Policies
Privacy Policy
Like most other websites, this site automatically logs certain information about every request made of it. This information is used for system administration, for bug tracking, and for producing usage statistics. The logged information may be kept indefinitely. This site runs Google analytics, which uses cookies for tracking visitors to the site. This is to gain more complete data on site use and will support ongoing web page development.
Relevant subsets of this data may be passed to computer security teams as part of investigations of computer misuse involving this site or other computing equipment in the College. Data may be passed to the administrators of other computer systems to enable investigation of problems accessing this site or of system misconfigurations. Data may incidentally be included in information passed to contractors and computer maintenance organisations working for the College, in which case it will be covered by appropriate non-disclosure agreements. Otherwise the logged information is not passed to any third party except if required by law. Summary statistics are extracted from this data and some of these may be made publicly available, but those that are do not include information from which individuals could be identified.
A few pages containing fill-in forms are provided on this site. The pages containing these forms include information on how data submited on them will be processed and used.
Accessibility Policy
Trinity Hall is committed to making accessible information and resources that are available via the web for all users. See further the Equal Opportunities Policy. The section of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Code of Practice relating to students with disabilities states that institutions should consider disabled students in every aspect of planning and administration of academic and social activities. The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and Special Education Needs and Disability Act [SENDA] (2001) - which amended the first act to include education, the latter became law in May 2001 with teaching and learning components falling under legislation in September 2002. SENDA legislates that it is an offence to discriminate against a disabled person by treating him or her less favourably than others for a reason relating to their disability. For the purposes of the legislation a disabled person is defined as someone who has a physical or mental impairment, which has an effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. The Act covers all aspects of an institution's student services. 'Student services' is given a broad meaning of 'services of any description which are provided wholly or mainly for students' and will obviously include educational services such as teaching and learning provision. Discrimination can also occur where an institution fails to make a 'reasonable adjustment' where the disabled student is placed at a 'substantial disadvantage' in comparison with someone who is not disabled and such failure cannot be 'justified'.
The University favours the principles of usability and universal design, which will be of benefit to as many users as possible. By following these principles and incorporating techniques to ensure information and resources are accessible with assistive technologies, separate resources for disabled users should not be required.
Accessibility Policy Statement
Where possible web pages are written to conformance level 1 standard (A), and as closely as possible to conformance level 2 (AA) and 3 standard (AAA).
Data Protection
Trinity Hall adheres to the rules set out in the Data Protection Act 1988 for processing personal information. These rules apply to some paper records as well as those held on computer and some automatically processed data, for example, document image processing, audio/video, photographs and CCTV. The Act give individuals certain rights, and imposes obligations on those who record and use personal information to be open about how information is used and to follow eight data principles:
Personal data must be processed following these principles so that data are:
1. processed fairly and lawfully
2. obtained for specified and lawful purposes
3. adequate, relevant and not excessive
4. accurate and, where necessary, kept up-to-date
5. not kept for longer than necessary
6. processed in accordance with the subject’s rights
7. kept secure
8. not transferred abroad without adequate protection.
For the purposes of the Act, the "Data Controller" for the processing of data collected by this site is Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the point of contact for subject access requests is the College’s Bursar, Mr Paul ffolkes Davis. For issues relating to the Freedom of Information please also contact Mr ffolkes Davis.
Alumni Message Board
All messages made available as part of the alumni message/discussion board and any opinions, advice, statements or other information contained in any messages posted or transmitted by any third party are the responsibility of the author of that message and not of Trinity Hall (unless Trinity Hall is specifically identified as the author of the message). The fact that a particular message is posted on or transmitted using the alumni message board does not mean that Trinity Hall has endorsed that message in any way or verified the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. We encourage visitors to the message board to report any objectionable message to data@trinhall.cam.ac.uk. The message board is not monitored 24/7.
Webmaster
Please contact the Webmaster with any technical queries.
Comments and Suggestions
Please contact the Webmaster with any comments or criticisms relating to the site. Suggestions for improvements from members and alumni of Trinity Hall are particularly welcome.
Images
All images on this website are © Trinity Hall Cambridge (2007), unless otherwise stated. Apply to photo@trinhall.cam.ac.uk with any queries. Photographs which appear on this site are taken by Kiloran Howard and the staff and students of Trinity Hall.
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