At STFC (being a Council under, and part of, United Kingdom Research and Innovation), we intend to make sure that we maintain the UK as a world-leader in science and technology research – integral to this is our commitment to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy.
It is part of STFC’s public purpose to provide services such as the CCP4 website. In order to effectively provide that service to you, we need to collect information about you. STFC considers it in the legitimate interest of anyone who visits the CCP4 website that it should be able to effectively and efficiently manage the service for their benefit. STFC therefore requests and securely holds the data which it requires for these purposes.
We may collect and process the following information about you:
- Technical information, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system and platform.
- Information about your visit to our website, including the pages you viewed, the date and time of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
We use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:
- To improve our website and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
- To ensure that our website is secure and to prevent fraud.
We will not share your information with anyone.
UKRI and Data Protection
UKRI and STFC comply with the requirements of the GDPR with regard to the collection, storage, processing and disclosure of personal information and is committed to upholding the GDPR’s core data protection principles. A full notice of UKRI’s position with regards to Freedom of Information and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) (EU) (2016/679) can be found at: https://www.ukri.org/freedom-of-information.