Your Personal Data

The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to PER-HE.org. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow will process your personal data.

Why we need it

We are collecting your basic personal data when you choose to submit a post to the site, such as your name and contact details. We do this in order to provide user-submitted content on our site. Additionally, some additional information (such as your IP address and browser user agent string) are collected when submitting a post, for the purpose of protecting against spam. We will only collect data that we need in order to provide and oversee these services to you.

Legal basis for processing your data

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is we have legitimate interests. These interests are:

• To provide user-submitted content on our site.
• To ensure spam is identified and filtered out of user-submitted content.

What we do with it and who we share it with

All the personal data you submit is processed by staff at the University of Glasgow, the University of Bristol, and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. This data is shared to the aforementioned third parties for the same purposes as previously outlined in this notice.

If you wish to receive our monthly newsletter, subscriptions are handled via JISCMail, and any data you provide for this purpose is subject to the JISCMail privacy policy.

How long do we keep it for

If you create and submit a post to the site, your basic personal data will be retained by the University indefinitely in order to provide an archive of posts on the site. If you would like your data to be removed from our servers, please contact nicolas.labrosse@glasgow.ac.uk.

What are your rights?*

GDPR provides that individuals have certain rights including: to request access to, copies of and rectification or erasure of personal data and to object to processing. In addition, data subjects may also have the right to restrict the processing of the personal data and to data portability. You can request access to the information we process about you at any time.

You can request access to the information we process about you at any time. If at any point you believe that the information we process relating to you is incorrect, you can request to see this information and may in some instances request to have it restricted, corrected or, erased. You may also have the right to object to the processing of data and the right to data portability.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please submit your request via the webform or contact dp@gla.ac.uk.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out. 

Complaints

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/

End of Privacy Notice