Personal data provided through this website will be shared with the BE Higher Education and its partners (Pearson PLC) who handle admissions enquiries and recruitment for some of our 100% online distance learning postgraduate courses. If you submit an enquiry through the online form published on this website our partner organisations will use your personal data to respond to your enquiry, and provide you with information on related opportunities, if you opt-in to receive them. If you choose to apply for the course, your data will be entered into the BE Higher Education's application system so we can consider your application. All parties who can access your data are expected to comply with national data protection regulations.
BE Higher Education is the data controller for all personal data which you provide via the online enquiry form. If there is anything you are unclear about, please contact our Data Protection Officer, who shall be happy to answer any queries you may have concerning this Notice or the way in which we process your personal data.
The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dpo@be.co.
We will use your personal data to process your enquiry and, potentially, your application to the Online Masters Programmes in accordance with the terms of our contract with you (if you apply). BE Higher Education may also process your data in order to fulfil its official functions and sometimes as part of its own legitimate interests, for example, in order to track use of our websites and detect any data breaches.
BE Higher Education policies on retaining data for prospective and current students, staff and job applicants; we keep data on website usage for one month.
In other cases, for example, if you subscribe to news or events, any retention of data will be made clear at the point of collection.
No cookies are used or collected on this site.
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If you share content from our website through other websites, for example Facebook or Twitter, no cookies will be used by these services.
The data that you provide is being held in Hong Kong and also in the UK and so is subject to the national laws of each country. If you change your mind or want to discuss how your data is being managed in Hong Kong please contact the BE Higher Education's Data Protection Officer (dpo@be.co) .