Privacy Policy

This website is committed to respecting your privacy. We here explain how we use any personal information we collect about you and your rights in relation to it.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact registration form

We keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Forms are sent via email and their content is encrypted in transit.

No data from these forms is stored in the website database.

Newsletter subscription

No personal details are stored on the website database.

Submitted details (name and email) are transferred to a University of Stirling email account. You can unsubscribe at any time and we will delete your personal data.

Cookies

Our website, like most, uses cookies. You can prevent their use through your browser settings, but you will then not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

We provide more information about the cookies we use in our Cookies section.

Embedded content from other websites

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Further information about Google’s handling of user data: policies.google.com/privacy.

The website uses web fonts provided by Google. Your IP address may be collected by Google’s content delivery network and used for analytics.

We may embed audio/visual content from other third-party services such as Vimeo and Youtube. Embedded content from these websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited these websites. They may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Vimeo privacy policy: vimeo.com/privacy

See also ‘Third-party Cookies’ our Cookies page.

Security measures

No personal details are stored in the website database by our security plugins.

Some data (including IP address, hostname, location) is temporarily stored in security logs on the server and/or sent via email to alert the website administrator of critical problems or suspicious activities on the site.

Who we share your data with

Except as set out here, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

How long we retain your data

We will keep contact form entries for 6 months after the end of our project (January 2022).

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

The website is hosted in ICUK’s datacentres located in London, UK. It is protected by 256-bit encryption. SSL certificate provided by Sectigo (https://sectigo.com/).

Sectigo privacy policy: https://sectigo.com/privacy-portal

Website administrator emails reside in the data centres of ICUK, which adhere to GDPR: https://control.interdns.co.uk/help.aspx?C=5&H=754

Emails sent via the website contact form reside in the email servers of the University of Stirling.

Website database backups are encrypted and stored at ICUK’s Datacentre – server located in EU (London) – for up to 2 years.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We have various measures in place to protect the website from malicious attack, including firewall protection, malware scanning, bot/spam blocking and encryption.

What data breach procedures we have in place

The website has internal reporting systems and contact mechanisms to alert us to any malicious activity on the site.

Contact information

If you have any privacy-specific concerns, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer is Joanna Morrow, Deputy Secretary: Joanna.morrow@stir.ac.uk