Privacy notice

Northumbria University, a registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’), which is the supervisory authority responsible for the oversight and enforcement of Data Protection Legislation within the United Kingdom.  

Registration Number: Z7674926 

The Safer Childrens Network North East is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice sets out how we collect and use your personal information when you join our mailing list. 

Information we hold about you 

When you join the SCNNE mailing list we collect the following information to send out our communications: 

• First name 

• Last name 

• Email address 

How we use the information you provide to us 

We use the information held about you in the following ways to send you newsletters and to provide you with information about SCNNE activities and events. We will only send you electronic messages where you consent to this by signing up to our mailing list. Should you no longer want us to use your data in this way you can use the unsubscribe link in our email communications at any time after our initial contact. 

We will only use your personal information with your consent for the purposes for which we collected it. 

Who we share your information with 

When you sign up to our network your personal data will be available only to the key staff responsible for managing/running the network. 

How long we keep your information for 

Your data is retained for to send you electronic communications until such time that you decide that you no longer wish to receive these. You may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link in our email communications. We will delete your data from our system if you unsubscribe 

If you do not unsubscribe, your data will be retained for the duration that the SCNNE is an active research hub 

Your Rights under GDPR 

Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights in relation to the processing of your personal information, each of which may apply to differing degrees’ dependent upon the nature of the processing and the legal basis for it. You have the right to: 

• Be informed as to how we use your data (via this privacy notice) 

• Request access (a copy) of the personal information that we hold about you.  

• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data  

• Request that we stop sending you direct marketing communications.   

 

In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to:  

• Ask to have certain data ‘erased by us. 

• Request that we restrict certain processing of your personal data.   

• Request that we provide any data you submitted to us electronically be returned to you or passed to a third party as a data file.  

• Object to certain processing of your personal data by us   

 

Data Protection Officer 

 You can contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) if you would like to:  

• Receive a copy of your data. 

• Have any questions you feel have not been covered by this Privacy Notice 

• Have any concerns about the processing of your data 

• Wish to make a complaint about the processing of your data 

 

You can email at dp.officer@northumbria.ac.uk or call +44 (0)191 243 7357 

Lodging a Complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) 

 If you are dissatisfied with our processing of your data, or a response to a complaint you have made to us about it, you have the right to complain to the ICO.  

 

For more information see Information Commissioner’s web site.