The Seychelles Business Studies Academy (SBSA) is a Governmental institution. We place high importance on your privacy and value the trust you put in us. This Privacy Policy informs you of how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you visit our website www.sbsa.edu.sc.
What we collect and how
While you browse, read pages, download documents or send an enquiry from the contact page or via the pop-up contact form on each page of this website, we automatically gather and store certain information, such as:
Personal Information
When you send us an enquiry via our contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, voluntarily complete a survey or provide feedback in our contact form or via email, we collect certain personal identification information such as your name, email address and phone number, and other information relevant to surveys.
We do not collect this data for commercial purposes.
Statistical information
Like many site operators, we collect statistical information (or log data) that your browser sends whenever you visit our website.
This data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this.
What we do with the information we gather
We use your data to understand your needs, improve our website user experience and periodically send you emails about latest news and updates. We may use this information to customise our website according to your interests, to provide you with a better service. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes by email.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites of interest operated by third parties. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. We encourage you to exercise caution and examine each third-party website’s Privacy Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.
View our Cookie Policy.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is updated as of January 2024.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically.
By using our website, or continually use it after periodic changes to the Privacy Policy on this page, it means that you agree and accept our terms in this Privacy Policy and acknowledge any changes to this Privacy Policy. It also means that you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.