Research and analysis

Privacy notice for RISC-V qualitative research

Published 29 February 2024

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This notice sets out how we will process your personal data, and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and/or 14 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).  

1. Your data 

Whilst much of the data collected for this research is business in nature, some of this data may be personal information.   

The personal data relates to the following categories which will be collected from you directly or via publicly available information. This includes:  

  • Contact details (name, name of organisation, email address, phone number)   
  • Job title   
  • Individual/organisation regional location 

2. Purpose 

The purpose for which we are processing your personal data is to enable us to carry out our functions consulting on behalf of a government department. This includes:    

  • analysis of responses to qualitative interviews 

Anonymised reporting of trends/answers may be created and shared. This will not link back to you or any answers you submit.  

The legal basis for processing your personal data under Article 6 of the UK GDPR is:   

Article 6 (1) (e) Public task: Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.  

The legal basis for sharing of personal data for the purposes of recontacting under Article 6 of the UK GDPR is: 

Article 6 (1) (a) Consent: the individual has given clear consent for us to process their personal data for a specific purpose.

4. Recipients 

Your personal data will be collected and processed by our contracted providers Briscoe Advisory Ltd and their sub-processors Dropbox.        

As your personal data will be stored on our IT infrastructure it will also be shared with our data processors Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, and with the data controller, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). 

5. Retention  

Your personal data will be retained for 2 years in accordance with the DSIT retention schedule.    

6. International transfers 

Your personal data will be processed by DSIT in the UK.  

Dropbox may be used to transfer data by Briscoe Advisory Ltd who process in the United States of America. Where this is the case your data will be safeguarded under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

7. Your rights 

You have the right to request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data.  

You have the right to request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay.  

You have the right to request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement.  

You have the right to request that your personal data are erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed.  

You have the right in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted.  

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes. 

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the sharing of your personal data.

To exercise your rights please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact details below. 

8. Contact details 

The data controller for your personal data is the Department for Science. Innovation and Technology (DSIT). You can contact the DSIT Data Protection Officer at:  

DSIT Data Protection Officer  
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology  
22-26 Whitehall  
London  
SW1A 2EG 

Email: dataprotection@dsit.gov.uk 

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your personal data, please write to the department’s Data Protection Officer in the first instance using the contact details above.  

You can also ask to view, change or remove your information from Briscoe Advisory Ltd’s records by contacting contact@briscoe-advisory.com.  

9. Complaints 

If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an UK independent regulator.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:  

Information Commissioner's Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 

www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.  

10. Updates to this notice 

If this privacy notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we will share it with other parties. The ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change. 

If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, we will take reasonable steps to let you know. 

Last updated:  27 February 2024

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