The Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies regards the lawful and correct treatment of personal information as very important and to this end is fully committed to the principles of data protection.

This Privacy Policy relates to information gathered from online visitors to the website of the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies (NSAS).
By providing information to the NSAS via this website, you are deemed to consent to the collection, storage, use and dissemination of such information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you are in a country other than the UK, the information you submit, including information provided in an online conference application, is being sent to the UK. By providing such information, you are consenting to (and represent that you have authority to consent to), the transfer of such information to the UK for the uses and purposes described and/or contemplated in the NSAS website and in this Privacy Policy.

We collect information about you when you visit this website and voluntarily provide us with personal details in order to enquire about, apply for, or access the courses, services and facilities we offer. You may choose to provide these personal details by completing an online form or by contacting us by email or by other means. Data that you submit using one of our online forms is retained with us, unless you request otherwise.

Information about your usage of our website may be collected using cookies. See our Cookie Policy section for further details of what we are collecting and why. Our section on Cookie Policy contains details of the retention periods for each cookie that our websites create or modify on your computer.

We collect and store information about you in order to respond to your enquiry or to process your application for our services or courses and, if you agree, to contact you about other services we offer which may be of interest to you.

Any information subsequently shared with third parties is considered to be in the legitimate interests of the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies and does not violate your fundamental right to privacy.

When you visit www.neurosas.org we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. User-level data is retained in Google Analytics for 14 months after your use of our website.

Personal data not otherwise described above will only be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected after which time it will be securely deleted.

The use of your personal information in the above ways is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies in operating and improving its website, analysing its use, and ensuring its security.

What is our legal basis for processing your personal data?

You consent to providing it to us.

What personal rights do you have regarding  your personal data that we hold?

You have the right to be informed.

You have the right of access to your data.

You have the right to correct data if it is wrong.

You have the right to ask for your data to be deleted.

You have the right to restrict use of the data we hold.

You have the right to object to the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies using your data.

Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.