BCU Race Equality Charter: Student Survey

The purpose of this survey is to gain insight from students to support BCU in addressing racial inequalities and creating an inclusive culture and environment where individuals are able to thrive, irrespective of their race or ethnicity. All responses collected through our student experience survey are stored by Jisc (data processor), on behalf of BCU. Your responses will be held securely by BCU and Jisc.

BCU will not identify any individuals when reporting the results internally or externally and will ensure that no individuals can be identified by those results.

We will use personal data held on our student records system and data provided directly by you in response to the survey. To make the survey as easy as possible to complete, some data that you have already supplied to the University is preloaded. This data is about your course, year of birth, Student ID and university email address.

We process your personal data on the lawful basis of your explicit consent, which you provide at the end of the survey. If you do not choose to give consent, your answers will not be submitted. Additionally, if you are not happy to proceed whilst you are going through the survey, you can exit the survey at any time by simply closing the survey. If you would like to withdraw your submitted responses, please contact james.boston@bcu.ac.uk BCU will action the withdrawal of your personal data until the point that it is not practical to do so because it has become an integral part of a dataset.

Access to the raw data is restricted to the Race Equality Charter Data and Research team for analysis purposes. All other staff within the institution will only have access to anonymised results.

All the data we gather from the survey will be kept for 10 years after the survey closes for use in longitudinal research into tackling race inequality and improving the staff experience.

Under the Data Protection Laws, you have the following rights:

• Request access to your data (commonly known as a “subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of your data and to check that we are lawfully processing it;
• Request correction of your data. This enables you to ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.
• Request erasure of your data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your data in certain circumstances, for example, if you consider that there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your data where we are relying on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your data for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your data, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your data to another party

Depending on the circumstances and the nature of your request it may not be possible for us to do what you have asked, for example, where there is a statutory or contractual requirement for us to process your data and it would not be possible to fulfil our legal obligations if we were to stop. However, where you have consented to the processing (for example, where you have asked us to send you certain types of communication), you can withdraw your consent at any time, by emailing us at informationmanagement@bcu.ac.uk. In this event, we will stop the processing as soon as we can. If you choose to withdraw consent it will not invalidate past processing and it may impact our ability to provide particular additional services to you. Further information on your rights is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the following contact details:

By Email to: informationmanagement@bcu.ac.uk

By Post to: Data Protection Officer
Birmingham City University
Joseph Priestley Building / 1st Floor
6 Cardigan Street
Birmingham
B4 7BD

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about how we use or handle your personal data please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact details in section 6 above.

If you are not content with the how we handle your information we would ask you to contact our Data Protection Officer to help you. However, you do also have the right to complain directly to the Information Commissioner at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or via post at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Information about the Information Commissioner is available at: https://ico.org.uk.

This privacy notice may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information. The date of the most recent versions will appear on this page (see version control).

Created: 22nd May 2023