Privacy policy

Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP, Inc.) is committed to protecting your privacy online. Our policy explains how we will do this. We will review this policy in the light of comments we receive so please check the latest version. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us.

BBC College of Journalism was built by and is maintained by the BBC. Oxford University Press is solely the distributor of the site. Use of BBC College of Journalism and any functionality offered on the site (including blogs, tutors, etc.) is subject to the BBC privacy policy.

By using the BBC College of Journalism web site, you are accepting the practices described in this statement.

What kind of information does OUP collect and how is it used?

When you register for a free trial, ask for further information about BBC College of Journalism, or subscribe to BBC College of Journalism, we ask for your name, e-mail address, postal address, and other relevant personal information. Personal information submitted in this way is added to our access control database, hosted by a third party hosting company, and to customer databases at the premises of OUP, Inc. and Oxford University Press in the U.K. (OUP UK). This information will be updated if you inform us of any changes.

We may use information in our customer databases to send you information about OUP, Inc. and OUP UK and our products which we think may be of interest to you, both electronically or otherwise. In the case of subscriptions and free trials, your personal information will also be used to enable us to verify you are a subscriber and to deliver BBC College of Journalism to you.

When you sign up to receive BBC College of Journalism email alerts or special features, we ask you for your email address and your name. We may send, to the email address that you have given, other information about us and our products which we think may be of interest to you.

We request personal information (such as your name, e-mail address and other contact details) from you when you contact us with subscription management queries, technical problems, to comment on BBC College of Journalism, or when you ask for information about how to use the service. Personal information submitted by you via the "contact us" and feedback form will not be added to our customer database and we request it simply so that we can respond to you about your query or submission. Statistics regarding the types of queries submitted to us via the "contact us" and feedback form may be collated by us in aggregate form so that we can effectively monitor the site and improve levels of service.

If you have registered for a free trial, asked for information, or subscribed to BBC College of Journalism in the past and no longer use the service and do not wish us to store information about you, please contact us and we will remove your details from our customer database. We need to store information about current subscribers and free trial customers in order to fulfill our contractual requirements to you and in order to deliver BBC College of Journalism to you.

Unless you have informed us that you do not wish to receive further information about our products, we may send you direct mail, including e-mail.

You may notify us either in writing or by telephone, fax or e-mail that you object to being contacted in a particular stated way. If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each e-mail account you use.

When does OUP share information?

We do not sell your personal information to others.

We share your information within OUP Inc. and OUP UK and Oxford Publishing Limited, as well as with the BBC.

Security

Personal information collected by OUP is stored at a data center controlled by our third party hosting company and on the customer databases at OUP, Inc. and OUP UK. The data center controlled by our third party hosting company is specifically designed to be physically secure and to admit authorized personnel only, who are contractually bound to keep all of our data confidential.

Access to our customer databases at OUP, Inc. and OUP UK is given only to those of our employees who need such access in order to carry out necessary processing of your account.

All personal information submitted by you and entered by OUP, Inc into the BBC College of Journalism access control system is encoded using 128-bit SSL encryption before being sent over the Internet.