Data Protection in Conjunction with Applicable Legislation

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., being the owners of this website, in conformity with the provisions of the Spanish Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data (L.O. 15/1999 of December 13) and the Spanish Law on the Information Society and e-Commerce (LSSI-CE 34/2002 of June 11), have implemented the pertinent policies, means and procedures to ensure and protect the privacy of the personal data of its USERS.

Identity and Management of the File Administrator

The titleholder and administrator of the file is ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., domiciled at Avenida Pearson, 21, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.

Services Offered Through the Website

Through the different areas of this website, USERS may obtain information and consult and sign up for services offered by the website. General browsing through the website is free and does not require prior USER registration.

The only personal data to which the File Administrator shall have access are those that have been provided voluntarily to said party for the purpose of furnishing access to, use of, or subscription to the services offered through the website.

Handling of Data and the Confidentiality Thereof

The data provided shall be entered in a database, the title holdership and responsibility of which pertains to ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., and shall be handled with complete confidentiality.

The organization responsible for the files, as well as those involved in any phase of the handling thereof and/or those organizations to whom said data has been communicated -- by virtue of the authorization granted by the USER -- are strictly required to observe professional secrecy and shall implement the necessary levels of protection and technical and organizational measures available to them for guaranteeing the security of the personal data, while preventing, to the extent possible, unauthorized access, illicit modifications, theft and/or loss of said data.

This notwithstanding, USERS are hereby notified that the aforementioned technical measures are neither infallible nor inviolable, and thus the File Administrator shall not be held responsible for such practices nor the consequences thereof.

By submitting his/her personal data and e-mail information as required for the formalization and administrative management as well as the carrying out and development of all activities of an educational and/or institutional nature deriving from ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., the interested party expressly AUTHORIZES the aforementioned entity to use said data for communication purposes, which expressly includes e-mail correspondence.

The personal data of the USERS, along with those deriving from the access to, use of, or subscription to the service, shall exclusively be used for automated handling and transfer according to the manner and purpose established and expressly authorized by the USERS.

Segmentation and Categorization of Data

The registration of the personal data submitted at the time of subscription to courses, seminars, publications, products or other services, and any other data provided during the process, shall also imply the voluntary acceptance of the USER with regard to the handling of said personal data by ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., so that said data may be segmented or categorized for the purpose of applying them to the activity related to the management of the general administration, information or marketing of our services, creating profiles, analysis of proposals submitted by the USERS/STUDENTS, statistical study of the services and content utilized, tastes and preferences, surveys and forms.

Communication of Data

The submission of personal data by USERS also entails the voluntary and express acceptance of the transfer and transmission of said data, for the same purposes as those stated above, to other entities within the IESE environment, including auxiliary and/or collaborating organizations, as well as the authorization for the File Administrator to receive from the aforementioned organizations of the IESE environment information contained in the files of said parties, which may include doing so in an interconnected manner, for the purposes cited previously.

Rights of the Interested Parties and the Exercising Thereof

By virtue of the Spanish Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data, USERS, where appropriate, have the right to access, modify, cancel and oppose their personal data and the use, categorization and/or segmentation of personal data.

With regards to his/her personal data, the interested party may exercise his/her right to access, modify, cancel and oppose said data through the "My Profile" area.

Cookies

We hereby notify you that we use cookies for the sole purpose of profiling and improving our relationship with the USER and thereby adapt ourselves to said party's technological means. USERS may configure their browser to receive notification of the acceptance or, where applicable, blocking of cookies on their hard drive; to receive more detailed information in this regard, said parties should refer to the instructions and help sections of their browsers.

Links to Other Websites/Hyperlinks

This website includes hyperlinks that allow the USER to be redirected to third-party websites. Under no circumstance shall ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., be held liable for the content, information and/or services offered nor the security measures in place on those websites that the USER has accessed via hyperlinks contained on the website of ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L. The aforementioned entity shall not be held liable for the security measures employed by any other website that offers a link to our site and which the interested party accesses under his/her exclusive responsibility.

Modification of the Policy on Data Protection and Privacy

Finally, we hereby inform you that the File Administrator reserves the right to modify this privacy policy in order to adapt it to new legislation or jurisprudence and any modifications or industry-related practices; this notwithstanding, notification shall be given, sufficiently in advance, as to the changes to be incorporated and the moment in which said changes shall come into full effect.

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