UKOLN Privacy Statement

  UKOLN

Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/privacy/. Users may go to http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/privacy/optout.html for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath,
BA2 7AY
UK

You may contact us by e-mail at support@ukoln.ac.uk. You may call us at +44 (0) 1225 386580.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals:

Data Protection Act: All personal data is collected and stored in line with the Data Protection Act 1988.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.


Group "Basic information"

We collect the following information:

This data will be used for the following purposes:

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:


Group "Cookies"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

This data will be used for the following purposes:

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:


Group "Mailing registration"

We collect the following information:

This data will be used for the following purposes:

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:


Group "Evaluation"

We collect the following information:

This data will be used for the following purposes:

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies and they are used for the following purposes:

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.


Content by: Shirley Keane of UKOLN.
Page last revised on: 24-Apr-2003
Email comments to: web-support@ukoln.ac.uk