Research Computing TechTalk: From Google Colab to HPC and back again

Research IT events booked through this platform will be free of charge and are offered without guarantee or warranty for fitness or suitability.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the training offered meets your needs.

1. Changes to this Notice

We keep the information provided in this Notice under review. This Notice may be updated from time to time. If we make any substantial updates, we will draw these to your attention. We will not use your personal data in any manner that is incompatible with the purpose for which the data were collected originally, unless we have obtained your consent to that additional use.

2. Anything you are not clear about

If there is anything you are unclear about, please contact our Data Protection Officer, who shall be happy to answer any queries you may have concerning this Notice or the way in which we process your personal data. The Data Protection Officer's contact details are provided at the end of this Notice.

3. Purpose of processing your data

Where we request personal data from you on our website you will be informed at that time of the purpose for which the data will be processed and how it will be processed, its legal basis for processing as well as any transfers to third parties.

4. Purpose of processing - automated collection of personal information

When you access our booking pages certain information your browser provides, including your IP address at the time, browser type, and potentially the address of the page you last visited, will be automatically recorded by this platform. In addition, we ask you to provide personal and contact information to assist us in administering these events.

5. Third-party access

Your personal data that you have provided will not routinely be sent to third parties. Ti.To (the providers of this platform) act as our agent in collecting this information. They have their own policies regarding the transfer of your information, which you should also read.

6. Data retention

The University’s policies on retaining data for prospective and current students, staff and job applicants are detailed in our data retention policy. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/secretariat/documents/retention_policies.pdf

Information you give for the purposes of booking this event will be retained for 12 months following the event.

7. Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data the University holds about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if the personal data you have provided to us needs to be updated. Contact us

8. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR, in certain circumstances, you have the right to:

• withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data where that is the legal basis for such processing
• access any of your personal data which we hold
• have your personal data which we hold corrected if it is inaccurate
• have any of your personal data which we hold erased
• restrict the ways in which we process your personal data
• object to our processing of your personal data
• receive a copy of any of your personal data which we hold in a structured and commonly used machine-readable format
• in certain cases not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

9. Queries and complaints

If you have any queries or concerns relating to this privacy notice or the way your data is being processed through this website then please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer, David Wardle on d.wardle@adm.leeds.ac.uk or by post to University of Leeds, 11.72 EC Stoner Building, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

The University’s main telephone number is +44 (0) 113 2431751.

The UK’s regulator for the DPA and GDPR is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The University is registered as a Data Controller with the ICO

Should you be dissatisfied with our handling of your concerns you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the case of the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office and details can be found at