Personal Information

On some parts of this site, you may be asked to provide some limited personal information in order to enable the provision of certain services.

By supplying this information you are consenting to the University holding and using it for the purposes for which it was provided.

Information provided by you will be kept for as long as is necessary to fulfil that purpose. Personal information collected and/or processed by the University is held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related UK data protection legislation.

Personal information will not be sold or given to third parties, or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations without your permission. However, if we are under a duty to disclose or share such information in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property or safety of the University, its members or others we may disclose your personal information to third parties.

We may use your data to:

• Provide you with marketing communications where we have your consent, such as those related to programmes in which you may be interested, or to seek your views on our products and services. We do this only where you have specifically indicated that you consent to receive such communications, for example, by ticking a box or through some other action, or by volunteering non-mandatory information. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at communications@cs.ox.ac.uk. In this event, we will stop any processing as soon as we can. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your withdrawal of consent. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Help us understand your interests and ensure that the information we send you is relevant. We may profile your data to help us follow up with you in the most relevant way after you provide us with your information. This involves analysing the personal data you provide to us (e.g. by submitting a form on our website) and storing the results on our secure servers. This profiling is used only to tailor our marketing communications and improve the relevance of the information we share with you. This does not affect any admissions or recruitment decisions. You have the right to object to this type of processing at any time by contacting us at communications@cs.ox.ac.uk

Website Cookies

When you visit some pages on this site, your web browser may be issued with a small piece of text (a "cookie") by this site ("1st party") or other sites ("3rd party'). Your web browser may communicate that cookie back to the originating site in subsequent visits.

Some cookies will be temporary and will be destroyed when the web browser is closed ("session cookies"), other cookies will remain until they expire or are removed ("persistent cookies").

It is very likely that there are some options in your web browser preferences that can show you all the cookies being stored, and lets you delete or block them if you wish.

Cookies may be:

• fundamentally necessary for the delivery of the web service you are using ("strictly necessary"), e.g. enable tracking of items in an online shopping basket or to enable session tracking for a service that you log in to,
• necessary to benefit from the full functionality of the service, but not essential for some level of service ("functional"), e.g. user preferences and options, often default user preference cookies are issued if they are not present,
• for the benefit of the service provider or, to allow the service provider to better understand its users and therefore provide a better service for them, albeit indirectly, based on aggregate data ("performance"), e.g. analytical tools so a site can produce statistics on the types of users it has or the sections of its site that are most or least popular or interesting,

but could equally be for a wide range of other purposes.

Below is a table listing the cookies that may be set / issued when visiting this site. (Cookies being issued that are part of services that are only accessible internally – those services accessible on an intranet that resides within the University of Oxford as an organisation but not outside – are not included).

	Strictly Necessary
	Functional
	Performance

 

Removing or blocking cookies used by this site

Most web browsers will allow you to remove specific cookies or block them for a particular site.

If you decide to block some or all cookies that come from this website, for the most part your experience will not be affected. However, some services will no longer function such as: anything requiring a log in, videos and some dynamic maps.

If you have used a "do not track" option in your browser to signal that you wish to opt out of having page visits tracked, this site will honour that and not issue "performance" cookies such as those used by Web Analytics.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Further information

Further information can found on the Information Commissioner's Office website.

Any queries about this website should be directed at website@cs.ox.ac.uk.