Data protection

The UK Data Protection Act 2018 embeds the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law. Together with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) these apply to all Heriot-Watt University activities that involve using personal data.

Across the Heriot-Watt University Group, we are committed to comply with these laws alongside local data protection legislation. We will ensure that all members of the University community and the public enjoy the same high standards of privacy in their interactions with us wherever in the world they may be.

Please see our Data Protection pages for more information

Visitors to our websites

We use cookies to gather non-personal, statistical information about visitors to our website (such as the number of visits to pages, the amount of time spent viewing a page, the path taken by visitors to a particular page and other general information). We use this information to improve our websites.

We collect this information in a way that does not identify anyone. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. Please see detailed information about the cookies we use.