Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Central Bedfordshire College 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. Central Bedfordshire College’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Central Bedfordshire College’s visitors use its website

Central Bedfordshire College also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Central Bedfordshire College does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Central Bedfordshire College’s websites choose to interact with Central Bedfordshire College in ways that require Central Bedfordshire College to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Central Bedfordshire College gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address. In each case, Central Bedfordshire College collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Central Bedfordshire College. Central Bedfordshire College 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.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Central Bedfordshire College 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 Central Bedfordshire College’s behalf or to provide services available at Central Bedfordshire College’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 Central Bedfordshire College’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Central Bedfordshire College 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, Central Bedfordshire College discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Central Bedfordshire College believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Central Bedfordshire College, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Central Bedfordshire College website and have supplied your email address, Central Bedfordshire College 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 Central Bedfordshire College and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support 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. Central Bedfordshire College 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. Central Bedfordshire College uses cookies to help Central Bedfordshire College identify and track visitors, their usage of Central Bedfordshire College website, and their website access preferences. Central Bedfordshire College visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Central Bedfordshire College’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Central Bedfordshire College’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies