The MRC Centre for Research Policy (referred to as ‘we’ or ‘our’) holds and uses personal data in order to support service delivery. This privacy notice covers the personal data collected and held for our communications and events programmes which run through our generic email address: researchpolicy@mrc.ukri.org.
The MRC Centre for Research Policy is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is the data controller for the personal data we hold and use. You can find further details about how your personal data is controlled in the UKRI privacy notice.
Email distribution lists
Staff at the MRC Centre for Research Policy will use and manage your contact details in order to share research policy news, relevant events, initiatives, and any other related matters. We will hold your contact details (for instance your name, email address and organisation).
We will obtain this personal data from you or from public sources, such as your organisation’s website.
We will actively manage our email distribution lists to account for mail delivery failures, and when we are informed of other changes, for instance change of name or email address. You can tell us to delete your contact details at any time by emailing us at: researchpolicy@mrc.ukri.org.
All emails from MRC Centre for Research Policy will give you the ability to unsubscribe.
Event attendees
If you attend one of our events, we will hold your personal data to carry out one of the following:
- manage your booking and attendance (this may include details about your accessibility needs, dietary requirements, or other information)
- help follow up issues raised at the event or allow others to watch the event after it has happened (for instance via saved chat and recordings of the event)
We may share your name, email address, role and organisation with others attending the same event in an attendee list.
We will share your personal details with venue(s) to allow them to permit you access to the venue, and for them to manage any accessibility or dietary requirements. We may use venues outside of MRC or UKRI. If you want to find out more about a particular venue’s data policy, please contact them directly.
How long do we keep your personal data
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. To determine how long we keep your personal data, we consider:
- the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data
- the potential risk of harm from unauthorised disclosure of your personal data
- the purposes for which we process your personal data
- whether we can achieve those purposes with anonymised data
For example, we delete special categories of personal data soon after the event. We retain anonymised data for longer periods for reporting purposes.
Ask a question about the privacy notice
If you have any questions, email: researchpolicy@mrc.ukri.org