Use of your personal information

UK Research and Innovation capture and process personal information in-line with current data protection legislation.  Our privacy notice provides more information around the processing of personal information, provides contact details for our Data Protection Officer and explains how to exercise your rights as a data subject.

 All personal data collected via the Je-S system will be used in accordance with our notifications.  The councils, and other approved funding organisations, use personal data submitted by system users for purposes associated with the application and award processes for grants and fellowships.  Your personal data may be used in relation to:

• the registration of your proposal;

• resolve any queries which you may raise with the Je-S Helpdesk;

• the operation of grants processing and management information systems;

• the acquisition of UK and/or international peer reviewer comments on  proposals and reports;

• the preparation of material for use by referees, peer reviewers, and peer review panels;

• your review of proposals and reports (if you are a reviewer);

• acknowledge your review contribution to your ORCID account (if you have submitted a ‘usable review’);

• your response to peer reviewer comments (if you are an applicant);

• payments made to your Higher Education Institution;

• statistical analysis in relation to the evaluation of research and the study of trends;

• invite you to participate in surveys about the level of services provided by the Je-S Helpdesk and/or Je-S System;

• Research council policy and strategy studies.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, and by accessing the system, you agree to your personal data being processed by us in this way and stored on the system and on our associated internal systems in line with fulfilling our public task responsibilities under UK data protection legislation.  To maintain public accountability, councils may publish or disclose into the public domain details of funded grants or fellowships.  Disclosable information includes:

• the title of your award;

• your name;

• the institution at which you are studying or working;

• the dates associated with your award;

• the type of award;

• the funding provided to the institution;

• a description of your subject or study or research (e.g. project summary/abstract, and Impact Summary information).

If you have any queries with regard to the processing of your personal data, please contact please contact our Data Protection Officer using dataprotection@ukri.org