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Privacy Policy

A Legal Disclaimer

Last updated: 1 October 2025 

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This Privacy Policy outlines how we, Social Tech Trust, collect, store, and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, socialtechtrust.org, and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you.

Contents

  • Summary

  • Our details

  • Information we collect when you visit our website

  • Information we collect when you contact us

  • Information we collect when you interact with our website

  • Information received from third parties

  • Our use of automated decision-making and profiling

  • Disclosure and additional uses of your information

  • How long we retain your information

  • How we secure your information

  • Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

  • Your rights in relation to your information

  • Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes

  • Sensitive Personal Information

  • Changes to our Privacy Policy

  • Children’s Privacy

  • California Do Not Track Disclosures

  • Copyright

Summary

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This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself, and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

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Data controller: Social Tech Trust


How we collect or obtain information about you:

  • when you provide it to us (e.g. by contacting us, by subscribing to our newsletter and through creating an account),

  • from your use of our website, using cookies, and

  • occasionally, from third parties.

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Information we collect: Name, email address, organisation name, profession, IP address, information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device and browser type), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time when you view them and what you clicked on and the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address).

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How we use your information: For administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you), to improve our business and website, to advertise our services, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights.

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Disclosure of your information to third parties: Only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, where required by law, or to enforce our legal rights and obligations.

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Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event): No

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How long we retain your information: For no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business) and certain additional factors described in the main section below titled 'How long we retain your information'. For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below titled 'How long we retain your information'.

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How we secure your information: Using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, and only granting access to your information where necessary.

Use of cookies: We use cookies on our website, including functional and analytical cookies. For more information, please visit our Cookies Policy.

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Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area: In certain circumstances, we will transfer your information outside the European Economic Area, including to the United States of America. Where we do so, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, including, for example, that the third parties we use, who transfer your information outside the European Economic Area, have self-certified themselves as compliant with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

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Use of automated decision-making and profiling: We do not use profiling on our website. We do not use automated decision-making. 

For further information, please see 'Use of automated decision making and profiling'.

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Your rights in relation to your information:

  • to access your information and to receive information about its use

  • to have your information corrected and/or completed

  • to have your information deleted

  • to restrict the use of your information

  • to receive your information in a portable format

  • to object to the use of your information

  • to withdraw your consent to the use of your information

  • to complain to a supervisory authority

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Sensitive personal information: We do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about yourself to us. For more information, please refer to the main section below titled 'Sensitive Personal Information'.

Our details

 

The data controller for our website is Social Tech Trust (company registration number: 06578379), located at Social Tech Trust, 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom.

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You can contact the data controller by writing to Social Tech Trust, 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom, or sending an email to hello@socialtechtrust.org.

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please don't hesitate to contact us.


Information we collect when you visit our website: We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.


Web server log information: We use a third-party server to host our website. Our website server automatically logs the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system. Our server is located in the United Kingdom.

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Use of website server log information for IT security purposes: Our third-party hosting provider collects and stores server logs to ensure network and IT security, and to maintain the integrity of the server and website. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial-of-service attacks, and other cyberattacks by detecting unusual or suspicious activity. Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity, we do not make, nor do we allow our hosting provider to make, any attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.

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Legal basis for processing: Compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Legal obligation: We have a legal obligation to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security commensurate with the risk associated with our processing of information about individuals. Recording access to our website using server log files is such a measure.

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Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Legitimate interests: We have a legitimate interest in using your information to ensure network and information security.

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Cookies and similar technologies: Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes. We use cookies on our website, including functional and analytical cookies. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our Cookies Policy. You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings; however, doing so may impair your ability to use our website or certain features. For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or see our Cookies Policy.

Information we collect when you contact us

 

We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section titled 'Disclosure and additional uses of your information'.

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EMAIL: When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website, we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).

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Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Legitimate interest(s): Responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

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Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Reason why it is necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request before providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information to do so.

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Transfer and storage of your information: Messages you send us via our contact form will be stored on our third-party email provider’s servers in the United Kingdom. For further information, please see ‘Email’ above.

PHONE: When you contact us by phone, we collect your phone number and any information you provide during your conversation with us.

 

Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest(s): Responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence. 

 

Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Reason why it is necessary to perform a contract: Where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request before providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information to do so. 

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Transfer and storage of your information: Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by our third-party telephone service provider and stored in the United Kingdom.

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POST: If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.

 

Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest(s): Responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence. 

 

Transfer and storage of your information: Information you submit to us by post will be stored in the United Kingdom.

