Privacy Notice

The Kingdom of Dogs website is a project facilitated by the University of Brighton, and this privacy notice explains how this website collects and processes personal information.

The University, as the Data Controller, is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data while also meeting its data protection obligations. Further information including how to contact the data protection officer, can be found at www.brighton.ac.uk/privacy.

Email: email hidden; JavaScript is required

We collect or use the following information so that we can monitor and analyse website usage: 

• User journey through the website
• See also our cookie information.

If you use the contact page, we collect or use the following information for improving the website and fixing faults and sharing further information:

• Name and email address

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for Analytics for monitoring website usage are:

Legitimate interest

• We are monitoring website usage so that we can understand and where necessary improve engagement with the website — which is educational and informative in nature.

• Indirectly through your usage of the website; directly from you if you use the contact page.

• We retain data for a maximum of two years

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access — You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.
• Your right to rectification — You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure — You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing — You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing — You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability — You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.

You don’t usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice, see www.brighton.ac.uk/privacy, or contact the data compliance team at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-…

We keep our privacy notices under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated in June 2024.

We do our utmost to protect your privacy. Please be aware that other privacy notices exist within the university in respect of data held including, but not limited to, activities in relation to your enquiries, application, current students, alumni and use of our website there are available on our website www.brighton.ac.uk/privacy.