Privacy Policy

Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone, or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession, or likely to come into their possession.

 

Information We Collect

Personal information includes identifiers such as; your name, date of birth, email address, postal address, telephone number, as well as information you provide in any communications between us. You will have given us some or all of this information through:

• your interactions with us – including; registering on our mailing list, using our website, joining our online forum, making a booking on our website, attending an event or training course and seeking advice / support.

• Your interactions with others – including; making a booking at our outdoor centre, booking onto an event via Eventbrite, using PayPal or SagePay or to pay for a product/service and provide your consent for your personal information to be shared with us.

When you visit our website, we collect information to help us to understand how our stakeholders use the site. This information consists of your IP address, your internet browser, the time and date of when you visited and which pages you visited or downloaded. We cannot use this information to find out further personal information about you, but simply allows us to make improvements and tailor our offer to our stakeholders.

We aim to ensure that our communications to you are relevant and timely. To enable us to do this, we may also analyse publicly available geographic, demographic and other information relating to you, to better understand your interests and preferences.

 

How the Information Collected is Used

ELEVATE complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We will process your personal data based on your consent, and/or because we need to use it in order to fulfil a contract with you (e.g. because you have subscribed to our membership, engaged with our programmes and/or legitimate interest).

Legitimate interest means there is a valid reason for ELEVATE to do so. This could include; making improvements to our services, to manage relationships with our supporters and to comply with relevant legislation. Whenever we process your information in this way, we ensure that we consider your rights and interests.

We will never sell or swap your details. We may share your information with trusted third parties in the process of managing your engagement with us, such as the payment processing of donations or to partners who manage our events.

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Protecting Children and Young People

Where we believe any of our services may attract children and young people under the age of 16, we will clearly provide information notices to try and deter children from providing their personal data without parent or guardian consent.

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We do not knowingly intend to send marketing communications to children and young people. We actively encourage all our staff, whenever they are implementing new initiatives to assess whether these might be attractive to children and young people and if so, will ensure clear information is provided to try and deter children and young people from providing their personal data without parent or guardian consent.

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Security

The transmission of information via the Internet or email is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data while you are transmitting it to our site; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

The Use of Trusted Partners and Suppliers

We use external companies such as Eventbrite to collect or process personal data on our behalf. We undertake checks on these companies before we work with them and put agreements in place that require them to comply with data protection legislation and ensure that they have appropriate controls in place to secure your information.

 

How we use “Cookies”

Most of our web pages use “cookies”. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our websites, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allow us to improve our websites.