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Privacy Policy

(THE SMALL PRINT)

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA (INFORMATION ABOUT YOU)

The Precision Cancer Consortium (“PCC” or “we” or “our” or “us”) know that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. We believe it is important to protect your Personal Data and we are committed to giving you a personalised service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”), explains how we collect and use Personal Data collected through www.precisioncancerconsortium.com (“the Website”). “Personal Data” as used in this Policy means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

By visiting the Website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, please log off and clear your browser of any cookies which may have been placed in your browser by our Website in the interim.

If you are located in the United Kingdom or European Union, the United Kingdom’s General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) give you certain rights over your Personal Data. Those rights are outlined in Section V of this Policy.

  1. THE TYPES OF DATA (INFORMATION) WE PROCESS

We may collect and process the following kinds of Personal Data:

(a) technical / statistical information about the type of device you use to visit our Website, e.g. mobile, iPad or laptop, and about your visits to this Website and how you use it. We may look at sites you may have visited prior to our site, e.g. where you came from, Google search engine or a link from another site. We may also process technical or statistical data about the computer being used like IP addresses (dynamic or static), where you are, the type of browser you are using, how long you are here and the pages you viewed.

(b) Personal Data (information) you provide to us – you may submit Personal Data through our Website, for example, when you subscribe to an email newsletter, sign up for a webinar or other PCC event, or ask us to contact you about our services or vacancies. This data may include things like your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and/or details on a CV;

(c) data relating to any discussions or transactions carried out between you and us submitted through the Website or subsequent email exchanges;

(d) any other data you send to us.

We keep this data when submitted in email form and details are added to a cloud-based and encrypted database. Sometimes we may need to ask for your explicit consent to process Personal Data, and when this is required we will make that request clear on relevant forms or submissions.

We collect the above categories of Personal Data directly from individuals when they interact with the Website. We may also collect Personal Data from vendors and third parties, when they provide information to us. Finally, we collect Personal Data from vendors and third-party providers of cookies used on our Websites.

  1. PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA

We collect, use, and disclose Personal Data collected through our Website for the following purposes:

(a) administer the Website;

(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the Website;

(c) enable your use of the services available on the Website;

(d) send to you downloads purchased via the Website;

(e) send information to you about our services, statements and or invoices, and collect payments from you;

(f) send you non-marketing communications, e.g. updates about the status of your purchase or relating to your enquiry;

(g) contact you via email, phone and or post with information you have knowingly requested or that we think you may want to know or need to know, e.g. for business or legal reasons;

(h) send to you our newsletter and other relevant marketing communications you have opted-in to receive and which we think may be of importance or interest to you by phone, post, email or similar technologies;

(i) provide third parties with statistical information about our website visitors. This information will not identify any specific individual;

(j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website; and

(k) advertise and promote our products and services.

We may also aggregate and/or anonymise personal information and analyse those data for statistical or any other purposes permitted by law.

We do not use automated processing, including profiling, in furtherance of decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects.

III. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose Personal Data we collect in the following situations:

(a) to vendors who process Personal Data on our behalf, including vendors who provide data hosting, information technology support, email hosting, marketing and analytics services, and other services performed on behalf of PCC.

(b) to government authorities or other third parties to the extent that we are required to do so by applicable laws;

(c) to third parties in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(d) to third parties in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(e) to third parties with your consent; and

(f) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.

  1. LINKING TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

From time to time, we may publish a link on our Website to a third-party website, perhaps to provide you with access to additional information or some other resource. We are not responsible, or liable, for the management, content or security of those third-party sites. As such, we would actively encourage visitors to review any such site’s privacy policy before disclosing any Personal Data.

  1. ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE EU AND UK

This Section V provides disclosures applicable only to individuals whose Personal Data is subject to the GDPR and the UK GDPR in the European Union (“EU”) and the United Kingdom (“UK”).

The Precision Cancer Consortium is the controller responsible for processing your Personal Data Collected through this Website. You may contact PCC via contact us.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

This Website processes Personal Data on the basis of: ​

This Website processes Personal Data for the processing purposes set out in II above on the basis of one of the following legal bases in most circumstances: ​

Consent: where you have given clear consent for us to process your Personal Data for a specific purpose.

Performance of a Contract: where the processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract. Where the processing of your Personal Data is necessary for us to fulfil our obligations under a contract with you, and you fail to provide the data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you, and we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

Legitimate Interests: where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as providing or communicating with you about our services, to prevent fraud, to keep our records updated and manage our relationship with you, to run and administer our business (including IT and network services), to develop and improve our services, or to enable us to give you the best and most secure customer experience, or the legitimate interests of a third party, unless the impact on you of our processing overrides those legitimate interests(other than where we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law).

Legal Obligation: where the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on this legal basis.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Depending on the nature of your enquiry and relationship with us, your Personal Data we collect through the Website may be processed in the United States, UK, EU, and/or in other locations outside the EU and UK in order to deliver our service to you.

Website analytic data that is collected from your use of our Website may also be transferred, processed and stored outside the UK and EU. We utilize contractual, technical, and organizational measures to protect the security of your Personal Data when we transfer your Personal Data outside of the EU and UK. Whenever we transfer your Personal Data out of the UK or the EU, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that safeguards are in place, which may include of the following: (i) we may transfer your Personal Data to countries that have been deemed by the UK or the EU (as applicable) to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data; or (ii) we may use specific standard contractual terms approved for use in the UK and/or the EU (as applicable) which give the transferred Personal Data the same protection as it has in the UK or EU. You may contact us for more information about such measures.

