Legal Notices

Thank you for visiting the GISMA Business School website. The website is to be used by individual persons for their own personal use only. Your use of this website is subject to the terms and conditions set out below and your accessing and use of the website constitutes your agreement to abide by such terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms you should leave the website immediately.

GISMA reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify, alter or otherwise update these terms and conditions and its web pages at any time without further notice and you agree to be bound by any modifications, alterations or updates to these terms and conditions.

1. GISMA Business School. The copyright in material on this website is owned by GISMA and protected by the copyright laws of the EU, international copyright treaties and all other applicable copyright and intellectual property laws. You are entitled to copy any information for your own personal use but may not otherwise copy, reproduce, republish or distribute any such information in any manner without the prior written consent of GISMA. You agree not to remove any copyright notices or legends or other notices or proprietary restrictions from any of the material or information contained in these web pages. Any unauthorised downloading, retransmission, or other copying or modification of any of the contents of this website may be in breach of statutory or common law rights which could be the subject of legal action. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by GISMA.
2. Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs appearing in the pages of this website may constitute trade names or unregistered trademarks of GISMA or a third party. The display of any of the above trade names or trademarks on pages at this website does not imply that any licence has been granted to any third party in respect of the same. All third party product or company names and devices, logos, icons, graphics or designs appearing on this website are exhibited only in such a manner as is intended to be for the benefit of such trade mark owners and GISMA intends no infringement of such trademarks. The appearance or absence of products, services, companies, organisations, home pages or other websites on this website does not imply any endorsement or non-endorsement thereof by GISMA. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by GISMA.
3. All information (including but not limited to data, ideas, suggestions, concepts and graphics) submitted to GISMA through this website will become the exclusive property of GISMA. GISMA will not be subject to any obligation of confidentiality and will be free to use the information for any purpose. All data collected from this website is intended for [internal marketing purposes only] by GISMA. Information on what data is held about you can be obtained by writing to GISMA Business School, Goethestraße 18, 30169 Hannover, Germany or through privacyprotection@gisma.com
4. When you view the website some information may be stored on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file and will help GISMA improve your browsing experience. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your Internet browser instructions or help screen or learn more about these functions.
5. The information, materials and functions contained in the website including text, graphics, links or other items are provided on an “as is” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law GISMA disclaims all warranties, representations, understandings whatsoever, express or implied, specifically including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, freedom from computer viruses, and non-infringement of third parties' rights.
6. The website incorporates certain sections where web pages are personal and external web pages may be authored by third parties. The contents of personal and external web pages remain the sole responsibility of the author. GISMA shall not be liable for the content of such web pages, regardless of such web pages being linked to the GISMA official web pages.
7. GISMA shall not be liable for any direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss or damage whatsoever including without limitation, damages for loss of profits, contracts, data, goodwill, work stoppage and computer failure resulting from the use of or inability to use, interruption or availability of this website, its operation or transmission, computer viruses, loss of data or otherwise in respect of the use of the website and howsoever caused even if GISMA shall have been advised of the possibility of such damages. All implied warranties, implied undertakings, implied representations, and/or implied conditions relating to the website, its content and/or any third party sites are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permissible by law. GISMA further excludes any liability for any errors or omissions from information, materials and functions included in this website except to the extent that such liability may not be lawfully excluded under the applicable law. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law GISMA disclaims all liability for negligence.
8. You are able to link to any page on the website. You are not permitted however, to frame or page-jack the website. You are not permitted to use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy the website or the content expressed herein, other than for search engine indexing. Such search engines are expected to comply with the 'Robots Exclusion Protocol' as set out in robots.txt files on the website. GISMA is not responsible for nor assumes any liability for the contents of other websites or home pages which are linked to GISMA's web pages. GISMA shall have no liability in respect of material hyperlinked to GISMA's web pages which may be misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, threatening or obscene or otherwise not in accordance with such regulations as may be from time to time in force. The provision by GISMA of a link to another website does not constitute any authorisation by GISMA to you to access materials held at that location, nor is it evidence of any endorsement by GISMA of the material held there.
9. GISMA operates this website from London, England and makes no representation that the information contained herein is appropriate or available for use in other locations outside the United Kingdom. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you are accessing the website.
10. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the EU. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you are accessing this website.

