For the avoidance of doubt, the definitions listed in the Website Terms and Conditions shall apply throughout this Privacy Policy also.
This Website is owned and operated by The University Court of the
University of Abertay Dundee, a charity registered in Scotland (Charity Number: SC016040)
having its main office at Kydd Building, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG ("we"/"us"/"our").
1.1 This Privacy Policy establishes how we handle any Personal Information we might gather from you when you visit the Website (see section 2 below). The Privacy Policy also explains how that Personal Information might be used and how we protect your Personal Information and privacy.
1.2 We
will be happy to answer any enquiries from you regarding this Privacy Policy,
the Personal Information we hold about you or the use we make of it. You also have the right under the Data
Protection Act 1998 to know about the information we hold about you. This is known as a "Subject Access
Request". Subject Access Requests
should be made in writing, to the above address. We may charge a small fee for processing a
Subject Access Request. If you wish to
correct, update, amend or remove any Personal Information we hold about you, please
contact Professor Nicholas Terry, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Abertay
Dundee, Kydd Building, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG.
2.1 When
you contact us, use the Website, submit a Study Application Form, Alumni Update
Form or make a Purchase we will collect and hold Personal Information about
you. We may collect the following
details from you: - your name; full postal address; a contact telephone number;
email address; details of your visits to
our Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and the
resources that you access (see section 4 below).
2.2 When paying for Goods, you will be directed to a secure payment
gateway operated by our secure third party payment services provider. We do not hold your credit or debit card
information, including your account number, anywhere on our database or server.
2.3 All
Personal Information collected will be used and held in accordance with the
Data Protection Act 1998.
3.1 Services
We
may use your Personal Information to enable us to:
3.2 Marketing
From time to time,
where you have given us permission to do so, we may use your Personal Information to let you know about other Goods and
special offers we provide and also to provide news about our business. If you do not want us to use your Personal
Information in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form through
which we collect your Personal Information. If
you have previously consented to such use but you no longer wish to be
contacted by us about such Goods, special offers or services we provide, please
use email us at communications@abertay.ac.uk
3.3 Legal Requirements
We will never pass your Personal Information to any third party other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, but reserve the right to access and disclose Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests; requests by the police investigating suspected illegal activities; to enforce our Website Terms and Conditions; and to operate our systems properly, administer the Website, or to protect ourselves or other Website users. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
4.1 We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
4.2 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
4.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Website.
5.1 When you input any Personal Information into the Website we will use appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security measures to try to prevent that Personal Information from being accessed by unauthorised persons and to ensure that you may input Personal Information safely. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk.
5.2 We
will never transfer your Personal Information outwith the European Economic
Area.
5.3 We
will dispose of any of your Personal Information which is no longer of any use
to us. Your Personal Information will be
disposed of in strict accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This
Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy
regularly for any changes. We will use
Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which that
Personal Information was collected.
For further information about how we handle your Personal Information, please contact us at Communications Centre, The University of Abertay Dundee, Kydd Building, Bell Street, Dundee; by telephone on 01382 308000; or by email at communications@abertay.ac.uk
