RDS staff
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Privacy policy
This policy explains how we're protecting your privacy and complying with legislation.
Who we are
Our vision at Research Data Scotland (RDS) is to promote and advance health and social wellbeing in Scotland by enabling access to public sector data about people, places and businesses.
We are also committed to protecting the privacy of individuals whose personal information we hold and to meeting our data protection obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and UK Data Protection Act 2018. This Privacy Notice details how those commitments are met in practice.
This notice is split into four sections based on audience. Please click the relevant link below for further information.
Researchers
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Organisational partners
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Members of the public
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Full privacy policy
Please download the RDS privacy policy to view our privacy notice in full.
Download RDS privacy policy (PDF 422.98 KB)Our contact details
Name: Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Email: dataprotection@researchdata.scot
Address:
Edinburgh Futures Institute
1 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9EF
Your rights
The law gives you a number of rights to control what personal information is used by us and how it is used by us.
- 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 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.
Feedback and complaints
Contacting RDS
Please contact us at dataprotection@researchdata.scot or write to our Data Protection Officer at the following address if you wish to make a request:
Research Data Scotland
Edinburgh Futures Institute
1 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9EF
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at dataprotection@researchdata.scot.
Contacting the Information Commissioner's Office
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at the following address if you are unhappy with how we have used your data:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
Last Updated 14 Nov 2024