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information are extremely important.</p> <p><strong>This statement sets out:</strong></p> <ul> <li>what we do with your personal data</li> <li>what we do to keep it secure</li> <li>from where and how we collect it</li> <li>your rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you</li> </ul> <p><strong>This statement applies if you interact with us:</strong></p> <ul> <li>in person</li> <li>over the phone</li> <li>via email</li> <li>through any of our websites</li> <li>on social media</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Quick summary</h2> <p>If you don’t want to read all the detail, here are the things we think you’d really want to know:</p> <ul> <li>The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the professional body for chemists, a learned society, and a publisher of journals, books and databases for the science community</li> <li>We will make sure that our contact with you is relevant and in accordance with the preferences that you give us. You can change your contact preferences at any time</li> <li>You have a number of rights over your personal information. How you can exercise these rights is set out in this statement</li> <li>We do send marketing communications, if we’re allowed to, and we do this to encourage you to engage with our activities and services or buy our products</li> <li>We will always provide simple mechanisms for you to let us know that you want us to stop contacting you</li> <li>We will never pass your personal details to anyone outside the RSC for them to use for their own marketing purposes unless you have previously provided us with your informed and specific consent</li> <li>Your personal data will be stored safely and will remain secure at all times</li> <li>Your personal data will be, where appropriate, shared within the RSC</li> <li>Our data processing activities are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect children’s data</li> <li>We do use a number of third parties to process your personal data on our behalf and some of them are based outside of the European Economic Area, but we always take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your privacy rights</li> <li>No personal data will be kept any longer than necessary in order to fulfil the purpose it was collected for, and if you ask us to, it will be deleted</li> </ul> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink"> <h2>In more detail</h2> <div class="rsc-ui"> <div class="row edge2edge-sm"> <div class="column two"> <div class="padh-sm"> <ul> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#automated">Automated decision making</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#CCTV">CCTV surveillance</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#cookies">Changes to this statement</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#CCF">Chemists’ Community Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#childrens-data">Children’s data</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/cookies-and-your-privacy/">Cookies policy</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#CCF">Fundraising</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#how-we-use-your-data">How do we use your personal information?</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#how-long-we-keep-you-data">How long will we keep your personal information?</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#automated">International transfers of personal information</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="column two"> <div class="padh-sm"> <ul> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#keeping-you-informed">Keeping you informed about our products, activities and services</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#legal-basis">Legal basis for processing your personal information</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#security">Security</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#data-not-provided-by-you">Sources of your personal data not supplied directly by you</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#who-are-we">Who are we?</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#who-we-share-with">Who might we share your personal information with?</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#data-we-hold">What sorts of personal information do we hold?</a></li> <li><a href="/help-legal/legal/privacy/#your-rights">Your rights</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="who-are-we"> <h2>Who are we?</h2> <p>When we say ‘we’ or ‘us’ in this statement, we are referring to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The RSC is incorporated in the United Kingdom (UK) by Royal Charter and is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission For England and Wales (charity number 207890).</p> <p>The RSC is registered as a data controller with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) with the Reference number Z4939879.</p> <p><a href="/about-us/">Find out more information about us</a></p> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="data-we-hold"> <hr> <h2>What sort of personal information do we hold?</h2> <ul> <li>Information that you provide to us such as your name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, payment information, and any feedback you give to us, including by phone, email, post, or when you communicate with us via social media</li> <li>Information about the services that we provide to you (including, for example, the things we have provided to you, when and where, what you paid, the way you use our products, activities, and services, and so on)</li> <li>Information required to make decisions about your applications for the products, activities and services we offer (for example, membership, article submissions, awards)</li> <li>Your account login details for our websites and apps, including your username and chosen password</li> <li>Information about whether or not you want to receive marketing communications from us</li> <li>Information about any device you have used to access our services (such as your browser or IP address).