Updated on July 2025
Introduction
The International School of Choueifat – Manama (collectively referred to as the “School”, “we”, “us”, “our”, or “ours”) values and takes your privacy rights seriously. We are committed to being transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared as set forth herein.
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to the data collected from all users of the iscmanama.sabis.net website (the “Website”) and the services available through it (the “Services”), which include submitting application and interest forms, reviewing school news and updates, downloading informational materials, and accessing other related features provided on the Website.
The recipient and controller of the data are:
International School of Choueifat–Manama
Bldg. 110, Area 257
Road 59, Choueifat Avenue
Amwaj Islands, Kingdom of Bahrain
The terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the user or viewer of the Website / Services, as applicable.
This Policy, together with our Terms & Conditions, sets out the basis on which any personal data we may collect about you, or that you choose to provide to us, and your choices and rights regarding our use of your personal data. It also explains the purpose of processing your Personal Data and how we keep it safe. Please read the following sections carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we handle it.
We reserve the right to make changes periodically to this Policy at our sole discretion. Changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this page.
How to Contact Us
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Policy should be addressed via e-mail at privacy@sabis.net.
Definitions
Personal Data: any information in any form concerning an identified individual, or an individual who can, directly or indirectly, be identified by reference, in particular, to his or her personal identification number, or by reference to one or more factors specific to his or her physical, physiological, intellectual, cultural, economic, or social identity.
Processing: Any operation performed upon Personal Data, including but not limited to collection, storage, use, erasure, recording, disclosure, transmission, alteration, distribution, etc.
Data Subject: Any individual whose personal data is being collected, held, or processed, i.e., the individual to whom the Personal Data relates.
Forms: Forms available on the Website, whether Application forms or Interest forms, or special forms created for events.
A cookie: is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or your device when you visit our website for its proper operation.
Information collected on our Website
The School collects various types of Personal Data through the Website about prospective students, students, and parents and/or guardians (‘Parents’) before, during, and after a student’s enrollment at the School, as well as other individuals/visitors who interact with the School. This data includes:
- Contact Details (e.g. name, home address, E-mail address, phone number)
- Content Data (e.g. text input)
- Identity Verification (e.g. photo, passport number, date of birth)
- Sensitive/Special Category of Data (e.g. health, religion)
This Policy also applies to Personal Data we collect from you via cookies and related technologies to maintain an anonymized user session and provide users with personalized web pages. You can control how you use cookies by adjusting the settings within your browser. For further information, please see our Cookies Policy.
We collect most of the Personal Data held about a Data Subject directly from you through the “Application Form” and “Interest Form” essential to process your application and to contact you.
The Website's visitors provide their Personal Data when submitting the "Contact us" form where the mandatory details are necessary to contact you and process your inquiry.
Type of Personal Data Collected and Collection Purpose:
A- Information You Give to Us Voluntarily:
Interest Form:
The Interest Form is used to contact you following your submission. Personal data submitted through the form is collected solely for the purpose of communicating with the family throughout the admissions process.
Application Form:
Personal data submitted via the Application Form is collected to facilitate and manage the student's registration and admission process. This includes identification data, contact details, medical and health-related information, religious affiliation, and other relevant data. Medical, health, and religious information is used solely to ensure that the student receives appropriate support, including dietary or medical accommodations, when necessary. Access to all data is strictly limited to authorized school personnel.
Event Form:
The Personal Data submitted via Forms created for specific events or occasions at the School will be collected and used solely for the event or occasion for which it was collected. This data will not be used for any other purpose unless explicit consent has been obtained.
Contact Us / Request Information Form:
Personal Data submitted through the Contact Us or Request Information forms is used to respond to your inquiries and to contact you based on your request.
B- Information We Collect Automatically
To ensure that the content from our Website is presented most effectively for you, to administer our Website, and perform internal statistical and trend analysis to improve the user experience and performance of our Website.
No automated or profiling-based decision-making would be performed.
Personal Data Erasure And Storage Duration
We will endeavor to keep your Personal Data accurate and up-to-date and not keep it for longer than is necessary.
Information you submit under the "Contact us" form will be stored in our databases for one year only in an anonymized format and would be automatically deleted afterward.
Information including Personal Data submitted through the "Interest Form", "Application Form" and "Event Form" will be handled in accordance with our data retention policy:
The Personal Data you submit through the "Interest Form" and the "Application Form" will be securely stored in anonymized format within our Website's databases for a period of three years from the date of submission.
The Personal Data you submit through the Event Form will be automatically deleted 10 days after the Event, unless your explicit consent was obtained for any further processing.
Data Security
We will process (collect, store, and use) your personal data in a secure manner.
We have implemented administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help prevent accidental or unlawful destruction or loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. Despite these measures, no data transmission over the Internet can be entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit via our Website.
We make reasonable efforts to restrict access to information to only employees and agents who need access to such information to operate, develop, improve, or deliver our programs, products, and services.
The security of your Personal Data, collected for the above-mentioned purposes, is important to us and we confirm to apply acceptable security measures and procedures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data.
Personal Data Transfer and Sharing
SABIS® Educational Systems, Inc., headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, hosts and maintains the Website and associated databases where Personal Data covered by this policy is stored in an anonymized format. As part of this arrangement, your Personal Data may be transferred to SABIS® Educational Systems, Inc., which partners with Lumen Technologies, Inc., USA or any other authorized country, for IT infrastructure and system support.
