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Privacy Notice

The University of Greenwich processes the following personal data about you if you opt to use the Studiosity service:

  • First name, last name, email address
  • Course
  • Student ID
  • Content of your interactions with Studiosity tutors

Studiosity may also create data, and share this information with the University of Greenwich, about students who may benefit from additional study or wellbeing support by the university based solely on the evidence provided above.

Studiosity have no access to any other any university records. The retention period for this data is 14 months after you stop using the service, after which usage data is anonymised. Retention periods are based on our retention schedule.

We process this personal data about you for the following reasons:

  • To monitor usage of the service and plan for service development in the future
  • Providing access to the Studiosity service while you are an eligible Greenwich student

Studiosity is an independent data controller based in Australia.

In opting to use the Studiosity service you are entering into an individual agreement with Studiosity, subject to their terms and conditions. Information on Studiosity’s policies on privacy and security can be found online: http://studiosity.com/connect/policy_agreements/5/privacy

Studiosity augment their service with a feature known as Citation Assist, which uses a third-party to check whether text uploaded to Studiosty may need referencing. No personal data is shared with this third party, and your work is only shared temporarily with them for the purpose of checking for references. This feature is not related to the university’s use of Turnitin or plagiarism regulations in any way. For more information please refer to: https://support.studiosity.com/en/collections/291399-writing-feedback#citation-assist

We rely on the following legal basis/bases for processing the data:

  • public task

You can find out more information about this by looking at our Data Processing Activities Register: https://docs.gre.ac.uk/rep/vco/data-processing-activities-register

You have rights as a Data Subject.

You can see more information about those rights on our website: https://www.gre.ac.uk/about-us/governance/information-compliance/policy  

To contact Peter Garrod, the University of Greenwich Data Protection Officer and University Secretary, please email: compliance@gre.ac.uk

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