Coventry University's Website will process information about you in the following ways:

1. personal details given to us by you via on-line forms will be used to provide you with information, goods or services you have requested, such as course brochures or prospectuses. The details you provide will not be used for marketing purposes unless you have been informed of this and been given the opportunity to opt-out of having your details used for this purpose;
2. information provided by you via feedback forms or questionnaires will be used to improve our site;
3. logging information, such as your machine's IP address, is collected automatically by the server and used for statistical purposes only;
4. cookies may be used to collect user data to enhance your experience of our site. For example, we may use cookies to determine whether your browser can accept a particular type of software, or to stop pop-up boxes appearing each time you visit our site. We may use cookies for other purposes in the future, as our site develops and this statement will be amended to reflect any such changes.

Information about you will only be disclosed to relevant employees of Coventry University, and will not be revealed to third parties outside the University.

You have a right to ask for a copy of the information we hold on you at any time, and to have that information corrected if it is inaccurate. For further details please see: Procedure for Data Subject Access Requests

Summary of terms

Browser - software used to locate and display Web pages
Cookies - files stored on the user's machine which are designed to identify users and collect user information
IP address - the Internet Protocol address is an identifier allocated to a computer using the Web. IP addresses may be static (a particular computer always has the same address) or dynamic (the address is different each time the computer connects to the Web)

April 2008

By submitting your enquiry you are consenting to your data being held by Hobsons PLC, on behalf of Coventry University. Your data will be used for the purposes of dealing with your enquiry, and sending you relevant information about Coventry University. Neither Hobsons PLC nor Coventry University will pass your details on to any third party. If you wish to remove yourself from Coventry University's database please contact Hobsons PLC, Challenger House, 42 Adler Street, London E1 1EE, or email enquiries.io@coventry.ac.uk.