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This privacy notice has been updated in line with the General Data Protection Regulation. You can manage your cookie settings here.

1. Purpose of this Notice

Note that additional information will be provided where you are requested to enter personal information and this will vary between our various websites.  .

It is important that you read this Notice together with any other privacy notice we provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.  This Notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

2. Changes to this Notice

We keep the information provided in this Notice under review. This Notice may be updated from time to time. If we make any substantial updates, we will draw these to your attention.

We will not use your personal data in any manner that is incompatible with the purpose for which the data were collected originally, unless we have obtained your consent to that additional use.

3. Anything you are not clear about

If there is anything you are unclear about, please contact our Data Protection Officer, who shall be happy to answer any queries you may have concerning this Notice or the way in which we process your personal data.

The Data Protection Officer's contact details are provided at the end of this Notice.

4. Purpose of processing your data

Where we request personal data from you on our website you will be informed at that time of the purpose for which the data will be processed and how it will be processed, its legal basis for processing as well as any transfers to third parties.

5. Purpose of processing - automated collection of personal information

When you access our web pages certain information your browser provides, including your IP address at the time, browser type, and potentially the address of the page you last visited, will be automatically recorded by the University. This data may be used to aid detection in the event of a security breach. The legal basis for this processing is necessity to pursue our legitimate interests to keep our website secure. The University retains this data in a form from which you may be identifiable for a period of up to one month.

6. Third-party access

Your personal data that you have provided will not routinely be sent to third parties (unless notified - see 4. above).

Exception - 100 % online distance learning postgraduate courses

The University works with third party partners (Pearson PLC, Hunterlodge Advertising) who handle admissions enquiries and recruitment for some of our 100% online distance learning postgraduate courses. If you submit an enquiry through the online form published on the associated course pages, our partner organisation will use your personal data to respond to your enquiry. If you choose to apply for the course, your data will be entered into the University’s application system so we can consider your application. These partners are only allowed to use your data in accordance with the strict instructions of the University. Neither partner will use your data in any other way nor will they share it with any other organisation.

7. Data retention

The University’s policies on retaining data for prospective and current students, staff and job applicants are detailed in our data retention policy.

In other cases, for example, if you subscribe to news or events, any retention of data will be made clear at the point of collection.

8. Cookies

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Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Essential: To help our website function
• Performance tracking: Track how our website is used and help us make improvements
• Marketing: To inform targeted advertising.

Essential cookies

These cookies help our website to function

• Third party cookies and tracking
• If you share content from our website through other websites, for example Facebook or Twitter, cookies or a form of tracking may be used by these services and you need to manage your privacy via your account (and not through our site).
• Manage your cookies and privacy
• You can opt out of non-essential cookies - manage your cookie settings here. You can also manage your privacy settings, including cookies, through your browser settings.
• Further information about cookies can be found on the Information Commissioner's Office website.

9. Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data the University holds about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if the personal data you have provided to us needs to be updated.

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10. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR, in certain circumstances, you have the right to:

• withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data where that is the legal basis for such processing
• access any of your personal data which we hold
• have your personal data which we hold corrected if it is inaccurate
• have any of your personal data which we hold erased
• restrict the ways in which we process your personal data
• object to our processing of your personal data
• receive a copy of any of your personal data which we hold in a structured and commonly used machine-readable format
• in certain cases not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

11. Queries and complaints

If you have any queries or concerns relating to this privacy notice or the way your data is being processed through this website then please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer, Rebecca Messenger-Clark at R.Messenger-Clark@adm.leeds.ac.uk or by post to University of Leeds, 11.72 EC Stoner Building, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

The University’s main telephone number is +44 (0) 113 2431751.

The UK’s regulator for the DPA and GDPR is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The University is registered as a Data Controller with the ICO