Privacy and Cookie Policy for Tissue Tracking
Privacy Policy
This policy relates to personal data, as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998, held for administration of University of Cambridge, Tissue Tracking data.
The Tissue Tracking system (http://tissue.csx.cam.ac.uk/) holds database originating from data entered via web forms by members of the University of Cambridge.
The system records the crsids of for the following purposes:
- To control who may log in and access records in the system.
- To record who created records in the system.
- To produce statistical reports for management purposes, such as for annual reports, and auditing.
The information is not used for any other purposes.
If you discover errors in your personal data, contact us:
University Information Services
Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0RB
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332999
Email: servicedesk@uis.cam.ac.uk
Our web server records details of every HTTP[S] interaction. For the first three months our web server logs contain the following:
- IP Address of the connecting client.
- Authenticated CRSid (after a successful Raven login).
- Time stamp.
- Request made.
- jessionid cookie value (a hexadecimal number unique to your session)
- Server's response code and number of bytes returned.
After three months, the IP address of the connecting client, and the authenticated userid are removed from our logs. The remaining log data is kept for a further 9 months.
Cookies
This site uses one cookie essential for the operation of the site:
| Cookie | Returned to | Function | Persistence |
|---|---|---|---|
| jsessionid | http://tissue.csx.cam.ac.uk/ | Session management and authentication | The duration of your browsing session, ending when your web browser application exits. |
The value of the jsessionid cookie is a random hexadecimal number generated by our web server software. It is a session cookie that is stored for as long as your web browser application is open, closing the browser will delete this cookie. It is used for http://tissue.csx.cam.ac.uk/ only and is not shared with other websites.
The session cookie enables us to identify web pages visited by a web browser session. Where a user logs in, the session cookie enables us to remember the login state.
Access to Personal Data
For the purpose of the UK Data Protection Act 1998, the 'Data Controller' for the processing of data collected by this site is the University of Cambridge and the point of contact for subject access requests is:
University Data Protection Officer
The Old Schools
Trinity Lane
Cambridge
CB2 1TN
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332320
Email: data.protection@admin.cam.ac.uk
