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The University of Warwick will process your personal data provided on this online form for the purposes of contacting you about relevant Energy GRP updates by email. The legal basis for processing this personal data is your consent, which is obtained you through ticking the above box and submitting this online form.

You are able to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting EnergyGRP@warwick.ac.uk. Your personal data will not be shared or disclosed to any third parties external to the University of Warwick, except to be uploaded by our administrator to our Mailchimp account. Your personal data will be transferred outside of the EEA, to our Mailchimp account to send the newsletter. It will be kept securely by the University of Warwick and will be retained until you withdraw your consent (unsubscribe). Please see Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy for more information. By confirming your consent for the University to sign you up to receive a Mailchimp newsletter, you are enabling Mailchimp to deploy cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons or pixels) lawfully on and collect data from the devices of contacts and end users in accordance with and as described in Mailchimp’s Cookie Statement.

Mailchimp is located in the United States of America, a country which does not have an adequacy decision from the European Commission for the purposes of cross-border data transfers (save for such transfers to US-registered companies which have subscribed to the EU-US Privacy Shield). With regard to Mailchimp’s onward transfers of your personal data to its data centre locations, Mailchimp may transfer and process customer data to and in the United States and anywhere else in the world where Mailchimp, its affiliates or its sub-processors maintain data processing operations. Mailchimp ensures that such transfers are made in compliance with the requirements of data protection laws.

EEA Data transfers: to the extent that Mailchimp is a recipient of customer data protected by data protection laws applicable to the EEA ("EEA Data"), Mailchimp makes available the mechanisms listed below, for any transfers of EEA Data in or to a country that does not provide an adequate level of protection for personal data (as described in applicable data protection laws):

• (a) EU-US Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”): If Mailchimp is self-certified to the Privacy Shield: (i) Mailchimp is deemed to provide adequate protection (within the meaning of applicable data protection laws) for EEA Data by virtue of having self-certified its compliance with Privacy Shield; (ii) Mailchimp agrees to process EEA Data in compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles; and (iii) if Mailchimp is unable to comply with this requirement, Mailchimp shall inform the University.
• (b) EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”): to the extent the transfer mechanism identified in Section (a) above does not apply to the transfer and/or is invalidated, Mailchimp shall abide by and process EEA Data in compliance with the SCCs.

A copy of Mailchimp’s above appropriate safeguards for the purposes of Chapter V of the GDPR is available in Section 6 of its Data Processing Addendum.

The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of this information and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. Please visit the University’s Data Protection webpages specifically https://warwick.ac.uk/services/idc/dataprotection/datasubjectrights/ for further information in relation to your rights and how the University processes your personal data. The University’s Data Protection Officer, A Bajaj, can be contacted through infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk and any requests or complaints should be made in writing to the University’s Data Protection Officer. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk.

The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of any information you have entered on this form and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. The University's Data Protection webpages provide further information on your rights and how the University processes personal data. If you wish to submit a data subjects rights request, make a complaint or report a suspected personal data breach, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.