Legal

Terms and Conditions of Use

"College" means King’s College London, a university with charitable status, established under royal charter and having its registered office at Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom;

By accessing this website you accept and agree to the following terms and conditions:

College gives no warranty as to the accuracy of the information or guidance for any specific purpose. The information and guidance contained on the website does not constitute legal or professional advice.
All implied warranties and conditions are excluded, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

The College is in no way responsible or liable for any damage or loss whatsoever arising from viewing or downloading information from this website and from the use of, or reliance on, the information and guidance on this website, although this does not affect claims in respect of death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Any links to third parties websites are provided for convenience only. College has no control over such websites and accepts no liability for their content.

College reserves the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend or remove any of these terms. By browsing the website you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and notices, and we therefore recommend that you check these each time you revisit the site.

You must not use this website, and/or any interactive facilities which are available through it to:

commit or encourage unlawful acts or in breach of these terms of use;
misrepresent your identity;
hack, or attempt to hack, any part of the website or any system used to run it;
store personal data derived from the website;
post material that is obscene, offensive, or otherwise unlawful;
technically harm the website and/or its systems (including, without limitation, computer viruses or malicious software or harmful data).

While College tries to make this website available 24 hours a day, it reserves the right to suspend or withdraw access, without notice, to either the whole or part of the website, for any reason.

Copyright

This site and its content are protected by copyright. The content of this website may be viewed, printed or downloaded for personal, non-commercial use only. It is not to be modified, reproduced, transmitted, published or otherwise made available in whole or in part without the prior written consent of the King’s College London.

In no event shall any user of this website use the name or logo of King’s College London or any of its trademarks, other than with the express written consent of an authorised representative of King’s College London.

Complaints

Any complaint made about any material available on King’s website or information relating to the College contained on external Internet sites will be addressed as soon as possible.

Please use our feedback form to contact us.

These terms and condition represent the entire agreement between the parties in regard to the use of the website. The College in its sole discretion is entitled to alter or amend the website and the terms and conditions without notice. Information contained on the website may be subject to conditions and/or disclaimers as indicated. English law governs these terms and your use of this website and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Privacy statement

King's College London is committed to protecting your privacy.
This statement is made in the light of the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in order to alert you to the data processing practices which will govern the processing of your data.

If you have any queries about this statement please contact:
Legal Compliance team
King's College London - Waterloo Campus
Room G37. James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8WA

Email legal-compliance@kcl.ac.uk

1 How do we collect information?

We will obtain personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register with us, send or receive an e-postcard, or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from a friend who wants to tell you about the website.

2 What information do we collect?

The types of information collected might include names, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details.

3 How do we use this information?

We will use your personal information to provide you with the services, products or information you have requested and for administration purposes. We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for these purposes.

We may want to share your information with other organisations that are supportive of our aims and objectives. When you provide your details you will be asked if you do not want this to happen. You can change your mind at any time by contacting us at the postal or email address above.

4 Do we use 'Cookies'?

Cookies are text files, which identify a user's computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. The King's website uses cookies for collecting user information. The information that we gather from cookies may be used in the same way as detailed in our Data Protection policy.

King's website uses persistent cookies - these are used to track returning visitors. They expire after 12 months and enable us to compare website traffic from month to month. To see more about our cookies - visit the cookie use detail.

You can reject cookies. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies - consult the help section of the browser toolbar. Information on controlling cookies or rejecting cookies is available from several web sites, e.g.
http://www.aboutcookies.org

5 How do we protect personal information?

We use a secure server when you enter into any money transaction from our website. We also take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.

6 Will we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

As indicated above, we may pass your information to our service providers, agents and associated organisations, and, if you have consented, to other organisations who may support our objectives.

We may also need to disclose your information if required to do so by law.

7 Your consent

By providing us with your personal data, including sensitive personal data such as on your health, you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with the above purposes and this privacy statement.

You also consent to our transferring your information to countries or jurisdictions which do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK, if necessary for the above purposes. If we do make such a transfer, we will, if appropriate, put a contract in place to ensure your information is protected.

8 Right of access

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

9 Changes

If your personal details change, please help us to keep your information up to date by notifying us at the above address.

We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.