The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
- Personal information about you including:
- Name.
- Email address.
- Manuscripts that are uploaded to our website. These manuscripts will tyipically contain:
- Author names and institutional affiliations.
- Other article data and metadata such as: article titles, references, previous publications.
- Metadata of published research articles from open sources such as OpenAlex:
- Author names and institutional affiliations.
- Other article metadata such as: article titles, references, previous publications.
We use this information to provide services to you, inform you about product updates, and to improve our service.
Our legal basis for processing your personal information
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- Your consent: where you have given us clear consent for us to process your personal information for a specific purpose.
- We have a legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests).
Who we share your personal information with
- We share manuscripts that are uploaded to our website with an external service GROBID, which extracts article metadata from PDFs so that we can provide our service.
- Otherwise, we do not share personal data that we receive from our users with anyone
How long we retain information
We retain personal data for no longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Where we store your information
We store your information on servers located in the United Kingdom.
Your rights
- You may request a copy of any personal data we hold about you, and request to have any incorrect data corrected.
- You may object to us processing your data.
- You may ask us to erase your data.
- You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Withdraw the consent for the processing of your Personal Data which is based on your consent.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy the information we hold about you, or if you would like to make a request. Send an email to: hello@research-signals.com.