How We Handle Your Personal Data Under UK GDPR: Selmetrivar

When you use this research tool, we collect the information necessary to provide the service you have requested. This includes account information such as your email address when you register or subscribe to our newsletter, usage data relating to how you interact with the research assistant, and any information you choose to provide when contacting us. We collect this data because it is necessary to deliver the service, to communicate with you about your account, and to improve the product over time.

We do not collect more data than we need for these purposes, and we do not use your data for purposes that are incompatible with the ones described here. We are the data controller for the personal data we hold about you, and we are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in accordance with our obligations under UK data protection law.

Your personal data is used to operate your account, provide the research assistant service, send you communications you have requested (such as our newsletter), and respond to any queries you raise with us. We do not sell your personal data to third parties and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes. Where we use third-party service providers to help us operate the platform — for example, for hosting or email delivery — those providers are bound by data processing agreements that restrict how they may use your data.

We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss or disclosure. These measures are reviewed regularly and updated in line with current best practice. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we take our obligations in this area seriously and act promptly if we become aware of any incident affecting the security of your data.

Under UK data protection law, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These include the right to access the data we hold about you, the right to have inaccurate data corrected, the right to request deletion of your data in certain circumstances, and the right to object to certain types of processing. You also have the right to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent as the legal basis for processing.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address listed in the footer of this site. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by law. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office, which is the UK supervisory authority for data protection matters. The ICO can be contacted at ico.org.uk.