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Information we collect when you interact with our website: We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

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REGISTERING ON OUR WEBSITE: When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the following information: your name, email address, and password. We also collect any other information you provide to us when you complete the registration form. If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website. 

 

Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest: Registering and administering accounts on our website to provide you with the ability to upload feedback, and facilitate the running and operation of our business.

 

Transfer and storage of your information: The information you submit to us to create a member's account will be stored within the European Economic Area on our third-party hosting provider’s servers in the United Kingdom.

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NEWSLETTER: When you sign up for our e-newsletter on our website to receive information, marketing of our own and third-party grant funding and events, services and promotions from us, by submitting your email address on our contact page, we collect the following information: your email. 

 

Legal basis for processing: Your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Consent: You give your consent to us sending you our e-newsletter by signing up to receive it using the steps described above.

Information received from third parties

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Generally, we do not receive information about you from third parties. The third parties from which we receive information about you will generally include other businesses and clients with whom we work from time to time, who may recommend our services to you. These could be businesses in any industry, sector, sub-sector or location. It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you. Information we obtain from third parties typically includes your name and contact details, as well as any additional information they provide about you. 

 

Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Reason why it is necessary to perform a contract: Where a third party has passed on information about you to us (such as your name and email address) for us to provide services to you, we will process your information to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and perform a contract with you (as the case may be). 

 

Legal basis for processing: Consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Consent: Where you have asked that a third party to share information about you with us and the purpose of sharing that information is not related to the performance of a contract or services by us to you, we will process your information on the basis of your consent, which you give by asking the third party in question to pass on your information to us.

 

Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interests: Where a third party has shared information about you with us and you have not consented to the sharing of that information, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information in certain circumstances.

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For example, we would have a legitimate interest in processing your information to fulfil our obligations under a subcontract with the third party, where the third party holds the main contract with you. Our legitimate interest is the performance of our obligations under our sub-contract. Similarly, third parties may disclose information about you to us if you have infringed or potentially infringed upon any of our legal rights. In this case, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information to investigate and pursue any such potential infringement. If we receive information about you from a third party in error and/or we do not have a legal basis for processing that information, we will delete your information.

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Information obtained by us from third parties: In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as Companies House, online customer databases, business directories, media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one) and any affiliates.

 

Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Reason why it is necessary to perform a contract: Where you have entered into a contract or requested that we enter into a contract with you, in certain circumstances, we will obtain information about you from public sources in order to enable us to understand your business and provide services to you or services to a sufficient standard. For example, we would obtain and/or verify your email address from your website or from a directory where you ask us to send you information by email, but we do not possess the information, or we need to confirm that we have recorded your email address correctly.

 

Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Legitimate interests: In certain circumstances, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining information about you from public and private sources. For example, if you have infringed or we suspect that you have infringed any of our legal rights, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining and processing information about you from such sources in order to investigate and pursue any suspected or potential infringement.

Our use of automated decision-making and profiling

 

We use profiling on or in relation to our website. We do not consider that this has any legal effect on you or significantly affects you.

 

We do not use automated decision-making. 

 

You have the right to object to our use of profiling described in this section. You can do that by opting out of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the method described in the relevant section below. If you do not want us to process your actual IP address (usually the one assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider) when you visit our website, you can use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). 

 

You can find out more about our use of cookies and similar technologies (including the legal basis on which we use them) and how to opt out of them in our Cookies Policy.

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Profiling: Profiling is any form of automated processing of your information to evaluate personal aspects about you, in particular to analyse or predict things like your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

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Use of profiling for web analytics: Our web analytics service, Google Analytics, collects information such as your location (based on your IP address) and your behaviour (based on cookies) when you access our website (such as the pages you visit and what you click on). We will only process information from cookies if you have consented to us setting cookies on your computer in accordance with our Cookies Policy. 

 

Logic involved: By automatically analysing and categorising information such as the location (based on IP address), as well as the behaviour and devices of visitors to our website (using cookies), we are able to gain a better understanding of what our website visitors want (in terms of the content of our website) and how to improve our website.

 

Significance and envisaged consequences: Cookies will be used to track and store anonymised information about your behaviour and device on our website (unless you have opted out of receiving such cookies by using our cookie control tool), and your location will be analysed based on your IP address. We will not target advertisements based on the level of interest we receive from certain visitors and their behaviour on our website.

