Legal Statements

Copyright

Anything uploaded into the VLE for the use of students must be in accordance with all legal requirements and the University's relevant policies and Terms and Conditions of Use/Employment.

It is your responsibility to ensure that anything you upload meets these requirements. In particular copyright material should only be made available to students in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988), the terms of one of the licences obtained by the University, or with the permission of the copyright holder(s).

In using the resources made available to you in the VLE you must adhere to the University's relevant policies, codes of practice and guidance notes. Specifically you should ensure that you use any copyright material only in accordance with the terms and conditions of use of the item concerned. This usually means that you can print out one copy of any text based material made available for your module for your own educational purposes but you cannot download, store, publish, sell or transmit copies to other individuals in any format.

Images, audio files, films etc are also protected by copyright: you can view or listen to such files in the VLE but you will need to check the terms and conditions of use of each item to establish the extent to which you may make copies or transmit the item.

For further information on copyright please see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/rights/ and the terms and conditions of use of the VLE.

Copyright complaints and takedown policy

The University of Leeds respects the rights of copyright holders and their representatives. The University endeavours to ensure that all content hosted in the VLE is compliant with UK Copyright law.

If you wish to report a copyright infringement please notify the VLE Service. To expedite your enquiry it would be helpful to include full contact details for the Copyright holder and sufficient evidence to identify the location of the material, such as a URL or Module code.

1. Complaints will be acknowledged and an initial assessment will be undertaken. We aim to acknowledge and assess the complaint on the day of receipt or the next working day thereafter.
   
   
2. Where grounds for complaint are reasonable and credible, the material will be withdrawn from public view until our assessment is complete.
   
   
3. Please note it may be necessary for us to seek legal advice before the complaint can be fully resolved.
   
   
4. If any complaint is found to be well founded, the material will be permanently withdrawn from the VLE.

Accessibility

The University of Leeds endeavours to promote equality & diversity in its policies, practice and services. We are committed to making all university web pages accessible to disabled people and compliant with WAI's accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0). For more information see the University of Leeds Accessibility Statement.

Privacy statement

1. Purpose of this statement
This statement tells you how the University will collect and process your personal data when you access the VLE.

2. Automated collection of personal information
As with most other web servers, when you access the VLE service certain information you provide will automatically be recorded by the University. This will include your network address, username, information relating to the learning resources you accessed and when you accessed the VLE. This information is processed to enable learning and teaching features within the VLE, such as grading and enrolment. This data is also used to estimate how much usage of the server is made by different categories of users and in the event of a breach of security may be used to aid detection.

3. Non-automated collection
There is no non-automated collection of personal data in the VLE.

4. Third-party access
Your personal data that you have provided will not be sent to other third-parties and will remain confidential, accessible only by those who have a legitimate need to know within the University.

5. Cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies set by our website can be read by our web server and may contain information you have provided to us for use in connection with the purposes outlined under 2 above.

6. Changes to this statement
This statement and therefore the ways in which your data may be processed can be changed from time to time. Any changes will only be notified via this web page.

If you have any queries relating to the privacy statement then please contact Michael Thomas, tel: 0113 343 4976, who is responsible for the service to which it relates. If you feel dissatisfied with the response given then please contact the University’s webmaster.

Data Protection

The University processes all data collected within the VLE in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. For more information see the current Code of Practice.

Terms of Use

Use of the VLE must be in compliance with the ISS Use of University Computer Systems policy.

Other University policies and procedures

For other University policies and procedures related to the VLE please see the University Corporate Information and Governance pages.