Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to The Council for Hospitality Management Education Website. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand why we collect and process your personal data, how long we retain it, and who we may share it with. By using our Website, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Data Collection and Processing

We collect and process personal data to provide you with a better user experience and to fulfill our services. We may collect the following types of personal data:

Contact Information: such as your name, email address, and phone number.
Usage Data: information about how you interact with our Website, including pages visited, links clicked, and features used.

We process personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to do so.
Contractual Obligations: Processing your data is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
Legitimate Interests: We process data for our legitimate interests, provided they do not override your rights and interests.

Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Once the data is no longer necessary, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Sharing Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

Service Providers: We may share data with third-party service providers who assist us in operating the Website and providing services to you.
Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may disclose data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

We will not sell, rent, or lease your personal data to third parties without your explicit consent.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

Access the personal data we hold about you.
Correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Restrict processing of your personal data.

Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.