 

Legal basis for processing: Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest: We have a legitimate interest in getting to know our website visitors’ preferences and improving our website’s effectiveness

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Use of profiling by YouTube: YouTube uses cookies when you watch videos to track what you watch and on which websites across the internet. You can find out more about how YouTube uses information collected from cookies in their privacy policy. Information collected by YouTube cookies is transferred by Google outside the European Economic Area. For further information and details on the safeguards used, please refer to the section of this privacy policy titled Transfers of Your Information Outside the European Economic Area.

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Logic involved: YouTube can improve the relevance of the advertisements and suggested videos it shows you by collecting information on what videos you watch, allowing it to improve its YouTube service for you.

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Significance and envisaged consequences: Cookies will be used to track and store information about your behaviour and device on our website, where you have allowed cookies using our cookie tool. This information will be combined with the information that YouTube already has about you.

 

How to object: You can stop YouTube from collecting this information by using our cookie tool on our website (if you turned on the use of YouTube cookies using this tool). You can also block such cookies by blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings.

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Legal basis for processing: Your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Consent: You consent to YouTube collecting this information and using it for these purposes by turning on YouTube cookies, using our cookie control tool.

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Disclosure and additional uses of your information

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This section sets out the circumstances in which we will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.

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Disclosure of your information to service providers: We utilise several third-party service providers to deliver essential services necessary for our business operations or to support our business activities, and they process your information on our behalf. Your information will be shared with these service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering goods and services from us.

 

We do not publicly disclose the names of all our service providers for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of our service providers, however, please contact us directly by email, and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such service providers, for example). 

 

Legal basis for processing: Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest relied on: Where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where it is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.

 

Legal basis for processing: Necessary to perform a contract and/or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Reason why it is necessary to perform a contract: We may need to share information with our service providers to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract or to take the steps you have requested before we enter into a contract with you.

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Disclosure of your information to other third parties: We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.

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Providing information to Google Inc.: Google collects information through our use of Google Analytics on our website. Google uses this information, including IP addresses and data from cookies, for several purposes, such as improving its Google Analytics service. Information is shared with Google on an aggregated and anonymised basis. To find out more about what information Google collects, how it uses this information and how to control the information sent to Google, please see the following page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. 

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Legal basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

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Legitimate interest(s): meeting our contractual obligations to Google under our Google Analytics Terms of Service -  https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.

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You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

 

Information collected by Google Analytics is stored outside the European Economic Area on Google’s servers in the United States of America.

 

For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, please refer to the section of this privacy policy titled 'Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area'.

Accountants

We share information with our accountants for tax purposes. For example, we share invoices we issue and receive with our accountants for the purpose of completing tax returns and our end-of-year accounts. Our accountants are located in the United Kingdom.

 

Advisors

Occasionally, we seek advice from advisors, including accountants, financial advisors, lawyers, and public relations professionals. We will share your information with these third parties only when it is necessary to enable them to provide us with the relevant advice. Our advisors are located in the United Kingdom.

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Affiliates

Affiliates are individuals or entities with whom we collaborate to promote our business or their own business through various means, including advertising our services on their websites, for example. Affiliates will share information with us, and we will share information with them where you have expressed an interest in our products or services. Our affiliates are located in the United Kingdom.

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Business partners

Business partners are businesses with which we work, providing goods and services that are complementary to our own or that enable us to offer goods or services we could not provide on our own. We share information with our business partners where you have requested services which they provide, whether independently from, or in connection with, their own services. Our business partners are located in the United Kingdom.

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Independent contractors

Occasionally, we use independent contractors in our business. Your information will be shared with independent contractors only where it is necessary for them to perform the function we have hired them to perform in relation to our business. Our independent contractors are located in the United Kingdom.

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Insurers

We will share your information with our insurers where it is necessary to do so, for example, in relation to a claim or potential claim we receive or make or under our general disclosure obligations under our insurance contract with them. Our insurers are located in the United Kingdom.

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Sharing your information with a prospective or actual purchaser or seller in the context of a business or asset sale, acquisition by us, a merger, or similar business combination event, whether actual or potential.

 

Legal basis for processing: Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

 

Legitimate interest(s): Sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person to allow such a transaction to take place.

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Disclosure and use of your information for legal reasons:

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Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority

If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has occurred, we will, in certain circumstances, need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that a fraud or a cybercrime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties. We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way. Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

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In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights

We will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including, for example, sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (resulting from a contract we have entered into with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights we have under copyright law or tort law). Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

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In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings

We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with you or a third party for example, either to resolve the dispute or as part of any mediation, arbitration or court resolution or similar process. Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest(s): resolving disputes and potential disputes.

