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The Research Design Service South West (RDS-SW) is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to provide research design advice in health and social care research in the south west of England.

The RDS-SW complies fully with the Data Protection Act 1998.

When you contact the RDS-SW we may ask you for your contact details, which include your name and a method of contact such as your address. This personally identifiable information is stored securely by the RDS-SW and only members of the RDS-SW staff are able to access this information. No personally identifiable information provided to the RDS-SW will be passed on or otherwise distributed to any third party (any organisation or person outside the RDS-SW) by RDS-SW staff, except where individual consent has been sought and granted.

All information that you provide us with will be treated in the strictest confidence. Your contact details are collected to facilitate our advice provision. RDS-SW staff may also ask you for other details which may include, for example, your occupation and the organisation at which you are employed. These details will be used for various analyses of the service and in reports to other organisations. The information presented from the analyses will be anonymous and will not be linked to any personally identifiable information.

If you wish to contact the RDS-SW to ensure that your contact details are correct and up-to-date or to ask for your contact information to be removed from our records, please contact RDS-SW at:

RDS-SW Coordinating Centre,
The Old Building, Musgrove Park Hospital,
Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5DA.

Telephone: 01823 342792
Email: rds-sw@tst.nhs.uk

Your contact information will be removed from our records, one year after the end of the RDS-SW contract period (currently one year from 01/10/2013), unless the information relates to a financial transaction when we are obliged to retain it for up to seven years for auditing purposes.

If we decide to change our Data Protection and Privacy Statement, we will post details of any changes on the data protection section of the RDS-SW website at:
www.rds-sw.nihr.ac.uk. This will help ensure that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it, how long we will retain it for and under what circumstances, if any, we share it with other parties.

Please contact Russell Holloway at russell.holloway@tst.nhs.uk if you require any further information.

Last updated: 29 June 2010