Background
World Access to Higher Education Day is organised by the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), the UK’s professional organisation for widening access to higher education. NEON is part of the University of West London and NEON are committed to protecting your personal information and being clear about what information we collect from you and how we use it.
If we make any changes to this policy, we will let you know by revising the updated date, placing an alert on the homepage of the website, or corresponding with you directly.
If you have any questions about this policy or our uses of personal data, please contact NEON@UWL.ac.uk
Who we are and how to contact us
All personal information provided by you through this website is under the control of NEON, who are responsible for taking care of your personal information in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR). This policy may refer to NEON as: ‘NEON’, ‘The National Education Opportunities Network’ ‘our’, ‘us’ or ‘we’. Our registered office is: University of West London, St Mary’s Road, Ealing, London. W5 5RF.
How to contact us
You can contact us via the following means:
* Email: NEON@UWL.ac.uk
* Telephone: 020 8231 2468
* Post: NEON (c/o University of West London), St Mary’s Road, Ealing, London. W5 5RF.
Collecting and using your personal information
We gather and use certain information about individuals in order to promote future events to them and to enable certain functions on this website.
We also collect information to better understand how visitors use this website and to present timely, relevant information to them.
What data we gather
We may collect the following information:
* Name and job title
* Contact information including email address
* Website usage data
* Other information pertaining to surveys and online booking forms (e.g. dietary preferences)
How we use this data
Collecting this data helps us understand what you are looking for from the company, enabling us to deliver improved products and services.
Specifically, we may use data:
* For our own internal records.
* To contact delegates registered for organised events, workshops, seminars, conferences or other meetings.
* To improve the products and services we provide.
* To customise the website for you.
* To send you promotional emails or mailings about products, services and other things we think might be relevant to you.
* To ensure any specific needs are met.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Sharing your personal information
We may share the personal information we collect about you with:
* Our partners involved in running or delivering World Access to Higher Education Day hub conference events.
* Reputable and reliable third parties. This includes combined statistics about visitors to our website and website traffic patterns, answers to questions, content entered and related website information. The information used for these purposes is aggregated (i.e. combined with other user data) and anonymised, and will not be provided in a way which identifies you.
How we keep your information secure
We take steps to make sure we hold your personal information securely and share it with people or organisations who need to access it.
In order to provide our service, we need to transfer information to other organisations. We make sure these organisations commit to keeping your personal information secure.
Our website may contain links to other websites.
Please note that we have no control of websites outside the www.worldaccesshe.com, www.educationopportunities.co.uk and www.londonhigher.ac.uk domains. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.
Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the site’s data protection and privacy policies fully.
Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be on this webpage. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the World Access to Higher Education website after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Controlling information about you
You have the right, under the GDPR, to request a copy of your personal information we hold, to have it corrected, deleted, or to ask us to stop using it.
To request a copy of the personal information we hold about you – please send your request via email to: NEON@UWL.ac.uk
Opting out
To ask us to change, delete or stop using the personal information we hold about you – please send your request via email to: NEON@UWL.ac.uk
We will always consider your request to make changes to your personal information and write back to confirm the action we have taken.
Effective: March 2022