Privacy Policy

Who are we

We are the UK Quantum Biomedical Sensing (Q-BIOMED) Research Hub. We are one of five Hubs comprising the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. Our website address is: www.qbiomed.org.

Our privacy notice

This privacy notice explains how the Q-BIOMED Hub website collects and uses your personal data.

What data do we collect and why

We collect and process the following personal data:

  • Your email address (when you subscribe to our mailing list)

  • Usage data (e.g. IP address, information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this site) via analytics tools.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Mailing list

By subscribing to our Q-BIOMED mailing list, you consent to receive emails from us about updates, events, and news related to the Q-BIOMED Hub. We collect your email address through our website form and use it solely for this purpose. You can unsubscribe for our mailing list at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. We do not share your email address with third parties for marketing purposes.

Legal basis for processing

Under the UK GDPR, we process your personal data based on:

  • Consent - for email subscriptions and marketing communications

  • Legitimate interests - for website analytics and performance monitoring

Sharing your data

We do not sell or rent your personal data. We may share it with trusted third-party service providers (e.g. email marking platforms) under strict data protection agreements in order to send our subscriber newsletter.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal data

  • Correct or update your data

  • Withdraw consent at any time

  • Request deletion of your data

  • Object to or restrict processing

  • Lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

Data retention

We retain your data only as long as necessary for the purposes stated above or as required by law.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, please contact:

Amy Warnock, Q-BIOMED Senior Communications Manager

amy.warnock@ucl.ac.uk