To develop and support the Website and related services, your Personal Data may also be accessed by SABIS® Educational Services S.A.L., Adma, Lebanon. Access to Personal Data is strictly limited to authorized employees, and affiliates and solely for support-related purposes.
If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, you will be redirected to newsletter.sabis.net, which operates under its own privacy policy and terms and conditions.
Links To Our social media Portals
We maintain an online presence on social media networks and platforms to communicate with users and interested parties and inform them about our services.
With that, your data may be processed beyond your country/geographical region. Depending on the social media provider (Facebook - Twitter), it may be that other data processing are performed by them. For details, refer to the following terms of use and data privacy policies of the respective social media portals.
Facebook
We have a Facebook account. The provider of this platform is Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can set your privacy preferences independently via your Facebook user account by clicking on this link and logging in: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=account
For further details please refer to the Facebook privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Instagram
The provider is the Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, US. For further details about how Meta Platforms, Inc. processes your information, please refer directly to the Instagram Data Policy found at: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
YouTube
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. Further details about how Google Inc. processes your information can be found in the data protection statement at https://policies.google.com/privacy
We have no impact over the duration for which data held by social network operators are stored for their own purposes. For details, please refer directly to the social network operators' privacy policies.
Link To Online Video Hosting
We use Vimeo, the online video hosting service from Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street New York, New York 10011, on our Website. You may adjust your Vimeo data privacy settings by referring to their privacy policy found at: https://vimeo.com/privacy
External Links
Our Website contains links to external websites within the SABIS® Global Network. Please refer to each of these websites’ privacy policies to know more about the processing of data on these external websites.
Use of Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics – a web analytics service from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. ("Google") – to generate reports on the Website activities, which help us improve our services using active IP anonymization.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, access the following link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
To opt-out of Google Analytics (relating to your use of our Website), you can adjust your cookies settings, or you can download and install the Browser Plugin available by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Use of Google Maps
We use Google Maps on our Website. Google Maps is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
The Google Maps plug-in is included by embedding the service on our Website using what is known as iFrames. When loading these iFrames, under certain circumstances, Google may collect and process information (including personal data). We cannot exclude the possibility that Google may also transmit this information to a server in a different country.
We do not collect any data when you use Google Maps through our Website.
The purpose of having Google Maps on our Website is to display our address and make further information available to you by providing access routes to the respective locations; therefore, making it possible for you to plan your journey independently.
Information on Google’s existing Privacy Shield certification and other relevant data on Google’s data processing within the framework of the use of Google services can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The legal basis for the processing of Personal Data described herein is for your legitimate interest in benefiting from the great services which Google Maps offers.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We do not share the Personal Data collected on this Website with third parties without obtaining your consent. However, we may be required or need to disclose your Personal Data in the following circumstances:
- If we receive a valid request from the police, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, or government authorities in the country of origin or elsewhere.
- We may share your Personal Data with other schools and companies within the SABIS® Network for academic and technical support purposes.
- We may share your Personal Data with our service providers in order to provide you with the necessary services. These service providers can be provided upon request and when applicable.
- We may share your Personal Data with relevant service providers for contract execution and business development.
Legal Basis for The Processing of Your Personal Data
Our legal basis for processing your Personal Data depends on the purpose of the processing and may vary as described in this Policy and the Services you are using. In general, we process your Personal Data under the following legal bases:
1. Consent
We process your Personal Data if you have given your explicit consent to the processing activity, including for marketing purposes. You may withdraw your consent at any time by sending an email to privacy@sabis.net. Withdrawing your consent will prevent us from further processing your Personal Data based on that consent, but it will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
2. Contractual Necessity
We process your Personal Data when it is necessary to perform a contract with you, such as completing the registration or enrollment process at the School and providing the services and requested support.
3. Legal Obligations
We process your Personal Data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations. This includes, but is not limited to, complying with applicable laws, regulations, and requests from government authorities.
4. Legitimate Interests
We process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests, which include providing you with our Services, managing, developing, testing, and securing our Website. Any such processing is conducted subject to appropriate measures to protect your fundamental rights and freedoms related to your Personal Data and will be subject to the restrictions provided in this Policy.
Children's Privacy
We place great importance on protecting the privacy of young children who may use the Website. We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Data from individuals under the minimum required ages specified herein. You must be of the age of majority in your jurisdiction to use our Services. Individuals under the applicable age may use our Services only through parental or legal guardian supervision and with their involvement. If you are a parent or legal guardian who believes your child has provided Personal Data to us without your consent, you may ask us to delete such information by contacting us at privacy@sabis.net.
Data Subjects Rights
In certain circumstances, you have certain rights regarding your Personal Data. A summary of each right and how you can exercise it is set out below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to privacy@sabis.net
- Right of access – You have the right to request a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you.
- Right to request deletion – In certain circumstances, you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – Under certain conditions, you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data.
- Right of portability – You have the right to have the data we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Right to object – You have the right to object to certain types of processing, such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – Profiling-based activities are not carried out under any circumstances.
- Right to withdraw your consent for Personal Data Processing – You shall inform us of this through any available means in accordance with Law provisions.
- Right to lodge a complaint – If you object to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority (DPA) in the country where you reside or the alleged infringement of data protection laws has taken place.
Additional Information
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us by:
- Using the "Contact Us" page on this Website
- Emailing us at: info@iscmanama.sabis.net
- Writing us at: info@iscmanama.sabis.net
- Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Policy: privacy@sabis.net
Acceptance And Changes to the Policy
By using our services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. Any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page.
