The University of Liverpool is the sponsor for this study based in the United Kingdom; they have delegated the day-to-day running of the study to the Clinical Trials Research Centre, which is part of the University of Liverpool.
We will be using information from you and your medical records in order to undertake this study, and the University of Liverpool and Bangor University will act as the data controllers. As universities, we use personally-identifiable information to conduct research to improve health, care and services. As a publicly-funded organisation, we have to ensure that it is in the public interest when we use personally-identifiable information from people who have agreed to take part in research. This means that when you agree to take part in a research study, we will use your data in the ways needed to conduct and analyse the research study. Your rights to access, change or move your information are limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw from the study, we will keep the information about you that we have already obtained. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible.
Health and care research, which means that we have to demonstrate that our research serves the interests of society as a whole. We do this by following the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officers who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data in a way that is not lawful you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
The University of Liverpool Data Protection Officer is Victoria Heath and you can contact them at LegalServices@liverpool.ac.uk
The Bangor University Data Protection Officer is Gwenan Hine and you can contact them at gwenan.hine@bangor.ac.uk
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