This statement relates to The Productivity Institute website.
The Productivity Institute is a five-year research consortium funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and based at Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester.
The institute has three focuses – research, business and policy. The institute seeks to change the way in which people and businesses think about productivity and ways to increase it, encourage necessary steps towards behaviour change and processes and achieving impact through actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners.
The Productivity Institute is administered by staff at The University of Manchester, a University incorporated by Royal Charter (registered number RC000797), whose registered office is at Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL (the “data controller”). The University of Manchester’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotection@manchester.ac.uk.
Purpose of Statement
The Productivity Institute is committed to looking after any information that you make available when you visit our website in accordance with data protection and privacy laws. This policy outlines what categories of information we retain and how we use it for:
- users of The Productivity Institute website https://www.productivity.ac.uk ; and
- individuals to whom we send marketing materials inc. newsletters, event promotion and funding opportunities
Like our website, this notice will update over time. When we change the notice, you will be able to see the updates on this page.
Your Rights
You have the right to request access to, rectification of, and restriction of processing of your data. If you wish to exercise these rights please follow the instructions here .
You can also contact the Information Governance Office by telephoning 0161 275 7789 or by emailing dataprotection@manchester.ac.uk.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office https://ico.org.uk
How we use your personal information
The Legal Part Data protection law requires us to have a valid legal reason to process and use personal data about you, known as a ‘legal basis’. GDPR requires us to be explicit with you about the legal basis upon which we rely in order to process information about you. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances where it is:
1. Necessary for the performance of tasks that we carry out in the public interest (e.g. teaching and research)
2. Necessary for the pursuit of the legitimate interests of the University (i.e. PPIE) We may also use your personal information in the following situation, which is likely to be rare:
3. Where we need to protect your vital interests (or someone else’s interests) If we require your consent for any additional uses of your personal information, including your image and more sensitive personal information (e.g. ‘Special Category Data’ we will obtain it (see below).
What is ‘Special Category Data?’ In rare cases, we may collect some information about you that is considered to be ‘sensitive’ and this is called ‘special category’ personal data. This includes, but is not limited to, information such as your ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, details about your health or past criminal convictions. These types of personal information require additional special safeguards, particularly in relation to sharing, which the University ensures are in place. Your consent will be obtained before we collect any such information.
Collecting personal information
We only collect and hold personal data provided by you in accordance with this privacy statement. This will happen if you:
- Email us
- Contact us via an enquiry form
- Sign up to our newsletter
- Request us to provide you with information at events
- We may at times collect the following personal data:
- name
- email address
- job role
- telephone
We ensure that all personal data you supply is held in accordance with the latest data protection law. When necessary we do share data with relevant The Productivity Institute partners (as listed on the home page) in order to resolve your enquiries.
How long will we keep your personal information
If you have signed up to receive communications from us, we will keep your personal information for up to 12 months following your decision to opt out of those communications to enable us anonymise or delete information in accordance with our internal data management processes.
If you have made an enquiry with us via email or through our website, we will store this information for as long as it takes to satisfy your query. If you do not sign up to our email marketing newsletters, we will then remove your details from our database.
You will only receive our email and/or marketing campaigns if you opt in to our mailing lists either through verbal or written consent or when signing up through our website.
We will ask you to re-confirm you consent to receive email marketing communications after three years on our database.
Information sharing
We do not sell or rent your information, or share it with other companies for marketing purposes.
We share your information with third-party service providers who provide services to us.
The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers on our behalf: archiving and records management; marketing campaigns; and event registration.
All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal information for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Links to external websites
Links on The Productivity Institute website may lead to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of any linked site. Listing and linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind and we accept no liability in respect of the content. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of linked pages.
Email marketing
We are keen to communicate our activities, views, latest news and points of excellence with staff, stakeholders and supporters. We do this by providing information through a range of online and offline channels including publications, events, press releases, social media and email.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link provided in the specific communication, or by contacting the team providing the newsletter/communication. We will ask you to re-confirm you consent to receive email marketing communications after three years on our database.
Your data
It is used and processed for a full range of communications and programmes involving academic and administrative departments. These include the following communications and marketing activities by email:
- Promoting our services;
- Notifying you of upcoming events;
Tools may be used to help us improve the effectiveness of our communications with you, including tracking whether the emails we send are opened and which links are clicked within a message.
In order to do this we have a database that contains personal data collected by The Productivity Institute during the course of our relationship with our staff, stakeholders and supporters. We aim to keep your data up to date and welcome any updates to your details or corrections to any inaccuracies you may wish to provide.
You have a right to request copies of the data held about you by The Productivity Institute. If you no longer want us to use your data, or wish to amend the type of communications you receive, then you can opt out at any time via the unsubscribe link included in any email or by contacting theproductivityinstitute@manchester.ac.uk.
We value our relationship with you and we use your personal data to personalise our communications, improve our services and ensure we work efficiently and effectively.
Cookies
Our website use ’cookies’ which are text files placed on your computer when you visit a site which help us understand how you use our website. Cookies don’t collect personal data from your computer, only the data created by your browsing. Some cookies remain on your computer after you leave the website; these are called ‘persistent’ cookies. Others are deleted automatically when you close your browser and others simply expire. We use the following cookies on our websites:
Analytics cookies and advertising cookies set by Google Analytics
We collect non-personally-identifiable information relating to your use of our sites via Google Analytics technology. This may include: which pages you see; how long you stay; what you click on our pages; if you visit the website again; which country and city you are browsing from; etc. This data is collected for the purpose of monitoring and understanding the effectiveness of our website. We also collect data relating to the demographics and interests of our users via Google Analytics and cookies set by Google advertising networks. This data is used in aggregated form to help improve the site and The Productivity Institute’s marketing efforts.
To specifically opt out of Google Analytics cookies visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881 to install an opt-out browser add-on.
Social Cookies
We use social features on this site to allow you to like and share content with your social networks.
- Tracking cookies (social media)
- Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
- Tracking cookies (media)
YouTube
You can choose not to accept cookies by changing your browser settings or deleting existing cookies installed on your computer. Visit www.aboutcookies.org for information on how to do this.
Public Twitter data
We use publicly available information, such as Twitter handles, URLs mentioned in tweets and hashtag usage, to target tweets promoting our research to Twitter users who have indicated an interest in topics relevant to our research activities. This data is collected manually and through third-party analytics platforms that search for links and references to published research on Twitter.