What type of personal information does Biolawgy collect?

In the course of Biolawgy’s business, we currently collect and process personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics; for example, name and contact details such as email addresses, customer financial information, employee data or website user stats. 

How do we get the personal information, and why do we have it?

• Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you to assist us in providing consultancy services to you and to enable us to administer our business, we may receive personal information indirectly, from clients in connection with their instructions.  For example, in the course of seeking Biolawgy’s advice you may identify employees, officers of regulatory authorities, counter-parties and others concerned, directly or otherwise, with your business.  Where an instruction relates to a collaborative project, such as a multi-jurisdictional or policy matter, personal data such as email addresses may be processed.
• Personal information may also be collected from Biolawgy’s own advisors for the purpose of Biolawgy’s internal administration.  When instructed, we may share this information with life science regulatory organisations, experts and other relevant individuals, including those located outside the United Kingdom.
• In order to carry out our function, we  maintain academic and policy papers which identify authors and contributors.  We treat these as we would any other library resource.

What are the lawful bases for processing these data?

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information arise where:

• we have a contractual obligation;
• we have a legal obligation;
• we need it to perform a public task;
• we have a legitimate interest; or
• you have granted consent.  Note that you can remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting enquiries@biolawgy.com.

How do we store your personal information?

Your information is securely stored. 

We keep emails and identifying information (other than that in published articles, books and so forth) for a maximum of five years, after which we will delete them.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - This means that you're entitled to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification - This means that you're entitled to ask us to rectify personal information that you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

Your right to erasure - This means that you're entitled to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to restriction of processing - This means that you're entitled to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to object to processing - This means that you're entitled to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - This means that you're entitled to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at enquiries@biolawgy.com if you wish to make a request.  Mark the subject "Data Protection Request".

Questions, concerns, complaints

Biolawgy takes privacy and the protection of data protection rights extremely seriously.  If you have any question about how our privacy policy applies to you, or any concern, please contact enquiries@biolawgy.com at the earliest stages, marking the subject "Privacy Enquiry".  If you wish to make a complaint, please send it to us at enquiries@biolawgy.com.  Mark the subject "Data Protection Complaint".  You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom, SK9 5AF.

The ICO's helpline number is 0303 123 1113

ICO website address is https://www.ico.org.uk

Contact details

Name: Julian Hitchcock, Consultant

Address: Biolawgy Consulting, The Cottage, Wereham, Norfolk, United Kingdom, PE33 9AP

Phone Number: 07765 456785

E-mail: julian@biolawgy.com

Web: www.biolawgy.com