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Privacy statement

Privacy statement

Edith Cowan University recognises and respects your privacy. ECU will deal with personal and sensitive information in a manner that protects the privacy of individuals whilst meeting the University’s policy and legislative obligations.

In conducting its normal business of teaching, learning, research and recruitment, the University collects, uses and discloses personal information relating to students, staff and others. ECU will treat this information with the highest standards of confidentiality and privacy.

ECU’s privacy policy and related procedures cover the following:

  • Collection of personal and sensitive information
  • Use and disclosure of personal and sensitive information
  • Overseas disclosure
  • Data breach management and cyber security incident response
  • Direct marketing
  • Access and correction of personal information
  • Access to personal information for research purposes
  • Contact details for ECU’s privacy officers

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We use third-party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit our website and sites upon which we advertise. During our advertising, unique third-party cookies may be placed on your computer system and accessed by your web browser. You may restrict the use of cookies through your web browser’s settings.

In addition, we use tags, provided by our ad-serving partners, to help manage our online advertising. These tags enable our ad servers to recognise your browser’s cookies when you visit the site and to learn which marketing ads brought you to our website. To learn more about this technology and how to "opt-out" from its use, please go to http://www.networkadvertising.org/.

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