Welcome to the privacy notice for this instance of a Matomo Analytics Administration Website (https://matomo.kmi.open.ac.uk) ('Site') managed by the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, and currently used for the Institute of Coding Badging family of websites to store their analytics.
The Open University respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit the The Institute of Coding Badging Website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below.
The Open University is the data controller in relation to the processing activities described below. This means that the Open University decides why and how your personal information is processed. Where this policy refers to "we", "our" or "us" below, unless it mentions otherwise, it's referring to the Open University. We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. Please direct any queries about this policy or about the way we process your personal information using the contact details below.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
If you are given a login for this Site, then we will always need to hold a valid email address for you in order to manage your login to this Site, for as long as you have an account on this Site.
We do not use any analytics on the Site.
We do not recieve any information from third parties on this site.
We store your email address so that we can operate the Site and contact you about the Site when we need to. We will never pass it on to anyone for marketing purposes.
We will not make your name or email address available to anyone outside the Open University, unless required to so by law.
This Site was created and is managed as part of an on-going line of research being conducted at Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Any information available on this site could be analysed and used for research purposes. Any resultant research publications will always use anonymized data.
Generally, information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers, or on our cloud based systems which are located within the EEA.
However, there are times when we do need to store information outside the EEA. If we transfer your information outside of the EEA,we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this policy. This would either be imposing contractual obligations on the recipient of your personal information, or ensuring that the recipients are subscribed to 'international frameworks' that aim to ensure adequate protection.
We will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for us to fulfil the purposes that we describe in this policy. As a general rule, however, we will keep:
If you choose to close your account on this Site, your user record will be anonymized and your personal information will be removed.
We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on-line.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone browser from a website's computer and is stored on your computer's or mobile phone's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, which the site can then access when you visit it again to track online traffic flows, for example. A website cannot access cookies sent by other websites.
This website only sets one cookie directly, called MATOMO_SESSID. This cookie is a 'session cookie' which tells us that you are actively visiting our site and it is required for the site to function.
If you have visited or are logged into the Open Unviersity main website (open.ac.uk), before you visit this website, you may see additional cookies. What additional cookies you see will depend on what you agreed to on the main Open University site, and whether you are logged in to the main Open Univerity website. For full details of their cookie policy, please see: The Open University Cookie Policy
You may find more information on cookies by clicking on the following link http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal information, which apply in certain circumstances.
You have the right
If you are concerned about the way we have processed your personal information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Please visit the ICO's website www.ico.org.uk for further details.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice.
Please direct any queries about this policy or about the way we process your personal information using the contact details below.