Privacy Policy
Beyond Difference respects the privacy of every person who visits our website and is committed to ensuring a safe online experience. This privacy statement outlines the personal data we may collect about you and how we may process it, as well as how our service providers might do the same. This privacy statement also tells you about your rights to control this data.
Our website address is: http://beyonddifference.org
Our email address is: info@beyond-difference.org
Responsibility for your data
Beyond Difference is a not for profit organisation and collects data only to establish, maintain and administer membership. Beyond Difference is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR), but is not required to register with the Information Commissioners Office.
Lawful basis
We collect data on the basis of your consent for us to do so.
Why we collect data
Beyond Difference collects, stores and processes data for the following purposes:
- to establish maintain and administer membership lists
- to administer public events and ensure attendance limits are respected
- to promote public events
Confidentiality and security of your personal data
We are committed to keeping the data you provide us secure and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from loss, misuse or alteration. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorised access. We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- unauthorised access
- improper use or disclosure
- unauthorised modification
- unlawful destruction or accidental loss
All our committee members, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of your personal data, are obliged to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for us in line with the standards set out in the GDPR.
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with any third party.
How long do we retain your data
Contact information for members will be retained unless and until they ask us to remove them from our membership list.
What rights you have over your data
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.