Privacy Policy

Alumni Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible for processing your data?

OBS FORMACIÓN ONLINE EN MANAGEMENT, S.L. (hereinafter referred to as “OBS”), with CIF B02964989 and located at Avenida Diagonal 662-664, 08034 Barcelona, is responsible for the personal data you provide through the Alumni Club (hereinafter also referred to as the “Club”).

You may contact our Data Protection Officer by writing to dpo@planeta.es or by sending correspondence to Grupo Planeta, Attn: Data Protection Officer, Avenida Diagonal 662-664, 08034 Barcelona.

2. For what purpose and based on what legal grounds do we process your personal data?

We will process your personal data for the following purposes:

– To verify that you are a current or former student of OBS.
– To manage your registration in the Alumni Club and maintain the relationship arising from that registration.
– To address any complaints, queries, or requests for information.
– To inform you and manage your registration and participation in various events organized by OBS, including programs, courses, and training activities available to you as a member of the Alumni Club.
– To send you, through any means, including electronic communication, information about the activities, services, advantages, and benefits you can enjoy as a member of the Alumni Club.
– If applicable, to facilitate your registration in the E-Club, enabling you to benefit from the services and advantages offered to its users.
– To facilitate interaction between Club members via email, the virtual campus, phone, and social media.
– If applicable, to assist with your registration in the OBS Job Board.
– To manage your access to our Digital Library, OBS specialized blogs, the latest research reports, and the “The OBServer Alumni Review” magazine.
– To inform you about scholarships and courses from the eCommerce Institute and manage your scholarship applications.
– To manage, if applicable, your registration in “Executive Coaching” and “Project Mentoring,” both of which are personal and professional development programs where you will be accompanied by a coach in achieving all your goals through the design and execution of an action plan.
– To send you information regarding the education sector.

The legal basis for this processing is the execution of the contractual relationship established with you as a result of your registration in the Alumni Club, through your acceptance of the participation conditions.

The data requested at the time of registration is necessary to manage your membership in the Alumni Club and your subsequent participation in its events, activities, and benefits. If you do not provide this information, we will not be able to manage your membership or participation.

3. What types of personal data will we process?

We will process personal data that you provide when registering for the Alumni Club, as well as any other data you provide subsequently as a result of your participation in activities, events, courses, or services accessed as a member of the Club.

These data will belong to the following categories: identification data, contact information, curriculum and/or professional data.

4. How long will we retain your data?

The personal data will be retained as long as you remain a member of the Club or until you exercise your rights to deletion and opposition to the processing of your data.

Once you request to unsubscribe from the Club or exercise your rights to deletion or opposition to the processing of your data, the data will be blocked and its processing will be prevented, except for its availability to courts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, or competent public authorities, particularly data protection authorities, for the purpose of enforcing any potential liabilities arising from its processing. The data will be retained for the statute of limitations of such responsibilities.

5. To whom will your data be disclosed?

OBS may disclose your personal data to:

– Third parties to whom we are legally obliged to disclose, including public authorities and organizations.
– Third parties where necessary to protect OBS’s rights, the safety of other members, or to investigate fraud.
– Educational institutions in cases where you have registered for programs, courses, and activities organized by them, or by OBS in collaboration with those institutions. In these cases, data sharing is necessary to ensure your participation in the program, course, or activity you’ve registered for.
– If you fill out a scholarship application form for the eCommerce Institute, the data in that form will be shared with the eCommerce Institute, so they can process your application to award or deny the scholarship.

6. Are there any international data transfers?

In cases where you have registered for courses, programs, or activities organized by educational institutions located outside the European Economic Area or by OBS in collaboration with such institutions, OBS will enter into the necessary Standard Contractual Clauses and/or adopt any other measures required to ensure that the data transfer complies with data protection regulations. You may contact OBS for more information on this matter using the contact details provided in the section “What are your rights?”

Additionally, as a result of the data transfer to the eCommerce Institute for the processing of your scholarship application, your data will be transferred to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the institution is located. This international data transfer is regulated under Commission Decision 2003/490/EC, dated June 3, 2003, which considers Argentina to have an adequate level of personal data protection. You can contact OBS for more details regarding this transfer.

7. What are your rights?

Anyone has the right to obtain confirmation about whether their data is being processed by OBS.

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, portability, limitation, and opposition to the processing of your data by sending a letter to OBS FORMACIÓN ONLINE EN MANAGEMENT, S.L., P.O. Box 221, Barcelona, or by emailing rgpd@obsbusiness.school.

Additionally, you may file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency if you believe we have not properly addressed the exercise of your rights.