K'Nex Kit Loan for GSF Creating Engineers

Privacy Notice  

 

Your Personal Data 

The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to Glasgow Science Festival, Creating Engineers Challenge 2025, K’Nex Kit Loan for the purpose of processing applications for K’Nex Kit Loan. This Privacy Notice will explain how the University will process your personal data.  

 

Why we need it 

We are collecting your basic personal data in order to process applications for K’Nex Kit Loan We will only collect data that we need in order to fulfil and oversee this. 

 

Legal basis for processing your data 

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is ‘Consent’. 

 

What we do with it and who we share it with 

All the personal data you submit is processed by staff at the University of Glasgow in the UK. We will not share personal data with third parties in this instance. 

How long do we keep it for 

Your data will be retained by the University for up to three years. After this time, data will be securely deleted. However, I understand that some images, recordings or written comments may be kept permanently once they are published and be kept as an archive of Glasgow Science Festival events.    

 

What are your rights? 

You can request access to the information we process about you at any time. If at any point you believe that the information we process relating to you is incorrect, you can request to see this information and may in some instances request to have it restricted, corrected or, erased. You may also have the right to object to the processing of data and the right to data portability.  

As we are using ‘Consent’ as the legal basis to process your personal data, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact dp@gla.ac.uk.  

 

Complaints 

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk. 

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/. 

 

Contact details 

If you have any questions relating to this consent form or the way we are planning to use your information please contact: The Glasgow Science Festival team on sciencefestival@glasgow.ac.uk