The Eating Disorders and Pregnancy research team is committed to respecting your privacy and the privacy of every visitor to our web site. The information we collect about you will be used to fulfil the required services and enable us to improve how, as a research team, we deal with you.
Should you have a question about the data we store, our contact details are:
Contact name Dr Abigail Easter
Organisation King’s College London
Address Line 1 Health Services & Population Research Department
Address Line 2 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
TOWN London
Post code SE5 8AF
eatingdisordersandpregnancy@kcl.ac.uk
The information that we collect about you will only be used lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018). All data is retained exclusively within the United Kingdom, or transferred only to ‘third countries’ where ‘adequacy of protection’ or specific certification as defined by The GDPR has been confirmed.
This information will not be disclosed to anyone outside the Eating Disorders and Pregnancy research team or its associated academic institutions, organisations, partners, and other companies with which the Eating Disorders and Pregnancy research team has arranged services for your benefit.
We expect the information we hold to be accurate and up to date. You have the right as an individual to find out what information we hold about you and make changes if necessary; you also have the right, assuming we are not obligated by law to refuse, to ask us to stop using the information. To have your information removed or rectified, please contact eatingdisordersandpregnancy@kcl.ac.uk
The type of information that we will collect on you, and you voluntarily provide to us on this website includes:
* Your name
* Address
* Telephone number(s)
* Email address
* Survey responses
* IP address
You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or obligation to provide us with your personal information; however we require at least the information above in order for us to deal with you as a service user in an efficient and effective manner.
The legal basis for processing your data is based on your [specific consent/performance of a contract/compliance with a legal obligation/your vital interest/our legitimate interest] that we will have [requested/stated] at the point the information was initially provided, therefore we will not store, process or transfer your data outside the parties detailed above unless we have an appropriate lawful reason to do so. Unless we are precluded from doing so by law, you have the right to remove your consent by contacting us and requesting that processing of your details be restricted or deleted.
Unless otherwise required by law, your data will be stored for a period of [2 years] after [our last contact with you/some other identifiable action or period], at which point it will be deleted.
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Eating Disorders and Pregnancy research team takes precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to safeguard your Data against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
The Eating Disorders and Pregnancy research team uses industry-standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of Data, including encryption, firewalls and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your Data.
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If you have a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Our Data Protection Officer is Mr Albert Chan and you can contact him using the following details:
Mr Albert Chan, Assistant Director of Business Assurance, Information Compliance team, King’s College London, Waterloo Campus Room 5.20, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8WA; or by email: info-compliance@kcl.ac.uk