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Privacy

Nov 05, 2006 12:07 PM

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King’s College London is committed to protecting your privacy.
This statement is made in the light of the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in order to alert you to the data processing practices which will govern the processing of your data. If you have any queries about this statement please contact the Legal Compliance team, King’s College London, Strand Building (Room 203), Strand, London WC2R 2LS, or email legal-compliance@kcl.ac.uk.

1. How do we collect information?

We will obtain personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register with us, send or receive an e-postcard, or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from a friend who wants to tell you about the website.

2. What information do we collect?

The types of information collected might include names, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details.

3. How do we use this information?

We will use your personal information to provide you with the services, products or information you have requested and for administration purposes. We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for these purposes.

We may want to share your information with other organisations that are supportive of our aims and objectives. When you provide your details you will be asked if you do not want this to happen. You can change your mind at any time by contacting us at the postal or email address above.

4. Do we use 'Cookies'?

Cookies are text files, which identify a user's computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. The King's website uses cookies for collecting user information. The information that we gather from cookies may be used in the same way as detailed in our Data Protection policy.

King’s website uses persistent cookies - these are used to track returning visitors. They expire after 12 months and enable us to compare website traffic from month to month.