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.
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.

All rights, including copyright, in the content of this Web site are reserved by GISMA. In accessing these Web pages, you agree that any downloading of content is for personal, non-commercial reference only. No part of this Web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior consent of GISMA. For rights clearance please contact the Web Author at bhaack@gisma.com, External Relations. © GISMA Business School.

The content of GISMA’s external website is maintained by the Web Author. At departmental and other levels, content is maintained locally. Whilst every attempt is made to ensure that information is accurate and up-to-date, some information is subject to change. GISMA will not be held liable for information that is subject to change and reserves the right to alter the content of the external website at any time.

At GISMA Business School it is recognised that your personal privacy is a serious and important issue and we support the principle of protecting privacy on the Internet within the context of current UK legislation. This privacy policy explains how we treat your personal information. By using GISMA web site you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy. Though the policy has been developed to take account of changes in Internet technology, it is subject to change and any such changes will only be notified on this page.

The processing of personal data is regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998. Any requests by individuals for access to personal information held about them by GISMA should be made in writing to the Data Protection Officer, GISMA Business School, Goethestraße 18, 30169 Hannover Germany.

What information is collected?

• In order to use the main external web site at GISMA, you are currently not required to register or provide any personal information about yourself. Any personal information collected from visitors to our website is on a purely voluntary basis.
• On occasions we may ask you to provide some personal information about yourself to participate in University services. This information may include your name, title, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. It may be stored electronically or manually by GISMA.
• Credit card information given through the website for the purpose of making an online donation is not held by GISMA. However, the contact details of the individual who has made the donation is held securely within Development and External Affairs for the purpose of thanking them, to reclaim tax and to renew gifts.

• 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 or telephone.

• 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.

Any questions?

If you have any queries or concerns about privacy on GISMA website please contact us at bhaack@gisma.com