GENERAL PRINCIPLES

We take privacy and data protection very seriously. We collect your personal data in order to send our email newsletters to you as a result of your subscribing to them. We never collect more data than is necessary, nor do we hold it for longer than is required to fulfil our purposes. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters, it is easy and quick to unsubscribe by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the foot of one of our emails.

We will never sell or pass on your data to third parties for marketing purposes, or make it public. You may make a data access request to us, and ask us to disclose all data that we hold on you, or that you have provided to us. We do not use cookies on our website.

DETAILED INFORMATION

1. Your data

“Your data” means any information about you from which you may be personally identified, including your name, email address, and/or any other information from which you can be identified and which you may disclose to us.

We may collect and use the following information about you:

1.1 information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided to subscribe to our email newsletters.

1.2 information submitted when you report a problem with our site;

1.3 information about yourself provided by you to us for specific purposes.

1.4 To help us improve our services, if you send us personal information which identifies you via email, we may keep your email and your email address.

2. When do we collect your data?

2.1 We collect your data when you subscribe to our email newsletters;

2.1.2 make a complaint or enquiry or provide other feedback to us.

3. How do we use your data?

3.1 We use your data to:

3.1.1 send you information by email;

3.1.2 process and deal with any complaints or enquiries made by you;

3.1.3 campaign on issues related to genetically modified foods and crops and associated pesticides, where you have expressed a clear interest in such activity (e.g. sending a letter to a representative via our website).

4. Will we pass on your data to third parties?

4.1 We will never sell or pass on your data to third parties for marketing purposes without your consent. We only pass on your data to third parties as follows:

4.1.1 We may pass your data to our employees, agents, subcontractors, and partner organisations to help administer our email services and provide relevant information to you;

4.1.2 Your data may be transferred to a successor company or other organisation in the event of a sale or insolvency administration; (but you will be notified and offered the chance to unsubscribe if this occurs);

4.1.3 in some cases we may use subcontractors or partner organisations to conduct some processing of your data on our behalf, but this is always subject to strict contractual control and in compliance with UK data protection legislation; this may include using a third party to identify individuals from our database who may be in a position to support our work further or take part in market research activities;

4.1.4 only if you have given your explicit consent for such purpose, we pass your data to third parties so that they can send you information about GM foods and crops and associated pesticides and information which may be of interest to you; and

4.1.5 in exceptional circumstances we may need to disclose your data to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach relating to you of this privacy policy or any terms and conditions or pursuant to a court order.

4.2 If you are using a social media site, any information about you that you choose to post will be available for others to see and we cannot control how they may use it. Please therefore exercise caution and think carefully before posting any personal information. Likewise, we require that you don’t post any personal information about other people without first obtaining their explicit consent to do so.

4.3 We do not knowingly collect, store or use any personal information about children under the age of 16.

5. Data security, links and international transfers

5.1 We will take all reasonable steps to protect your data. All your data collected by us is stored on a secure server.

5.2 Please be aware that our website may link to other websites which may be accessed by you. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, content or security of those linked websites.

6. Mailing lists

6.1 We use MailChimp to collect, process and store data on those who subscribe to our mailing list. Subscribers must actively sign up to these lists, (e.g. via electronic or manual forms) and must complete the double opt-in to be added to the list. MailChimp stores such personal data as we collect in order to create our subscriber mailing lists. As part of its processing, MailChimp may transfer personal data to certain of its sub-processors, who perform some critical services, such as helping MailChimp prevent abuse and providing customer support.

6.2 Email communications sent to our supporters/subscribers via MailChimp include obvious links which allow subscribers to access, correct, amend or delete information held about them, and also to unsubscribe from the mailing list.

6.3 You may be removed from our newsletter mailing lists at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of all our emails.

7. Donations

7.1 Our websites use Paypal to collect online donations. Paypal shares data with a range of third parties, a list of which is available here. Sharing this information with payment processors and credit reference and fraud agencies and group companies is necessary in order for Paypal to fulfil obligations to its customers. The regulatory agencies with which Paypal shares its data are carrying out their purpose in accordance with their regulatory objectives and requirements.

8. Cookies

8.1 Our website does not use cookies. A cookie is a small element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive.

8.2 Any changes we may make to our privacy and cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page.

9. Your rights

9.1 Data protection laws provides the following rights for individuals:

* The right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data.
* The right to access their personal data and supplementary information.
* The right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete.
* The right for individuals to have personal data erased.
* The right to request the restriction or suppression of their personal data.
* The right to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.
* The right to object to processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); direct marketing (including profiling); and processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
* Rights in relation to automated individual decision-making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement); and profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual).

9.2 These rights apply in some, but not all circumstances. You can find more information about data protection and your rights of privacy from the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.gov.uk. You can also find general information about data protection within the EU here.

10. Information about us

10.1 GMWatch Ltd is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales under registration number 13348994. Our registered address and administrative office is GMWatch Ltd, 99 Brentwood Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 7ET.

11. Contact us about privacy

11.1 If you have any comments or queries or complaints in connection with our privacy policy, would like to access your data or need to send us updated or corrected information, please contact us by email at editor [AT] gmwatch.org  or write to us at: 99 Brentwood Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 7ET.