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Professionals from GMAC® Schools
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Event Participants
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Information Collection
Certain authorized professionals participate in GMAC® governing activities. Deans of their respective governing member schools will provide details of these authorized professionals to GMAC® for authenticating and incorporating into a closed online directory.
Certain governance professionals also may participate in committees or advisory groups. In limited circumstances, GMAC® may provide secure online areas on gmac.com in order to facilitate communication between committee members and staff. These website areas would not be available to the general public; only those people authorized to access the content would be given authorization. Such areas would be monitored and administered by appropriate GMAC® staff members, and may include data posted by GMAC® such as marketing materials and contact information.
A select number of schools that use the GMAT® test worldwide serve in a governance capacity for GMAC® in which they meet certain obligations for participation. A school’s participation in governance is by invitation of the GMAC® Board of Directors. If you have questions about governance of the Graduate Management Admission Council®, please send an email to governance@gmac.com.
Data Uses and Your Choices
Professionals who participate in GMAC® governance activities must agree to have their business contact information published in the GMAC® Online Directory, a secure forum accessible only by authorized representatives of governing schools. However, these professionals may request that their contact information not be published either publicly or communicated by GMAC® outside of this group for any purpose unrelated to governance activities.
GMAC® may post a list of members of the Council’s Board of Directors, along with photographs, school affiliations, and roles, to certain website sections. Such site sections may also include publicly available press releases.
Representatives from each member school may be designated by a dean, on an annual basis, to participate in a number of GMAC® governance activities, including voting, attending the annual GMAC® business meeting, and serving on committees or advisory groups. These authorized representatives must perform the duties of the governance roles assigned to them; as such—
- They may be contacted by GMAC® regarding governance-related business.
- Their business contact information may be posted and shared with other member school professionals in a closed online directory forum.
- GMAC® may collect additional personally identifiable information offline, such as mobile phone numbers, to more efficiently conduct GMAC® governance activities.
Information Collection
For those graduate institutions and scholarship/fellowship programs ("GMAT® Programs") that have agreed to the GMAT® Score Report Terms of Use Agreement and have been authorized by GMAC® to access GMAT® score reports, their "Site Administrators" and/or other "Score Report Users" will be directed to a separate website operated by our service provider, Pearson VUE (a business of NCS Pearson, Inc.) known as the "Score Report website."
The Score Report website is subject to a separate GMAT® Score Report Terms of Use Agreement that governs access to and use of score reports, in addition to this Special Note and the complete GMAC® www.gmac.com privacy policy. Only the authorized "Site Administrator" and the other "Score Report Users" as outlined in the Terms of Use Agreement shall have electronic access to GMAT® score reports.
Information collected on the Score Report website will include a profile for each authorized "Site Administrator" and "Score Report User" that will be maintained separately from gmac.com profiles. This profile includes business contact information, including email address, name and position title, in order to provide authorized access to GMAT® score reports.
Data Uses and Your Choices
Authorized recipients of GMAT® score reports are licensed to receive personally identifiable information about prospective graduate management students who have consented to provide their contact information, background and demographic information, program preferences, and GMAT® scores (all such information collectively referred to as "PII"), as stated in the GMAT® Score Report Terms of Use Agreement. We use the information we collect about "Site Administrators" and "Score Report Users" to allow them to access the GMAT® Score Report website for authorized purposes. This information may only be used by GMAC®, Pearson VUE, and authorized service providers in conjunction with operating the Score Report website, except as required by law or in legal or governmental proceedings.
Access, Data Integrity and Retention
In the event that any "Site Administrators" and "Score Report Users" information changes, the Site Administrator can promptly change the user’s information through the "Manage Users" or "View My Profile" tab on the Score Report website. Other "Score Report Users" may request that changes be made to their profile information by contacting either the Site Administrator or the GMAT® School Coordinator at gmatprogram@gmac.com.
Security of Your Personal Information
Pearson VUE, the operator of the Score Report website, utilizes security safeguards incorporated within an enterprise security program. The security program is administered by appropriate Pearson VUE officials and incorporates administrative, technical, and physical safeguards over your data and its systems to protect your information from loss, unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction. The Score Report website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for transmitting data securely over the Internet.
Information Collection:
In order to register for a GMAC event, individuals must first register on gmac.com, and in doing so consent to the gmac.com privacy policy.
In order to fulfill our administrative responsibilities, we may collect certain details from eligible professionals who register for GMAC events. This information may include name, credit card number and expiration date (used to reserve hotel accommodations and pay for events), dietary and disability accommodation requests, and other special requests that we will pass directly on to our event management subcontractors or hotels necessary to fulfill those requests. GMAC maintains this data on an individual basis, per event, separately from individuals’ gmac.com Profile information.
GMAC may partner with other organizations to hold certain conferences (e.g., MBA Roundtable for the MBA Leadership Conference). GMAC may obtain member lists from, or share information with, such strategic partners and other organizations in the graduate management education industry in order to facilitate the planning of these events.
Data Uses and Your Choices:
Hotel accommodation requests and contact details will be passed on to the designated facilities. Upon registering for an event, you understand that your accommodation request and profile information will be subject to the privacy policy of the designated hotel.
It is a normal conference and event practice for event sponsors to publish a list of the contact details of speakers, facilitators, and participants. If you prefer not to have your contact details published, please email programs@gmac.com or contact the event administrator identified in the event solicitation.
Photographs, video, or audio recordings of event participants may be taken by or on behalf of GMAC at any GMAC sponsored event. By participating in a GMAC sponsored event, an individual grants GMAC the right to use, publish, and republish this media without restrictions and without payment for GMAC instructional, informational, promotional, and other business purposes. In addition, individuals waive the right to inspect or approve image versions used for publication. GMAC may, but is not required to, include individual names in connection with such media.
User Submitted Content:
GMAC may facilitate communication amongst event participants and staff members using various bulletin boards, social networks, or other electronic media. GMAC owned and controlled networks may be monitored by appropriate GMAC staff members and would not be available to the general public, that is, the website or groups would be "hidden" and only those people authorized to use or join the site would be given access.
Information shared via a network owned and controlled by a third party (e.g., Facebook) is outside of the control of GMAC and the privacy policies and Terms and Coniditions of these third party websites may be different from the gmac.com Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. GMAC is not responsible for these privacy policies, Terms and Conditions, or the content of such sites and recommends that you carefully read these policies.
Information Collection
GMAC® conducts research studies with individuals and organizations, including, but not limited to schools, corporate recruiters, and purchasers of gmac.com products and services. We may obtain basic contact information from participating schools or organizations in the graduate management industry, as well as from those who voluntarily responded to our surveys. We may also collect opinions and attitudes from respondents, as well as event evaluations. Certain assessment surveys are administered and have response analysis performed by ACT, Inc.
Data Uses and Your Choices
Participation in surveys is always optional for gmac.com users, registrants, and others solicited. You may always opt out of participating in surveys by responding to the directions provided within the survey invitation. GMAC® generates aggregate reports from survey responses and uses these reports internally to improve GMAC® products and services. GMAC® may share aggregate reports with participating schools and organizations. Survey records are not associated with individuals outside of your organization in any of these reports; individuals' names and contact details may be used only to track survey completion and for follow-up communications as appropriate.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to our chief privacy official at privacy@gmac.com. If you do not receive an answer to your inquiry, or are not satisfied, you may contact TRUSTe through the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution website.
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