If you have any questions concerning the terms and conditions please write to GISMA Secretary at the address specified in paragraph 3 above.

GISMA Business School is the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights, including copyright ©, in our website, and in the material published on it. the website and its contents are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. all such rights are reserved.

You are permitted to view, copy, and print any page(s) from this website subject to your agreement that:

1. You will not modify the content or graphics in any form or manner
2. You will not copy or distribute graphics separately from their accompanying text and you will not quote materials out of their context
3. Your use of the material is for your own personal information, and for non-commercial purposes only
4. Any copies of the material made for a permitted purpose will include an acknowledgement that copyright belongs to GISMA Business School
5. You are not permitted to copy the design elements, look and feel, or layout of this website

No part of GISMA Business School's website or any material appearing on the website may be reproduced, stored in or transmitted on any other website or medium without the prior written permission of GISMA Business School. Requests to republish any material may be sent to the Webmaster: privacyprotection@gisma.com

Although every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within the pages of GISMA Business School's website we cannot guarantee that the content or 'facilities' of the website will always be current, accurate or complete.

Whilst GISMA Business School shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that this site is normally available 24 hours a day, GISMA Business School will not be liable if for any reason the site is unavailable at any time or for any period. Access to this site may be suspended temporarily and without notice in circumstances of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the control of GISMA Business School.

GISMA Business School does not guarantee that this website will be secure or free from bugs and viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

GISMA Business School shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of this website or from the inability to use this website, or from the use of any information contained in it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using this website or any such information.

GISMA Business School reserves the right to remove, vary or amend any of the content of its website at any time and without prior notice.

GISMA Business School website may include links to third-party websites and information. while links and information are only added if they are deemed to be of relevance to our website users, GISMA Business School does not accept responsibility for the content or operation of external websites. References and links to any such websites shall not be taken as an endorsement by GISMA Business School of opinions expressed or services provided at those sites.

You may link to any page(s) of this website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. we reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

These Terms and Conditions of Use constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between them, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter. These Terms and Conditions of Use and any disputes arising under it shall be governed by the laws of England/Germany and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English/German courts.

GISMA Business School is the data controller and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).

GISMA Business School has a Data Protection Officer who can be contacted through privacyprotection@gisma.com

GISMA Business School will collect the following personal information – name, contact details, date of birth, work details, financial data and information relating to individual requirements.  

Special category personal information is also collected in the form of equality monitoring data

When individuals use our facilities, enrol on our courses and events GISMA Business School has to collect, store, use and otherwise process personal data for purposes connected to:

• Provision of support services/Operational purposes, including but not limited to, provide you with our services and other information, including your use of our website, to respond to any query you have made of us, including providing information about our people and services where you have made a website inquiry; (Legal basis – necessary for the performance of the contract)
• Course delivery (Legal basis - necessary for the performance of the contract)
• To keep you informed of news, courses and events (Legal basis – with your consent*/where there is a legitimate interest**)
• For the safety and security (Legal basis – legitimate interest) 

*Where an individual has indicated that they would like to receive further information from GISMA Business School, this information is processed with their consent.  

** GISMA Business School holds basic contact details of professionals working in businesses who could have an interest in the services and facilities available within GISMA Business School and ‘GUS’.  This information is processed on the basis that it is necessary for the legitimate interests of GISMA Business School’s Commercial Services Department and that the processing could be of mutual benefit to all parties.  

Where necessary personal information will be shared internally with individuals who need access to the information for operational purposes.  Such sharing will be subject to confidentiality protocols and access restrictions.

In certain circumstances, GISMA Business School may use the services of a third party to process data on its behalf. Any organisation processing personal data on our behalf will be bound by obligations to process personal data in accordance with data protection legislation.  

Personal data will be stored in line with our retention schedule.  

