Coronavirus: Course registration is open, but please be aware it may take us longer to respond than usual. Find out about our coronavirus response and current contact hours.
This page describes how OpenLearn will use your personal data.
For further information on how the Open University uses personal data, and your rights, please see www.open.ac.uk/privacy.
We use third party suppliers and service providers, for example to provide some of our IT systems. This is in our legitimate interest of carrying out cost effective activities..
If you register as part of a funded partner programme we will share your data with the funding body for planning and reporting purposes, such as equality monitoring.
Generally, information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers, or on our cloud-based systems which are located within the UK or the European Economic Area. Where we use service providers outside the UK, or we transfer data to international partners, we use appropriate contractual safeguards, for example the standard contractual clauses for international transfers. Examples of our international transfers where we have standard contractual clauses in place are:
Please direct any queries about this policy or about the way we process your personal information to our Data Protection Officer using the contact details below.
Email: data-protection@open.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)1908 653994
By post:
The Data Protection Officer,
PO Box 497,
The Open University,
Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AT.