Website privacy notice

Wittenborg is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use, our Event privacy policy and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), the Data Controller is the Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Laan van de Mensenrechten 500, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

If you would like information about how the university uses your personal data please contact dataprotection@wittenborg.eu.

Collecting and using your data

Giving us your data by filling in a form

If you fill in a form on our website or partner site you are giving your data to Wittenborg University to process.

Each form has its own privacy statement which outlines exactly the purpose of the data collection, how Wittenborg University will process it and how long the Wittenborg University will retain the data. It is important that you take the time to read these privacy statements so that you fully understand the context in which you are providing your data to us, and are informed how to exercise your data subject rights.

Data collected by browsing our website

We use various analytics packages and other tools to assess and monitor how people use our website in order to ensure that we can develop it to be the best possible experience for our users.

In order for these tools to work, they set a number of cookies on the machines of people browsing our website. In addition if we display content for third party platforms (for example a YouTube video), these third parties will set their own cookies, some of which may contain analytics and targeting cookies.

In some cases, there are cookies that we need to set in order for our website to function properly and also to remember the choices that you have made about your preferences and cookie settings – such cookies cannot be disabled as they are strictly necessary.

This privacy statement applies to all university websites that link to this page.

Please note that some sites related to the university may collect and use data differently. These sites will have a local privacy policy explaining these practices.

If the user leaves the university website and visits a website operated by a third party, Wittenborg University cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that users provide when visiting such third-party websites. Accordingly, users should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.