We are Strath Union, your Students’ Union - the beating heart of activity for students on Strathclyde campus since 1964.
About Us
We run events year-round where you can let loose, let go, just throw a couple shapes and put your skills on show.
Events
We provide free and confidential advice for students, covering academic support, wellbeing and more.
Advice
University is all about finding friends, finding community, and finding yourself.
Societies
Sports Union
We exist to represent all students at the University of Strathclyde. We make sure your voice is heard across the University and beyond.
Voice
Enhance your CV, develop skills, find a part-time job and get more involved with your local community.
Opportunities
The Union is a great place to meet friends, study, grab lunch or take a break. Have a look and discover our variety of venues.
Food & Drink
Bag the latest Strath branded merch, get the latest student deals and explore memberships available at the Union!
Shop
How we use and protect your data.
We're a membership organisation which means at our heart is our students and the information process to make your University experience incredible. We also employ staff, work with suppliers and have customers for our commercial services so the information on this page is for those people too.
The way we manage and process your data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which, as of 25th May 2018, replaces all data protection legislation in EU member states (including the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA)) without the need for further national legislation. These web pages aim to explain how we manage your information inline with GDPR and what this means for you. We've been really open and transparent on these pages to help you be fully informed and understand your rights - you can see: how we access your data; how we assess our processing activities; how we gain consent and how you can change your preferences; the training any data processors go through; who else processes data about you; and our policies for processing data.
Student Data Privacy Statement
Employee Privacy Statement
Job Applicant Privacy Notice
Supplier Data Privacy Notice
Consumer Data Privacy Notice
In each of the privacy statements set out above we outline how you can enact your rights. It's important you understand your data rights and we recommend you visit the ICO Website for more information.
Contract - As student or staff you will likely have a contract with us when you use our services which allows us to facilitate our obligations to you.
Consent - We may ask you to consent to us processing your data for direct marketing purposes.
Legal - We are obliged by various laws including the Education Act, Contracts Act and employment law to process certain data.
Legitimate Interest - We carefully balance your rights when we think there is a legitimate interest in us processing data to support you.
Strath Union carefully curates marketing and communications that might be relevant to you. Sometimes we need to send essential information where we believe there is a legitimate interest in you receiving this.
Our privacy statements detail more information about how we use your data to communicate with you or where you have given consent send you marketing. We use cookies to provide a tracking service of your usage with our website you should read our guidance on Cookies.
We always provide a way to opt out in our communications without affecting your membership and we will never sell your data to third parties.
Strathclyde Students’ Union reserves the right to use any photograph/video taken at any organised or sponsored event, without the expressed written permission of those included within the photograph/video.
Strathclyde Students’ Union may use the photograph/video in publications or other media material produced, used or contracted by Strathclyde Students’ Union including but not limited to: brochures, flyers, invitations, newspapers, magazines, presentations, building displays, websites, social media, etc. A person attending a Strathclyde Students’ Union event who does not wish to have their image recorded for distribution should make their wishes known to the photographer, and/or the event organisers, and/or contact Strathclyde Students’ Union, via email or in writing.
Any person or organisation not affiliated with Strathclyde Students’ Union may not use, copy, alter or modify Strathclyde Students’ Union photographs, graphics, videography or other, similar reproductions or recordings without the advance written permission of an authorised staff member from Strathclyde Students’ Union. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!
To help us deliver our charitable services we use external service providers who have limited access to your data and these are carefully managed by contracts and high levels of security standards.
Below we have outlined some of those who may process your data and where possible linked to their security information:
When you use our Advice Hub we want you to be assured of our confidentiality. The Advice Hub's Confidentiality Policy and Privacy Statements are available in our terms and conditions document available here.
You are entitled to make requests concerning your data, you will find all the forms needed to do this here.
Control your Data