Privacy Policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to describe how Global Alumni Corp., on behalf of MIT xPRO, collects, uses, and processes user information via our website. Please, carefully read this policy in its entirety.
For any doubts regarding this privacy policy, contact us at globalalumni@xpro.mit.edu

Confidentiality, professional secrecy, and the safety of your data are all central to Global Alumni Corp.’s values, and we assume the responsibility of guaranteeing user and visitor privacy at all times and for all interactions. Global Alumni Corp. also ensures that no unnecessary information will be obtained about the user. Any personal data provided by the user via our website or any other affiliated universities will be handled with due diligence.

Our privacy policy is in compliance with the privacy requirements set forth in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws and regulations that protect academic records, privacy, and confidentiality. This includes your rights associated with:

• Consent regarding how personally identifiable data is shared.
• Information regarding the location of your records.
• Revision of your records.
• Requirements for correction.

Only appropriate, pertinent, and strictly necessary information will be collected in accordance with the reason you provide the required information. The fields marked with an asterisk (*) in our forms require responses in order to correctly process this data for its intended purpose. Furthermore, in doing so, you confirm that the information you provide is true, correct, and relevant to the objective for which it is requested.

We request and collect personal data via a series of forms and through e-mail for the following purposes:

1. Prospective participants in our programs:
   • Processing application information and sending informational materials related to our courses
   • Sharing corresponding material via the appropriate channels: e-mail, phone, WhatsApp, SMS, or social networks
2. Students:
   • Processing application information for our courses
   • Preparation, registration, management, implementation, and development of educational courses for teaching practices
   • Providing services to students
   • Profile segmentation and definition and statistical information pertaining to services and contents used, preferences, surveys, or forms
   • Sharing of university-related information, activities, and events
   • Sharing of publications, invites, courses, bulletins, and other related content
   • Maintaining a record of contact with students
3. Graduates:
   • Maintaining contact with alumni
   • Sharing of university-related information, activities, and events

The entirety of our website is hosted on a secure server with web addresses beginning with https://.

Our server automatically recognizes information related to the domain the user connects from. We collect data that is voluntarily provided through survey answers, application forms, and information requests; and we use this information for marketing communications. This information is not shared with other entities for commercial purposes.

If you provide your e-mail, you may receive our newsletter with information regarding new courses and services or upcoming events. If you provide your telephone number, you will only receive information through that channel regarding specific courses of interest, information about your subscription, or information regarding your continued interest.

We do not currently, nor have we ever, maintained private relationships with advertising agencies. We may occasionally use user information for purposes not found previously in our privacy policy.

Cookies are small data files that allow us to collect data regarding users’ web habits as they visit our website. These cookies help us to ensure a more personalized experience for each user.

We use cookies to register information about site traffic, including courses the user may be interested in. Additionally, we use cookies to register session activity for marketing purposes and for the online promotion of MIT Professional Education. Third-party providers, such as Google, place advertisements throughout the Internet. Cookies allow third-party providers like Google to publish ad extensions based on users’ previous visits to the website. Users can opt out of Google or third-party cookies.

We use Google Analytics to incorporate further demographic information about visitors to our site and improve our services, develop new ways to display information, and guarantee that our website functions correctly. We do not share this information with Google or other external parties.

We use Yandex.Metrica to study user behavior on our website and, by doing so, improve the user experience. This behavior is not associated with users’ personal data and is completely anonymous. We do not share this information with third parties.

We use Yandex.Metrica to record user visits to our website. These records are not registered to or associated with personal data and are completely anonymous. This information is never publicly accessible and is not shared with third parties.

If you wish to stop receiving our informative and marketing communications, or if you wish to revoke previously conceded permissions such as exercising your rights to access, change, cancellation, or objection, you can do so by writing to globalalumni@xpro.mit.edu.

If you do not wish to continue receiving marketing e-mails, please let us know by responding to them directly or by clicking on “Unsubscribe from future e-mails” at the end of any of these communications.

These policies may be subject to change as our privacy policy is periodically updated. Any change, update, or modification will be published immediately on our website. We will inform of you any changes in the content of this privacy policy via notification on our website that will be visible for a reasonable period following the corresponding update. Return to this page periodically to review the most updated version of this Privacy Policy.