Privacy Policy – The JEllie Foundation
Charity No: SC050866
This privacy policy sets out how The JEllie Foundation (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses and protects any information that you give The JEllie Foundation when you use this website or contact us for service delivery via email or social media.
The JEllie Foundation is a charity registered with charity number SC050866 with a mail address at Blenheim House, Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, AB15 4DT with the contact email address events@chester-hotel.com and, for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), is the data controller.
The JEllie Foundation is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data or usage information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, in connection with your use of this website (the “Website”).
Please read this policy carefully so that you understand your rights in relation to your personal data, and how we will collect, use and process your personal data. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy in general or any part of it, you should not access the Website. If we make any material changes to this privacy policy, we will post the updated privacy policy here and notify our users. You should check this policy frequently to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated on 13 May 2022.
What we collect
You provide information by contacting us or donating to us via our website, via email, by phone, by joining one of our The JEllie Foundation groups, or by attending one of our events. Depending on how you provide your information, we will collect some or all of the following information when you contact us or attend one of our events:
• your name;
• email address;
• telephone number;
• where you attend one of our events, your address and proof of address;
• reason for contacting us;
• age;
• gender;
• contact details;
• brief summary of why you have called.
Where you donate via any online giving portal such as Givergy, this portal will send us the following information about you where we request it:
• your name;
• email address; and
• address
What we do with the information we gather
As it is in our legitimate interests to understand your needs we use your personal data:
• for internal record keeping;
• to improve and tailor our services;
• to arrange events; and
• where you consent, to send you promotional emails about new projects, or request feedback, or provide other information which we think you will find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
Where you donate via online portals, these portals such as Givergy will send us your name, email address and address where we request this from them. We will use this information where it is in our legitimate interests in order to determine which events our donors receive sponsorship for.
Security
Unfortunately, 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 your information transmitted through the Website or over email; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data against loss, theft and unauthorised use, access or modification.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.
Sharing and storing your personal data
The personal data provided when you contact us or attend one of our events is stored on our server which is based in the UK.
We will also share your personal data in emergencies, where we will share your personal data with the emergency services, to the extent necessary to protect your vital interests.
How long do we store your personal data?
We retain your information as follows:
• If you donate, we will retain the personal data collected for the purposes of administering the donation for 24 months, and then the data is deleted.
After you have terminated your use of The JEllie Foundation services, we will store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format in order to use this data for statistical purposes to improve our services and in order to complete grant applications.
Your rights
You have certain rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you. Some of these only apply in certain circumstances. We have described these situations below, as well as how you can exercise your rights. To exercise any of your rights, please fill out the following form and submit it to this address events@chester-hotel.com.
Please note that for each of the rights below we will, in some instances, have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case.
• You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
o Access: You have the right to know whether we process personal data about you, ad if we do, to access data we hold about you and certain information about how we use it and whom we share it with.
o Portability: You have the right to receive a subset of the personal data you provide us if we process it on the bases of our contract with you or with your consent in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and a right to request that we transfer such personal data to another party. If you wish for us to transfer the personal data to another party, please ensure you detail that party and note that we can only do so where it is technically feasible. We are not responsible for the security of the personal data or its processing once received by the third party.
o Correction: You have the right to require us to correct any personal data held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete data completed.
o Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase the personal data we hold about you in the following circumstances:
> where you believe it is no longer necessary for us to hold the personal data;
> we are processing it on the basis of your consent and you wish to withdraw your consent;
> we are processing your data on the basis of our legitimate interest and you object to such processing;
> you no longer wish us to use your data to send you marketing; or
> you believe we are unlawfully processing your data.
Please provide as much detail as possible on your reasons for the request to assist us in determining whether you have a valid basis for erasure.
o Restriction of Processing to Storage Only: You have a right to require us to stop processing the personal data we hold about you other than for storage purposes in the following circumstances:
> you believe the personal data is not accurate for the period it takes for us to verify whether the data is accurate;
> we wish to erase the personal data as the processing we are doing is unlawful but you want us to simply restrict the use of that data;
> we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing but you require us to retain the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
> you have objected to us processing personal data we hold about you on the basis of our legitimate interest and you wish us to stop processing the personal data whilst we determine whether there is an overriding interest in us retaining such personal data.
o Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of data about you and we will consider your request. Please provide us with detail as to your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compelling overriding interest in us continuing to process such data or we need to process it in relation to legal claims.
Withdrawal of Consent
Where you have provided your consent to us processing your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing events@chester-hotel.com.
Objection to Marketing
At any time you have the right to object to our processing of data about you in order to contact you about The JEllie Foundation news and events and we will stop processing the data for that purpose.
Complaints
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at events@chester-hotel.com and we will endeavour to deal with your request.
This is without prejudice to your right to launch a claim with the Information Commissioner’s Office or the data protection supervisory authority in the EU country in which you live or work where you think we have infringed data protection laws.
How we use cookies
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We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. We use cookies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of our services. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. In some circumstances, this will prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Links to other websites
Our website will, in some circumstances, contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.