General
Cardiff University website will not store or capture personal data (e.g.
name, email address) without the prior knowledge and consent of users.
In the event that you are asked to provide personal information to the web
site, you may be asked whether you wish to receive any further communication
from Cardiff University. The University will make sure all personal data that
is supplied is held as securely as possible, in accordance with the Data
Protection Act.
Data
Cardiff University does not sell or otherwise transfer any personal data to
commercial companies or other organisations, with the exception of 1) web
statistics (see below) which is hosted and managed by a third party company
(Google, Inc and other web analytics services) and 2) off-site hosted server environments
for some website services (eCards, Coursefinder and other applications).
Cookies & Web Statistics
Some areas of Cardiff University website use cookies to aid the user
experience (e.g. to save the user from re-entering personal details for every
page in a section of the site, including the 'Quick links' area). Cookies are
also used to compile general (not personal) site usage statistics. Cookies are
not used to capture or store personal information for any other purpose.
Cardiff University maintains continuous logs of its web server activity.
These log files include the details of web site users’ IP address, browser type
and page last visited etc. The log files are used to analyse how the web site
is being used by visitors and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical
records.
The Cardiff University websites use hosted web analytics software. These are
hosted services provided and managed by third party companies. Cardiff
University's main supplier of hosted web analytics is Google, Inc.
Clicktale.com is also used on some pages to better inform web design. The
services 'Google Analytics' and 'Clicktale.com' use 'cookies' (a text file sent
to user's computers as they browse our websites) to help analyze how users
navigate our websites. The information generated by the cookie regarding our
websites (including IP addresses) will be transmitted to and stored by Google,
Inc. and Clicktale.com on servers that may be hosted in the United States.
Google, Inc. and Clicktale.com will use this information for the purpose of
evaluating use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for
website operators and providing other related services to Cardiff University.
Google, Inc. and Clicktale.com 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, Inc. or Clicktale.com’s behalf. Google, Inc. and
Clicktale.com will not associate your IP address with any other data held by
Google, Inc. or Clicktale.com. You may decline the use of cookies by
configuring your web browser to do so. By using this website, you consent to
the processing of data about you by Google, Inc. and Clicktale.com in the
manner and for the purposes set out above.
Disclaimer
This privacy statement applies to the web pages centrally maintained by
Cardiff University. Other pages that are linked to from the main Cardiff
University sites may have a separate privacy policy, including some Academic
School, Research Centre and project-orientated websites.
