Privacy Policy
QIB is the sponsor for this study based in the United Kingdom. For any (personal) information collected from you and/or your medical records to undertake this study, QIB will act as the data controller.
This means that we are responsible for looking after your information and using it properly. QIB will keep identifiable information about you for 15 years after the end of the study in a secure archive at the QIB or designated secure off-site location.
Your rights to access, change or move your information are not affected, as we need to manage your information in specific ways for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw or you are withdrawn from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained.
All information collected about you during this study will be kept strictly confidential. We follow Ethics and Research Governance and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements.
The study will comply with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
The legal bases used under the regulation that we employ to process your personal information is for tasks carried out in the public interest, which this study and associated research is. Your personal information will be stored in locked filing cabinets at the QIB. Suitable security measures and precautions are also taken for any confidential or personal data processed or stored electronically.
Once you are enrolled for the study, you will be given a unique participant identification number which will not be linked to your name outside of a file kept locked away. Your data will be pseudo-anonymised with a unique, study-specific code which cannot be linked to you and stored on a password-protected data file. All biological samples collected will be known only by your assigned code.
During the study, you will be asked to use certain external applications/services to record your medical information. Accounts will be created for you (as per the process described above). If you would like further information on how these third-party services handle/process your data, please refer to their privacy policies as follows:
Libro (Nutritics): https://www.nutritics.com/p/privacypolicy#Libro
Fitbit: https://www.fitbit.com/us/legal/privacy-policy
Libre (Glucose monitoring system): https://freestylediabetes.co.uk/privacy-policy
Final results of the study including analyses are expected to be published, fully anonymised, for use by the wider scientific community.
To safeguard your rights, we will use minimum personally identifiable information possible. If you would like further details on any of the above, please do not hesitate to contact us, using the contact details below:
QIB study contact: DIME@quadram.ac.uk QIB Data protection advisor: dpa@nbi.ac.uk
