We are committed to protecting your right to personal privacy. This policy is to explain the type of information we collect on genius-dn.eu (‘the Site’) and how we use this information. It also explains the choices that you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
Privacy Statement
- Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share it
- Doctoral Candidate Applications
The information you provide will be used by the GENIUS Doctoral Network to collect a log of all the Doctoral Candidate applications.
We are using information about you because you have given us your consent, the information is necessary for us to (i) check your eligibility, (ii) log your preferred projects, (iii) have statistics of the applications.
Information about you will be shared with all the academic beneficiaries of GENIUS Doctoral Network: Dr Melis Sutman (University of Edinburgh), Prof Hussein Mroueh (Université de Lille), Prof Rao Martand Singh (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Prof. Diana Salciarini (L’Università degli Studi di Perugia), Prof. Marco Barla (Politecnico di Torino), Dr. Alice Di Donna (Université Grenoble Alpes), and Prof. Christopher Sansom (University of Derby), as well as the European Commission for statistics purposes.
We will hold the personal data you provided us until the end of the GENIUS Doctoral Network (September 2029)If you have any questions, please contact:
GENIUS Doctoral Network Consortium
genius-dn@ed.ac.uk
- General Enquiries
If a user chooses to contact GENIUS Doctoral Network through any medium including phone, website or email and any personal information is provided in the process, it will be used to respond to the specific query and all the future correspondence. Personal information collected is not used for any other purposes other than listed here.
- Mailing List
Information that we collect about you when you sign up to our mailing list. This may include your name and contact details. When you join our mailing list, we use your information to send GENIUS Doctoral Network news, events, opportunities and updates, including our newsletter. This allows us to communicate what is going on at GENIUS Doctoral Network and in the wider community. We only send information where you have provided your consent. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the link at the bottom of our correspondence.
- Cookies
When visiting our website, we gather some information using cookies. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system and activity on our websites. We use these cookies to improve your experience of using our website and to allow us to assess how visitors use our website. Other than cookies which are necessary for the functioning of our website, we will use cookies only on the basis of your consent.
- What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. The only personal information a cookie can obtain is information a user supplies themselves. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies, however, enhance our website performance in a number of ways, including providing a secure way for us to verify your identity during your visit to our website and personalise your experience on our website, making it more convenient for you.
- What types of cookies do we use?
- Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide some of the basic functionalities of our website. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
- Statistics CookiesStatistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they do not. This helps us to understand and improve the site. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data. We use Independent Analytics to track the usage of our website and interaction.
- How to block cookies
You can restrict or block cookies which are set during your use of the website by changing your browser’s settings. Some pages may not work if you completely disable cookies, but many third-party cookies can be safely blocked.
Check information in your browser’s help section for specific instructions on how to manage cookies.
- Links to Other Sites
We would like your experience of the Site to be as informative and useful as possible and, therefore, we provide a number of links to third party sites. Always be aware of where you end up. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal data. We assume no responsibility for the information practices of sites that you are able to access through ours, and we encourage you to review each site’s privacy policy before disclosing any personal data.
- Changes to Privacy Policy
GENIUS Doctoral Network, from time to time, makes required changes to this policy. We recommend that users of this site re-visit this privacy policy on occasion to learn of new privacy practices or changes to our policy.
- Automated processing and profiling
We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.
This privacy statement is continued: continued privacy statement.
Lasy update: 11/03/2026
