Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Welcome to the CONF UK’s privacy policy.

 

CONF UK respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you became a member of our organisation and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

1 IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

 
Purpose of this privacy policy

 

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how CONF UK collects and processes your personal data when you sign up for our membership and our newsletter.

 

Our membership is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

 

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

 
Controller

 

CONF UK is a Not-for-Profit company and is incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee under the laws of England and Wales with company number 13266444 and registered address at Cedar House, Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0FW, England.

 

CONF UK is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as CONF UK, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our privacy team at privacy@confuk.co.uk

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

 
Changes to the privacy policy

 

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 14th April 2021. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address you have provided to us.

 
Your duty to inform us of changes

 

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

 

2 THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

 

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

 

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

 

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender and country of domicile.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers and place and type of business.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

 

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 
If you fail to provide personal data

 

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

 

3 HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

 

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Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you

 

  • become a member
  • contact us using one of our online forms
  • sign up for our email newsletters
  • engage with us on social media
  • register or attend one of our meetings or hosted events
  • request marketing to be sent to you

 

4 HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we collect and use your personal information by relying on the legitimate interest legal basis. This is because when you, for example, request to receive services or products from CONF.UK, we have a legitimate organisational interest to use your personal information to respond to you and there is no overriding prejudice to you by using your personal information for this purpose. This is also the case where we need to take steps to protect our network security or risk of fraud.

 

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

 

Marketing

 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

 

Promotional offers from us

 

We may use your Identity and Contact Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

 

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

 

Photography and Filming

 

Certain event and/or social functions may be photographed and/or filmed and some of this content may be used for future CONF.UK marketing materials, member communications, products or services. Should you have any concerns with regard to this, or do not wish to be featured in any of these materials please contact us.

 

Opting out

 

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us.

 

Change of purpose

 

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

 

5 DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

We may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

 

  • To suppliers or service providers only to provide the products or services you’ve requested from us where, for example, we use a separate company to deliver services to you.
  • To third parties who provide a service to us and are data processors. This would include our trusted partners that work with us, and other entities that act as fundraisers for CONF.UK or provide CONF.UK information and marketing (subject to your communication preferences and our internal policies and procedures). We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
  • Where we are under a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation (for example, to government bodies and law enforcement agencies), or in order to enforce or apply our rights or to protect CONF.UK, for example in cases of suspected fraud or defamation. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

 

6 BREXIT AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

 

Personal Data is primarily processed within the EU/EEA. Where personal data is transferred outside of the EU to Data Processors, we will implement data processing agreements and standard contractual clauses to safeguard data protection rights. Currently, data transfers between the UK and the EU are covered under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the resulting Data Protection Act 2018 and the transition arrangement between the two parties. In the event of no data protection agreements between the UK and the EU, we will implement appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses for data transfers.

 

7 DATA SECURITY

 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

8 DATA RETENTION

 

How long will you use my personal data for?

 

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

 

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

 

9 YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

 

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You may have the following rights:

 

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

 

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

 

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.

 

Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

 

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

 

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

 

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

 

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.