Lagos Business School · Pan-Atlantic University

Privacy Policy

Lagos Business School (LBS) holds a position of trust and confidence with its corporate clients, and this informs our commitment to protecting the personal information received from our users. This page informs you of our Privacy Policy regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our online services.

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    Who are we?

    Lagos Business School (LBS) is the graduate business school of the Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. LBS offers academic programmes, executive programmes and short-focused programmes in management, and has been ranked among the best in Africa and the world.

    Lagos Business School Km 22, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

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    What personal information do we collect from our users?

    When you use any of LBS online services, contact us via phone or email or apply to any of our programmes, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you:

    Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

    • Name, Nationality, Gender, Date of birth and Religion
    • Contact details (address, email and phone number)
    • Communication preferences
    • Employment information (name of organisation, job title, level, work experience, industries worked in)
    • Educational background (institution(s), course and year of graduation)
    • Test scores (GRE, GMAT)

    We may also collect information on how our website is accessed and used, i.e Usage Data. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

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    How do we use the information we collect?

    We use the personal information obtained from you for the following purposes:

    • To contact you and provide you with up-to-date information about our products and services (programmes, starting dates and reminders, application tips, events and other relevant School activities)
    • To provide customer care and support services
    • To improve our website and personalise our services in order to better serve you
    • To monitor the success of promotional campaigns
    • To follow up after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
    • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

    We will not use or share personal information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without clear prior notice and the option to opt-out.

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    Will LBS share your personal information?

    We may share your information with partner institutions in the event of a partnership programme. For example, exchange programmes for Executive MBA participants. On such occasions, we will provide a notice containing further information on the data transfer process.

    Otherwise, your information is confidential, and we will never share with third parties unless we are obliged by the law to do so.

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    Cookies and how we use them

    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 device.

    Cookies help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, thereby allowing us to provide you with an improved site experience.

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    Google Analytics & Google services

    "Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us understand how visitors use our site. The information generated by the cookie (including your IP address) is transmitted to and processed by Google. You can learn more at Google's How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and you can opt out using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on."

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    What are your rights regarding the personal information you provide us?

    You are permitted to exercise the following rights:

    Access & rectification

    Request access to your personal information if it does not breach the privacy of another individual. You will be able to rectify any inaccuracies or update information we hold about you. Please forward such requests or issues to: (dpo@lbs.edu.ng)

    Removal

    Request to remove or delete your personal information from our records. We will, however, retain core information like your name and email address to ensure we do not contact you in future.

    Withdraw consent

    Withdraw consent earlier granted to process information.

    Portability

    Request a copy of your personal information for use in other circumstances.

    Restrict processing

    Restrict the processing of your personal information even while we hold on to it.

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    Update your information

    You are advised to inform us if there is any change to your personal information to keep our database up-to-date.

    We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

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    Contact Us

    If you wish to update your personal information or exercise any of your rights regarding the personal information you provided to us, please contact our Data Protection officer: dpo@lbs.edu.ng

    And if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

    Lagos Business School
    Km 22, Lekki-Epe Expressway,
    Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.

    General enquiries info@lbs.edu.ng
    Data Protection Officer dpo@lbs.edu.ng

    Who we are

    Suggested text: Our website address is: https://afracademy.lbs.edu.ng.

    Comments

    Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

    An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

    Media

    Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

    Cookies

    Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

    If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

    When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

    If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

    Embedded content from other websites

    Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

    These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

    Who we share your data with

    Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

    How long we retain your data

    Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

    For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

    What rights you have over your data

    Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

    Where your data is sent

    Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

     

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