INTO University Partnerships takes your privacy seriously. This
Privacy Policy explains what we do to make as sure as reasonably
possible that information about you is kept both secure and
confidential. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as once
you use our website or our services you will be deemed to have read
and accepted this Privacy Policy.
You must not use our website or our services if you do not
accept this Privacy Policy.
1. The information we collect
We will only collect personal information about you and given by
you when you submit an enquiry, brochure request or direct
application for a course through one of our webforms, or when you
register directly for one of our premium content services. We will
always let you have a copy of all personal information that we have
about you if you request it. Contact privacy@into.uk.com.
2. Purposes for which we use information
about our users
We collect information about our users for a variety of
purposes. These include the following:
- where users supply data to us in relation to educational
services that we offer (for example, to enrol on an INTO course or
to obtain information about our educational programmes), data will
be processed by us to supply the information requested by our
users. Your information is held by INTO University Partnerships
Ltd. in the United Kingdom
- so that we can inform our users of new offers, products, and
services which may be of interest to them
- so that we can send our users news and marketing items which
are relevant to their interests to help us improve and
personalise the services provided to our users
3. Passing on information about you
We will not disclose information obtained from you to third
parties. In certain circumstances we may need to disclose
information about you if you breach this Privacy Policy. We may
also disclose or access your account if required to do so by the
laws of the UK or any other jurisdiction, including but not limited
to the EU, or by any other statutory or non-statutory or other
governmental, non governmental or judicial authority.
4. Security
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us. We
use the highest standards of encryption for online transactions
involving sensitive data such as credit card details. However, no
data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally
secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal
information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information that you send to us, and you do so at your own
risk.
INTO University Partnerships will take all reasonable
precautions to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of
your user data under our control. Only authorized employees and
subcontractors will be given access to the information you provide
to us.
5. Cookies
INTO University Partnerships' websites use first party cookies
only. These cookies are written in the domain of the site being
tracked. Please refer to the below table for types of cookie that
INTO currently uses or may use in the future.
| Cookie Name |
Description |
Expiry |
| _#srchist |
Stores the history of traffic sources the user has arrived to
the site by |
1000 days |
| _#sess |
Stores information about the session |
1000 days |
| _#vdf |
Stores the visit definition - ts type, number of visits,
expiry |
1000 days |
| _#uid |
Stores a user identifier (only within a site) |
1000 days |
| _#slid |
Unique sale ID |
1000 days |
| _#clkid |
Unique identifier for a click generating a landing |
1 year |
| _#lps |
Flags that the last page was secure and therefore has no
referrer |
20 min |
| _#tsa |
Stores the referrer details to avoid duplicate Landing
events |
10 min |
| _#env |
Flags whether the environment variables (screen size, browser
etc) need to be collected again |
30 days |
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service
provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses
"cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help
the website analyze how users use the site. The information
generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including
your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on
servers in the United States. Google will use this information for
the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling
reports on website activity for website operators and providing
other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties
where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process
the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your
IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse
the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your
browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be
able to use the full functionality of this website. By using
this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by
Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
6. Transferring your information abroad
Information supplied to us by you will only be transferred
abroad by us or our partners for the purpose of performing
contractual obligations owed by us to you; for example, to supply
an educational agent in your country or region with your
information to enable that agent to provide you with services you
require.
7. How can you access and update
information which we hold about you?
- you can request to see the data INTO University Partnerships
hold for you by emailing us at privacy@into.uk.com
- you can unsubscribe from INTO University Partnerships
communications by emailing us at unsubscribe@into.uk.com
8. Automated decisions taken by us about
you
Assumptions are made about your interests depending on the
information you have supplied us about yourself, and about the
website you were visiting when you did so. For example, if you
enquired about a Foundation course at University of Exeter, we
assume you are interested in pre-university education in the United
Kingdom.
We assume you speak certain languages based on your nationality or
country of residence.
9. Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may update the Privacy Policy from time to time. If we need
to make any changes we will post an announcement to this effect on
our websites. We will also revise the last updated date at the
bottom of the Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions relating to this Privacy Policy or how
we use the personal information we have about you, please contact
privacy@into.uk.com.
Last updated: May 2012