Privacy Policy
how we use your data and who we share your data with
The information you provide will be used by the University of Edinburgh who needs it in order
to evaluate and process your application for the NICE programme
We are using your personal data because you have applied to participate in the NICE programme. By applying you have given us your consent to contact you. If you are selected to participate in the programme, we will continue to hold your data for 3 months after the programme has finished for the purposes of data aggregation.
Your data will be shared with staff within Edinburgh Global at the University of Edinburgh. If you are selected to participate in the programme your data will also be shared with the University of Amsterdam, University College Dublin, and the University of Padova to facilitate your participation in the programme.
We will share your name and email address with fellow NICE students whom you will work with in virtual groups as part of the course work. We will share your information because group work is a core component of the programme.
Third parties
we use Online Surveys to administer applications. If you are interested, you can read their privacy policy on the Online Surveys Privacy Policy page.
We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.
If you have any questions, please contact goabroadprojects@ed.ac.uk.
The NICE project is managed by the University of Edinburgh, which means that we also adhere to their privacy policy. To read their privacy policy please visit the University of Edinburgh Privacy Policy page.
retention periods
If you apply to the NICE programme and are not selected, your data will be kept until the October after the programme cycle that you applied to.
If you apply to the NICE programme and are selected, your data will be kept for five years after the programme in which you participate concludes for the purposes of data aggregation.
Data controller and contact details
For data collected under this privacy notice, the University of Edinburgh (the “University”) is the Data Controller (as that term is defined in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, Registration Number Z6426984. You can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@ed.ac.uk. More details about our data protection policy can be found on our website at http://www.ed.ac.uk/recordsmanagement/data-protection/data-protection-policy.
Mandatory data sharing
In addition to the primary purposes, we are also legally obliged to share certain data with other public bodies such as HMRC and will do so where the law requires this. We will also generally comply with requests for specific information from other regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and proportionate.
transfers outside the eea
The University will only transfer data to countries outside the EEA when satisfied that both the party which handles the data and the country it is processing it in provide adequate safeguards for personal privacy. Details of such transfers and safeguards are on our website.
retention of data and your rights
We will hold the personal data you provided us only as long as we need to. For information about how long your data are kept, please consult the retention schedules. You have the right to request access to, copies of and rectification or erasure of personal data held by the University and can request that we restrict processing or object to processing as well as the right to data portability (i.e. the right to ask us to put your data into a format that it can be transferred easily to a different organisation). If you wish to make use of one of these rights, please email your local contact. If we have asked for your consent in order to process your personal data you can withdraw this consent in whole or part at any time. To withdraw consent, please email your local contact, who will explain the consequences of doing so in any particular case and initiate proceedings for withdrawing consent.
complaints
If you are unhappy with the way we have processed your personal data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at casework@ico.org.uk, but we ask that you raise the issue with our Data Protection Officer first.