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Definitions

The University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server or "the Galaxy Service": the website found at heighliner.cvr.gla.ac.uk

Use of Service

The University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server, as known as Heighliner, is a free, private, Internet accessible resource (the “Service”). All data is stored locally on a University of Glasgow campus. Processing and storage of all data takes place on the a University of Glasgow campus.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for compliance of all of your data processing activities carried out on the Galaxy Service with applicable laws and regulations of the United Kingdom, the European Union as well as any laws or regulations of other legislations or any other restrictions that might be applicable due to the provenance, intended use, legal ownership of or any licensing or other legal restrictions imposed on the data being processed.

You are strictly prohibited from making use of the Galaxy Service for the storage or processing of any Personal Data or Sensitive Personal Data as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including but not limited to potentially personally identifying medical data.

Accounts and Service Limitations

You may choose to register an account with the Service. Your registration data is primarily used so you may persistently store data on the Service and use advanced Galaxy features such as sharing and workflows. The operators of the Service will not provide your registration data to any third party unless required to do so by law. Your access to the Service is provided under the condition that you abide by any published quotas on data storage, job submissions, or any other limitations placed on the public Service. Attempts to subvert these limits by creating multiple accounts or through any other method may result in termination of all associated accounts.

Privacy Policy

Definitions

The University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server or "the Galaxy Service": the website found at heighliner.cvr.gla.ac.uk

Introduction

The University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server team is aware the the protection of your privacy is important when using the University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server. We provide this statement to explain our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. The amount and type of information received by us depends on how you use our website.

Infomation Collected

During normal usage of our services we do not collect information that will personally identify you. We will only store personal information which you provide to us voluntarily (e.g. datasets uploaded to Galaxy, histories you create, etc.), or as part of a support request.

The information required to register with the University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server and all uploaded data is solely used to offer the services provided by the University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server team. An email address is mandatory for registering with this service. This information is required to guarantee the legitimate use of the service and to prevent duplicate registrations abusing our quota system.

For the University of Glasgow's Galaxy server you can see all of the information we have stored related to your person and you have the right to correct this information at any time. For the Galaxy service you may do this by going to http://heighliner.cvr.gla.ac.uk, clicking on “User” → “Preferences” → “Manage Information”. You also have the right to retract your consent to use personal identifiable information at any time with effect for the future. An email to the address stated below is sufficient. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

Cookies

A cookie is a unique identifier given to a web browser by a web server. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this identifier is sent back. The Galaxy service provided uses cookies to identify users/computers in order to maintain user sessions (e.g. to provide/maintain analysis results while you browse the website). Usage of cookies is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information about individual users. The information is also not shared with any third party. Unless you specifically tell us, we will never know who you are, even if we do assign a cookie to your computer. Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies or you may also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, please be aware that in case of not accepting cookies, the functionality of our website is limited.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Statement only covers the Galaxy service provided by the University of Glasgow's Galaxy Server team. Links within this website to other websites are not covered by this statement. Please be aware that linked websites could store information in a way which does not comply with this statement, as soon as these websites are accessed. We cannot accept any responsibility for the collection, processing, use and passing on of information in such cases.

Changes

We reserve the right to amend or correct this Privacy Statement at any time. The revised statement will be posted on the website and will only apply to data collected after the effective date of the revised statement.

How to Contact Us

In case you have any questions or concerns related to this Privacy Statement, please send us an email

Your rights under the GDPR

  • Right to be Informed: We will inform you of any and all processing activities and their affect on your personal information.
  • Right to Access to Personal Information: The only personal information we store that is associated with you can be viewed through “User” → “Preferences” → “Manage Information”. We have logs containing IP addresses but are not associated with a single user account.
  • Right to Rectification of Personal Information: We can take care of this. You will need to email us.
  • Right to be Erased: We can manually delete your account upon request. The Galaxy community is currently developing a method for users to do this themselves.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: All of the processing activities we currently do are required to use the service. We do not transmit any PII to third parties.
  • Right to Data Portability: The Galaxy software currently does not support this workflow, but does expose an interface that would allow us to do this. The Galaxy community is currently working on this functionality.
  • Right to Object:All of the processing activities we currently do are required to use the service. We do not transmit any personally identifiable information to third parties. If we do processing activities in the future that do affect personally identifiable information, we will inform you and permit you to opt-out.
  • Right to Not be Subject to Automated Decision-making Including Profiling: We do not profile our users, nor do any form of automated decision making based on personal data.