This privacy policy and legal notice is specific to Oxford Reference Online and overrides any other privacy policy or legal notice appearing elsewhere on Oxford University Press websites.
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This privacy policy and legal notice is specific to Oxford Reference Online and overrides any other privacy policy or legal notice appearing elsewhere on Oxford University Press websites.
Privacy policyOxford University Press (OUP) is committed to protecting your privacy online. Our policy explains how we will do this. We will review this policy in the light of comments we receive so please check the latest version. If you have any questions about our privacy policy please contact us. By using Oxford Reference Online, you are accepting the practices described in this statement. What kind of information do we collect and how do we use it?When you register for a free trial, ask for further information about Oxford Reference Online, or subscribe to the service, we ask for your name, email address, postal address, and other relevant personal information. Personal information submitted in this way is added to our access control database, hosted by a third party hosting company, and to our customer databases at OUP and OUP Inc. premises. This information will be updated if you inform us of any changes. We may use information in our customer databases to send you information about us and our products which we think may be of interest to you, both electronically or otherwise. In the case of subscribers and free triallers, your personal information will also be used to enable us to verify you are a subscriber and to deliver Oxford Reference Online to you. If you sign up for the Oxford Reference Online Fact of the Day, we ask for your name, email address, and the region in which you live in order to deliver the Fact of the Day to you. We may also use these personal details to contact you with offers and information about our online products from time to time. When you sign up for Fact of the Day, you can choose not to be contacted by us with these offers and information. If you have agreed that we may contact you and subsequently change your mind, you can let us know by using our contact us form. We request personal information (such as your name, email address and other contact details) from you when you contact us with subscription management queries, technical problems, to comment on Oxford Reference Online, or when you ask for information about how to use the service. Personal information submitted by you via contact us will not be added to our customer database and we request it simply so that we can respond to you about your query. Statistics regarding the types of queries submitted to us via contact us may be collated by us in aggregate form so that we can effectively monitor the site and improve levels of service. When you use the Email this entry feature in Oxford Reference Online, we also request information about the email address/es for the recipient/s of the emailed entry, as well as the sender's name (the sender's email address is optional). Any personal information submitted by you via Email this entry will not be added to our customer database or retained by us and we request these details simply so that you can email the entry and so that the recipient knows who has sent the entry to them. If you have registered for a free trial, asked for information, or subscribed to Oxford Reference Online in the past and no longer use the service and do not wish us to store information about you, please contact us and we will remove your details from our customer database. We need to store information about current subscribers and free triallers in order to fulfil our contractual requirements to you and in order to deliver Oxford Reference Online to you. If you have signed up for the Oxford Reference Online Fact of the Day and no longer wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe by emailing listserv@webber.oup.com, with the following text in the main body of the message (not in the email subject line): signoff OROFACTOFTHEDAY-L. If you agreed to receive additional offers and information about our online products when you signed up for Fact of the Day, but decide that you no longer want to receive this information, please contact us and we will remove your name from our mailing list. If you choose to opt out of receiving this information, you will continue to receive Fact of the Day unless you unsubscribe from it separately. Unless you have informed us that you do not wish to receive further information about our products, we may send you direct mail. You may notify us either in writing or by telephone, fax or email that you object to being contacted in a particular stated way. If you use more than one email address to communicate with us, please notify us of each email account you use. When do we share information?We do not sell your personal information to others. We share your information within Oxford University Press and with OUP Inc. in the USA and Oxford Publishing Limited. Oxford Reference Online has been developed by and hosted by third parties but we have agreed with those third parties that they will keep your information secure and not use it for other purposes. We have links to non-Oxford University Press websites on our site. If you visit these sites, they may collect information, and such sites are not within our control and are not covered by this privacy statement. If we believe that your use of the site is unlawful or damaging to others, we reserve the right to disclose the information we have obtained through the site about you to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in our opinion to prevent, remedy or take action in relation to such conduct. Use of cookiesCookies are small files which many websites transfer to your hard disk. Cookies contain information including details of the pages you visit and your account preferences. Cookies are required by subscribers who have concurrent user licences of Oxford Reference Online in order to control concurrency-based access to the service. The default policy will be to use cookies for authentication. However, subscribers who have unlimited access licences for Oxford Reference Online may choose to disable cookies and will still be able to use the service, but usage statistics related to user sessions will not be available. SecurityYour personal information is stored at a data centre controlled by our third party hosting company and on the customer database at OUP. The data centre controlled by our third party hosting company is specifically designed to be physically secure and to admit authorized personnel only, who are contractually bound to keep all of our data confidential. Access to our customer databases at Oxford University Press and OUP, Inc. in the USA is only given to those of our employees who need such access in order to carry out necessary processing of your account. All personal information submitted by you and entered by Oxford University Press into the Oxford Reference Online access control system is encoded using 128-bit SSL encryption before being sent over the Internet. Legal noticesUnder the licence signed by the Subscriber, you are permitted to:
Under the licence signed by the Subscriber, you may NOT:
Copyright and Trade MarksAll materials on this website are the copyright of Oxford University Press or are reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. All rights are reserved. The materials on this website may be retrieved and downloaded solely for personal use. No materials may otherwise be copied, modified, published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press, OUP, Oxford and/or any other names of products or services provided by Oxford University Press and referred to on this website are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Oxford University Press. DisclaimerOxford University Press makes no warranties or representations of any kind concerning the accuracy or suitability of the information contained on this website for any purpose. All such information is provided "as is" and with specific disclaimer of any warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose, title and/or non-infringement. Oxford University Press makes no warranties or representations of any kind that the services provided by this website will be uninterrupted , error-free or that the website or the server that hosts the website are free from viruses or other forms of harmful computer code. In no event shall Oxford University Press, its employees or agents be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages resulting from the use of this website. This exclusion and limitation only applies to the extent permitted by law and is without prejudice to any express provisions to the contrary in any written licence or subscription agreement from Oxford University Press in respect of the use of any online service provided via this website. LinksLinks to other websites are provided by Oxford University Press in good faith and for information only. Oxford University Press disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any website linked to this site. Note on proprietary statusThe dictionaries included in Oxford Reference Online include some words which have or are asserted to have proprietary status as trade marks or otherwise. Their inclusion does not imply that they have acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance nor any other judgement concerning their legal status. In cases where the editorial staff have some evidence that a word has proprietary status this is indicated in the entry for that word but no judgement concerning the legal status of such words is made or implied thereby. |
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