The data controllers are:
The UUK group includes the Council of Deans of Health and Universities Wales.
The UUK Director of Operations has responsibility for data protection, and can be contacted by:
Email DataProtection@universitiesuk.ac.uk
Post Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ
Phone 020 7419 4111 (office hours only)
Universities UK privacy policy .
This privacy notice applies to information we collect about:
Personal data we routinely collect includes:
For our conference delegates and speakers we collect:
We collect personal data through:
We find contact data from several sources, for example on institutions’ websites for individuals, other online resources, Companies House and we are given contact details from an individual’s colleague to add to our mailing lists.
We generally do not buy in data lists from third parties. If we felt this was necessary, we would conduct a data protection impact assessment.
We use the data to keep in touch with individuals interested in the healthcare & higher education sectors. This could include:
For the above groups, we will email news updates relating to their work and the wider higher education sector.
For our named members and their PA’s, we will use data for administrative purposes to manage membership.
You can unsubscribe from email communications at any time, using the unsubscribe button, or replying to emails with the instruction to be removed from a mailing list. As a data subject, individuals have a number of rights in relation to their personal data.
Subject access requests
If an individual makes a subject access request, UUK will tell him/her:
UUK will also provide the individual with a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. This will normally be in electronic form if the individual has made a request electronically, unless he/she agrees otherwise. This will be provided within one month of the request being made to meet GDPR requirements.
To make a subject access request, the individual should send the request to DataProtection@universitiesuk.ac.uk. In some cases, UUK may need to ask for proof of identification before the request can be processed. UUK will inform the individual if it needs to verify his/her identity and the documents it requires.
If a subject access request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, UUK is not obliged to comply with it. Alternatively, UUK can agree to respond but will charge a fee, which will be based on the administrative cost of responding to the request. A subject access request is likely to be manifestly unfounded or excessive where it repeats a request to which UUK has already responded. If an individual submits a request that is unfounded or excessive, UUK will notify him/her that this is the case and whether or not it will respond to it.
Other rights
Individuals have a number of other rights in relation to their personal data. They can require UUK to:
To ask UUK to take any of these steps, the individual should send the request to DataProtection@universitiesuk.ac.uk.
The supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office. Individuals can lodge a complaint directly with them.
Details of how to report concerns are on the ICO website. The helpline telephone number is 0303 123 1113.
The Council of Deans of Health (as part of UUK) will use legitimate interest for contacts and communications for the following groups:
For these groups the data held will be:
The Council believes that:
There is a genuine business reason (the legitimate interest) for processing this data, the purpose of the Council of Deans of Health is:
And for our income generating activities:
And has considered the necessity test:
Processing individual’s data for the purposes of communicating with members, HE sector contacts, political, media, business and policy contacts is necessary to effectively service the needs and represent our members’ interests fully.
The Council and UUK consider the impact on the individual to be low (the balancing test):
There are safeguards in place:
Opportunity for all contacts to unsubscribe from mailings
Data is stored on premise in offices in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Where cloud hosted systems are in use, the data is stored in the EEA.
When you visit our website, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a ‘cookie’ or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. With most internet browsers you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
The web statistics package we use on our site, Google Analytics, sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast. The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
---|---|---|
_ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
_gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
_gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. |
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Analytics documentation.
UUK has a policy on data and document retention. Retention periods are based on ICSA Guide to Document Retention (3rd Edition). If you have questions on our retention policy, email DataProtection@universitiesuk.ac.uk
Links to external websites are not our responsibility and that once a user clicks on a link to an external site it will be subject to that organisation’s privacy policies, not ours.
This policy was last updated in March 2018. It will be reviewed annually, or before if we introduce any changes to our data practices.