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We gather statistics around email opening, user location and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our email communications. We use Adestra (a product of Upland) to deliver our email communications. For more information, please see Upland’s privacy notice.

Access to your data within the University will be provided to those who need to view it as part of their work in carrying out the purposes described above. We may share your data with companies who provide services to us, such as providers of email and mailing list services.

These companies are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your data in line with our policies. We do not allow them to use your data for their own purposes. We permit them to process your data only for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Additionally, your data may be shared with us by companies who provide services to us, such as external event providers. These companies are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your data in line with their own policies. Further information is available to you in their privacy notice which will be available when you share your data with them.

Where we share your data with a third party, we will seek to share the minimum amount necessary. Where your data is shared with us by a third party, we will ask them to share the minimum amount necessary.

Your data will be held securely in accordance with the University’s policies and procedures. Further information about information security is available on the University’s Information Security website.

We store and use your data on University premises, in both a manual and electronic form. Data will also be processed and stored electronically, both at the premises and in the online systems of companies that provide services to us, such as providers of email and mailing list services.

You may request access to any of your data, request that our processing is restricted, object to our processing or request that your data be corrected or transferred to another party, subject to certain restrictions.

You may also request that your data be deleted or ask for us to stop using it, and we will comply with your request as soon as possible. Depending on the circumstances, however, we may have legal grounds for continuing to process your data, for example where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, or where the data is being further processed for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you would like to exercise any of the rights mentioned above or if for any reason you are not happy with the way that we have handled your data, please contact the University’s Information Compliance Team at [email protected]. The same address can be used to contact the University’s Data Protection Officer. If you are still not happy, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you wish to raise any queries or concerns about our use of your data, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected], or by writing to Graduate Admissions, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD.