Privacy Notice for Postgraduate Research Student Profile

Your Personal Data

The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to the publishing and public display of your Postgraduate Research Student Profile. 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 such as name, list of supervisors and degree project title from MyCampus in order to:

  • Create and publish your Postgraduate Research Student Profile page
  • Display your name and a link to your profile on your supervisor(s) academic profile.

We will only collect data that we need in order to provide and oversee this service 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 legitimate interests. 

What we do with it and who we share it with

As the data you provide are being published publically on the www.gla.ac.uk website, these data will be available worldwide

How long do we keep it 

Your Postgraduate Research Student Profile data will be retained by the University web team for the period of your study and for three months after you are no longer enrolled with the University. After this time these data will be securely deleted. 

What are your rights

As you will be in control of your Postgraduate Research Student Profile you will have access to most of the information about you. Where you do not have access, you will be able to request any changes or removals from your school/institute PGR administrators or the webteam

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 GDPR request form or contact dp@gla.ac.uk

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/