Privacy Statement

We (“the study”, “the programme”, “we”, “our”, “us”) are committed to preserving your privacy. This statement outlines how this website uses and protects personal information that we may collect from you. This privacy notice may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms, or notices provided to you.

This website is administered by the University of Edinburgh, which is a registered charity, registration number SC005336. Your data will be held by the University of Edinburgh. To deliver the research project, we work in partnership with Queens University Belfast, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Scotland’s Rural College, the University of Surrey, Edinburgh Napier University, and AB Neo, and with our funder the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

1. Information about you

We may collect information provided to us when you browse our website. This may include information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way that will be collected and stored, as well as Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, e-mail address, and computer and connection information.

We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.

The legal basis of collecting this information is legitimate interest: to assist you with any queries you may have or inform you about our activities. To ensure that the use of our funding is effective, and demonstrates engagement impact.

2. Cookies information

When visiting our website, we may gather some information using cookies. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system and activity on our website. We use these cookies to improve your experience of using our website and to allow us to assess how visitors use our website. You can set your preferences for these cookies through our cookie banner. Follow this link (link to: https://allaboutcookies.org/) to read more about cookies.

Other than cookies which are essential for the functioning of our website, we will use cookies only on the basis of your consent.

3. Sharing tools and links to third party websites

We do not currently use sharing tools. As we want your experience of our website to be as informative and useful as possible, we provide a number of links to websites operated by third parties.

Please be aware that we do not have any control over third-party websites and that such third-party websites may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information.

We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such third-party websites and so these are not governed by this privacy policy. We encourage you to review each third-party website’s privacy policy before browsing and interacting with the website in question.

4. Retention of your information

We will retain your personal information for as long as we reasonably require in light of the purpose(s) for which we are holding it and all relevant legal, commercial, and operational considerations.

We may have to comply with statutory retention periods as required by our funders.

5. Disclosure of your information

We will never sell or trade your personal information to others.

We only share your personal information where it is reasonably necessary to properly administer our activities and/or to comply with law/regulations.

The following third parties may have access to your personal information:

Software providers – We use certain software providers to enable us to administer our activities. Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to communicate our research with you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases, and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. Please use the following link to read Wix.com’s Privacy Policy (link to: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy), taking particular note of sections 4, 12, and 13: About Privacy.
Regulators, government departments, law enforcement authorities, tax authorities, accountants, insurance companies, professional advisers, dispute resolution bodies or the courts – where necessary to comply with law or enforce or rights.
Our strategic partners – These include Queens University Belfast, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Scotland’s Rural College, the University of Surrey, Edinburgh Napier University, and AB Neo.

6. International data transfers

The information collect from you may be stored inside the UK, the European Economic Area (“EEA”), or outside the EEA.

We may transfer personal information outside the EEA where our service providers host, process, or store personal information outside the EEA. Where this is the case we use safeguards to protect this personal information and ensure the transfer complies with applicable law.

7. Security

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted online or through the website. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

8. Continuation of the privacy notice

Please find the second part of our privacy notice here: Continued privacy notice | Data Protection (link to: https://www.ed.ac.uk/data-protection/notice). This is the generic part of every University of Edinburgh privacy notice.

9. Updates to this privacy notice

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.

10. Contact details

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please use the contact form on this website.