Protection of Personal Information Act

Privacy notice

The University of Mpumalanga is the responsible party for the personal information this programme holds. This notice explains what we collect, why, and your rights. It is a working draft for UMP's Information Officer to approve.

What we collect

• Your name, email address, organisation and job title, given when you were enrolled or when you started.
• Your learning activity: steps completed, quiz answers, decisions in scenarios and simulations, wall posts, cold-call answers, poll choices and reflections.
• Your submitted work, peer reviews, marks, feedback and the record of who confirmed each mark.
• Sign-in records and an audit log of every score, mark, change and release.

Why

To run the programme, assess you, keep the records the Council on Higher Education requires, report your progress and results to the programme funder, and produce anonymous statistics. We use no advertising trackers.

Automated scoring

The tool calculates some marks automatically. Under section 71 of POPIA, no result about you is decided by the tool alone: a marker confirms every component, the results are moderated, and you can see how each mark was calculated and make representations after release.

Who sees what

Your markers, moderators and programme administrators see your work and marks. Your cohort sees your wall posts with your first name and surname initial, and anonymous poll totals. Peer reviewers see your peer-reviewed work without your name. Reflections are private to you and your assessors. If you complete the programme, your certificate of completion shows your name, the programme and its dates to anyone who holds its number, so that employers and others you give it to can confirm it is genuine. There is no public list of certificates.

Access

You can use the programme only during your approved study period. Access ends automatically after the last day, or earlier if it is revoked. Your results and certificate are kept after access ends.

How long we keep it

Assessment records are kept for as long as UMP's records policy and the funder's contract require, so you can ask to see the records used to decide your results, and are then destroyed or de-identified (POPIA section 14).

Your rights

You may ask to see, correct or object to the processing of your information, and you may complain to the Information Regulator. Contact [email protected].