What is personal data?

‘Personal Data’ means any information that identifies you as an individual. We will be collecting and using some of your personal data that is relevant to completing the study and this section describes what that means.

The information that we will collect will include your identifier code, which is regarded as ‘personal data’. Age and gender are regarded as ‘special category personal data’. We will use this information as explained in the ‘What is the purpose of the study’ section above.

Additionally, the responses you provide to the interview questions will be treated as ‘personal data’ due to the possibility of disclosing details of a personal or identifiable nature.