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Western University London Ontario since 1878

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Privacy Policy

YOUR PRIVACY

We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and only collect personal information about you when you knowingly provide it.

To provide high quality service to our students, it is neccessary for us to collect some limited personal information from you. This information may include your address and other contact information, birth date and location, educational history, employer information, and educational plans. We understand that you may be concerned about how we handle and maintain this information and your need to keep information private. We only use your personal information when you contact us or we contact you, including information about additional offerings or services that may be of interest to you. We do not market, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties.

Opt-Out Rights

We would like to provide you with news and information a few times each year. These emails may include notification that registration is open, our Course Calendar is available or promotional offers. We hope you find these messages useful. If you would prefer not to receive email communications from us, you may modify your preferences at any time. You can "opt out" by updating your preferred method of communication in your personal profile. Please be aware that you are not able to opt out of receiving communications about your course, account or your transactions with us.

Policy Help

If you wish to change any of your personal information, please log in to myWCS. Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted to this page. If you would like more information about the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, please contact the Director, Continuing Studies, Western University, 240-355 Wellington Street, London, ON. N6A 3N7, tel: 519.661.3658, ext. 84909.

If you have a concern about the protection of your personal information at Western, please contact Western's Information and Privacy Office.

Cookie Policy

Cookie policy

This statement explains how we use cookies on our website. For information about what types of personal information will be gathered when you visit the website, and how this information will be used, please see our privacy policy.

How we use cookies

All of our web pages use "cookies". A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and enables us to improve our website.

Types of cookies we use

We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies- these are essential in to enable you to move around the websites and use their features. Without these cookies the services you have asked for, such as signing in to your account, cannot be provided.
Performance cookies- these cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often. We use this information to improve our websites and to aid us in investigating problems raised by visitors. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor.
Functionality cookies- these cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide more personal features. For instance, a functional cookie can be used to remember the items that you have placed in your shopping cart. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Specific cookies we use

The list below identify the cookies we use and explain the purposes for which they are used. We may update the information contained in this section from time to time.

JSESSIONID: This cookie is used by the application server to identify a unique user's session.
registrarToken: This cookie is used to remember items that you have added to your shopping cart
locale: This cookie is used to remember your locale and language settings.
cookieconsent_status: This cookie is used to remember if you've already dismissed the cookie consent notice.
_ga_UA-########: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This anonymized visitor and browsing information is stored in Google Analytics.

Changes to our Cookie Statement

Any changes we may make to our Cookie Policy in the future will be posted on this page.