PRIVACY POLICY

The Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund has been established for the advancement of education by the provision of scholarships at universities in the United Kingdom for post-graduate students, particularly citizens of countries other than the United Kingdom. We respect the privacy of everyone who visits this site. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully so that you can understand how we collect and use the personal information which you provide to us.

By submitting your personal data to us, you will be treated as having given your permission for disclosures referred to in this policy.

What does this privacy policy cover?

This privacy policy covers our use of your personal information which is collected through or in connection with this site. For the purposes of this policy, “this site” means the www.shellscholar.org web site.

Other Shell web sites may contain privacy policies which are different from this privacy policy. This privacy policy relates to the www.shellscholar.org web site. On your journey around the Shell web sites please check the privacy policy of each web site which you visit and do not assume that this privacy policy applies to all Shell web sites.

Who is responsible for the personal information collected on this site?

Shell International Limited and The Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund (a charity with registered number 1071178) both of Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA control the personal data collected on this site.

Special Notice – if you are under 13 years old please read this section

If you are under 13 years old please do not send us your personal information (for example, your name, address and email address). If you are under 13 years old and you wish to ask a question or use this site in any way which requires you to submit your personal information please get your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf.

Information collection and use

We collect and use personal information through or in connection with this web site (including your name, address, telephone number and email) in order to:

• respond to queries or requests submitted by you;
• post such information on the site in relation to:
  • a message sent by you to be posted on the Message Board (e.g. attributing to you any communication that you have submitted to us, although we are not obliged to do this); and
  • the Alumni listings on the web site (your photo, name, scholarship year, degree course and home country only);
• provide you with updates and general information on the site and the Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund and Foundation as well as Shell activities which are likely to be of particular interest to Shell scholars, this may include contacting you by post and/or telephone and/or email. If you do not wish us to provide you with such updates and general information please contact us as set out below.

In connection with the operation and use of this site from time to time we may provide your information to Shell affiliate offices and companies.

As part of the services offered to you through our site, the information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside of the EEA. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the EEA. If we transfer your information outside of the EEA in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected. In addition, if you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those services.

Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime) or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and/or defend our rights, property or personal safety and those of our users/customers etc.

Collection of non personal information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the web site from which you linked to our site. We may also aggregate details which you have submitted to the site (for example, your age and the town where you live). You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on this web site. We may from time to time supply third parties with this non-personal or aggregated data for uses in connection with this site.

The use of Cookies

We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer when you look at our site. We are able to read these cookies for information purposes when you revisit our web site. The type of information we collect as a result of cookies being accepted by you is specific to your PC and includes your IP address, the date and time you visited the web site, what parts of our web site you visited and whether the web pages you requested are delivered successfully. This information is anonymous; it represents a computer rather than a person.

We use the cookie information to improve our knowledge of the use of our web site and to enable us to be able to ascertain whether the web site is operating at an optimal level. This allows us to enhance our web offerings to you and to provide an enjoyable and an innovative on-line experience.

You can erase or block this information by changing the settings on your computer (please refer to your help screens or manuals). If you do erase or block this information you may not be able to utilise some features of the site.

Notice board

This site offers a notice board facility and may in the future offer other contact facilities. We will use information that you submit in relation to any such facilities in accordance with this privacy policy.

Keeping our records accurate

We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, please contact us as set out below.

Security of your personal data

We have implemented technology and policies with the objective of protecting your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use and will update these measures as new technology becomes available, as appropriate.

Your rights in relation to your personal data

You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information and to prevent us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes (as described above). You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us as set out below.

Use of your personal information submitted to other web sites

We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other web sites even if:

• you accessed the third party web site using links from our web site; or
• you linked to our web site from a third party web site.

We recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact the owner or operator of such web site if you have any concerns or questions.

Will this Privacy Policy change?

From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy. If we make any substantial changes to this privacy policy and the way in which we use your personal data we will post these changes on this page and will do our best to notify you of any significant changes1. Please check our privacy policy on a regular basis.

How you can contact us

If at any time you would like to contact us, you can do so by any of the following means:

EMAIL: info@shellscholar.org
LETTER: The Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund, c/o PXR, Shell Centre, London, SE1 7NA, UK.