NIHR | Manchester Biomedical Research Centre

Disclaimer & Privacy Statement

Purpose of Statement

This disclaimer and privacy statement relates to the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre website.

Collection of Personal information

Under the Data Protection Act, we have a duty to protect any information we collect from you. We do not pass on your details to any third party unless you give us permission to do so.

Provision of personal information will be acknowledged as your acceptance of this statement and agreement to our collecting and use / disclose of your personal information only as described in this statement.

If you do not agree to this statement, please do not provide your personal details to us.

What is personal information?

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as defined by applicable law.

Collecting personal information

We only collect and hold personal information provided by you. You may also elect to provide us with personal information if, for example, you:

  • Contact us via email
  • Contact us via an enquiry form
  • Sign up to a newsletter
  • Fill out a survey or other form with your personal information included
  • Request us to provide you with information

In providing personal information you consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such information in, other countries or territories. Any such transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this privacy statement.

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Mailing list sign up link in footer – NIHR Manchester BRC Director’s Blog and other news
The mailing list for the NIHR Manchester BRC Director’s blog and other news, which you can subscribe to in the footer of each web page, is managed through internal databases held on the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust server. This makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the user.

Personal Data collected: first name, last name and email address with company/organisation as optional.

Disclosure of personal information

We will never disclose your personal information unless instructed to do so by law enforcement, governmental or regulatory agencies, or other third party in order to comply with law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to comply with law or detect, protect or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting manchesterbrc@mft.nhs.uk.

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legal obligation.

(d) We have a vital interest.

(e) We need it to perform a public task.

(f) We have a legitimate interest

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

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 manchesterbrc@mft.nhs.uk if you wish to make a request.

Your rights as a data subject

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), in certain circumstances, you have the right to:

  • withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data where that is the legal basis for such processing
  • access any of your personal data which we hold
  • have your personal data which we hold corrected if it is inaccurate
  • have any of your personal data which we hold erased
  • restrict the ways in which we process your personal data
  • object to our processing of your personal data
  • receive a copy of any of your personal data which we hold in a structured and commonly used machine-readable format
  • in certain cases not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making
  • lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at:

The Data Protection Officer

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT)

Group Informatics

3rd Floor, Cobbett House

Cobbett House

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9WL

Telephone 0161 701 0375

Email: information.governance@mft.nhs.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

URL

We reserve the right to move or change our website URLs at any time in order to meet changing business needs and to continually improve online service. External websites link to our websites are at their own risk. We do not encourage deep linking but recommend linking to section homepages, which are less likely to move or change.

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying our websites are proprietary marks of our organisation. If you wish to copy or use any of our logos, you must seek approval by contacting manchesterbrc@mft.nhs.uk. Tell us how and why you wish to use our logos and your request will be considered. Please also include your contact details: name, organisation, address and telephone number.

Disclaimer

Our website and materials relating to our information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), are provided ‘as is’, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material within in our websites will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of our websites.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Cookies

Our website uses ‘cookies’ for statistical analysis in order to improve our services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer’s hard disk.

They are not used to collect personally identifiable data about you. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website or any other this can be done through your browser settings. The help function in your browser should give you this information or alternatively go to visit aboutcookies.org which contains information on how to do this in a variety of browsers. Here you will also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. Restricting cookies will prevent you from being able to use full functionality of the website such as logging in and submitting content.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of our website and compile reports for us on activity on it. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can reject this cookie and information on how to do this can be found at: google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

Our website may include content embedded from other sites and services such as Twitter, YouTube and Eventbrite; these sites may set additional cookies but we do not pass any personally identifiable information to these services.

Links to external websites

Links contained within our websites will lead to other websites which are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content of any linked site. Listing and linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind and we accept no liability in respect of the content. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from our websites.

Privacy policy

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is the host organisation for the NIHR Manchester BRC. You can find out more about the Trust’s privacy policy via this webpage. To read more about how we use your personal information, you can also download this leaflet.

Last updated: August 2023

We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of our websites after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.