Privacy Policy

Helping injured, abandoned and orphaned hedgehogs.

enquiries@warwickshirehedgehogrescue.org

This Privacy Policy demonstrates how we respect privacy when we deal with personal information that we collect. It explains the information we collect and how we use it.

1. Personal Data That We Process

The following table lists the types of data we collect and the legal basis, under current data protection legislation, on which the data are processed.

2. How We Use Your Data

We use your data in a manner that is appropriate to the purpose for which the data were collected. For example, we may use your data to:

3. When We Share Your Data

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties. Your data will be passed to third parties in the following circumstances:

4. How Long We Keep Your Data

We take the principles of data minimisation and removal seriously and ensure that we collect the minimum amount of data for the associated purpose and delete those data promptly once they are no longer required.

5. Rights You Have Over Your Data

You have a range of rights over your data, including the following:

If wishing to exercise any of your rights you should contact us. We shall act in accordance with your instructions as soon as reasonably possible.

A full summary of legal rights over personal data can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website here: https://ico.org.uk/

Please note that relying on some of these rights, such as the right to deleting personal data, may make it impossible for us to continue to deliver some services.

6. Cookies & Usage Tracking

We do not use cookies to collect personal data during visits to our website. Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of other like-minded organisations. If you follow a link to or from any of these websites, these ‘external’ websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. The privacy policies for these external websites should be checked before submitting your personal data.

7. Website Users And Inappropriate Website Content

If anyone posts or sends any content that we believe to be inappropriate, offensive or in breach of any laws, make defamatory statements on our social media pages, we may use their personal information to inform relevant third parties such as their internet provider or law enforcement agencies.

8. Review Of This Policy

We keep this Policy under regular review and shall publish the current version on our website. This Policy was last updated in October 2021.

enquiries@warwickshirehedgehogrescue.org

This Privacy Policy demonstrates how we respect privacy when we deal with personal information that we collect. It explains the information we collect and how we use it.

1. Personal Data That We Process

The following table lists the types of data we collect and the legal basis, under current data protection legislation, on which the data are processed.

Purpose

Data (key elements)

Basis

Enquiring about our organisation and its work

Name, email address, message

Legitimate interests – we read and store messages so that we can respond in the way that the sender would expect.

Making a donation

Name, email, address, telephone number, payment information

Legitimate interests – this information is necessary for us to fulfil the intention of donating money and the expectation of receiving a confirmation message.

Accepting a hedgehog into our care

Name, address, telephone number, gift aid declaration

2. How We Use Your Data

We use your data in a manner that is appropriate to the purpose for which the data were collected. For example, we may use your data to:

reply to enquiries;

handle donations or other transactions that the donor initiates;

return hedgehogs to the site at which they were found;

manage Gift Aid declarations.

3. When We Share Your Data

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties. Your data will be passed to third parties in the following circumstances:

when required by law to do so, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime;

when you ask us to do so.

4. How Long We Keep Your Data

We take the principles of data minimisation and removal seriously and ensure that we collect the minimum amount of data for the associated purpose and delete those data promptly once they are no longer required.

5. Rights You Have Over Your Data

You have a range of rights over your data, including the following:

to ask for rectification and/or deletion of your personal information;

to access to your personal information;

to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner if you feel your rights have been infringed.

If wishing to exercise any of your rights you should contact us. We shall act in accordance with your instructions as soon as reasonably possible.

A full summary of legal rights over personal data can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website here: https://ico.org.uk/

Please note that relying on some of these rights, such as the right to deleting personal data, may make it impossible for us to continue to deliver some services.

6. Cookies & Usage Tracking

7. Website Users And Inappropriate Website Content

If anyone posts or sends any content that we believe to be inappropriate, offensive or in breach of any laws, make defamatory statements on our social media pages, we may use their personal information to inform relevant third parties such as their internet provider or law enforcement agencies.

8. Review Of This Policy

We keep this Policy under regular review and shall publish the current version on our website. This Policy was last updated in October 2021.