Pearson College London STUDY SUBJECTS STUDENT EXPERIENCE DISCOVER WORKING WITH BUSINESS NEWS AND EVENTS CONTACT US PRIVACY POLICY Homepage YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US At Pearson College London, we know you care about how your personal information is used, and we appreciate that you trust us to do that carefully and sensibly. OUR PRIVACY POLICY Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use your personal information. We want you to make informed decisions when using our website and any features on it, including any registration and ecommerce services. Our Privacy Policy applies to all the pages and features on our website, including any areas which require registration, such as ecommerce and purchasing services. However, it doesn’t apply to any third party websites which are linked to our website. We recommend you read the privacy policy of any third party websites you visit from our website, as we’re not responsible for them. When we refer to our website or site, we mean the website from which you have accessed this Privacy Policy. Pearson College London is part of Pearson plc, and we have included full details of Pearson plc and our group companies at the end of this Privacy Policy. WHAT INFORMATION WILL WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU? We may collect personal information about you, including your name, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, your date of birth, job information, programme information, your personal interests, credit card or billing information, shopping selections and data about the pages you visit on our website, as well as any other personal information relating to you, or a third party that you supply to us. HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? We collect your information in two ways: Personal information you choose to disclose You may, for example, provide us with your information when you post something on our website, register for any features on our website that require registration, contact us (online or offline) or order goods or services from us. Information collected by us as you interact with our website We use cookies (a small piece of computer code that we store for a period of time on the device you’ve used to view our website) when you visit our website in order to make it work better for you. FIND OUT MORE BY READING OUR COOKIE POLICY In addition, our web server will automatically collect your IP address and browser type, and details of the website you came from before entering our website. We use this information to work out how many times our website has been visited and which pages visitors look at, so we can improve the content and layout of our website. This information is anonymous and it’s not used to identify you. From time to time, we may supply third parties with this anonymous data, for uses in connection with our website. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? Overall, we use your personal information to better meet your needs and preferences. We may use it to process your online purchases, inform you about products and services offered by us or other Pearson plc companies or to improve the products and services we provide. We may also use it for market research, marketing, statistical or analytical purposes. We won’t allow unrelated third parties to use your personal information for marketing without your consent. In particular, we may use your information to: Contact you with more information on our products and services and those of Pearson plc group companies, except where you have told us not to. Inform you of activities on our site. Invite you to take part in surveys, discussions and prize draws and ask for your views on our services, via online surveys and discussion forums. Participation in surveys and discussion forums is entirely voluntary. You may unsubscribe from being contacted for these purposes at any time. Survey information will be used for market research with the aim of improving our services. We will show your username on any content you submit or post on our website (including discussion forums and bulletin boards). We also use personal information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified by name) to build marketing profiles, audit how our website is used and to help with the strategic development of our website. EMAIL MARKETING AND OPT-OUT We won’t send you marketing emails if you’ve opted out of receiving them. Any marketing emails we send you will include an unsubscribe link at the end of the email. In addition, some Pearson plc websites also provide contact details you can use if you want to contact us by email, post or phone, in order to unsubscribe, plus a “My Account” page, where you can choose whether or not to receive marketing communications from us. HOW WILL WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SAFE? We aim to protect the safety of all your personal information. In particular, provided your browser accepts Secure Sockets Layer encryption, we aim to protect your payment information against unauthorised access through a secure server. Where we use third parties to process personal information, we require them to ensure the safety of your information. We use appropriate security measures on our own systems, but the internet is not a secure medium and we can’t guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet. Any personal information that you voluntarily post on a public area of our website, such as a bulletin board or discussion forum, or an interactive area requiring registration and/or subscription, may be collected and used by others. Please be careful what personal information you disclose in this way. You understand that we can’t control the actions of other internet users. WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANYONE ELSE? We will never sell your personal information. We may disclose and share your personal information with the third parties listed below. Because the internet is a global environment, you accept and agree that this will include the transfer of your personal information to other countries around the world, including countries outside of the European Economic Area, which may not have the same data protection laws as the UK. We may share your personal information with: Pearson plc group companies or any entity that acquires any part of our business. Our service providers, including for example, credit reference agencies and payment processors, distributors/agents of our products, suppliers who develop or host our websites. Third party search engines that may index user profile pages and usernames as part of the URL of the user profile page by default. Relevant third parties such as your employer, school or internet service provider. Other third parties with your consent. We may also have to share your personal information with organisations if required or permitted by law, including law enforcement agencies if we reasonably believe you may be in breach of the law. For example, if you’ve posted defamatory content on our website. WHAT IF YOU’RE AGED UNDER 18? If you’re under 18, please be sure to read our Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian and ask them questions about anything you don’t understand. Please get their permission before you provide Pearson College London with any personal information. ABUSES OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY Any improper collection or misuse of personal information is in violation of this Privacy Policy and of our Legal Notice. Please report it by emailing UKDataProtection@pearson.com You agree not to misuse any personal information available on our website, or to gather it, or use robots or other automated scripts, codes or functionalities to do so. We may immediately suspend or terminate your access to our website without notice if we become aware that you’re in breach of applicable terms and conditions of use or of this Privacy Policy. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will always include the date of a new version, so that you know when there has been a change. If you don’t agree to the changes, please don’t continue to use our website or provide us with your personal information. HOW TO GET IN TOUCH If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the data we hold about you, or you want to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and kept up to date, please feel free to get in touch with us by email UKDataProtection@pearson.com or by writing to Data Protection Officer, Pearson, 190 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BH, UK. This Privacy Policy is provided by Pearson Education Limited (registered number 872828, registered office Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, United Kingdom) on its own behalf, and on behalf of its group companies. References in this Privacy Policy to “Pearson”, “we”, “us”, “our” or similar refer to Pearson Education Limited or whichever Pearson group company is operating the relevant website. Our “group companies” mean companies which are under common control with Pearson Education Limited by Pearson plc, including without limitation Edexcel Limited (and its subsidiaries), Fronter AS (and its subsidiaries), Pearson Assessment & Information GmbH, Pearson Education Inc, Pearson College London Limited, Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, Pearson Education Schweiz AG, Pearson Educación S.A, Pearson Education France SAS, Pearson Education Benelux BV, Pearson Education Hellas SA, Pearson Italia SpA, Pearson Education Central Europe Sp Zoo, Pearson Education South Asia Ltd, Pearson Education Asia Ltd, Pearson Education Japan KK, Pearson Education Korea Ltd, Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd, Pearson New Zealand Ltd, Pearson South Africa Pty Ltd, Longman Nigeria plc, Pearson Education de Mexico SA de CV, Pearson Education de Colombia Ltda, Pearson Education do Brazil Ltda. 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