Privacy Policy

Quotient Sciences respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. View our privacy notice to better understand how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and learn about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Quotient Sciences’ privacy notice. 

Quotient respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. 

This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some terms used in this privacy notice.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
7. DATA SECURITY
8. DATA RETENTION
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
10. GLOSSARY

11. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES WHO APPLY TO WORK FOR QUOTIENT

     

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice explains how Quotient Sciences Limited (‘’Quotient, ‘’we’’, ‘’us’’, or ‘’our’’) collects and processes your personal data when you use our website, including any data you may provide when you subscribe to updates, download resources, contact us, or participate in a webinar, event, competition or survey.
It also provides information about how Quotient collects and processes your personal data if you apply to work for Quotient, see the final sections of this privacy notice for details.

Please note if you use our volunteer website www.weneedyoutrials.com  then separate terms apply which can be found on that site. 
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

You should read this privacy notice with our Terms of Website Use and any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so you know how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them. 
This privacy notice was last reviewed and updated in April 2026. 

CONTROLLER

Quotient Sciences Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively called ”Quotient”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice). We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who oversees questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.

CONTACT DETAILS  

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Quotient Sciences Limited

Email address: [email protected]

Postal address: Data Protection Officer, Quotient Sciences Trent House, Mere Way, Ruddington Fields Business Park, Ruddington, Nottingham, NG11 6JS.

COMPLAINTS  

If you have concerns about how we use your personal data, you have the right to make a complaint directly to us, using the contact details above. We are required by law to have a process in place to handle data protection complaints fairly and transparently.  

We will acknowledge receipt of privacy complaints within 30 days, we will make appropriate enquiries into the matter, and keep you informed of outcomes.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, 
so please contact us. 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

This version was last updated on 24th June 2026 and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS 

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave 
our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data), but may include online identifiers such as IP addresses and cookie identifiers.

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have 
grouped together follows: 

• Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender. 
• Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.
• Transaction Data includes details about enquiries and communications to and from you and other details of services you have purchased or discussed with us.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data includes purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not generally collect any special categories of personal data via this website. However, where we process special category data (for example, in the context of recruitment), we do so in accordance with Article 9 of the UK GDPR, including where processing is necessary for employment, social security and social protection law, or for reasons of substantial public interest.

IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA  

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if so.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

• enquire about or apply for our services;
• subscribe to view our webinars or download a website resource;
• request marketing to be sent to you;
• provide us with your business card at a promotional event;
• enter a competition, promotion, survey or use our website ‘Ask the Expert’ feature;
• use the chat feature on our website; or
• give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

We will only place non‑essential cookies (including analytics and marketing cookies) on your device with your prior consent. You can accept or reject cookies through our cookie consent tool at any time.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

• Technical Data from the parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
• Contact, and Transaction Data from providers of technical and delivery services; and
• Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators such as Pardot and Zymewire.

These third parties may act as independent controllers or processors on our behalf.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Where we rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis, we ensure that our interests are not overridden by your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. We carry out balancing assessments where appropriate. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in these circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you. 
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. 
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. 

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message or by our use of cookies which is detailed in our Cookie Policy. You may withdraw consent to marketing at any time by Contacting Us.

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. 
Note we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please Contact Us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

MARKETING  

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We only send marketing information to Corporate Subscribers, never to consumer. As a Corporate Subscriber you will always receive the option to unsubscribe from any marketing communications from us in any communication we send, or you can Contact Us to do so.

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS FROM US  

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing). 
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition, registered for a promotion or participated in a webinar and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. 

THIRD-PARTY MARKETING  

We will obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes, where required by law. 

OPTING OUT 

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by Contact Us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of service purchase, service experience or other transaction. 

COOKIES

You can choose to opt in or out of cookies using the cookie consent tool. If you opt out of cookies, some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see Cookie Policy.

CHANGE OF PURPOSE  

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please Contact Us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. 
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law. 

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above. 

• Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
• External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
• Specific third parties such as with:
• Pardot / Salesforce who host our customer relationship management database and are based outside of the EEA, which enables us to record our interactions with our customers. 