</li> <li>Information from social media activity (such as likes, shares and tweets) when you interact with us on social media</li> <li>Information collected via cookies or similar technology stored on your device. More information is set out later in this statement</li> <li>Information captured by CCTV inside and within the grounds of RSC premises</li> <li>Images and videos taken with consent that we may use in printed material or on our websites</li> <li>Your health or personal financial circumstances (only if you share such information with our Chemists’ Community Fund)</li> </ul> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="legal-basis"> <h2>Our legal basis for processing your personal information</h2> <p>Whenever we process your personal data, we must have something called a “legal basis” for what we do. The different legal bases we rely on are:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Performance of a contract</strong> - we must process your personal data in order to be able to provide you with one of our products, activities or services</li> <li><strong>Consent - </strong>you have told us you are happy for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose(s)</li> <li><strong>Legitimate interests</strong> - our processing is necessary for us to conduct our business, but not where our interests are overridden by your interests or rights</li> <li><strong>Public interest</strong> - our processing is necessary for us to meet our Royal Charter duty for serving the public interest</li> <li><strong>Legal obligation</strong> - we are required to process your personal information by law</li> </ul> <p>Whenever we process your data by Consent, we keep a record of the consent you provided.</p> <p>Whenever we process your data under Legitimate Interests, we complete a legitimate interest assessment form and carry out a balancing test to safeguard privacy rights.</p> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="how-we-use-your-data"> <h2>How do we use your personal information?</h2> <p>We may use your information for the following purposes:</p> <h3>To provide our products, activities, and services</h3> <p>We need to use your personal information to make our products, activities, and services available to you. When you order, subscribe, or submit a request, we will process any personal information you share in order to meet your expectations and our commitment to you as a customer.</p> <h3>For marketing</h3> <p>We use your personal data to provide you with information and news about our products, activities, and services by email, phone, post, and online advertising. As part of this, online advertising may be displayed on RSC websites and on other organisations’ websites and online media channels.</p> <h3>To contact you</h3> <p>We use your personal information to contact you. This may be in relation to an issue you have raised with us, a service update, market research or to ask for your feedback.</p> <h3>For safety and security</h3> <p>We use personal information to help provide safe and secure environments for our business to be conducted in and for our staff to work in. To enable this, we use CCTV inside and within the grounds of RSC premises.</p> <h3>Analytics and profiling</h3> <p>We use your personal information for statistical analysis and to help us understand more about our customers. This helps us to serve you better, to find ways to improve our products, activities and services, and to make them more relevant to you.</p> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="who-we-share-with"> <h2>Who might we share your personal information with?</h2> <p>We will share your personal information in certain circumstances with service providers or other individuals so that we can provide you with applicable products, activities, and services and ensure we provide a high-quality and personalised service.</p> <h3>Our service providers</h3> <p>We work with different companies so that they can help us provide and maintain the products, activities, and services you require from us, or that we think you might be interested in. These include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Software system vendors</strong> – including those used to manage customer data, regulate workflows, host websites, deliver targeted marketing, and process purchases</li> <li><strong>Cloud storage providers</strong> – for secure storage of data controlled by the RSC</li> <li><strong>Banks, finance management, direct debit, and accountancy system providers</strong> – so that we can process payments with you in accordance with the appropriate transaction that you are entering into with us</li> <li><strong>Article production and administration suppliers</strong> – to process books and accepted journal articles through copy-editing, typesetting, and proof correction for publication</li> <li><strong>Printing, mailing, and delivery companies</strong> – for fulfilment of external printing and to send you written communications and hard copies of newsletters and magazines</li> <li><strong>Funders, universities, and research organisations</strong> – providing specific information about the authors of our journal articles and other publishing products</li> <li><strong>Abstracting & Indexing services such as Crossref, PubMed, and Scopus, as well as subscribers and purchasers of our journals</strong> – so that we can maximise the visibility of published work</li> <li><strong>Telemarketing agencies</strong> – who help us with our membership renewal process</li> <li><strong>Electoral service providers</strong> – who assist us with the running of our elections process</li> <li><strong>Legal, wellbeing, counselling, mentoring, and career services</strong> – to provide you with the service you might choose to subscribe to</li> <li><strong>Social media providers</strong> – where you have submitted a community-related news story to us and we have published it</li> <li><strong>Travel companies, taxi services, and flight providers</strong> – where you ask us to make such arrangements on your behalf</li> <li><strong>Venues</strong> - where we are running an event and the venue requires personal details of attendees to make bookings, for example, hotel rooms</li> <li><strong>Books sales agents, distributors, shipping agents</strong> – in order to fulfil our sales obligations to you</li> <li><strong>Advertising companies</strong> - who help us place RSC adverts online and on other media</li> <li><strong>Logistics and delivery providers</strong> - who enable us to deliver products ordered from us</li> <li><strong>Market research partners</strong> - who help us process customer feedback</li> </ul> <h3>Our contributors and advisors</h3> <p>We work with individuals who support our work either voluntarily or through a contractual arrangement. These include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Peer reviewers, editorial board members, and guest editors</strong> – who help us preserve the quality and integrity of our chemical science literature</li> <li><strong>Reviewers and judges</strong> – in relation to an application for an award, scholarship, bursary, grant funding, or participation in an event or competition</li> <li><strong>Professional advisors, such as lawyers and consultants</strong> – but