BRISTOL OUTREACH SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS
GDPR Privacy Notice 2022
This website is operated by BRISTOL OUTREACH SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS. The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:
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who we are;
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how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information;
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your rights in relation to your personal information; and
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how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.
Who we are
BRISTOL OUTREACH SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS ('we', 'us', 'our') collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you ('you', 'your', 'yours').
The personal information we collect and use
Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not include any anonymised forms of information).
1. Types of personal information
We may process the following types of personal information in relation to you:
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Contact details such as name, telephone number and email address.
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Payment information (e.g donations).
How your personal information is collected
This section describes how the above types of personal information are collected by us. Your personal information will be collected as follows:
1. Personal information obtained from you directly
We will sometimes obtain information from you directly, including when you:
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Enquire about our organisation and its work.
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Subscribe to our email updates
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Make a donation.
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Sign up as a member.
2. Personal information obtained by use of cookies or other automated means
We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of cookies and other similar technology. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects ('flash cookies') and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users' actions and activities, and to store information about them. Usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain information regarding:
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How many times a user visits the site.
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The specific pages visited.
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Order information
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Search Engine Optimisation, for example how a user comes across the website, particular search terms used and referral methods if any.
On the first occasion that you use our site we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent, such technologies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.
For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see below.
3. Changes to the way in which we collect your personal information
In the event that we need to obtain personal information in relation to you from any other source than those described above, we shall notify you of this.
How we use your personal information
1. General purposes
In general, your personal information will generally be processed for the following purposes:
1. To communicate with you, for example responding to enquiries.
2. Handling donations or other transactions that you initiate.
3. Where you explicitly agree, send marketing communications via email relating to our work, which we think may be of interest to you.
2. Monitoring
We may monitor communications, and in doing so we may obtain your personal information through this process. We will undertake monitoring in the following circumstances:
Emails may be recorded to improve standards, training, quality assurance and/or fraud prevention.
Lawful basis for processing of your personal information
We have described above the purposes for which we may process your personal information. These purposes will at all times be justified by UK data protection law.
1. General lawful bases
The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are:
(1) where we have your consent to use your data for a specific purpose;
(2) where it is necessary to enter into a legal contract with you or to perform obligations under a legal contract with you;
(3) where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation;
(4) where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you;
(5) where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of another person); and/or
(6) where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our official functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law.
In general, in order to meet the purposes we have described above, we will process your personal information where it is necessary to protect our legitimate interests, and legitimate interests of others but only where your own interests and rights do not override these interests. Those legitimate interests are:
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Generally to improve and ensure functionality of our services.
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Data collection is necessary for us to read and store your messages / communications, so that we can respond appropriately.
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Data collection is necessary for us to fulfil your intention of donating money and your expectation of receiving confirmation of transactions.
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Where you visit our website, it is necessary for us to store a small amount of information, usually through cookies, to deliver functionality that you would expect.
Sharing of your personal information
On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party, we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place.
In order to meet the purposes we have described above, we may on some occasions need to share your personal information with other third parties. Those third parties will be:
Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website usage by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information collected by Google Analytics about usage of our website is not personally identifiable. The data is collected anonymously, stored by Google and used by us to create reports about website usage. Google's privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
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Necessity of information
Where information is requested from you and you do not provide this:
Please note that relying on some of these rights, such as the right to deleting your data, will make it impossible for us to continue to deliver some services to you. However, where possible we will always try to allow the maximum access to your rights while continuing to deliver as many services to you as possible.
We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.
How long your personal information will be kept
Your personal information will only be kept for the period of time which is necessary for us to fulfil the above purposes.
We envisage that your personal information shall be retained by us for 3 years:
We will seek renewal of consent at least every three years.
After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or anonymised.
Keeping your information secure
We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures are as follows:
User accounts protected via unique passwords.
Transactions handled via third party: https://www.wix.com
We have proper procedures in place to deal with any data security breach, which shall be reported and dealt with in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. You shall also be notified of any suspected data breach concerning your personal information.
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Use of your information outside of the United Kingdom
We have described above the purposes and lawful bases for which we process your personal information. In order to meet those needs, we may transfer your personal information outside of the United Kingdom.
Your personal information may be transferred to:
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Within the EU abiding relevant GDPR regulations as described within this policy document.
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We will only pass data to third parties outside of the EU where appropriate safeguards are in place as defined by Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
The recipient country or countries listed above have not been deemed by the United Kingdom to have adequate protection in place.
As a result, we have taken the measures to ensure that the security of your personal information can be maintained which is:
The use of a code of conduct which has been approved by the ICO. We shall require that any international recipient of your personal information must be signed up to this code of conduct. This code of conduct contains appropriate safeguards to ensure the security of your personal information.
Children
Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not intend to collect data from children.
Your rights
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
(1) fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information;
(2) access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Statement is already designed to address;
(3) require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold;
(4) require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations;
(5) receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations;
(6) object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing;
(7) object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you;
(8) object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it;
(9) object to processing our your personal information where we are doing so in reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground;
(10) otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
(11) claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws; and/or
(12) in any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal information, you may withdraw this consent at any time.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on your rights under the General Data Protection Regulations.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact JULIE DEMPSTER in the following manner:
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Complaints procedure
Please contact Julie Dempster at boshoutreach@gmail.com to lodge a formal complaint, which we will look at responding to, as soon as we can.
Changes to the privacy policy
This privacy policy was published on 10th March 2022 and last updated on 10th March 2022.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes via email if opted in.
Contacting us
The relevant person to contact regarding your personal information is: JULIE DEMPSTER.
Any requests or questions regarding the use of your personal information should be made to the above named person using the following method:
Sources of further Information
This policy provides key information to you regarding the processed of your information. For certain areas of our information processing, we have further comprehensive details contained in other documentation. This information can be located as follows:
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Our policy regarding the use of cookies and other similar technologies entitled GOOGLE ANALYTICS can be located at: