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What information do we collect?
We collect email addresses.
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We use the information to help us understand more about how our web site is used,
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we think may be of interest to you, both electronically or otherwise.
In the case of our online publications available through subscription, your personal
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We share your information with our associated companies, including OUP Inc in the
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We publish many journals on behalf of learned societies. Where you subscribe to
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If you sign up for services that are managed or offered by other organizations,
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A number of other people's web sites have links on our site. If you link to their
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are not covered by this privacy statement.
If we believe that your use of the site is unlawful or damaging to others, we reserve
the right to disclose the information we have obtained through the site about you
to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in our opinion to prevent, remedy
or take action in relation to such conduct.
Children
Some of our pages are specially designed for children. We do not
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pages that they are under 13. Children under 13 should ask a parent, guardian or
teacher for permission before sending us information online.
Our Partners throughout the World
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of scholarship and learning, OUP has links with other organizations throughout the
world. We exchange information with our branches, associated companies and parties,
including our distributors and sales agents, throughout the world. From time to
time we may transfer information about you in order to improve our services, but
where we do so we make it a term of our agreement with our partners that they will
respect the confidentiality of that information.
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