If you continue to browse and use this website you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy statement govern the Universities UK relationship with you in relation to this website.
1. Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. Universities UK (UUK) is committed to safeguarding the personal information you provide to us and to protecting your privacy. The purpose of this privacy statement is to assist you in understanding how UUK uses personal information collected via this website. By submitting your personal information to this website, you are confirming that you have read and understood UUK’s privacy statement and that we may use your personal information described in it. UUK reserves the right to modify or update this privacy statement at any time without prior notice. Any modifications will apply to all information collected by UUK, including previously collected information.
2. The information we collect
You do not have to provide any personal information in order to browse this website. We will collect personal information about you when you subscribe to services on our website that require you to enter your personal details in order to create a user name and password. Your personal information is used to enable us to verify you are a subscriber and to deliver the online services to you.
In addition to your personal information, when you use our website, we may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the name of your Internet service provider and pages visited on the site.
UUK obtains this information by using technologies, including cookies, to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of our website and to better tailor our website to your needs. For example, we may want to know how long the average visitor spends on our website or which pages get the most attention. Information such as this will only be used in aggregate form and does not identify you personally.
3. How your information is used
We collect information on our website visitors for a variety of purposes:
To reply to your enquiries more efficiently through the services we provide.
We also use information in aggregate form (i.e., your individual details cannot be identified) to audit usage of the site
Any personal information provided through to us by you, will be stored so that we can provide you with a more personalised service. We will only use this data to identify you.
Information that you supply in connection with the provision of a product or service or a job application will be treated in confidence and in accordance with the principles of the Data Protection Act
4. How we share information with third parties.
Universities UK does not sell or pass on your personal information to others.
5. Use of cookies
When you visit our website, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie" or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, Cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored.
The cookies we use are:
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This Cookie is used to identify unique visitors to our sites. The results are sent to our Google Analytics account so that we may see how many unique visitors come to this site based over a period of time.
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This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the visitor session times on our sites. Each time you visit a new page on the site the cookie is set to expire within 30 minutes, if it does not find an existing cookie, a new one is created.
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This cookie is used by Google Analytics in conjunction with __utmb to determine visitor sessions. Unlike __utmb this cookie does not have an expiry date, it determines whether a new session should be created based on whether you have previously closed your browser, re-opened it and come back to the site.
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This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the type of referral used by each visitor to arrive at our site. The cookie determines if the user has come directly to the site or via a search engine, email or email campaign. We use this data to understand how our users arrive at the website.
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These cookies are used by YouTube to store user preferences when viewing pages containing video content.
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This cookie is used to store preferences when viewing pages containing Policy Review TV video content. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
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This is cookie is used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps on them.
How to reject or delete these cookies
Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the "manage cookies" section.
6. Your rights
You have the right to ask us at any time not to contact you, or to change your preferred methods of contact for marketing purposes.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.
7. Protection of your personal data
We are committed to keeping your information as secure as is physically possible by us. We also use additional methods to secure sensitive information about your activities with us. Every employee that works for UUK has to follow a strict confidentiality procedure and privacy standard.
8. Links
This website contains links to other websites which are not controlled by Universities UK. This Privacy Policy applies only to www.universitiesuk.ac.uk.
9. Withdrawing your permission
You may, at any time, withdraw your permission for Universities UK to use your personal information for the purposes of sending you information about products or services by writing to Chris Lambert, Director of Resources, Universities UK, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ.