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If you have questions about using any of this material, please contact the UNG Division of Strategic Communications & Marketing, at communications@ung.edu.
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c)(2), notice of claims of copyright infringement should be directed to the Office of General Counsel.
Copyright infringement is the act of exercising, without permission or legal authority, one or more of the exclusive rights granted to the copyright owner under section 106 of the Copyright Act (Title 17 of the United States Code). These rights include the right to reproduce or distribute a copyrighted work.
In the file sharing context, downloading or uploading substantial parts of a copyrighted work without authority constitutes an infringement. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil and criminal penalties. In general, anyone found liable for civil copyright infringement may be ordered to pay either actual damages or “statutory” damages affixed at not less than $750 and not more than $30,000 per work infringed.
For “willful” infringement, a court may award up to $150,000 per work infringed. A court can, in its discretion, also assess costs and attorneys’ fees. For details, see Title 17, United States Code, Sections 504, 505. Willful copyright infringement can also result in criminal penalties, including imprisonment of up to five years and fines of up to $250,000 per offense. For more information, please see the website of the U.S. Copyright Office (Federal Student Aid Handbook, 2016, p. 2-113).
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The University of North Georgia (UNG) is an institution of higher education involved in education, research, and community engagement. For UNG to educate its students, engage in world-class research, and provide community services, it is essential and necessary that UNG collect, process, use, and maintain data of its students, employees, applicants, research subjects, and others involved in its educational, research, and community programs.
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) broadly applies to data about people who reside in the European Union or data about individuals when it is transferred from the EU. The EU GDPR limits when and how personal data can be collected, stored, processed, and used. It also provides these individuals with certain rights related to their personal data, including notice or consent, rights of access, and in some cases, requests for deletion.
UNG may be a data “Controller” or “Processor” with regard to certain activities as defined under the EU GDPR. UNG is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in compliance with the EU GDPR.
Controller: Controllers are responsible for decisions about the collection, use, and protection of personal data.
Personal data: Under the EU GDPR, personal data is defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is an actual person (not a corporation or other business entity) who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to:
Processor: Processors are responsible for processing, analyzing, storing, and deleting personal data on behalf of the Controller.
Special Categories of Personal Data:
Any data that:
UNG has lawful basis to collect, process, use, and maintain data of its students, employees, applicants, research subjects, and others involved in its educational, research, and public service programs. The lawful basis includes, without limitation: admission; registration; delivery of classroom, online, and study abroad education; grades; communication; employment; applied research; development; program analysis for improvements; and records retention.
Most of UNG’s collection and processing of personal data will fall under the following categories:
There will be some instances where the collection and processing of personal data will be pursuant to other lawful bases. This basis will be identified for each application.
UNG collects a variety of personal data to meet lawful basis, as referenced above. Most often the data is used for admission to academic programs, enrollment, participation in educational programs, job hiring, provision of medical services, participation in research, development, and public service.
The information we hold about you may include the following:
If you have specific questions regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer at privacy@ung.edu.
UNG receives personal data from multiple sources. Most often, UNG acquires this data directly from the data subject or under the direction of the data subject who has provided it to a third party.
If you are an individual data subject under the EU GDPR, you may obtain the following information and exercise the following rights:
Exercising these rights is a guarantee to be afforded a process and not the guarantee of an outcome.
Any data subject who wishes to exercise any of the above-mentioned rights may do so by submitting a Request for Implementation of Privacy Rights form.
To the extent permitted by law, UNG and our third-party vendors may supplement the information we collect from and about you with information from other sources, such as publicly available information about your online and offline activity from social media services, commercially available sources, and information from other business partners.
Some parts of our site may allow users to post or transmit messages, comments, screen names, computer files, and other materials. You should be careful about what personal information you choose to make public through these services.
To the extent permitted by law, UNG and our third party vendors may supplement the information we collect from and about you with information from other sources, such as publicly available information about your online and offline activity from social media services, commercially available sources, and information from other business partners.
UNG is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have put in place reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the information collected online. All personal data collected or processed by UNG under the scope of the EU GDPR will comply with the security controls and systems and process requirements and standards as set forth in UNG’s data protection safeguards.
UNG will not share your information with third parties except as necessary to meet one of UNG’s lawful purposes, including but not limited to:
Data collected by UNG is collected for the time periods specified by the current retention schedule.
UNG may, in its discretion, periodically update this EU GDPR Privacy Notice.