Privacy notice for Research Professional SSO Service Provider
Service name
Research Professional
Description of the Service
Research Professional is an intuitive platform for online access to news and funding services.
Entity ID
https://www.researchprofessional.com/shibboleth
Personal data processed
Research Professional has 4 requested attributes:
- eduPersonPrincipalName
- eduPersonTargetedID
- employeeID
These attributes are used to authorise user access and to connect a user’s SSO identity to their Research Professional account, allowing them easy access to the system. The personal data is necessary for providing the service that the end user has requested.
Logs are maintained, which will record the attributes provided. These are required to ensure the integrity and availability of our service, and to allow investigation of authentication issues. These logs are regularly rotated and so data is not held longer than required for this purpose.
Research Professional Privacy Policy
End users can choose to access the Research Professional as a guest or to create a full account. Full details of the data held in Research Professional and how it is managed can be found in the Privacy Policy for this service. This includes information on Access, Correction, and Erasure of the data held, plus details on Data Portability, Retention and Deletion.
To rectify the data released by your Home Organisation, contact your Home Organisation’s IT helpdesk.
If you have any specific privacy questions, please see the relevant contacts in the Privacy Policy. For more general Research Professional enquiries, please contact our customer support team.