These organisations act as processors on our behalf and are contractually required to process personal data only in accordance with our instructions and applicable data protection laws.

• Third parties to whom we may sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. We may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it under the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and under our instructions. 
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. 

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We may transfer your personal data outside the UK. Where we do so, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data, including: 

• transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection under UK law; 
• using the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; and/or 
• transferring data to organisations certified under the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (UK–US Data Bridge).

Please Contact Us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties with a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. 
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, including role‑based access controls, encryption where appropriate, and regular security assessments and monitoring. We maintain incident response procedures and will notify you and regulators of a breach where legally required. 

8. DATA RETENTION

HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. 
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you. 
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. 
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by Contacting Us.
Sometimes you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information. Sometimes we may anonymise your personal data (so it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to discover more about these rights: 

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise the rights set out above, please Contact Us.

NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED  

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU  

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. 

TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND  

We try to respond to all valid legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. 

GLOSSARY

LAWFUL BASIS

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are 
otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you regarding specific activities by Contacting Us.

Performance of Contract  means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation we are subject to.  

THIRD PARTIES  

INTERNAL THIRD PARTIES

Other companies in the Quotient Group acting as processors and who are based in the USA and provide IT and system administration services, scientific support, undertake leadership reporting and assist or supervise on projects.

EXTERNAL THIRD PARTIES

• Service providers acting as processors based in the USA who provide IT and system administration services 
• Professional advisers acting as processors including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the EEA and the USA who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services. 
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check we are lawfully processing it. 
Request correction of the personal data we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us. 
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You may also ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see 
below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we must erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. 
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You may also object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. Sometimes, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms. 
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in these scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding 
legitimate grounds to use it. 

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use 
or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. 

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to 
you. We will advise you if so when you withdraw your consent. 

HOW WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION IF YOU APPLY TO WORK FOR QUOTIENT 

THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

With your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use these categories of personal information about you:

• The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter.
• The information you have provided on our application form, including name, title, address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, gender, employment history, qualifications, right to work documentation (including your passport or ID document). 
• Any information you provide to us during an interview or as part of any test or assessment which you conduct as part of the recruitment process.

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information:

• Information about your race or ethnicity.
• Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records.
• Information about criminal convictions and offences.

HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED?

We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

• You, the candidate.
• any recruitment agency you may have used.
• Your named referees.

HOW WE WILL USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in these ways: 

• Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role.
• Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
• Keep records related to our hiring processes.
• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to a role since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that role.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to contract with you.

Having received your CV and covering letter or your application form we will then process that information to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is strong enough to invite you for an interview. If we call you for an interview, we will use the information you provide to us at the interview to decide whether to offer you the role. If we offer you the role, we will then take up before confirming your appointment.

If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we cannot process your application successfully. For example, if we require references for this role and you fail to provide us with details, we cannot take your application further. 

HOW WE USE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in these ways:

• We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during a test or interview. 
• We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.

INFORMATION ABOUT CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS

We will request information about your criminal convictions history if we would like to offer you the role (conditional on checks and any other conditions, such as references, being satisfactory).  We process criminal-conviction data only where permitted by law and subject to appropriate safeguards. 

AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making. If automated tools are introduced, we will ensure meaningful human involvement and provide transparency about the logic involved and likely effects.

DATA SHARING

Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We will only share your personal information with these third parties to process your application: other Quotient group companies, any recruitment company you apply to us through and the third-party provider of our recruitment database 3D MarComms Limited. All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group must take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and under our instructions.

Sometimes we need to share your health information with an occupational health organisation to help us in assessing your suitability for a role, or how we can make appropriate adjustments to consider a health condition you may have. Before we share such information we will get your explicit consent. 

DATA RETENTION

How long will you use my information for?

We will retain your personal information for a period of up to 21 months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to the role. We retain your personal information so we can show, if a legal claim occurs, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited 
grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way, or if another opportunity arises for which you think you may be suitable. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our retention policy. 
Where you participate in clinical trials or related research activities, separate privacy notices will apply.