PRIVACY POLICY

We are an informal community collective and not a registered company, organization, or charity.  Our volunteer organizers live at Glebe House, Etchingham Road, Burwash TN19 7BG.  The terms “we” or “us” refers to the organizers.  We are committed to protecting individuals’ personal information which is disclosed to or collected by us.

We may collect personal data about you when you contact us, using our website, social media platforms, telephone or in writing to our postal address.

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We also gather data about the use of our website, or social media platforms, such as which pages are most visited (or of interest) or how many people are visiting or “liking” us on social media platforms.

We may use your personal data to do the following:

• provide you with information that you have asked for;

• help train our team;

• create statistics, test computer systems, analyse customer information, create profiles. Help prevent and detect debt, fraud and loss.

• provide you with updates on future activities or events. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

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We may also monitor and record any communications we have with you to make sure our values are upheld and we meet our responsibilities.

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When we contact you, we may use any information we hold about you to do so. We therefore may contact you by email, phone, text message, other forms of electronic and written communications or by visiting you.

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We don’t sell your personal data to third parties.

We will not disclose your information without your written permission.  There are circumstances where we may need to disclose your personal data to third parties where we are legally obliged to do so, or in order to apply or enforce our legal rights.

We’re based in the UK, and as such the vast majority of your personal data will be stored in the UK, in a secure physical or electronic form. However, we use third party service providers to provide email capabilities, host our social media presence and support our website. Therefore, we may need to use the services of a supplier outside the European Economic Area. Where this is the case, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely.

We keep records for as long as required. Where your information is no longer required, we will dispose of it in a secure manner.

Under data protection legislation, you can request a copy of personal information we hold about you at any time. If you find any inaccuracies, we’re obliged to correct that.  Please do remember though, that we are under an obligation to keep personal data secure, so please understand if we require reasonable proof of ID.

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Please address any requests to: Data Protection, The Restoration Partnership, Glebe House, Etchingham Rd, Burwash TN19 7BG.  We’ll respond as soon as we are able, and in any event within the statutory timescale set, but please do provide as much information as you can about why you think we hold your data so we can locate records quickly. 

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We may update this policy at any time – so feel free to check it from time to time. Any significant changes will be notified by placing a prominent notice on the website.

This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) which is stored on your computer to hold data about the website.

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Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

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We use cookies for certain functions to improve the usability of the website. These cookies do not contain any personal information about you.

Please address any requests to: Data Protection, The Restoration Partnership, Glebe House, Etchingham Rd, Burwash TN19 7BG.  We’ll respond as soon as we are able, and in any event within the statutory timescale set, but please do provide as much information as you can about why you think we hold your data so we can locate records quickly. 

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We may update this policy at any time – so feel free to check it from time to time. Any significant changes will be notified by placing a prominent notice on the website.

Strictly Necessary

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These “First Party Cookies” are required for the correct operation of this site and can only be accessed by this site when being visited. No “third party” can read these cookies or use them to track or analyse your internet activities. Typically these cookies are used to remember your settings, such as your cookie preference, or the operation of shopping baskets, carts, wish-lists or forms.

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Performance

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Performance cookies, such as Google Analytics, are used to obtain statistics about visitors, numbers of pages viewed, most popular pages etc… and enable us to optimise the website to improve your internet experience and viewing enjoyment.

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Third Party

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Our site might have YouTube video content, pictures from Flickr, or Facebook and Google “Likes” or “Share this”, all of which need cookies to function correctly. These cookies are not set by us and we have no control over the use, or access to these cookies, so we advise you to check the third party website for further information.

However, enabling cookies in your web browser is necessary if you wish your selections to be remembered for future visits on the same computer. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.