The Friends of Monkey Park understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. Werespect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.friendsofmonkeypark.org.uk (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is requested to continue using our site.
1. Information About Us
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that wehave no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
Depending upon your use of Our Site, we may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data set out in the table below, using the methods also set out in the table. We do not collect any personal data relating to children or data relating to criminal convictions and/or offences.
Data Collected |
How We Collect the Data |
Email Address |
Through the Newsletter signup form on Our Site |
Contact information including name & email address |
The Contact Us form on Our Site |
Business information including business name & email address |
The Contact Us form on Our Site. |
Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. The following table describes how we may use your personal data, and ourlawful bases for doing so:
What We Do |
What Data We Use |
Our Lawful Basis |
Communicating with you |
Name & email address |
To reply to comments you have sent through our website |
Supplying you with information by emailthat you have opted-in-to (you may opt-out at any time by clicking the links in the email. |
Email address |
Keeping you informed about updates to our project. |
With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email with information, news, and updates on our projects. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.We will always obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes and you will be able to opt-out at any time.
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for the following periods (or, where there is no fixed period, the following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept):
Type of Data |
How Long We Keep It |
Contact information including name and email address. |
Until the project ends or you opt-opt |
Business information including business name, email address |
Until the project ends or you opt-opt |
We will only store or transfer your personal data within the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation.
Where transfer your data to a third party based in the US, the data is protected as they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar to those in Europe.
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.
In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority
10. Can I Withhold Information?
You may access Our Site without providing any personal data at all. However, to use some features and functions available on Our Site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 12. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
We will respond to your subject access request within 28 days of receiving it. Normally, weaim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
To contact usabout anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details for the attention of the Data Protection Officer:
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of OurSite following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 25th March 2019.