Skills for Access

Privacy Statement

By visiting or using this website you consent to the collection and use by Skills for Access of information about you in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement. The terms 'Skills for Access', 'we' and 'us' in this statement mean the Skills for Access project - personnel who are based at the Learning Development and Media Unit at the University of Sheffield and the Digital Media Access Group at the University of Dundee.

General Undertaking

Skills for Access will:

1. respect your privacy and confidentiality;
2. only record your personal details in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement;
3. keep your personal details secure from unauthorised access, use or disclosure; and
4. not sell, rent, trade or otherwise knowingly share or provide your personal information to any third party except insofar as legally obliged to do so.
5. only use your information in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Information Collected

1. Indirect collection:

The Skills for Access web server automatically collects standard information such as a user's IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, etc.. Skills for Access does not use cookies to customise web page content. Cookies are small electronic files which a website can transfer to a users hard drive to identify a user and personalise their use of that website.

Any information collected indirectly will be used by Skills for Access only: to monitor the volume, type and pattern of traffic using this website; to develop the design and layout of the website; and for other administrative and planning purposes.

2. Direct collection:

Skills for Access collects personal information, such as a user's name and email address, only when it is provided voluntarily by a user when communicating with the Skills for Access project.

We will use such information as provided by you to answer enquiries and otherwise communicate with you. All communications from you and subsequent correspondence from us will be recorded and securely retained by us. Skills for Access shall not retain the contents of any communications from you and subsequent correspondence for longer than is necessary having regard to the content and nature of such communications and correspondence. Contact details including your email address may be retained for the purposes of generally improving the services offered by Skills for Access. This includes evaluation of the services provided by us.

We may use any information collected directly from users or visitors for generally improving this website and the services offered by Skills for Access

Where you have provided your email address, Skills for Access may occasionally send you, via email, information which we consider would be of use or interest to you. Such information may include details of changes or updates to the services provided by Skills for Access via this website or otherwise. In any such email we will provide instructions on how to discontinue this service if you would prefer not to receive any future information from us.

Links

This website contains hypertext links to other web sites. Skills for Access is not responsible for the content of these sites, nor for the privacy policies operated by the owners of those sites and does not accept responsibility for any information obtained by third parties as a result of use by you of such hypertext links.

Privacy Statement Updates

Skills for Access reserves the right periodically to update or modify this privacy policy. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this website so that users are always aware of the information collected, the reasons for such collection and the purposes, if any, to which Skills for Access may put such information. Skills for Access encourages users who may have specific concerns about the gathering or use of any such information to view this Privacy Statement regularly.

Access to Information

Skills for Access will provide you with a copy of all information we maintain about you upon written request to either of the addresses:

Skills for Access
Learning Development & Media Unit
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Skills for Access
Digital Media Access Group
Division of Applied Computing
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Or by email via the Contact page

Any user may require that this information be destroyed by Skills for Access by writing to either of the above postal addresses. Skills for Access will correct any inaccuracies in such information as soon as practicable after being notified of them in writing.

Additional Comments

If you have any comments or queries regarding the Skills for Access Policy Statement please Contact us

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