The UK Food Safety Research Network, hosted by Quadram Institute Bioscience, is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice sets out how Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) will use and protect your personal information.
We may gather data about you from your use of our website https://fsrn.quadram.ac.uk when you attend one of our events, or if you contact or correspond with us.
This Privacy Notice applies to personal information which we process relating to people who have:
We collect personal information about visitors to our website, if they fill out a form on our website, participate in a survey or register for an event.
Our website also uses cookies (text files) on your computer to identify your browser and automatically collect information about how you use our website. You can withdraw your consent to enable cookies at any time by updating your cookie settings.
We also collect details of your website visit, IP addresses etc. (information in weblogs) to allow us to operate our website and protect it from attack or restrict access.
When you subscribe to receive emails from us, we may ask for your:
We will collect this information when you subscribe to our mailing lists. When opting to subscribe to our mailing lists, you will be emailed a confirmation notice and a request to confirm your willingness to receive email updates from us. Our use and storage of your personal information for email communication is based on your consent. This means that you will only receive emails and information that you have asked to receive.
You can withdraw your consent or change your email preferences at any time, by contacting us at fsrn@quadram.ac.uk
If you withdraw your consent for us to contact you, we will store your information for a period of six years to ensure that you no longer receive emails from us.
When you register to attend one of our events (including via our third-party providers, JotForm, or Eventbrite) we will ask for your:
• name
• email address
• other relevant information as determined on an event-by-event basis, for example organisation, job title or work-related email address.
We will collect this information when you enrol to attend an event. Our use and storage of personal information is based on consent. We use personal information solely for the purposes of administering the event. We may need to share personal information with third party organisations where it is necessary to administer the event (for example, with an external venue).
If you are a speaker at one of our events we will promote your participation via platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn and by email. External platforms may continue to store and use personal information after the event has ended.
When you use our contact form we will ask for your:
We will use the information provided solely for the purposes of administering your enquiry. We may need to share your information with third party organisations where it is necessary to address your enquiry.
If you have any questions about how your personal information is used, or wish to exercise any of your rights, you can email fsrn@quadram.ac.uk
You can contact the person with responsibility for advising QIB on compliance with data protection legislation via dpa@nbi.ac.uk
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at dpa@nbi.ac.uk
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at dpa@nbi.ac.uk
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
