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Student Privacy Notice

The Student Privacy notice sets out how we use your personal data.

The Open University needs to collect and process personal data in order to provide services to students, manage its operations effectively, and meet legal requirements.

Further information about how the University processes personal data is available at Privacy at the OU

Previously we provided supplementary documents for the Privacy Notice. These have now been included within the full Privacy Notice Document.

For information about changes to the Student Privacy Notice please see the Change Log


Policy Document

For more information about changes to policy, terms and conditions, and curriculum visit the change log.


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