Who we are

Our website address is: https://morethanmaps.sartrac.org.

The More than Maps website is hosted by the SARTRAC research group of the University of Southampton. 

 

Your privacy

The University of Southampton values your privacy and recognises the need to process the personal information we hold about you (your data) in a fair and lawful manner. The University’s privacy notice, together with the University Network Terms and Conditions, sets out the terms relevant to the University’s processing of personal data obtained as a result of your use of the University Network including its websites. Where relevant, it should be read in conjunction with the privacy notices for enquirers, staff, students or alumni. 

The University is a “Data Controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use your data. The University’s privacy notice is being made available to you because, in order to operate the More than Maps website and fulfil your requests, we may collect and store personal information that you submit to the University via this website. The notice informs you about how and why your personal data will be used and how long it will usually be retained by us. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR 2016), the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) and any other relevant data protection legislation that may apply (together ‘Data Protection Legislation’). Our registration number with the Information Commissioner’s Office is Z6801020. “Data” refers to the information that we hold about you from which either on its own or in combination with other information you can be identified. It may include names, contact details, photographs, identification numbers, online identifiers and expressions of opinion about you or indications as to our intentions about you. Categories of data held by the University about people who interact with the website are set out in the privacy policy. “Processing” means doing anything with your data, such as collecting, recording or holding the data, as well as disclosing, destroying or using the data in any way.

Please access the current version of the University’s privacy policy here. 

 

Data Protection Principles

We will comply with the Data Protection Legislation and its principles, which means that your data will be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;
• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;
• Used in a way that is relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited in usage only to those purposes;
• Accurate and kept up to date;
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about;
• Kept securely.