When you supply any personal information to the iou.edu.so we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to the iou.edu.so will only be used within The iou.edu.so and by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside the University of Indian Ocean without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. This applies to your name, email addresses, personal information and any email correspondence. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to the University of Indian Ocean or otherwise engage in any disruptive behavior on the iou.edu.so website, and the iou.edu.so considers such behavior to be serious and/or repeated, the iou.edu.so can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behavior. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, college or email provider about the content and your behavior.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other services (for example, competitions), that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection laws.

If you are notified on The iou.edu.so website that your information may be used to allow The iou.edu.so to contact you for ‘service administration purposes’, this means that The iou.edu.so may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on The iou.edu.so website unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the website, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such information.