Privacy Policy

Statement of Intent

The University of Gloucestershire is registered with the Office of the Information Commissioner according to the Data Protection Act 1998 to process personal data relating to its students in order to carry out its normal administration. This data, which may relate to ethnicity and disability, is stored and processed for various administrative, academic and health and safety reasons, and it may be used by the university for it's own marketing purposes.

The data collected is processed in accordance with the Act and will only be available within the University to members of staff who need to know in order to perform their duties. No personal data will be passed to any third party without the consent of the person concerned, unless the University is required to do so by the provisions stipulated under the Data Protection Act 1998 or an appropriate authority acting under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

Cookies

This web site uses cookies (small text files which are sent to us by your computer, if you choose to have it do so) to store some items of information. For example, cookies are used to remember the way that you choose to display pages on the site: narrow/wide mode (done by resizing the browser window) and text/graphics mode (selected by using the text mode / graphics mode link available on each page). They also contribute usage information to the web server usage logs.

The use of cookies is not in itself a security issue, but cookies do raise concerns among some people about privacy (here's a good summary of the situation). We do not use cookies to store information about passwords or credit card numbers or the like, nor do we support third-party advertising. If you wish to block cookies sent to you from our site you can do so from within your web browser: see your browser's Help menu for information on how to do this or refer to www.AboutCookies.org, and look on your computer for cookies that contain the name glos.ac.uk. If you want to you can block cookies from other sites but allow through cookies from us (allow them from the glos.ac.uk domain).

If you do choose to block cookies from us, please be aware that some of the functions and interactive services on this site will not work.

Interactive Services

Some services on this web site, such as General Enquiries, ask for contact details so that we can respond to your requests. This information is logged not only so that we can provide the service itself, but also so that we can investigate and correct any problems that might occur. The service logs are deleted each year, after we have produced the aggregated anonymous statistics required for our Annual Report.

Web Server Usage Logs

This web server logs each web request made to it. This information can include semi- and fully-identifiable personal details such as IP addresses and usernames (provided if a user has logged in to a secured area of the web site, for example). The usage log entries are made anonymous and aggregated to produce general usage reports, which are used to enable us to improve the site. The usage logs are deleted each year, after we have produced the general statistics required for our Annual Report.