Data protection statement

General Data Protection Regulation statement

The University of York is the sponsor for this study based in the United Kingdom. We will be using information from you and/or your linked data sources (if you consented to this) in order to undertake this study and will act as the data controller for this study. This means that we are responsible for looking after your information and using it properly.  The University of York will keep identifiable information about you for 12 months after the study has finished. The lawful basis for processing this information is that it is in the public interest.

Your rights to access, change or move your information are limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained. You can also request for the data that you have provided to be destroyed if this request is made before the data are published. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible.

You can find out more about how we use your information by contacting a member of the research team: dohs-wellbeing-study@york.ac.uk

The University of York will collect information from you and/or your linked data sources (if you consented to this) for this research study in accordance with our instructions.

The University of York will use your name, and contact details to contact you about the research study, and make sure that relevant information about the study is recorded for your care, and to oversee the quality of the study. Individuals from The University of York and regulatory organisations may look at your data from linked sources to check the accuracy of the research study. Linked data sources will pass these details to The University of York along with the information collected from you and/or your linked sources. The only people in The University of York who will have access to information that identifies you will be people who need to contact you to invite you to take part in other research studies you may be interested in, to contact you about taking part in follow-up surveys, to conduct data linkage, or to audit the data collection process. The people who analyse the information will not be able to identify you and will not be able to find out your name, or contact details.

The University of York will keep identifiable information about you from this study for 12 months after the study has finished.