General
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art (HHCD) will protect the privacy of users of our services, and enquirers and visitors to our website in accordance with the Data Protection Act. The HHCD will minimise any intrusion or change to the configuration of individuals' browsers or internet-enabled devices.
Whenever personal information is voluntarily given to the HHCD by anyone, they consent to its collection and use by the HHCD in accordance with this privacy notice. Personal data submitted online to the HHCD will only be passed on to third parties who are directly involved in providing services to the HHCD for the purpose required. The HHCD will not disclose any personal data for any other use, to any other party unless we are obliged to do so by law.
Security
The RCA is 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.
Scope
This privacy notice explains how, why and what happens when the Royal College of Art collects personal information and automatically collected data, concerning:
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art (HHCD) will protect the privacy of users of our services, and enquirers and visitors to our website in accordance with the Data Protection Act. The RCA will minimise any intrusion or change to the configuration of individuals' browsers or Internet enabled devices.
Whenever personal information is voluntarily given to the HHCD by anyone, they consent to its collection and use by the HHCD in accordance with this privacy notice. Personal data submitted online to the HHCD will only be passed on to third parties who are directly involved in providing services to the HHCD for the purpose required. The HHCD will not disclose any personal data for any other use, to any other party unless we are obliged to do so by law.
Personal Information
We will only use personal information for the purpose for which it has been gathered. For more information, please contact webmaster@rca.ac.uk.
What personal information might we collect?
When individuals register for any of our services: to make purchases, make an enquiry or report a problem, they may be asked to voluntarily provide personal information such as name and e-mail address.
How do we use your personal information?
We will only use it for the purpose for which it has been gathered. For more information, please contact webmaster@rca.ac.uk.
Directories
If anyone voluntarily submits personal data for inclusion in any HHCD directory or information service, it may be seen by anyone else who has access to that directory or service. People should not submit any personal data that they do not want to be made public in this way, no one should send any personal data about anyone else without their permission.
Cookies and Automatically Collected Data
The HHCD may use cookies on its website. A cookie is a small text file that is sent from a web server to your browser and may be stored on your computer, designed to collect data for statistical purposes. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. HHCD website cookies do not collect any personal information, but can automatically collect data based on visitor browser settings and context (e.g: location, device, browser) and the use of our web sites. You can configure your browser to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. If you refuse cookies, some websites may not function. The cookies used on, http://www.hhcd.rca.ac.uk are:
Any data collected automatically from visitors to our web site through the use of cookies will be used to improve the sites, and will not and cannot be used to identify any visitor. Consent by site visitors for this anonymous data to be collected and used by HHCD for the purpose stated above will be assumed by your continued navigation of this website.
We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. We may also log Internet Protocol (IP) address (but nothing that directly identifies visitors) in order to receive and send the required information over the internet.
What data might we collect?
Cookies on HHCD website (with the suffix URL suffix: rca.ac.uk) are used to gather anonymous data such as which pages are viewed, what time the visit occurred, if the visitor has been to the site before, and which site referred the visitor to the web page etc.
How will we use the data?
Links to Other Websites
The HHCD website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our website, and to read the privacy arrangements of other sites that collect or use personal data.
Contacts
This is a website of Royal College of Art, an exempt charity which operates under the Terms of a Royal Charter. Our registered office is at Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU.
Individuals have certain rights of access to their personal data. If you want to request any information about your personal data, please contact: webmaster@rca.ac.uk.
If you are not satisfied with how we have dealt with your request, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Updated 25 May 2012
