Your personal data

The DPLP Provider(s) to which you apply, together with your LLB Provider, will each be known as the “Data Controller” of your personal data processed in relation to your application to the DPLP. 

The Law Society of Scotland (LSS) may also be known as the “Data Controller” of your personal data in relation to your application to the DPLP.

List of Data Controllers for the purposes of DPLP applications:

• The University of Aberdeen*
• Abertay University
• The University of Dundee*
• The University of Edinburgh*
• The University of Glasgow*
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Edinburgh Napier University
• Robert Gordon University*
• University of Stirling
• The University of Strathclyde*
• Law Society of Scotland

*DPLP Provider

This privacy notice will explain how the individual Data Controllers will process your personal data.

Why we need it

DPLP Providers to which you apply will:

1. collect your basic personal data such as name, date of birth, email address/contact details, academic or LSS qualifications, name of your LLB Provider, any special circumstances and whether or not you have a traineeship, in order to determine whether you are eligible to be offered a place on the DPLP;
2. contact your LLB Provider to request your LLB academic record, including the courses you have completed which map to the foundation outcomes of the LSS; and
3. share data with each other, to monitor acceptance numbers and ensure compliance with the application process.

Data Controllers will only collect data needed in order to provide and oversee this service to you.

Legal basis for processing your data

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is contract, as you are taking steps to enter into a contract with DPLP Providers.  If you do not provide the information requested on the application form, DPLP Providers will be unable to contact your LLB Provider to determine whether you are eligible to be offered a place on the DPLP.

What we do with it and who we share it with

All the personal data you submit is processed by the Data Controllers listed above under “Your Personal Data”, in the United Kingdom.  The following steps show how your personal data will be processed.

• The DPLP Providers to which you applied will provide your name and date of birth to your LLB Provider.
• Your LLB Provider will provide information on your academic record, including the courses you have completed which map to the foundation outcomes of the LSS, to the DPLP Providers to which you applied, in order to determine whether you are eligible to be offered a place on the DPLP.
• DPLP Providers to which you applied will share the offer / acceptance status of your DPLP application with each other.
• All the personal data you submit may be shared with the LSS, if relevant.

Your data will be shared securely by the Data Controllers.

For more information about how long data is retained by the University of Strathclyde, see the Student Records Retention Schedule.

For more information about your rights in relation to data processed by the University of Strathclyde, and how to exercise them, see the Privacy Notice for Applicants.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out. 

For more information about how to make a complaint about how the University of Strathclyde has handled personal data, see contact details in the Privacy Notice for Applicants.