Who we are
We are a group of medical students currently studying on the Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine programme, a joint initiative between the University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee, in partnership with the University of the Highlands and Islands, NHS Fife, NHS Tayside, NHS Dumfries & Galloway and NHS Highland.
Please note that we are not official spokespeople for any of these higher education institutions or NHS health boards.
For official press inquiries please contact either the Press Office of the University of St Andrews or the Corporate Communications Department at the University of Dundee directly.
For inquiries specific to the ScotGEM programme, including those for general information about the course or to find out more about the application process, visit the official course page or contact Admissions at the University of St Andrews directly.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Any data submitted via a contact form on our website will be sent by email to us and will be held and used in the same way to that of personal data submitted during the creation of a user account on the website.
Cookies
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Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We cannot control the actions of these third parties directly.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with anyone unless it is for a specific reason which you will be aware of and will have agreed to as and when appropriate.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our contact information
If you wish to contact us directly, please use the Contact Us page of this website. As mentioned above, official contact should be made with the relevant university media teams only.