- LTA – Privacy Policy
- Laduma Training Academy is a public training institution which performs public functions in terms of the Higher Education Act, 1997. The college is committed to protecting your right to privacy, as data subject, and recognises that it needs to comply with statutory requirements when processing personal information. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides that everyone has a right to privacy. The Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) was enacted as a mechanism to protect your constitutional right to privacy. POPIA also includes the right to protect against unlawful collection, retention, dissemination and use of personal information.
- There are 8 conditions of lawful processing, stipulated in Chapter 3 of POPIA, which the institution, as a responsible party, must follow in respect of all personal information which it processes. The conditions of lawful processing are Accountability, Processing Limitation, Purpose Specification, Further Processing Limitation, Information Quality, Openness, Security Safeguards and Data Subject Participation.
- In terms of section 18 of POPIA, if personal information is collected, the institution must take reasonably practical steps to ensure that a data subject is made aware of the personal information which is being collected.
- You understand that you will be required to provide the institution with some of your personal information when you apply to study at the College and when you register as a student. You acknowledge that the university will use the personal information which you provide to carry out its mission as a public college to provide teaching and learning, conduct research and engage with communities.
- When you apply to study at the College, register as a student, or graduate from the College you understand that the College:
- Needs to consider your personal information when it determines whether you meet the selection and admission requirements to study at the College:
- Requires your personal information to provide you with an education and to carry out its academic administration relating to the programme for which you register.
- Will need your personal information to keep in contact with you as an alumnus and to verify that you have obtained the qualifications or have undertaken the studies that you represent to others that you have obtained from the College or undertaken with the College.
- And requires your personal information when its records are being audited and when the College carries out its statutory reporting duties.