KEY RIGHTS ACCORDING TO GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

The GDPR and UK GDPR gives individuals in the EU and UK important rights over your Personal Data. This means you can:

  • Object to your data being processed
  • Ask us to delete it
  • Ask us to rectify it
  • Ask us to restrict the use of it
  • Ask for access to it
  • Ask for it to be ported (transferred)
  • Confirm what data we process and why
  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You can submit a Data Subject Request to us – at any time – in relation to your rights above by contacting us. We comply with these requests within one month (unless there are mitigating circumstances, e.g. legal reasons not to, in which case we will comply with these requests in accordance with applicable law)

GIVING AND WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT TO BE CONTACTED

In certain circumstances, we may need to have your consent to process your data.

  • We may ask for your consent, for example, when you fill in one of our contact forms and you provide your consent by ticking the box on the form.
  • We also keep a record of your consent until we no longer need to.

To the extent our processing of Personal Data about you is based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us, provided that such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your Personal Data prior to such withdrawal.

PORTING AND PROVIDING YOU WITH CONFIRMATION OF WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE PROCESS

Where this right applies, you may instruct us at any time to confirm or port (transfer) any of the Personal Data we process about you. If you would like to make such a request, please tell us the following:

  • Whether you want to port your Personal Data or confirm what Personal Data we process, or both.
  • What information you require to be ported or confirmed, e.g. all your Personal Data or a specific detail.
  • What format you would like your Personal Data to be confirmed in, e.g. spreadsheet, PDF, Word doc, etc.
  • Which email address you would like us to send it to, or if not email, an alternate electronic medium or system.
  • When you would like to receive it, i.e. a date and time.
  • Any urgency associated with the request.

We will endeavour to carry out your instructions within 30 days of receiving your request, but this is subject to your having provided us with all the details above along with any other relevant information that is necessary to be able to carry out the work.

Also, if you would like us to port (transfer) your Personal Data, please be aware that if we don’t think your chosen medium and format will be secure, or put your Personal Data at risk, we will tell you and discuss alternatives with you.

You can instruct us to do this at any time by contacting us.

PURGING (DELETING) YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Where this right applies, you may also instruct us to purge (delete) any and all Personal Data we hold about you at any time.

We will endeavor to do this with respect to your wishes and compliance with the applicable laws of England and Wales, the UK GDPR, and/or EU laws and regulations, i.e. EU GDPR.

We will endeavour to delete all the Personal Data we hold about you in the time frame you request, but depending on the nature of your request, and any third parties involved, this may not be possible.

This is because of our legal obligation to retain certain types of customer information for certain time periods, e.g. for tax and or accounting purposes. We may need to keep your contact details on file for longer periods if they appear on an invoice or receipt, for example.

In any and all cases, we only ever keep information on file for as long as it is needed with respect to the services you have enquired about and/or that we have agreed to provide you, or to meet a legal requirement.

You can instruct us to do this at any time by contacting us.

UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You can and should instruct us to correct or update any Personal Data we hold about you, e.g. if you change your name or address for instance.

You can instruct us to do this at any time by contacting us.

FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS UNDER UK & EU GDPR

You can find out more about your rights according to UK GDPR and EU GDPR by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website (UK)or the European Data Protection Board’s website (EU).

  1. DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your Personal Data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

[In some circumstances we will anonymise your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.]

VII. DATA SECURITY

We have taken reasonable technical and procedural precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or inadvertent alteration of your Personal Data. We will store all the Personal Data you provide in secure servers or systems.

However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you choose to send to us over the internet. Our Website does however use technical measures to help ensure that any information sent to us through it, is more secure than it otherwise would be.

If you look in the address bar of your browser, when visiting our site, you will see the letters https. The S stands for secure and means that information sent to us through our site is sent to us through an encrypted channel.

VIII. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL DATA

This Website is not intended for or designed to attract the attention of individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from any person under the age of 16.

  1. COOKIES

We use cookies on this Website to help us understand how our Website is being used, to develop it with a view to providing our website visitors with a better experience, and to provide customised advertisements to consumers across other websites. A cookie is a computer file that is sent by a web server to a web browser when someone logs onto a website. Cookies are stored by the website visitor’s browser – e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, Safari – until they automatically expire or until they are deleted by the website visitor.

The information collected by the cookies is sent back to the web server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track how the web browser is using our Website.

The cookies we use allow us to understand things such as which pages a visitor views, for how long and how a visitor came to the Website (from which source, e.g. Google, X, Facebook).

If you are concerned about allowing cookies to be stored on your browser, even temporarily, most browsers now recognise when a cookie is offered and will permit you to refuse or accept them. Please note that we make no representations regarding the functionality or effectiveness of such browser tools. You may also update your cookie preferences on our Website by clicking here [insert link to cookie manager]. We use only strictly-necessary cookies by default and use non-essential cookies only with your consent.

You may be able to, by default, set your browser to permanently block cookies from any website from being placed on your browser, but doing this may cause some functionality to be lost and the website may not look as intended in your browser.

You can find out more about how to control cookies in some of the most popular browsers here:

You might also wish to visit the Information Commissioner’s website to find out more about cookies.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our website is being used so that we can improve how it functions and our services. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about how websites are used by using cookies.

Google may store this data in its servers in multiple locations across the world. You can find their privacy policy and more detail about the information they collect on their website here www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

  1. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our Website.

You should check this page occasionally to review any updates to this Policy. If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us as soon as possible and we will endeavour to answer your question as quickly and clearly as we can.

This Policy was updated in June 2025