Privacy Policy

Accepted abstracts for DesOEQ23 will be provided to attendees at the workshop and may be made publicly available as a PDF via this website;  in particular, they may be distributed to the participants, electronically or in printed form. The digital document will remain after the workshop, for the purposes of recording the physics that was presented at the workshop. By submitting your abstract you agree to this use on behalf of all authors.

We may collect other data from you for the purpose of providing updates, services during the workshop and other workshop related activities. We may share that information with other companies providing services on our behalf, only for the purpose of providing those services. We will only use your data for purposes relating to DesOEQ23, and will only retain your information for as long as necessary to make the workshop a success. By providing your personal data, you agree to your data being used as outlined above.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact either the administrators at desoeq@phys.strath.ac.uk, or Prof. Andrew Daley (andrew.daley@strath.ac.uk)

Who we are

Our website address is: https://desoeq.phys.strath.ac.uk/desoeq23.

Data Protection Privacy Notice

The University of Strathclyde is a data controller under data protection legislation. We are committed to transparency and to complying with its responsibilities under data protection legislation. This privacy notice sets out important information regarding how we will use your information and your rights under the legislation. It is important that you read this notice prior to providing your information.

Any enquiries regarding data protection should be made to the Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@strath.ac.uk.

How we use your personal data

We will use your information only for the purposes set out above, i.e.,  to manage your attendance, for anonymised statistical purposes and to enable the smooth running of the workshop. Your personal data associated with registration may be transferred to electronic services in a third country for technical reasons related to their electronic handling.

Legal basis for processing

Under data protection legislation we are required to identify our legal basis for processing. In this situation we ask for your consent to process your data for the stated purposes.

Retention Period

We will retain your personal data associated with workshop registration for a period of 24 months after the event, for administrative purposes.

Embedded content from other websites

This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Your Rights

You have the right to access your personal data held by the University. Please contact dataprotection@strath.ac.uk to exercise this right. You have a number of other rights: you may withdraw consent for us to use your data for the purposes set out above at any time; if you withdraw consent you also have the right to have your data erased; you are entitled to have personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete. To exercise these rights please contact the organizing committee directly at desoeq@phys.strath.ac.uk. Please note that this may affect your workshop registration, depending on the time that you withdraw and the data you wish to be erased.

Right to Complain

If you have any concerns/issues with the way the University has processed your personal data you can contact the Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@strath.ac.uk. You also have the right to lodge a complaint against the University regarding data protection issues with the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/concerns/).