Privacy Policy
University College London Shop website Privacy Policy:
1. University College London strives to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to set out how we may obtain, store and use personal information about you.
2. When you register with the website you will be asked to provide personal information such as your contact details. We will store this data electronically or otherwise and this data will be used to enable us to fulfil any orders placed. If you do not wish University College London Shop to use or share your information for marketing purposes, please indicate this when registering;
3. We may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
a. To register you with our web site and to administer our website services;
b. For assessment and analysis (e.g. marketing, customer and product analysis) to enable us to review, develop and improve the services we offer.
c. To contact you about products or services which we think will interest you from the information we have.
d. For the prevention and detection of fraud;
e. To administer any prize draws or competitions you may enter.
4. We may give information about you to the following, who may use it for the same purposes as set out above:
a. Employees and agents of the University College London so that they may administer any accounts, products and services provided to you by the University College London now or in the future;
b. Agents who profile your data so that we can tailor the goods/services we offer to your specific tastes (subject to you having checked the opt in when you registered).
c. Employees, officers and agents of University College London
5. We may also disclose your information to:
a. Any party to whom we transfer our rights and obligations under our agreement with you;
b. Any official body if legally compelled to do so.
6. In order that we can monitor and improve the site, we may gather certain information when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP address, operating system, browser, and the address of the website that you visited prior to visiting our site.
7. Electronic "cookies" may be used to provide you with customised information from our web site. A cookie is an element of data that a website sends to your browser, which then stores it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements. They also enable us to determine how frequently particular pages have been visited and to identify the most popular areas of our website.
Cookies also allow us to make our website more user friendly by, for example, allowing us to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you do not have to accept them. You should read the help information within your browser to see how you can set it to notify you when you receive one. This will give you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it.
8. We may supplement the information that you provide to us with information that we receive from third parties.
9. We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose on-line. You accept the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing on-line over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default on our part.
10. You have the right to see any personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act) that we keep about you, upon receipt of a written subject access request and payment of a fee. Please contact us for further information on how to apply to obtain this information. If you are concerned that any of the information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, please contact us and we will amend it accordingly.
11. Please be aware that our site may include links to other websites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or procedures or for the content of these linked websites.
12. In the course of undertaking the activities specified in this privacy policy we may transfer data outside the European Economic Area to countries which do not have data protection laws or to countries where your privacy and other fundamental rights may not be protected as extensively as they are in the United Kingdom.
13. Your email address will be automatically added to our mailing list when you register. If you want to be removed from our mailing list, please send an email to
sales@uclshop.ucl.ac.uk with the word 'remove' in the subject line. Please note that it may take up to 28 days to action your request.
14. If you have any comments, queries or complaints regarding our privacy policy, please e-mail
sales@uclshop.ucl.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 7679 2000, or write to University College London, UCL Shop, Gower Street , London, WC1E 6BT.