Privacy Policy

With the following privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the type, scope, and purposes of the collection, processing, and use of personal data when using the websites offered by POBS Private Online Business School GmbH, Urberweg 57, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria (hereinafter also "POBS") at https://thestudypartner.com/ and the services offered through them.

Your trust and the protection of your personal data are very important to POBS. Therefore, we would like to transparently show you how and for what purposes your data is used. Through the storage, processing, and use of personal data, we aim to provide you with a user-friendly, high-quality, customer-oriented, and secure service.

This privacy policy governs the collection and processing of personal data. Personal data refers to individual details about the personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. Depending on the extent to which you use the services we offer, different data will be collected, stored, processed, and used in connection with your inquiry or application.

Data that you actively provide as part of registering for our services or using our services — such as when sending an inquiry or application — is used by us for the purpose of contractually providing the services you wish to use. This data typically includes first name, last name, email address, phone number (if applicable), how you found us, any comments, and additional information you may submit as part of an application for admission review purposes.

When you visit our website, certain data transmitted by your web browser is automatically stored by our servers. The log files generated from this contain data such as your IP address, the URL and landing page, the time, type, and number of requests, the amount of data transferred, date, time, and duration of individual accesses, your browser type, and possibly other similar information.

The collection and use of the information stored in the log files serves solely for anonymized statistical evaluation (e.g., for analyzing user behavior) and consequently for improving our services.

POBS uses so-called cookies on this website. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Cookies make it possible to speed up navigation on our website, to tailor it to your needs and interests, and to prevent misuse of our services.

When you reconnect to our website, our server can identify your computer in this way, so that you do not have to log in again each time you visit our website.

POBS uses so-called session cookies, which are deleted when you close your web browser, as they only contain information that was required for a single visit. In addition to session cookies, we may also use permanent cookies, which are automatically deleted after a predetermined duration. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser's security settings.

You can configure your browser settings as you wish and also refuse to accept cookies. However, please note that you may not be able to use all features of the website in that case.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics also uses so-called "cookies" — text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

However, due to the IP anonymization we have activated, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly. You can also prevent data collection by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

For more information on Google Analytics' compliance with data protection law, please visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

These web pages use plugins from the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").

When you access pages of our website that contain such a plugin, a connection to Facebook's servers is established and the plugin is displayed on the web page by notifying your browser. This transmits to the Facebook server which of our web pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Facebook, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using plugin functions (e.g., clicking the "Like" button, posting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plugin.

For more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard, and options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you through our website, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter. To do so, you need to provide your email address. You can object to the sending of newsletters to the email address you have provided at any time, for example by sending an email to [email protected], with effect for the future.

POBS works with certain external service providers to process your data, including for IT hosting services, etc. We ensure that the transfer of data complies with applicable data protection regulations. Where these service providers are based in a country outside the EU or the EEA, we will inform you of this in connection with the respective functions. This data processing also takes place in compliance with applicable law.

For the collection and processing of personal data in the context of recommendations, competitions, contests, or prize draws organized by POBS, their separate terms and conditions apply.

You can contact us at any time if you have questions about our data protection measures or wish to have your profile and all data stored about you deleted. You have the right to free information about your stored data and, where applicable, the right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data.

Should a third party have registered with us using your email address, we ask for a corresponding notification and will, if you so wish, promptly delete your data from our database.

In the course of further developing our services and implementing new technologies, POBS reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time. We therefore recommend that you review it on our homepage from time to time.