Edinburgh Technopole is a joint venture created by contract between: Grosvenor Technopole Investments Limited (Company No. 04056272, Registered Office; 70 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 3JP) and Edinburgh Research and Innovation Limited (Company No. SC148048, Registered Office; Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL).

Edinburgh Technopole and its partner companies consider protection of your privacy to be of utmost importance and are committed to providing you with a personalised service that meets your requirements in a way that safeguards your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect information about you and then use it in order to satisfy your particular requirements. It also outlines some of the security measures that we take in order to protect your privacy and gives certain assurances on things that we will not do.

Upon collecting information from you, for example when you e-mail a request to us, your personal information will never be disclosed to other companies without your express permission and even then, only for a specific service reason and not for any marketing purpose.

Some of the personal information we hold about you may be sensitive personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998. We will not use sensitive personal data about you other than for the specific purpose for which you provide it.

Collection of any information
We may collect personal information about you from a number of sources, including:

• when you agree to, in which case this may include your contact details, date of birth, address and your reason for the enquiry
• when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case this may tell us something about your preferences
• from publicly available sources, such as the electoral register

Use of this information
We will use personal information about you for a number of purposes, including:

• to help to identify you when you telephone us to make an enquiry.
  For example, by asking you for your date of birth or telephone number so that we can avoid disclosing information to a person who is not authorised by you to receive it
• to write to you (including electronic mail) or to telephone you (including SMS) with information about other services or products either from us or from our carefully selected partners only that you have asked about. Our partners and we will not use your information in this way if you have not consented.
• to help us to administer accounts, services and products which we offer
• to help detect fraud or loss of Information

You should be assured that our partners would not contact you at all unless they have received agreement from both you and Edinburgh Technopole first. Third party security standards may be different to those of Edinburgh Technopole however; they will be of a standard acceptable to.

We may pass information about you to our partners to improve your experience as a customer of the site. For example, we may pass information to our partners to allow forms to be pre-filled, saving you the trouble of re-entering data, which you may already have given us elsewhere on the site. Our partners will not use this information for any other purpose without consent.

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