The OER Community of Practice for the UK and Ireland (OER CoP) is jointly managed by Brunel University of London and the Open Education Network. These entities recognize the importance of personal privacy and ensure that all personal data is held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018. The Data Controller for the OER CoP operations is Brunel University of London. The OER CoP has your contact information because you have joined our community. We only use these details to send you information about future OER CoP activity, or to support your use, access and participation in the Open Network Community. We do this because it is in the legitimate interest of the OER CoP to support our membership in building a knowledge sharing community.
By joining our community, you are agreeing to share your contact information with community members as part of your participation in the community networking.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a right of access to your data, a right to rectification, erasure (in certain circumstances), restriction, objection or portability (in certain circumstances). You also have a right to withdraw consent. Your information will be held securely for the lifetime of your membership and deleted after one year after you leave the network or last access it. If you would like to exercise these rights, or if you have any concerns or questions relating to Data Protection, please contact:
Brunel University of London’s Data Protection Officer at: data-protection@brunel.ac.uk
If you are unhappy with the way in which Brunel University of London has handled your personal information you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. For information on reporting a concern to the Information Commissioner’s Office, see www.ico.org.uk/concerns.
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The Open Education Community of Practice and the Open Education Network use Google Analytics which generates cookies to produce statistics on website usage. The information about pages accessed is stored purely for statistical purposes. Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting has also been enabled, but this does not contain personally identifiable information. For further information, please see Google’s statement on Analytics and cookies to produce statistics on website usage.
The information about pages accessed is stored purely for statistical purposes. Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting has also been enabled, but this does not contain personally identifiable information. For further information, please see Google’s statement on Analytics and cookies.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics which will prevent Google Analytics from gathering data across all websites.
Data gathered through Google Analytics is retained for up to 12 months by the OER CoP. After the data has been used to generate statistical reports, it is deleted.