Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

The purpose of this privacy policy is to describe how Global Alumni Corp., on behalf of the University of Chicago, collects, uses, and shares information about you through our website.

Please read this policy carefully to ensure your full understanding thereof. If you do not understand any point of this privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at admissions@online.professional.uchicago.edu

Confidentiality, professional secrecy, and security are important matters for Global Alumni Corp., which is committed to ensuring the privacy of the user or visitor at all times and in any interaction. In addition, Global Alumni Corp. undertakes to refrain from obtaining unnecessary information about the user and to treat with extreme diligence any personal information that the user may provide through our website or one of our affiliated universities.

We comply with the privacy requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws and regulations that protect academic records, privacy, and confidentiality.

This includes your rights with respect to:

Consent to the disclosure of personally identifiable information.
Being informed of where your record is located.
Revision of your registration.
Correction requirements.

We ask you to provide appropriate, pertinent, and strictly necessary information to facilitate the registration process for you. Forms marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory. Furthermore, you agree to provide us with genuine and true details that are relevant to their purpose.

We ask for and collect your personal data through various application forms and via email for the following purposes:

Interested public (people interested in our programs):
- Management of application information and information material regarding our programs.
- Submission of the required material for the application through the relevant channels: email, telephone, WhatsApp, SMS, or social networks.
Students:
- Management of application forms in training programs.
- Formalization, registration, administrative management, implementation, and development of training programs for teaching practices.
- Provision of services to students.
- Segmentation and completion of profiles, statistical studies of the services and contents used, tastes and preferences, surveys, or forms.
- Submission of related information, activities, and events of the entity.
- Submission of publications, invitations, programs, newsletters, and the like.
- Historical record of the relationships maintained with the students.
Graduates:
- Maintaining contact with alumni.
- Submission of related information, activities, and events of the entity.

Visiting our website

Our entire website is hosted on a secure server. You will see that its pages start with https://.

Our web server automatically recognizes information related to the domain from which the session was connected. We compile voluntary information, such as survey responses or application or inquiry information. We use this information for marketing communication, but we do not share this information with other entities for business purposes.

If you provide us with an email address, you can receive our newsletter with information about new courses and services or upcoming events. If you provide us with a telephone number, you will only receive information by telephone about the specific program of your interest, about your subscription, or information about the extension.

We do not associate or have any particular relationship with any advertising service company. We may occasionally use customer information for new uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.

About the cookies

Cookies are small data files that allow us to gather information about the browsing habits of users on our website. They help us show you the content that is really of interest to you.

We use cookies to record information about the session, such as the programs in which you are interested. We also use cookies to record session activity for marketing purposes and for online promotion of the University of Chicago. Third-party providers, such as Google, display their ads on the internet. Cookies allow third-party providers, such as Google, to serve extension ads based on the user’s previous visits to the website. Individuals can choose not to use Google cookies or to refuse the use of cookies from third-party providers.

We use Yandex.Metrica to study the behavior of users on our website and thereby improve the browsing experience offered. This behavior does not remain associated with the user’s personal data, as it is completely anonymous. We do not share this information with third parties.

We use Yandex.Metrica to record sessions of visitors to our website. These recordings do not remain recorded or associated with personal data, as they are completely anonymous. This information is never freely accessible, and we do not share it with third parties.

Canceling your subscription

If you do not wish to receive informative and commercial communications from us or want to revoke the consent of the authorizations you have already granted, as well as exercise your right to access, rectification, cancellation or opposition, you can notify us to this effect via the following email address: admissions@online.professional.uchicago.edu

If you do not wish to receive any marketing emails, please let us know by replying to any of them or by clicking on “Unsubscribe from any future emails” at the bottom of the email.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Please note that we review our privacy policies from time to time and that these policies are subject to certain changes. Any changes, updates, or modifications will be published immediately on the website. We shall notify you of any changes to the content of this Privacy Policy by posting a notice that will remain on our homepage for a reasonable period of time following the update in question. Be sure to periodically return to this page and familiarize yourself with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.