Cookie & privacy policy
St Vincent College is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the St Vincent College Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the St Vincent College website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
St Vincent College collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. St Vincent College also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by St Vincent College. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by St Vincent College for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the St Vincent College Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through St Vincent College public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: St Vincent College does not read any of your private online communications.
St Vincent College encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from St Vincent College so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. St Vincent College is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the St Vincent College and St Vincent College family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
St Vincent College collects and uses your personal information to operate the St Vincent College Web site and deliver the services you have requested. St Vincent College also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from St Vincent College and its affiliates. St Vincent College may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
St Vincent College does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. St Vincent College may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, St Vincent College may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to St Vincent College, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
St Vincent College does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
St Vincent College keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within St Vincent College, in order to determine what St Vincent College services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within St Vincent College to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
St Vincent College Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on St Vincent College or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of St Vincent College; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of St Vincent College, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The St Vincent College Web site use “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise St Vincent College pages, or register with St Vincent College site or services, a cookie helps St Vincent College to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same St Vincent College Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the St Vincent College features that you customised.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the St Vincent College services or Web sites you visit.
This website uses these essential cookies:
Cookie | Duration | Description | Type |
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30 minutes | This third-party cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Necessary/essential |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months
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This third-party cookie is used to store the user’s consent and privacy choices for their interaction with the site. It records data on the visitor’s consent regarding various privacy policies and settings, ensuring that their preferences are honoured in future sessions.
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Necessary/essential |
cookieyes-consent | 1 year
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This first-party cookie is used to remember the user’s consent to the use of cookies on the website. | Necessary/essential |
This website uses these non-essential cookies:
Cookie | Duration | Description | Type |
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1 year 1 month 4 days
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Google Analytics sets this first-party cookie to store and count page views. | Analytic |
_ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The first-party cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | Analytic |
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Session | This first-party cookie does not have a description available. | Performance |
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1 month
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This first-party cookie does not have a description available. | Performance |
_ga_LKFZGCXF7R | 1 year 1 month | This first-party cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
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Performance |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
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6 months
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This third-party cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | Advertisement |
YSC | session | YSC third-party cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | Advertisement |
Security of your Personal Information
St Vincent College secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. St Vincent College secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
St Vincent College will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. St Vincent College encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how St Vincent College is protecting your information.
Contact Information
St Vincent College welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that St Vincent College has not adhered to this Statement, please contact St Vincent College at helpdesk@stvincent.ac.uk. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.