Privacy Statement
The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you when you visit The University of Sheffield web site (www.shef.ac.uk).
This information is used to improve the content of our web pages, to customise the content and/or layout of our page. We never sell, rent or share any of the information we collect by this method (except anonymous aggregate information) with any third party.
Information we collect as you browse our web site
Our web server automatically collects standard information, including your IP address, browser type, operating system and access times.
Sometimes we may use cookies to customise web page content based on your browser type, IP address or other anonymous information.
About Cookies
Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many web sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to monitor visitor traffic.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.
Use of Optional Information
On certain web pages, you may be asked to provide your name, e-mail address or other personal information (for example, when requesting a prospectus or brochure). We will not use this information for any other purpose; it is never sold, rented or shared with any third party. We will however, use any demographic information you provide for internal market research purposes only.
If you contact us by e-mail to request information, report a problem or provide feedback on our services we will only use the information you provide (including your e-mail address) to respond to your message. We do not share this information in any way.
Future developments
From time to time, we may use your information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes on this page.
If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check this page periodically. We will only use data collected from the time of the policy change onwards for these new purposes.
Security
We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information we have collected from you.
These security measures include the necessary protection to prevent, as far as possible, access to our databases by parties other than The University of Sheffield.
Access to Information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information The University of Sheffield holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests). Upon such a request we will provide you with access to all the information we maintain about you subject to the conditions of the Data Protection Act 1998. Please request this service by writing to us at the address below.
Feedback
If you feel this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at a.cutler@shef.ac.uk or write to John Hawley, Corporate Information & Computing Services
285 Glossop Road,
Sheffield,
S10 2HB.
The Freedom of Information Act (2000)
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by the University of Sheffield. It also sets out exemptions from that right and places a number of obligations on the University when responding to requests for information. For the purposes of the Act, the University of Sheffield is defined as a public authority.
This website contains the following:
- The University of Sheffield Publication Scheme
- Guidance for members of staff on the Freedom of Information Act
- Details for enquirers on how to find and request information
Contact the FOI Unit
email : Contact the FOI Unit
Matthew Zawadzki, University Records Manager,
or
Richard Forrester, FOI Compliance Manager,
FOI Unit,
Corporate Information and Computing Services,
The University of Sheffield,
285 Glossop Road,
Sheffield,
S10 2HB.
If you would like to request information, please feel free to use the form that can be downloaded from this page. You are under no obligation to use the form, but it may prove useful, along with the notes for guidance, in helping you compose your request.
If you have any complaints regarding the service provided by the University of Sheffield under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, please contact, in writing, the FOI Unit. Specific details of the complaint must be provided together with any relevant supporting information. The University undertakes to respond promptly to any complaint, initially, within its own internal complaints procedure. If the complaint is not resolved satisfactorily then complainants have the right of appeal to the Information Commissioner.