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Data Protection Policy

We are committed to protecting the rights and privacy of individuals in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation.

Data protection policy

We are committed to protecting the rights and privacy of individuals in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation.

We have to process certain information about all individuals with whom we have dealings, for our own administrative purposes and to comply with our legal obligations, eg: keeping personal data about our employees and students in order to carry out our function as a university.

Privacy notice

This page contains general information required under articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The University's current Data Protection Officer is: Maureen Wilkinson

You can contact Newcastle University's Data Protection Officer at the following address:

Executive Office
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Email: rec-man@ncl.ac.uk

You have a number of rights under the GDPR in relation to the data we hold about you. For more detail on these rights and how to exercise them, see our Data Subject Rights web pages.

If you are unhappy with our use or storage of your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about this. Please see the ICO website for more details of how to complain.