This Notice is for people who attend or participate in BU events which are open to an audience beyond BU students, visitors to our premises and people raising general enquiries with BU (including people exercising rights under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, or data protection legislation). Separate information is provided for enquiries about becoming a student at BU, events aimed solely at those considering studying at BU (such as BU open days) and the admissions process.
In this Notice, “BU” "we", "our" and "us" refers to Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation.
As a result of your engagement with BU we will hold your “personal data”, i.e. information in a form that identifies you as individual (often referred to as “data” in this Notice).
BU is the data controller of the information we collect and process as described in this Notice. This means that BU has the core legal responsibility to safeguard the information and ensure it is processed lawfully. The law is set out in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. In particular BU must:
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Take steps to ensure that the data we process is accurate and up to date;
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Give you clear information about our processing of your data, in one or more Privacy Notices like this one;
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Only process your data for specific purposes described to you in a Privacy Notice, and only share your data with third parties as provided for in a Privacy Notice; and
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Keep your data secure.
Information about your data protection rights as a data subject is set out in section 7 of this Notice.