Privacy Notice

Here, you can find out how we safeguard your information and how we use it to improve our products and services for the benefit of all our customers and website users. 

(Updated 3 April 2018)

The nature of our business means that, from time to time, we’ll require some personal details from our customers and website users.

The data we collect could just be a name and an email address, but depending on your level of engagement with Pearson, it could be much more than that.

The personal information you’ve shared with us, along with data on how you use our websites - what you search for and what preferences you select, for example - help us to better understand our customers as a group and as individuals. This in turn helps us to provide a range of products and services that meet your needs.

How we protect your data

When you share your personal information with any company, you have a right to expect that information to be treated with total confidentiality.

Your privacy is extremely important to us. We’re committed to protecting any personal information you’ve given us, and we comply with all relevant data protection laws.

This means that:

• - We take full responsibility for the information we hold about you
• - We will protect your privacy at all times
• - We will never sell your personal information

Whether you’ve supplied your personal details online, by phone or text, by email or in a letter, we will never use them without a lawful reason to do so. We’ll use them for the purposes for which they were initially requested and as fully explained in this Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy.

These explain how your personal data is being managed and safeguarded by us, including:

• - what information we collect about you
• - how we collect and use this information
• - how we safeguard the information you’ve provided
• - your rights in relation to the information we hold about you
• - how to report abuse

At Pearson, we know that you care how your personal information is used and we appreciate that you trust us to do that carefully and sensibly.

This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand how we and other companies in our group collect and use your personal information. We want you to make informed decisions when using our websites and any features on them, including any registration and e-commerce services.

This Privacy Notice applies to all the pages on our sites linking to this Privacy Notice and any features of them and any e-commerce, purchasing or other areas which require registration on our sites. However, it won’t apply to any third-party sites which are linked to our sites. We recommend that you read the privacy notice of any such sites that you visit as we are not responsible for them.

When we refer to our website or sites, we mean any of our websites or applications from which you have accessed this Privacy Notice.

We have included full details of who we and our group companies are at the end of this Privacy Notice.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device while you are browsing, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

How to check cookies are enabled on your PC

Google Chrome

* Click on the spanner icon (top menu in browser) and select ‘Settings’

* Click the 'Under the Bonnet' tab on the left, then select the 'Content settings' button

* Under the cookies section, choose the option that best suits your needs.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

* Click on 'Tools' (top menu in browser) and select 'Internet options'

* Click on the 'Privacy' tab

* Move the privacy slider to the level of privacy you require. Settings above Medium will disable cookies.

Mozilla Firefox

* Click on 'Tools' (top menu in browser) and select ‘Options’

* Select the Privacy icon

* In the history section choose 'Use custom settings for history' from the dropdown menu

* Cookies can be enabled or disabled by clicking on the appropriate check boxes.

Safari

* Click on the Cog icon (top menu in browser) and select 'Preferences'

* Click on Privacy tab and choose the option that best suits your needs.

Safari on OSX

* Click on 'Safari' at the top of your browser window and select 'Preferences'

* Click on the 'Privacy' tab

* Adjust the level of cookie acceptance here.

Firefox

* Click on 'Firefox' at the top of your browser window and select 'Preferences'

* Select the Privacy icon

* In the history section choose 'Use custom settings for history' from the dropdown menu

* Cookies can be enabled or disabled by clicking on the appropriate check boxes.

Opera

* Click on 'Opera' at the top of your browser window and select 'Preferences

* Select the 'Advanced' tab and choose Cookies from the list on the left

* Choose the option that best suits your needs.

The cookies we set
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers email alert services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
By using our site you agree that we may place these types of cookies on your device.
Third party cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site
This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so that we can continue to produce engaging content and improve how our website works.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
By using our site you agree that we may place these types of cookies on your device.
Third party websites and social networks
If you click on a hyperlink from our site to any third party websites (e.g. if you 'share' content from Pearson's website with friends or colleagues through social networks), you may be sent cookies from these third party websites. Third party websites will have their own privacy and cookie policies which Pearson cannot control. Please check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
More information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if you aren't sure whether you need a particular feature or function it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case disabling them does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us.

Pearson plc
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL,
UK+44 020 7010 2310