At Relate West Surrey, we are committed to keeping your personal information safe and being clear about how we collect your data, how we store it and what we do with it.
This privacy policy applies to the Relate West Surrey, whether you want information, support or training from us, buy products or use our services, donate to us, work or campaign for us.
All personal data provided by you through this website will be held by Relate West Surrey.
Our address is Moorcroft Centre for the Community, Old School Place, Westfield, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9PB. Our phone number is 01483 602998. Our data protection registration number is: Z4901203.
This Privacy Notice relates specifically to personal data that you provide to us through the www.relatewestsurrey.org.uk website. There are hyperlinks contained within our website which link to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and we recommend that you consider those when using their websites. We do not accept any liability or responsibility in terms of the privacy and security practices of these third party organisations and their websites.
Information we may collect from you
When you receive a service from our website or submit feedback, we may ask you for personal data and other information to allow us to provide you with the services or information that you require. This could include the following:
∙ Full name
∙ Email address
∙ Telephone number
∙ Details of your enquiry
∙ Name of your organisation
Information you give to us indirectly
∙ We store data about your visits to our website, for example, your location data or IP address when you use our website.
∙ We store information about how you navigate our website, although this cannot be used to personally identify you.
∙ We may also collect and store your personal information if you interact with us on our social media channels: Facebook and Twitter. This will depend on your own privacy settings on these individual channels, so make sure you check these first.
Certain types of personal information are recognised by data protection law as being more sensitive, ‘special category’ information. Information such as sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, religious or political opinion, data concerning your health (mental or physical) or your sex life fall into this category.
Where special category information is provided by you to enquire about our services or submit feedback, we will only process this information with your explicit consent.
Relate West Surrey will only collect Special category information like this where it informs the provision of the service to you. Whenever we do this, we will state clearly at the time, why this information is required . We may also gather sensitive personal information if you choose to share your experiences with us for a case study, but we will only do this with your consent.
If you’re a young person aged 13 or under. You must get the permission of your parent/guardian before providing Relate with any personal information.
How do we intend to use your personal data?
We will use your personal information to do the following:
∙ Process one-off or regular donations and to claim Gift Aid.
∙ Make our marketing campaigns more targeted and relevant to potential clients and donors;
∙ Respond to direct requests where you contact us with a query – we will use your personal information to respond.
∙ Carry out general administrative tasks like dealing with complaints and feedback, essential record-keeping.
∙ Transact: we will use your personal information to take payments from you when processing orders and payments for services.
∙ Keep you safe: in the event that we reasonably think you (or someone else) is at risk of serious harm or abuse.
∙ Monitoring and evaluation: we use your personal information to inform and develop our service delivery.
∙ Improve your experience of our website, so that we may offer you a more user-friendly navigation of our website.
∙ Process applications to work at Relate: for example, if you fill in an application form or send us your CV or send us information speculatively in respect of possible contract opportunities.
Will my personal data be shared with other organisations?
Your personal data provided by you via our website will only be used by Relate West Surrey.
In exceptional circumstances such as dealing with fraud, credit risk, dealing with abusive online behaviour, to enforce rights, to protect property, to protect human safety, if the law requires it; or if we sell or merge any part of our business, we may pass your personal data to another person or organisation to use for their own purposes. We will not otherwise disclose your personal data to anyone outside Relate West Surrey to use for their own purpose without telling you, for example, by updating this privacy statement.
How long will Relate West Surrey retain my personal data?
At Relate West Surrey, we are committed to retaining your personal information for no longer than necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was first collected. This is in line with guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office. Relate West Surrey may hold some types of data for up to seven years.
For example, in the case of financial transactions like donations and purchases, we will keep your personal information for as long as legally required in respect of tax or accounting purposes, which could be anything up to six years after a transaction has taken place.
Where will my personal data be kept?
Once we have received your personal data we will use recognised industry standard procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Your personal data will be under the control of Relate West Surrey. It will be held on our computer system. Parts of our computer system, including our website and email are provided by our UK suppliers of computer systems, and are provided for Relate West Surrey’s sole use. When we print your personal data this will be in the possession and control of our employees, regional centers and counselors at all times and will be securely disposed of when it is considered to be of no further use.
Keeping your personal information safe
We have both digital and operational safeguards to make sure your data is secure at Relate West Surrey. Access to information is reviewed on a regular basis and limited to those people who actually need to access it, and are assigned the permission to do so.
All Relate online webforms are protected by secure end-to-end encryption. Where we pass highly sensitive data over the internet such as credit or debit card details, Relate uses TLS to encrypt data between the client and our partners.
Relate is PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant and uses PCI compliant providers to collect this data on our behalf; we don’t store this data on our own systems.
There are, however, inherent risks to passing information over public networks and Relate cannot 100% guarantee the security of data handled in this way. Relate’s web servers are located in England and Ireland.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at The Data Controller, Relate West Surrey, Moorcroft Centre for the Community, Old School Place, Westfield, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9PB or appointments@relatewestsurrey.org.uk if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at the contact details above.
You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
