help us to communicate with you and the public. The social media services will handle your personal information for their own purposes and will have their own privacy policies.
Security
UTS College Sri Lanka has implemented security policies and measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control. However, you should be aware that there are risks in transmitting information across the Internet. While we endeavour to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us online and individuals do so at their own risk.
Once any personal information comes into our possession, UTS College Sri Lanka will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Publishing personal information on this website
UTS College Sri Lanka will only publish your personal information on this website if it has been collected for this purpose with your knowledge or if you have consented to the disclosure. When giving such consent you should be aware that information published on this website is accessible to millions of users worldwide, that it will be indexed by search engines and may be copied and used by any web user. This means that once information is published on this website, UTS College Sri Lanka has no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.
Access and correction
You are responsible for ensuring the information you provide to UTS College Sri Lanka and UTS is correct and up to date. If you would like to:
- access or correct personal information held by UTS College Sri Lanka;
- lodge a complaint about a breach of your privacy; or
- raise any concerns about your privacy at UTS College Sri Lanka,
you can contact privacy@utscollege.edu.lk at any time. Please refer to the College Sri Lanka Privacy Policy (download link shown above) for further details.