Privacy statement

STFC may collect personal information from you via this website, for example, if you register with us for services, in order to receive news and announcements, or when applying for jobs, and your information may be stored manually or electronically.

Any personal information you give to us will always be processed in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. We will only use the personal information you provide to deliver the services you have requested, or for our lawful, disclosed purposes. We will not make your personal details available outside our organisation without your consent, unless obliged by law.

This website will automatically track certain information about you in the course of you using this website, such as your IP address and browser identification. This information is used only for system administration and for providing statistics to evaluate use of this site. We do not use cookies for collecting personal information from this site. (A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.)

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed in writing to:

The Data Protection Officer
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Polaris House
Swindon, UK
SN2 1SZ

Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally. 

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example: 

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information during one task,
• recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don't need to enter it for every web page requested,
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue "session" cookies when you visit our site.

For more information on cookies, and how to delete and control them visit AboutCookies.org (link opens in a new window) or AllAboutCookies.org (link opens in a new window).

Our use of cookies

The list below shows all of the cookies that are set by the Science and Technology Research Council and the third-party services we use.

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the website is available when you want it and to help us understand what you want to use.

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code (link opens in a new window) website

Cookies for accessing our website

If you have registered with the STFC web site, when you log in you are offered the option to "remember me on this computer", which means that your login details are remembered on your computer. If you choose this option, a cookie will be stored permanently on your computer. If you do not choose this option, a temporary cookie will be kept on your machine for the period you are logged on