UTS College collects, stores and uses personal information and sensitive information to engage with its customers and future students, for the purpose of carrying out its business activities including recruiting students.
The personal information and sensitive information we collect may include your contact details, nationality, country of residence, date of birth, study status and study interests.
Personal and sensitive information will be collected and used by UTS College in accordance with the UTS College Privacy Policy which can be viewed at www.utscollege.edu.au/au/privacy.
UTS College may also collect personal information and sensitive information via the University of Technology Sydney (“UTS”), where enquiries UTS receives relate to UTS College courses. Similarly, where you submit an enquiry to UTS College that relates to a UTS course, your personal information and sensitive information will be provided to UTS in accordance with the UTS College Privacy Policy. Please also refer to the UTS Student marketing and recruitment notice for further details.
UTS College and UTS may collect personal and sensitive information directly from you, or via a UTS College or UTS authorised education agent, who may also contact you on our behalf to help you with your enquiry.
If you provide your personal and sensitive information
Providing your personal information and sensitive information to UTS College is voluntary and enables us to provide certain services to you. If you provide your personal and sensitive information to UTS College, we may:
- use the details you provide, including your nominated email address, to send you information, blogs or surveys about UTS College including its course offerings, services, activities, facilities, benefits, news and events. The details will also be used to develop and assess the effectiveness of UTS College’s marketing strategies and events, and to review associated enrolment trends over time.
- use the details you provide for student recruitment and marketing purposes. UTS College uses a range of standard social media and digital marketing tools. We may disclose your personal information to digital marketing companies, which may be based overseas (e.g. by providing your email address to Facebook in the USA) for the purpose of advertising UTS College’s course offerings and services to individuals who have similar online behaviour. We may also disclose your personal information to digital marketing companies that conduct surveys on our behalf.
- not disclose your information unless required or permitted by law.
- may collect and store your information securely in a customer relationship management (CRM) system maintained by an authorised education agent on behalf of UTS College. UTS College will take reasonable steps to ensure the information provided remains secure.
- retain your information to satisfy the above purposes and UTS College’s legal obligations to retain records.
Access and correction
You are responsible for ensuring the information you provide to UTS College and UTS is correct and up to date. If you would like to:
- access or correct personal and sensitive information held by UTS College;
- lodge a complaint about a breach of your privacy; or
- raise any concerns about your privacy at UTS College,
you can contact privacy@utscollege.edu.au at any time. Please refer to the UTS College Privacy Policy for further details
You can access or correct personal information (including sensitive information) held by UTS at any time by contacting FS.Enquiries@uts.edu.au.
If you wish to unsubscribe from specific types of communications, or from communications as a whole that are sent to you via the CRM system, use the unsubscribe link in any of the email communications you have received from UTS College or send your request to privacy@utscollege.edu.au
Note that this will not unsubscribe you from other communications from UTS College where you have provided your information separately for other purposes.
UTS College digital marketing
Separate to direct subscription with UTS College, as noted above, we run targeted digital marketing campaigns based on online behaviour. When unsubscribing from direct marketing activities, you may still receive UTS College advertising through use of cookies or by other automated means. Please refer to the ‘Web statistics and cookies’ section in our Website privacy notice.
About privacy at UTS College
For further information about privacy, see Privacy.
The UTS College registered office is at Level 13, UTS Building 10 (CB10), 235 Jones Street, Broadway NSW 2007 Australia. Telephone: +61 (0)2 9218 8600.
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