Privacy Notice
Introduction
This page explains what personal information we gather when you visit this web site.
Who will process my personal information?
The information published here applies to the use of your personal information (also known as 'personal data') by the University of Cambridge through the viewing or use of this site.
General personal information collected on our websites
When you visit any of the websites within the Cambridge domain we hold certain information about you for service and security reasons. For more information on this, please see https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-this-site/privacy-policy
Specific personal information collected on this website
This site asks you to provide information about yourself, via specific forms.
We gather this information so that we can process applications, send newsletters, or answer specific requests for information or services.
We use the personal data gathered via the forms to fulfil our ‘contractual’ relationship with you, and/or we use this personal information, with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time, in order to keep in touch with you via e-newsletters, emails or by telephone.
We do not share your personal information with any third parties outside the University of Cambridge, other than those who are responsible for delivering all or part of the group, initiative, or event, except with your explicit permission. At times, personal data may be sent, including internationally, via email and other platforms for the purposes of efficiency.
For information on how University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership job applicant data is shared, processed and retained, see https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/hr-staff/hr-data/applicant-data.
For information on the use of your personal data during the application process for one of our programmes, please see https://www.information-compliance.admin.cam.ac.uk/data-protection/applicant-data.
For information on the use of your personal data if you are a student who is a member of the University of Cambridge (for example Master’s students), see https://www.information-compliance.admin.cam.ac.uk/data-protection/student-data.
For information on formal records retention, see https://www.information-compliance.admin.cam.ac.uk/records-management.
We will hold data about people who have neither applied to nor attended a CISL programme/course/event but have consented to us keeping in touch with them via a newsletter request, brochure download, or general contact for two years. After this time, we will contact you via email to allow you to update your personal information and ask whether you are happy for us to continue to hold your data so that we can keep you informed about our activities/invite you to future programmes and events. You may opt out at any time by contacting info@cisl.cam.ac.uk or automatically unsubscribing to emails.
For members of our Network, including our alumni, Senior Associates and Fellows, we will hold a limited amount of personal information indefinitely as a record of your completion of a programme or involvement with our work, unless you request otherwise. Every two years we will contact you via email to allow you to update your personal information and ask whether you are happy for us to keep you informed about our activities/invite you to future programmes and events. You may opt out at any time by contacting info@cisl.cam.ac.uk or automatically unsubscribing to emails.
Further information
For more information about how we handle your personal information, and your rights under data protection legislation, please see https://www.information-compliance.admin.cam.ac.uk/data-protection/general-data
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Cookies for site usage measurement - optional
We use these cookies - if consented to - to store data about the pages that our website visitors access so we can get an idea of how our visitors use our website and try to make it work better for them. This is anonymised, aggregated data and cannot be used to identify a specific individual’s traffic within the site. This information is gathered and might be analysed by Google Analytics, ClickDimensions and Matomo software.
Note that this information might be used in conjunction with Google Ads to measure the performance of our paid for advertising campaigns and to help us optimise them.
Social and marketing cookies - optional
These are cookies used by third party websites that – if consented to – are used by them to track your behaviour on their websites, or where their content is embedded within our website. This includes information gathered for LinkedIn and YouTube.
You can choose whether to accept “Site usage measurement” cookies and/or “Social and marketing” cookies using our cookie popup bar that will appear the first time you visit our website. You can click the cog icon which appears at the bottom left of the screen when viewing our website - at any time in the future - to review and change your decision.
This page was last updated in September 2025.
