How will the EASi-KIDNEY team keep my data safe during the study?
The University of Oxford is a world-leader in developing systems to ensure that information is stored safely for studies such as EASi-KIDNEYTM.
We will protect your personal data against unauthorised access, unlawful use, accidental loss, corruption or destruction.
We will use technical measures such as encryption (where the data are scrambled and can only be read by someone who has access to the special code) and password protection to protect your data and the systems they are held in.
To help keep your information confidential, information recorded about you in this study as well as any samples collected are “de-identified”. De-identified means that your health information and blood/urine samples are labelled with unique numbers linked inside a computer and not by your name.
We will also use operational measures to protect the data, for example by ensuring that all staff are trained on data security. We keep these security measures under review and refer to University of Oxford security policies to keep up to date with current good practice.