Privacy Policy

Who are we?

This privacy notice is for the Developmental Biomechanics group, School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering within University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. You can contact us at niamh.nowlan@ucd.ie.

The Developmental Biomechanics group fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share information with us. Any personal information which you volunteer to us will be treated in accordance with Irish and European Data Protection legislation.

Why and how we collect and process the information and for how long we keep it?

We collect your personal data for the purpose of market research, to understand the needs and preferences of potential users, improve and refine our product, communicate with you if you’ve opted in for updates, and measure the performance of our advertisements. We will never sell your data or use it for unrelated marketing purposes. Under GDPR, we collect and process your data on the bases of Consent and Legitimate Interests.

We will collect the following types of personal data:

Email address (if you sign up for early access or updates or use the contact us form)
Survey responses (if completed)
Basic usage data (including page views, time spent on the site, buttons/links clicked, form completions, advertising interactions)

We retain personal data for up to 2 years from the date of collection, unless you request deletion sooner. This allows us to use the insights you've provided to inform development and keep you updated if you’ve opted in. If you have signed up to receive our newsletter updates or marketing communications, we will retain your email address until you withdraw your consent by unsubscribing or otherwise opt out. If we have not contacted you or received any interaction from you for a period of up to 12 months, we will seek your consent again before continuing to send you communications. If no response is received, your email address will be securely deleted from our records.

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

Ensure the website functions properly
Understand how our visitors use our website
Measure the performance of our advertisements
Operate the website
Improve the user experience.

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Functionality – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Performance and Analytics – We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. They help us improve the way our website works by providing insights into visitor behavior. All data collected is aggregated and anonymous.
Advertising – We may use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website. To manage your cookies, you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Who has access to the information and who we share it with?

Internal access: The personal data collected from you will be accessed by the Developmental Biomechanics group.

External access: We use trusted third-party services to operate our website and collect survey data:

Wix: Our website is created and hosted on the Wix platform. If you provide your email to receive updates, it will be stored by Wix. For more information on how Wix handles your data, please review their Privacy Policy: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy
Survey Monkey: Our survey is administered through Survey Monkey. They collect and process survey responses on our behalf in a GDPR-compliant manner. For details on how Survey Monkey manages your data, please refer to their Privacy Policy: https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/privacy/

We will share your data with third parties where necessary for purposes of the processing outlined above.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version will always be available on this page.

What are your rights?

Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: niamh.nowlan@ucd.ie

Contact:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us at niamh.nowlan@ucd.ie

If you have concerns about your rights, you can contact the UCD DPO by email gdpr@ucd.ie.

If you are not satisfied with UCD’s response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission. For more detail see: https://www.dataprotection.ie/