Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

Who we are

The SkinRAI Consortium is a research consortium operating within the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD). For the purposes of this policy, the data controller is:

British Association of Dermatologists
Willan House, 4 Fitzroy Square
London, W1T 5HQ
Email: nina@bad.org.uk

What data we collect

Contact form submissions
When you submit an enquiry via our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.

Website analytics
We use cookies and analytics tools to collect aggregated information about how visitors use this website. This includes pages visited, time spent on the site, and the type of device used. Analytics data may be associated with device identifiers or cookies and is not necessarily anonymous.

How we use your data

We use contact form submissions solely to respond to your enquiry. We use analytics data to understand how our website is used and to improve it. We do not use your data for marketing purposes, and we do not sell or share your personal data with third parties for commercial purposes.

Please do not submit medical or health information through the contact form. Health data is special category data under UK GDPR and requires additional safeguards. Our contact form is not designed or intended for the submission of personal medical information. If you accidentally submit health information, we will delete it securely and will not retain or process it further.

Legal basis for processing

Under UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we rely on the following legal bases:

  • Legitimate interests — for responding to contact form enquiries, where our interest in doing so does not override your rights and freedoms.

  • Necessary for the provision of the website — for essential cookies required to operate the site.

  • Consent — for analytics cookies. We will only place analytics cookies where you have given consent via our cookie settings. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your device by your browser. We use:

  • Squarespace cookies — necessary for the website to function correctly, set by our website platform Squarespace.

  • Analytics cookies — to collect aggregated information about site usage. These are only placed with your consent.

You can manage your cookie preferences using the cookie settings on this website. You can also control cookies through your browser settings, though disabling cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.

Third-party services

This website is built on Squarespace, which processes certain data as part of hosting and delivering the site. Squarespace acts as a data processor on our behalf. For details of how Squarespace handles data, see Squarespace's privacy policy.

How long we keep your data

Contact form enquiries are retained for a reasonable period to allow us to respond to and follow up on your enquiry, after which they are deleted.

Analytics data is retained in accordance with Squarespace's standard retention settings.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you

  • Request correction of inaccurate data

  • Request deletion of your data

  • Object to or restrict how we process your data

  • Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at skinrai@bad.org.uk.

Complaints

If you have a concern about how we handle your data, you can contact the ICO at ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised.