Your Personal Data
The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to the Education in Museums and Heritage IntM Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow and EDUMAH consortium will process your personal data.
Why we need it
We need to collect your basic personal data in order to facilitate and manage your
application for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. We will not collect any personal data from you that we do not need in order to provide and oversee this service to you.
Legal basis for processing your data
We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance we are relying upon:
- Contract – we will process your data to enable us to meet the commitments to you as outlined in your Student Agreement e.g. those relating to teaching and assessment
- Legal obligation – we have a legal obligation to provide your personal data to the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency as part of this scholarship.
Legal basis for processing Special Categories of Personal Data
In addition, we may be processing some ‘Special Categories Personal Data’ that you volunteer to us. We do this in order to fulfil our obligations in regard to equal opportunities monitoring as well as supporting any Good Cause Claims or Disability relates services. In order to process your data for these purposes we are relying upon:
- Article 9(2)(g) of the GDPR in that processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest to be read in conjunction with the Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 1 Part 2 Article 8(1)(a) and Article8(1)(b) in that we are processing your data in that processing is necessary for the purposes of identifying or keeping under review the existence or absence of equality of opportunity or treatment between groups of people specified in relation to that category with a view to enabling such equality to be promoted or maintained.
- Where no substantial public interest condition has been met however we require to process your special categories data in order to provide you will elements of this scholarship we will seek your explicit consent in order to process your data.
What we do with it and who we share it with
Your data will be processed by staff at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. We will not share your data with any third parties subject to the following exceptions:
- Your name, email address/contact details, previous academic transcripts and current academic records, passport information and location data will be shared with relevant staff at the EDUMAH programme’s degree-awarding partners. This is to fulfil administrative requirements of the programme including registration and enrolment at each institution.
- Your disability data and other health information will be shared with relevant staff at the EDUMAH programme’s degree-awarding partners, taking into account any instructions given by you on registration with the Disability Service at the University of Glasgow (e.g. whether teaching staff should be made aware or not)
- Your name, date of birth, gender, email address and address will be shared with the insurance broker (Marsh), the appointed insurer and their assistance provider, for the purpose of setting up a health and travel insurance policy to cover you for the duration of the EDUMAH programme.
- Your name may be shared with student accommodation providers for the purpose of organising accommodation deals during the programme’s mobility periods.
- Where relevant, your name may be shared with the relevant Embassy/Consulate in order to help facilitate your visa applications throughout the programme.
- Your basic personal data such as name, age, gender, contact details, previous institution attended, and your address will be shared with the European Commission’s Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency and stored on their Online Mobility Tool. This is for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the programme’s Erasmus Mundus grant funding.
- Your bank account information will be processed by staff at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom only, for the purpose of administering your Erasmus Mundus scholarship or any Erasmus+ grants awarded to you.
How long we keep it for
Your application data will be stored by the EDUMAH Consortium until the end of the current recruitment cycle. If you take up a place on the programme your application data will be stored until 5 years after the end of the EDUMAH programme’s Erasmus Mundus grant funding period.
Unsuccessful applications are also stored until 5 years after the end of the EDUMAH programme. This retention is required as part of the agreement with the European Commission Agency as part of their programme audit requirements. After this time, all data will be securely deleted.
Certain limited basic categories data may be retained by our partner institutions for a longer period. For more details regarding this retention please see those institutions privacy polices:
- University of Glasgow’s Privacy Notice and https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/erasmusmundus/clmc/privacynotice
- https://www.uab.cat/web/study/graduate/uab-master-s-degrees-and-graduate-diplomas/legal-notice-on-the-processing-of-personal-data-1345777076628.html
- https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/disclaimer/privacy-statement
- https://international.au.dk/about/profile/privacy-policy/
- https://uni.wroc.pl/en
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 to have it corrected. You also have the right to request data portability.
As we are using ‘Consent’ as the legal basis to process your personal data and ‘Explicit Consent’ as the legal basis to process your Special Categories of 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.
*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out.
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: edumah@glasgow.ac.uk