Privacy Policy:
The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery ("The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery") operates copss.org.uk and may operate other websites. It is The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's visitors use its website. From time to time, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on copss.org.uk blogs/sites. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's websites choose to interact with The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery in ways that require The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at copss.org.uk to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's behalf or to provide services available at The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery website and have supplied your email address, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery uses cookies to help The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery identify and track visitors, their usage of The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery website, and their website access preferences. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery's sole discretion. The Confederation of Postgraduate Schools of Surgery encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a copss.org.uk account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.