Privacy Policy

Introduction

The Campaign takes data protection, privacy and the security of your personal data seriously.
This privacy notice describes the type of personal data we may collect about you, what we do with it and how we keep it safe.
We hope that the following answers any questions you have, but if not please feel free to get in touch (see contact details below).

About The Campaign

The Campaign for Quality Debate, operating at The Campaign, is a not-for-profit Company Limited by Guarantee (registered in England, company number: 11375388).

The legal bases we rely on to collect and process data

The law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons for which an organisation can collect and process your personal data. The following reasons apply to The Campaign:
  • Legitimate interest, including commercial interest or broader societal benefit, where we use your data in ways you would reasonably expect, and which have a minimal privacy impact.

Why we collect your personal data and how we use it

The Campaign needs to gather and use certain information about individuals to support its activities.
The main activities that utilise the data collected are communications in relation to the activities of The Campaign, including fundraising.

Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites The Campaign website uses cookies, tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
We use cookies to support the registration process and to understand how you use the site, so that we can improve it over time. For more information, please get in touch for a copy of our cookie policy (see contact details below).

The data we collect

We may collect and process personal data including:
  • Name
  • Contact information (e.g. email address, phone number, physical address).

When do we collect your personal data?

We collect your personal data in the following key ways:
  • When you sign up on our website
  • Via fundraising activity eg. crowdfunding
  • At events.

How we protect your personal data

Your digital data is stored in secure data centre facilities, ensuring full physical and infrastructure security, extremely limited access, and ongoing security monitoring.
If your personal data is on printed material, we ensure that it is stored securely.

How long will we keep your personal data?

We only keep your data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We will sometimes need to share your data with trusted suppliers, third parties and applications, to support the development and delivery of our aims and activities.
We have contracts and agreements in place with these third parties to ensure that your data is kept safe and used appropriately, in line with data protection law and regulations.

What are your rights over your personal data?

You have the following rights in respect of our processing of your personal data:
  • Access to the personal data we hold about you
  • The correction of your personal data when incorrect, out of date or incomplete
  • The deletion, erasure or removal of your personal data
  • That processing of your personal data be blocked
  • If you do not want to receive updates and messages from The Campaign please let us know at contact@thecampaign.org.uk and we will not contact you again
  • To move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way
  • Right to object to the processing of your data.

You can contact us to exercise these rights at any time.

You also have the right to make a complaint direct to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection authority. You can raise a concern with the ICO as follows:

Online

https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Phone (helpline)

0303 123 1113.

How to get in touch the The Campaign

You can get in touch with us at contact@thecampaign.org.uk for more information or for any questions you have on our approach to data protection and privacy.