This privacy notice explains how the Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC), as part of the University of Strathclyde, will use your personal information and your rights under data protection legislation.
It is important that you read this notice prior to providing your information.
Who will process my personal information?
The University of Strathclyde is the organisation responsible for your personal data in terms of data protection legislation (the data controller).
If you have any questions regarding the handling of your personal data, or your rights, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@strath.ac.uk.
How we use your information
We have set out below: how and why we will use your information; where we obtain your data; how we will use your information; and who it is shared with. For each type of processing, we are required to identify our ‘lawful basis for processing’.
- Administrative purposes
- Managing and responding to enquiries from visitors:
Legitimate interests: to provide requested information to an individual - Use of social media management tool to analyse data and manage content:
Legitimate interests
Consent (for marketing purposes) - Entering into a contract for goods/services:
Necessary for the performance of a contract
Lawful basis for special category data (if applicable):
Substantial public interest
Explicit consent
This notice covers personal data collected via the PNDC website (www.pndc.co.uk), e.g. if you submit a query, etc. If you engage with the University for other purposes via our website e.g. sign up to the PNDC mailing list, complete a survey, you will be provided with a more detailed privacy notice in relation to that process/service. This is to increase transparency and to ensure you understand how your information will be used. Any additional privacy notices supplement this central notice.
If you have any queries regarding the use of your personal data via the website please contact webcontent@strath.ac.uk.
The PNDC website uses cookies to improve and enhance your website experience, please see our Cookie Notice for further information.
Behaviour analytics
The PNDC website uses Google Analytics as a behavioural analytics tool to help improve user experience. We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our website. Google Analytics processes information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
- We make sure you cannot be directly identified by Google Analytics data, using Google Analytics’ IP address anonymisation feature.
Please read Google’s privacy policy for information on how they process personal data.
Social media
PNDC operates a number of social media tools such as LinkedIn, X, Instagram etc. Where personal data is collected using these tools it will be processed in accordance with the provider’s privacy policy/notice
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites, even if you access them using links from our website.
Is my data secure?
Your personal data will be managed securely. Access will be restricted to only those staff who require it and on a ‘need to know’ basis. The University will employ any technical and organisational measures necessary to protect your data. Find out more about the University’s Information Security policies.
How long will we keep your personal data?
When we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted or anonymised.
Your rights
Under data protection legislation, you have a number of rights* including the right to:
- withdraw consent, at any time, where that is the lawful basis of our processing;
- access your personal data and obtain a copy, free of charge;
- rectify inaccuracies in personal data that we hold about you;
- erasure, that is have your details removed from systems that we use to process your personal data;
- restrict the processing in certain ways;
- obtain a portable copy of data you have given to us in a commonly used electronic form; and
- object to certain processing of your personal data by us.
*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the lawful basis under which the processing is being carried out.
Please contact dataprotection@strath.ac.uk if you wish to exercise/enquire about any of these rights.
Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@strath.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 also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
What cookies do we use?
The PNDC website (www.pndc.co.uk) gathers and uses information from the website and other relevant technologies to improve and enhance your website experience.
Cookies are small files that are sent when you visit a website along with the rest of the content of the page. These files are stored in your browser and accessed when you return to a website.
We use anonymous tools like Google Analytics to monitor general interactions on the PNDC website.
The information they provide is used to give us a better picture of how visitors use the website. For example, they help us improve your experience of the website, advise us of the most visited pages and demonstrate how easily visitors can navigate the site.
As a result of using these tools, we can look at trends and improve elements like the navigation of the site to make it easier to find the right content and improve page speed so that you receive it quicker.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
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