This privacy policy sets out how the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland use and protect any personal information that you give us when you use this website.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 27th January 2025.
We are committed to ensuring that the information we hold is secure in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
It is our policy that we do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to the site or information that you may give us when interacting with the services on the website unless required to do so by law or by the exceptions listed in the relevant sections of the privacy notice below.
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when we collect personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
If you have any questions or requests regarding our use of your personal information, then please use the following contact details.
| Telephone | +44 (0)1383 724 990 |
| admin@carnegie-trust.org | |
| Address | Registered company address: The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Andrew Carnegie House, Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline, Fife, KY12 8AW |
The material on the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland’s website is provided for general purposes only. Although we endeavour to ensure that the content is accurate and up to date, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland accepts no responsibility for any loss arising from reliance on information contained in this site or other sites that may be linked to from our site.
Unless otherwise stated, all content on the site is © Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and is licensed under Creative Commons 2.5 UK: Scotland.
This means that you are free to share the content by copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, and you may also adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material. Sharing and adapting the material on our website can be done for non-commercial purposes only. Please attribute the content to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and indicate if changes have been made. You should also include a link to our website https://www.carnegie-trust.org. For any reuse or distribution, you must make these licence terms clear to others.
Our website uses “cookies” to help improve your online experience.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the Carnegie Trust domain that issued the cookie to you.
None of cookies on our web site collect or store personal data, we only store standard internet log data for our internal reporting purposes. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone, keeping your privacy as well as allowing us to improve the web site wherever possible.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website.
When someone visits our website we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out information such as the number and demographic details of visitors to a certain page of the website.
This information is anonymised and processed in a way which does not identify you as a user and we do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website via Google Analytics.
We follow Google’s policy for informing you that we use Google Analytics (see clause 7 at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html) and advise that if you want specific information about how Google collects and processed data to check it at this link https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk . Google will keep this up to date.
Cookie control can be used to prevent this (see cookie section above).
We will use the information provided in your application only for the purposes of considering you for the post for which you have applied.
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations including information relating to our recruitment process. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant recruitment and selection activity (normally 6 months after notifying the outcome of the process), or for as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
Your data is only used for the purposes of processing your application. We do not pass your data to third parties unless required to do so by law, in order to verify the detail contained in your application or to share with relevant persons considering your application. Where we do share your data with third parties, it is shared on the basis that strict confidentiality will be observed.
If you choose to send us an email (various email address’ are available throughout the website) the details you include will be held securely by our email provider. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send to us is within the bounds of the law.
We may use the information provided in your email for the purposes of responding to your email and any personal information will be deleted once the email has been processed. If we require to store your personal data in order to provide additional services, then we will ask for your consent before doing so.
When you call the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (our phone number is available on the website) we may make notes of your call in order to process the call. This may include taking personal details. The details taken will only be used for the purposes of processing the call and will be deleted once the call has been completed and processed. If we require to store your personal data in order to provide additional services, then we will ask for your consent before doing so.