GISMA Business School retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.  A copy of our retention schedule can be made available by contacting privacyprotection@gisma.com

Data Protection legislation requires us to keep your information secure. This means that your confidentiality will be respected, and all appropriate organisational and technical measures will be taken to prevent unauthorised access and disclosure.

Only members of staff who need access to relevant parts or all your information will be authorised to do so, and regular trainings regarding their obligations in ensuring the security of your personal data provided.

We also have procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so. 

Personal data, where possible will be processed within the European Economic Area.  However, in certain circumstances there may be a necessity to transfer your data outside the EU.  

In certain circumstances, GISMA Business School may use the services of a third party to process data on its behalf.  Any organisation processing personal data on our behalf will be bound by obligations to process personal data in accordance with data protection legislation. 

Some of our third party service providers are also based outside the EU, for example, India.

Where a processor is based in the US, data may be transferred to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield framework and are thus compliant with data protection requirements.

However, to ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection we have put in place contractual obligations to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects European Union and local laws on data protection.

If you require further information about these protective measures, you can request it from our Data Protection Officer at : privacyprotection@gisma.com

Where GISMA Business School is relying on consent to process personal data, individuals have the right to withdraw their consent and can do so by contacting privacyprotection@gisma.com

Individuals have a right to access their own personal information, to object to the processing of their personal information, to rectify, to erase, to restrict and to port personal information. 

Further information can be found in relation to individual rights on our website at: https://www.gisma.com/privacy-policy

Any requests or objections should be made in writing to GISMA Business School Data Protection Officer: -

GISMA Business School

Goethestraße 18, 30169

Hannover, Germany.

Email: https://www.gisma.com/privacy-policy

Where individuals are unhappy with the way in which their personal data has been processed, they may in the first instance contact GISMA Business School Data Protection Officer using the contact details above. 

In the event that any complaint is not resolved then the issue may be taken to the Supervisory Authority for a decision. The Supervisory Authority can be contacted at: -

Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen
State Commissioner for Data Protection Lower Saxony

Barbara Thiel

Postfach 2 21  oder:    Prinzenstraße 5

30002 Hannover  30159 Hannover 

Telefon: 05 11/120-45 00

Telefax: 05 11/120-45 99

E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de

• When you view our web pages as with most other websites, our webservers build logs of activity including a log of your computer’s IP address. On some pages a small amount of data called a “cookie” is sent from the server to be stored in your computer.

What do we use cookies for?

Broadly speaking, we use cookies for the following:

• To deliver specific functionality to the user allowing the website to work properly
• To gather anonymous data on user behaviour on the website so that we can better understand user journeys and improve the website as a consequence

Additionally, cookies may be placed on a user’s device by a third-party. Some examples of these third-party services:

• We use Google Analytics to collect data on website traffic mentioned above
• We use Youtube to embed videos onto University web pages
• We use Google Maps to provide location information to users

We have no control over these third party cookies.

Blocking cookies

You can block cookies set by our website by changing settings in your browser. Please be aware that some pages may not work properly if cookies are blocked. For example, videos embedded from YouTube or maps embedded from Google Maps will not render correctly on the page.

The website www.allaboutcookies.org provides guidance on how to block cookies in your browser should you wish to.

Blocking third party cookies

Third party services that we use can also sometimes have their cookies blocked by the user on an individual basis. For example, If you would like your visits to not be tracked using Google Analytics, then you can opt out by following the link - http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

What we do with the information

• Any personal information that you provide us with will only be used for the purpose stated at the time we request it. We will not sell, license or trade your personal information to others.
• Using the logging data we analyse demographic and other statistical information about user behavior to analyse the popularity and effectiveness of our site. In performing such analysis and in the course of our business we will only ever disclose such information in an aggregated form that is not able to identify an individual user.
• We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email, post, SMS or telephone.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 2006; and other associated companies and affiliated institutions.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If GISMA or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of GISMA, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

GISMA undertakes to deal promptly with complaints about the content pages on its site. Comments or complaints about this site should be addressed to privacyprotection@gisma.com in the first instance.