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For ongoing compliance with laws, regulations and other legal requirements

We will use and process your information to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, we may need to disclose your information pursuant to a court order or subpoena if we receive one. Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legal obligation(s): legal obligations to disclose information which are part of the laws of England and Wales, or if they have been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework (for example, in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed). Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: where the legal obligations are part of the laws of another country and have not been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework, we have a legitimate interest in complying with these obligations.

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How long do we retain your information

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This section sets out how long we retain your information. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.

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Retention periods

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Server log information: We retain information on our server logs for 1 year.

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Correspondence and enquiries: When you make an enquiry, or correspond with us for any reason, whether by email, via post or by phone, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry.

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Newsletter: We retain the information you used to sign up for our e-newsletter for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe) or if we decide to cancel our e-newsletter service, whichever comes earlier.

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Criteria for determining retention periods

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In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

  • the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);

  • whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);

  • whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);

  • how valuable your information is (both now and in the future);

  • any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;

  • the levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;

  • how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and

  • any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).

 

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How we secure your information

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We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:

  • only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible;

  • using secure servers to store your information;

  • verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information; and

  • using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt any information you submit to us via any forms on our website.

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​Transmission of information to us by email: Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by email, via our website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk. We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area

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Your information will be transferred and stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA) under the circumstances outlined below.

We will also transfer your information outside the EEA or to an international organisation to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject (compliance with a court order, for example). Where required, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards and protections are in place.

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Google Analytics

Information collected by Google Analytics (your IP address and actions you take in relation to our website) is transferred outside the EEA and stored on Google’s servers. You can access Google’s Privacy Policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

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Country of storage: United States of America. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

 

Safeguard(s) used: Google has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which can be found here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.

 

The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is an approved certification mechanism under Article 42 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is permitted under Article 46(2)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. You can access the European Commission decision on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm

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Your rights in relation to your information

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Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing to Social Tech Trust, or sending an email to hello@socialtechtrust.org:

  • to request access to your information and information related to our use and processing of your information;

  • to request the correction or deletion of your information;

  • to request that we restrict our use of your information;

  • to receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third-party data controller);

  • to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes (for further information, see the section below entitled Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes); and

  • to withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information.

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Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent.

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In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation.

 

For the purposes of the UK, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the contact details of which are available here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

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Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual

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The above rights are provided in summary form only, and certain limitations apply to many of these rights. For further information about your rights in relation to your information, including any limitations which apply, please visit the following pages on the ICO’s website:

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You can also find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation contained in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf

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Verifying your identity when you request access to your information

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When you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so. These measures are designed to protect your information and reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft, or unauthorised access to your information.

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How we verify your identity

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Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information. If it is not possible to identify you from this information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation to verify your identity before providing you with access to your information. We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.

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Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes

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You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by writing to Social Tech Trust, or sending an email to hello@socialtechtrust.org:

  • to object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it to carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and

  • to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).

 

You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by:

  • clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link; or

  • sending an email to Hello@socialtechtrust.org, asking that we stop sending you marketing communications or by including the words “OPT OUT”.

 

For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the section entitled How to accept or reject cookies in our Cookies Policy.

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Sensitive Personal Information

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‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

 

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us.

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If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information under Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy

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We periodically update and amend our Privacy Policy.

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Minor changes to our Privacy Policy

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When we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update it with a new effective date stated at the beginning. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.

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Major changes to our Privacy Policy or the purposes for which we process your information

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Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by email (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.

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We will provide you with the information about the change in question, the purpose, and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose. Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that differs from the original purpose for which we collected it.

 

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Children’s Privacy

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Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations safeguard the privacy of children online. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 18.

 

The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18. We may receive information pertaining to individuals under the age of 18 through the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information. If we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers.

 

If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 18, please do so by sending an email to hello@socialtechtrust.org.

 

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California Do Not Track Disclosures

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“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on a Do Not Track signal in their browser, the browser sends a message to websites requesting that they do not track the user.

 

For information about Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org. 

 

Currently, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. In addition, we use other technology that is standard to the internet, such as pixel tags and other similar technologies, to track visitors to the website. Those tools may be used by us and by third parties to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.

 

For information on how to opt out from tracking technologies used on our website, see our Cookies Policy.

 

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Copyright

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The copyright in this Privacy Policy is either owned by, or licensed to us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software.

 

All intellectual property rights in this policy are reserved.

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