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Aberdeen University Press recognises the importance of personal privacy and ensures that all personal data is held in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Aberdeen University Press is a member of the Ubiquity Partner Network coordinated by Ubiquity Press. The University of Aberdeen is the data controller who decide the means and purposes of the processing of the personal data, and Ubiquity Press are the service providers and data processors. Ubiquity Press provide the technical platform and some publishing services to Aberdeen University Press and undertake any processing of personal data only based on AUP instructions. AUP operate under the principle of data minimisation where only the minimal amount of personal data that is required to carry out a task is obtained. AUP will collect and use names, institutional affiliation, emails, Orcid iDs for authors and reviewers for reviewing proposals, submissions and complaints procedures
We collect and use your personal information for the purposes of managing AUP, dealing with any requests and retaining appropriate records.
Our lawful basis is Article 6 (1) (e) of UK GDPR - 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 controller.
Your Rights Under UK GDPR, you have a number of rights that you can exercise concerning your personal data. These are: right of access, a right to rectification, erasure (in certain circumstances), restriction, objection or portability (in certain circumstances). You also have a right to withdraw consent where your personal data is being processed with consent as the lawful basis. If you would like to exercise these rights, or if you have any concerns or questions relating to Data Protection, you can contact Sandra Hynes, the Aberdeen University Press administrator at aup@abdn.ac.uk and/or the Data Protection Officer by email at dpa@abdn.ac.uk.
Please contact Ubiquity Press if you have any concerns or questions relating to their use of your personal data. The Ubiquity Press privacy policy can be found on their website.
If you are dissatisfied with the way that the University of Aberdeen/Aberdeen University Press has handled your personal information or dealt with your data protection issue, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted via their website at www.ico.org.uk/concerns/
If you email the aup@abdn.ac.uk email address or contact us via the form on the Contact page, this will seen by a member of Aberdeen University Press staff. Our IT department and administrators of our IT system have the capability to see the content of any communications you send to Aberdeen University Press. However, all staff are aware that they should only access such data for a legitimate work purpose. Third party suppliers we use for IT support will also have access to any information you share in order to provide these services to the University.
Aberdeen University Press will retain emails indefinitely from the last exchange in the conversation, in case further correspondence follows. If the email is forwarded on to Ubiquity Press, this will then fall under their UK GDPR policies and retention schedules which can be found on their website.
Aberdeen University Press, through Ubiquity Press, maintains logs of its servers’ activities. The server log files include the IP address of each computer which accesses the website. The logs are used to support essential maintenance of the site including analysing how the site is used.
Where possible, Ubiquity Press anonymises the IP address in server logs. Where data needs to be retained (e.g. to confirm if past bugs have returned), it is retained indefinitely.
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