Privacy Policy
SBRI Healthcare (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of website use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, the data controller is NHS England, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road,
London, SE1 8UG.
The Data Processors are LGC Limited, The Priestley Centre, 10 Priestley Road, Guildford, GU2 7XY, United Kingdom.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Name
- Work or other email address
- Work or other phone number
- Browsing information
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site sbrihealthcare.co.uk(“our site”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site or the applicant portal
- We may from time to time ask you for information, for example in relation to opportunities that may be of interest to you or in relation to problems reported with the site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site or requesting further services
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them
How we collect Personal Information
We collect Personal Data through:
- Your voluntary input of your personal information on the Site
- The use of cookies (explained in more details in our Cookie’s policy)
IP Addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To carry out occasional surveys to analyse our user base – ultimately we want to ensure that we provide everything that you, our audience, is looking for
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
- To notify you about changes to our service
- We may also use your data or permit selected third parties associated with the SBRI Healthcare programme, including but not limited to the Academic Health Science Network’s, to use your data, to provide you with information about events and services which may be of interest to you.
If you have provided us with your personal details to register for updates we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about competition launches, events, SBRI Healthcare newsletters and information which may be of interest to you.
Legal basis for processing
Our legal grounds for processing your personal data for the purposes described above will typically be one of the following:
- Yours consent
- Our legitimate business interests
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details (if applicable) and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Disclosure of your information
SBRI Healthcare is an NHS England programme, hence we may need to disclose/share your personal information with them, or other bodies/ individuals affiliated with the SBRI Healthcare programme or the NHS.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We will share your information with our CRM provider who distribute our newsletter and competition launches. Similarly, it is possible that our website support company could need to access our mail lists as part of maintenance or improvements. These trusted third parties would only be permitted to use your personal information for the purposes we specify.
We will never sell our user’s details to any other organisation or individual.
Your rights over your personal data
Under data protection law, you have a range of different rights which may apply when we use information about you:
- Right to be informed
- Right of access
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision-making
These individual rights are explained on the Information Commissioner's Office website. If you wish to exercise any of your data subject rights, please contact us by emailing [email protected].
Some rights are not absolute. If we are not able to meet your request, we will explain the reason.
Marketing communication
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
How to make a data protection complaint
If you have a complaint which relates to our use of your personal information, or our compliance with our data protection responsibilities, you can contact us by emailing [email protected].
If we are unable to resolve your data protection complaint, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO is the UK’s data protection regulator. However, the ICO will expect you to raise your concerns with us in the first instance. The ICO’s contact details are:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
SK9 5AF
Website: ico.org.uk
Telephone number: 0303 123 1113
Changes to privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected].
Date updated 18/08/26