Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share it
Why we collect your information
The information you provide will be used by the University to create a profile to allow the user to interact with this platform. This information is also required for the purposes of authentication. This information will already have been disclosed by the users to the university previously and we will be making use of the same information. Information relating to the interaction with the platform will be stored, and can be shared with some other users of this platform. All of this personally identifying information is stored on University of Edinburgh servers within the UK.
Why we use information about you
We are using information about you because it is the legitimate interest of the University of Edinburgh to provide a platform that will be used to support the teaching, learning and academic engagement activities of the University.
Users can generate reports of which students have completed all of the questions in a CAL. Users are asked to consent to this monitoring and are able to opt out.
Special categories of personal data such as race, ethnicity, political beliefs etc. are not required in order to provide the blogging service. However, it is conceivable that an individual may choose to disclose information about themselves via content that would fall into this category. On that basis the condition of processing this information relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject.