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 the Children’s Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship (CLMCE), EMJM Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow will process your personal data.

Why we need it

We are collecting your personal data such as name, email address, contact details, academic transcripts, bank account details, passport information, address and where relevant limited special categories data (such as disability, ethnicity, other health data) in order to facilitate and manage your application for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

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.