only for specific circumstances</li> </ul> <h3>Other organisations and individuals</h3> <p>We may share your personal information in certain scenarios. For example:</p> <ul> <li>If we're discussing selling an RSC-owned product (for example a journal), we may share information about you with prospective purchasers and their advisers - but only so they can evaluate the relevant business</li> <li>If we are required to by law or by a public or regulatory authority</li> <li>If we need to do so in order to enforce or protect our legal rights, property, users, systems, and services</li> <li>In response to requests from individuals (or their representatives) seeking to protect their rights or the rights of others. We will only share your personal information in response to requests which do not override your privacy interests</li> </ul> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="automated"> <h2>Automated decision making</h2> <p>The RSC does not use any automated means to make decisions about individuals.</p> <p>We will share email addresses, which have been given directly to RSC by data subjects, or browsing information, obtained in ways such as pixel tracking, to enable us to show tailored adverts on a third-party platform, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, who may perform profiling.</p> <hr> <h2>International transfers of personal information</h2> <p>On occasions, the information you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the UK. For example, this may happen where any of our servers or those of our third party service providers are from time to time located in a country outside of the UK. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK but, where possible, we seek to work with service providers whose servers are wholly located within the UK or, if that is not possible, within a country covered by UK adequacy regulations.</p> <p>If we transfer your information to a country not covered by UK adequacy regulations, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your privacy rights. These steps include contracting with providers on the basis of the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA). Our drafting of IDTAs makes reference to Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and Transfer Risk Assessments (TRA) in all cases.</p> <p>We have not set out the specific circumstances for each international transfer. 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Where we have explicit consent or when it is determined there is a mutual legitimate interest, we may do this by post, email, text message, phone, through online advertising, or by any other electronic means.</p> <p>We won't send you marketing messages if you tell us not to, but if you subscribe to a service from us, we will still need to send you service-related messages and may still send you surveys (you can always opt out of these via the survey email itself).</p> <p>All messages sent under Legitimate Interests contain appropriate safeguards to ensure we do not contact you again when you might not be not interested. 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These include:</p> <ul> <li>the right to access a copy of the personal information we hold about you</li> <li>the right to correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you</li> <li>the right to restrict our use of your personal information</li> <li>the right to be forgotten</li> <li>the right of data portability and</li> <li>the right to object to our use of your personal information</li> </ul> <p>Where we rely on consent as the legal basis on which we process your personal information, you may also withdraw that consent at any time.</p> <p>If you are seeking to exercise any of these rights, Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted by <a href="mailto:DPO@rsc.org">e-mail</a> or in writing to Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF.</p> <p>Please note that we will need to verify your identity before we can fulfil any of your rights under data protection law. This helps us to protect your personal data against fraudulent requests.</p> <p>You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the <a href="http://ico.org.uk">Information Commissioner's Office</a>.</p> <hr> </div> </div><div class="block a2maintextblock "> <div class="content-block hashtaglink" id="how-long-we-keep-you-data"> <h2>How long will we keep your personal information for?</h2> <p>We will keep your personal information for the purposes set out in this privacy statement and in accordance with the law and relevant regulations. We will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary.</p> <p>We maintain an Information Retention Schedule for all our processing activities. 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This includes investigating accidents, incidents, criminal activities, and breaches of our policies. We store recordings for a period of 60 days, after which time they are automatically deleted.</p> <p>In the event of an incident, recordings may be downloaded by our staff and stored securely in the interests of preserving evidence for any potential investigation and/or claim(s).</p> <p>Occasionally we may share recordings with public or regulatory authorities or in response to requests from individuals seeking to protect their rights, the rights of others, or helping to prevent crime and nuisance. We will only share CCTV if we consider a request to be appropriate. We may retain recordings that are downloaded for these purposes for a period of up to six years to take into account the statutory limitation periods for any potential investigation(s) or claim(s). 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The RSC is not a provider of “information society services” as referenced in Article 8 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (referred to by the UK’s ICO as “online services”).</p> <p>At some of our events, we may take photographs and videos that include children to publicise their achievements (e.g. prize winners). We may also take photographs or videos showing children taking part in a scientific activity (e.g. carrying out an experiment). In all cases, images are only taken if consent is secured from whoever holds parental responsibility for the child either directly or through a school’s own data protection processes.</p> <p>We take the safeguarding of children (including the protection of their personal data) seriously so, for these purposes, we recognise any individual under the age of 18 years old as being a child.</p> <p>On occasions, the RSC runs competitions for schoolchildren. In such cases, the RSC does not collect children’s personal data. 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