Data privacy
RCPE is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name and job title
- contact information including email address
- demographic information such as town/city, country, postcode, preferences and interests
- how you heard about us
- other information relevant to live events you have registered for
What we do with the information we gather
In the main these details are used to set-up your access to the live and on-demand educational content contained on the Education Portal. We also use this information to better understand your needs and to provide you with a better service.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies within this site
This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Cookies
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Cookie is used by: Google Analytics
The functionality is: to store and count page views
The purpose is: statistics
Expiration period: 2 years
This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.
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Cookie is placed by: Google Analytics
The functionality is: to store and count page views
The purpose is: statistics
Expiration period: 1 day
This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.
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Cookie is placed by: Google Analytics
The functionality is: to read and filter requests from bots
The purpose is: statistics
Expiration period: 1 minute
This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.
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Cookie is placed by: Google Analytics
The functionality is: to store a unique user ID
The purpose is: statistics
Expiration period: 1 minute
This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.
Stored data: user ID
This describes if this specific cookie, local Storage or other resource is responsible for sharing, collecting or storing direct or indirect personal data.
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Cookie is placed by: Moodle
The functionality is: to provide continuity and maintain your login from page to page
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. If you use these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over external websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Your personal information
You may request details of any personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. To learn more, please visit: rcpe.ac.uk/college/privacy-notice.