Privacy Notice for the LGBTQ+ Training Programme Evaluation

We shall be processing the data of several categories of data subject. Please read the section below that is relevant to you:

Social workers

• Your name
• Your age
• Your gender
• Your phone number
• Your email address
• Your sexual orientation
• Your racial or ethnic origin
• Your religion / beliefs
• Your place of work
• Your occupation/job title and Social worker ID
• Name of Local Authority/jurisdiction location worked

We may collect personal data in a variety of ways and at a variety of times throughout the research study being conducted. We refer to “primary data collection” when data is collected directly from you and we refer to “secondary data collection” when the data is not collected directly from you). Please read the section below that is relevant to you:

Social Workers

• From yourself when you have voluntarily clicked a link to participate in the research and provided contact details (primary data collection)
• From yourself via an online survey you have opted-in to complete (primary data collection)

When conducting the research study, we may use your personal data for the following purposes and on the following lawful bases. The table below is relevant to all data subjects involved in the research study:

It is unlikely that we’ll ever share your personal data outside the UK. If, however, it becomes necessary for the purposes of conducting our research we will only share it with organisations in countries benefiting from a European Commission adequacy decision or on the basis of Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (both of which are recognised by the UK) which contractually oblige the recipient to process and protect your personal data to the standard expected within the UK.

Any data shared with the below categories of recipients is the minimum necessary for the task they have been instructed to carry out on our behalf or in conjunction with us. Each category of recipient is subject to pre-approved review to ensure comparative technical and organisational measure for keeping the data secure.

1. Pre-approved online survey platform providers.
2. Pre-approved data storage and communications providers.
3. University Archiving location.

There may be scenarios where we are subject to a legal obligation to disclose or share your personal data, such as with law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies or public authorities in order to prevent or detect crime. We will only ever disclose your personal data to these third parties to the extent we are required to do so by law.

We may also share your personal data if we choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business and/or group, or our assets in the future. Or we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. During any such process, we may share your data with other parties. We will only do this if they agree to keep your data safe and private. If a change to our group happens, then other parties may use your data in the same way as set out in this notice.

Data shall be reduced, redacted, de-identified and deleted at appropriate times so we remain the minimum amount of data possible throughout the research study. We shall keep your personal information up to 2 years after the end of the research study. We will then dispose of your personal information by securely deleting your data.

Primary data collected and held in the University Archive is held for 10 years (until at least 31/03/32).

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect data that we process from unauthorised disclosure, use, alteration or destruction. Data protection assessments are conducted for each research project and all recipients of data used within any research data.

Your information is securely stored on a dedicated drive, and access is controlled by the University’s secure access policy for the duration of the research study period.

We will always keep these under review to make sure that the measures we have implemented remain appropriate.

Any personal data is not subject to any automated decision-making.

You have the following rights in respect of your personal data:

• You have the right of access to your personal data and can request copies of it and information about our processing of it.
•  If the personal data we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can ask us to rectify or add to it.
• Where we are using your personal data with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
• Where we are using your personal information because it is in our legitimate interests to do so, you can object to us using it this way.
• Where we are using your personal data for direct marketing, including profiling for direct marketing purposes, you can object to us doing so.
• You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal data if:
  • It is not accurate,
  • It has been used unlawfully but you do not want us to delete it,
  • We do not need it any-more, but you want us to keep it for use in legal claims, or
  • if you have already asked us to stop using your data but you are waiting to receive confirmation from us as to whether we can comply with your request.

• In some circumstances you can compel us to erase your personal data and request a machine-readable copy of your personal data to transfer to another service provider.
• You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at w.stander@bham.ac.uk. 

You can also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. They can be contacted using the information provided at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

If you have any questions, or wish to exercise any of your rights, then you can contact:

Alternatively, you can email us at w.stander@bham.ac.uk

We may update this notice (and any supplemental privacy notice), from time to time as shown below. We will notify you of the changes where required by applicable law to do so.

Last modified 25th March 2022.