This privacy policy is specific to the website with the domain name (including any subdomain) now at the top of your web browser ("this Website") and the related English-proficiency testing product called Oxford Test of English (“OTE”).
This privacy policy sets out how we use any information we collect about you when you visit or use this Website or OTE.
We are The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press (“OUP”) of Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, England.
We collect and process information you provide to us via this Website or through your use of OTE. This includes information provided when you register to use OTE, order or subscribe to OTE, request information, enter a competition or promotion on this Website or complete a survey.
We use that information for the purpose you provide it, including:
to administer OTE;
to validate OTE;
to improve our corpus of spoken and written English;
to inform you of your OTE results, which are valid for your whole lifetime; and
to test the security of this Website.
We may use information in our customer databases to send you information (electronically or otherwise) about our and our group companies’ products and services we think may be of interest to you.
If you e-mail us, we may keep a record of your e-mail and our reply.
We collect and keep details of your visits to this Website including traffic data, location data, your IP address, weblogs and other communication data and the resources on this Website you access.
We also collect details of your computer (e.g. information about your browser, operating system and settings) to allow us to carry out internal research on users’ interests, demographics and behaviour.
We may combine information we collect about you with other information about you and information collected by our group companies so that we can unders (ELT) (UK) (Assessment) (OTE) Contributor Agreement statement of work schedule nd your preferences and provide you and other customers with more customised and better information, products and services, viewing recommendations and advertising.
We may share your personal information with our contractors and suppliers which assist us in making this Website and OTE available (e.g. approved OTE test centres, schools or institutions, the University of Oxford and OTE Assessors and the supplier which hosts this Website).
We may share your personal information with our group companies and our and their professional advisers.
If we believe that your use of this Website is unlawful or damaging to anyone, we may disclose your personal information to the extent that we believe is reasonably necessary to prevent, remedy or take action in relation to your conduct.
If any part of our business or that of any of our group companies is sold or merged with another business, your personal information may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective or actual purchasers and their advisers.
Your personal information may be transferred to, and held by us or our suppliers outside, the European Economic Area ("the EEA"). It may be held, accessed and used by our and our group companies’ staff located outside the EEA.
This Website may contain links to third party websites. If you visit any third party website, it may collect information about you. Those websites are not within our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. Those websites may have their own privacy policies.
We do not have any responsibility for the use of your information made by the operator of any third party website. We suggest you check third party websites to find out more about their privacy and cookie policies.
Where we use third party tools, for example, Google Analytics, to assist us with this Website, those third parties may collect certain information from your visits to this Website including, for example, the web address of the page that you are visiting, and your IP address. For further information, please see our Cookie Policy and Cookie Directory.
We use cookies on this Website. The terms and conditions governing our use of cookies are set out in our Cookie Policy available at http://global.oup.com/cookiepolicy/?cc=gb.
If there is any conflict or inconsistency between this privacy policy and our Cookie Policy, the terms of our Cookie Policy will prevail to the extent necessary to resolve that conflict or inconsistency.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will try to protect your personal information, we do not guarantee the security of your personal information posted to this Website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal information, we use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access to it.
You have the right to prevent us contacting you for marketing purposes. If you wish to do so please send an e-mail to assessmentops@oup.com. If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us, please notify us of each e-mail address you use.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold. If you wish to request a copy, please send an e-mail to assessmentops@oup.com.
If any of the information you have provided to us changes e.g. if you change your email address, please let us know the correct details by sending an e-mail to assessmentops@oup.com.
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy. Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at assessmentops@oup.com.
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