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Privacy Statement - Chrome Remote Desktop
This page contains the privacy statement for Chrome Remote Desktop.
- Chrome Remote Desktop.
Introduction
Please read this privacy notice carefully and contact us with any questions or concerns about our privacy practices.
The School of Informatics [the School] is part of the University of Edinburgh [the University].
This privacy notice applies specifically to the personal information held within the Chrome Remote Desktop service. We will explain how the School will use your personal information in this context, how long the School will keep it for and if the School will share it with third parties.
The School wants to provide an equivalent level of support in live teaching sessions for students whether they are working on campus or not. For this purpose we will make use of the third party service called Chrome Remote Desktop which is run by Google. Google will process the personal data you provide in order for the School to offer this service.
What information do we collect?
The School does not obtain any personal information about you to run this service.
Google will collect your name and mobile number in order to create a Google account which is necessary to use their service. Google will also collect various activity records which will be associated with your Google account.
How do we use your personal information?
Google's privacy Statement can be found here: Google Privacy Policy.
The School does not have any access to your personal information held by Google.
What legal basis do we have for processing your personal information?
The use of personal information from students using this service is carried out by consent.
When do we share personal information?
The School does not have any access to your personal information held by Google.
Google's privacy Statement can be found here: Google Privacy Policy.
Where do we store and process personal information?
All personal information is held and processed on servers owned by Google.
How long do we keep your personal information for?
Deletion of information can be requested in various ways from Google, see the Google Privacy Policy which also outlines the retention periods.
The School does not require you to retain a Google account for any longer than you personally need to use the service.
Use of automated decision-making and profiling
We do not use any decision-making processes [automated or otherwise], including profiling, as part of this service.
This privacy notice is continued at
- www.edin.ac/privacy.
How to contact us?
For further information about data privacy in the School, please contact us:
- How to contact User Support.
For data collected under this privacy notice, the data controller responsible for your information is Google Ireland Limited. In other words, Google Ireland Limited is the Google affiliate that is responsible for processing your information and for complying with applicable privacy laws.
The Universitys data protection policy is on our website:
- www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/data-protection/data-protection-policy.