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The Albertus Institute: privacy notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

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·       Contact details

·       What information we collect, use, and why

·       Lawful bases and data protection rights

·       Where we get personal information from

·       How long we keep information

·       Who we share information with

·       How to complain

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‍ ‍Conntact details

Email: info@albertus.scot

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to receive donations or funding and organize fundraising activities:

‍ ‍·       Names and contact details

‍ ‍We collect or use the following personal information for service updates or marketing purposes:

‍ ‍·       Names and contact details

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Lawful bases and data protection rights

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Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

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Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

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·       Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.

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·       Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.

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·       Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.

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·       Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.

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·       Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.

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·       Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organization, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.

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·       Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

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If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

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To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

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Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to receive donations or funding and organizing fundraising activities are:

·       Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

‍ ‍Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

·       Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

‍Where we get personal information from

·       Directly from you

How long we keep information

You may unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time and every time we contact you via our mailing list (using Mailchimp; see below) you have an opportunity to unsubscribe. When you do this, we will delete your contact details. If you contact us for a query, we will retain your contact details only for as long as we need to answer your query to your satisfaction, after which your details are deleted.

‍ ‍Who we share information with

‍ ‍Data processors

‍ ‍Mailchimp

Mailchimp delivers our email updates and newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our communications. You can unsubscribe from our mailing lists at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails. For more information, please see the Mailchimp Global Privacy Statement: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/

‍‍Squarespace

Squarespace is our website provider. You may choose to contact us through the website at the email address provided. For more information on what this entails see the Squarespace Privacy Statement:

‍ ‍https://www.squarespace.com/privacy

‍ ‍Eventbrite

‍ ‍We use Eventbrite to ask you to register for our events and sometimes to buy tickets from us or make donations to us. For more information see the Eventbrite Privacy Statement:

‍ ‍ttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/help/en-gb/articles/460838/eventbrite-privacy-policy/

‍How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us at the following address:

‍ The Albertus Institute

24 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, Scotland

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If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO. 

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The ICO’s address:

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Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

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Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

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