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The Vavengers's Privacy Policy

Last update: 1 January 2022

Why and who?

The Vavengers cares about privacy and protecting the Personal Data handled by us. This means that we care about your personal integrity and actively work to protect it.  

In this Policy we overall describe how and the purposes for which we use your Personal Data as well as what lawful basis we use and what measures we take to protect Personal Data. We also provide information on how you exercise the rights you have linked to our Processing of Personal data.  

The Vavengers Reg. No. (1184202) (The Vavengers, we, us, our) is the Controller of all Personal Data listed in this Privacy Policy (the Policy).  

This Policy provides information on how we handle Personal Data when you communicate with us, use the Services or visit our website https://thevavengers.co.uk (together the Functions).  

The intended recipients of the information provided in this Policy are:

●     Users of the Services (professional & charitable)

●     Potential customers (beneficiaries)

●     Customers (beneficiaries)

●     Employees of potential customers 

●   Funders, partners and potential funders & partners

●     Employees of existing customers 

●     Visitors of our website 

Definitions

Applicable Law refers to the legislation applicable to the Processing of Personal Data, including the UK GDPR, supplementary national legislation, as well as practices, guidelines and recommendations issued by the Commissioner or other relevant regulatory authority.  

Commissioner means the Information Commissioner's Office (the UK regulator for data protection issues).

Controller is the company/organisation that decides for what purposes and in what way personal data is to be processed and is responsible for the Processing of Personal Data in accordance with Applicable Law.  

Data Subject is the living, natural person whose Personal Data is being processed.  

Personal Data is all information relating, directly or indirectly, to an identifiable natural person. 

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal data, such as storage, modification, reading, handover and similar.  

Processor is the company/organisation that processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller and can therefore only process the Personal Data according to the instructions of the Controller and the Applicable Law.  

The Services We provide Educational workshops, mentoring and financially supporting organisations and Community Ambassadors, emergency relief support to beneficiaries. 

Special Category of Personal Data or Sensitive Personal Data means any information that reveals ethnic origin, political views, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data to uniquely identify a natural person, health information or information about a physical person's sexual life or sexual orientation.  

UK GDPR means the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679).  

The definitions above shall apply in the Policy regardless of whether they are capitalised or not.  

The Vavengers's role as a Controller

The information in this Policy covers Personal Data Processing for which The Vavengers is the Controller. As a Controller we are responsible for the Processing for which we decide the purpose of ("the why") and the means of the Processing (what methods, what Personal Data and how long the Personal Data is stored). The Policy does not describe how we Process Personal Data in the role of a Processor (i.e. when we process Personal Data on behalf of our customers).  

The Vavengers is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) in England and Wales. The Vavengers collects data from supporters, beneficiaries, project partners, funders, employees and volunteers  and stores these data in a secure database which can only be accessed by The Vavengers staff for marketing, analysis and reporting purposes.

The Vavengers's Processing of Personal Data

We have a responsibility to describe and demonstrate how we fulfil the requirements that are imposed on us when we Process your Personal Data. This section aims to give you an understanding of what type of Personal Data we Process and on what reasons. 

For how long do we store your Personal Data?

We will keep your Personal Data as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. Depending on the lawful basis on which we support the Processing, this may a) be regulated in a contract, b) be dependent on valid consent, c) be stated in legislation or d) follow by an internal assessment based on a legitimate interest assessment (LIA). In the list below, we indicate, where possible, the period during which the Personal Data will be stored and the criteria used to determine the storage period. 

We never store your Personal Data longer than necessary and delete Personal Data regularly. The Vavengers also takes reasonable actions to keep the Personal Data being Processed updated and to delete outdated and otherwise incorrect or redundant Personal Data.

Processing

The main purpose of the data processing undertaken by us is to provide, carry out and improve our services to you. There are several different reasons why we may need to collect, manage and save your data. 

We mainly Process the following types of Personal Data:

●  Beneficiary details, funder details and partner details to be able to produce internal and external reports

●     Contact details to be able to confirm your identity, to verify your personal and contact details and to be able to communicate with you

●     Information on your usage of the service or product to improve our services provided to you 

●     IP-address to perform customer analysis and for content on our site to be presented effectively to you and the device you use

●     Payment information to be able to offer (for example direct debit and other payment options)

Condition for Processing Special Category of Personal Data: We collect the data subject's explicit consent for the Processing (art 9.2.a UK GDPR). 

How do we get access to your Personal Data?

We collect your Personal Data in a number of different ways. We mainly get access to your Personal Data: 

●     By you providing your Personal Data to us when you use the Functions 

●     Through third-party analysis technology such as cookies

Lawful basis

In order for us to be able to process your Personal Data, it is required that we have so-called legal basis for each process. In our business, we process your personal data mainly on the following grounds:

Consent - The Vavengers may process your personal data after you have given your consent to the Processing. Information regarding the processing is always provided in connection to the request of consent.

Your rights

You are the one in control of your Personal Data and we always strive to ensure that you can exercise your rights as efficiently and smoothly as possible.  

Access - You always have the right to receive information about the Processing of data that concerns you. We only provide information if we have been able to verify that it is you that are requesting the information.  

Rectification - If you think that any of your Personal Data that we process is incorrect, let us know and we will fix it!  

Erasure - Do you want us to completely forget about you? You have the right to be forgotten and request deletion of your Personal Data when the Processing is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. If we are required to retain your information under applicable law or a contract that we have entered with you, we will ensure that it is processed only for the specific purpose set forth in such applicable law or contract. We will thereafter erase the information as soon as possible.  

Objections - Do you disagree with our assessment that a legitimate interest for Processing your Personal Data overrides your interest in protecting your privacy? Don't worry - in such case, we will review our legitimate interest assessment. Of course, we add your objection to the balance and make a new assessment to see if we can still justify our Processing of your Personal Data. If you object to direct marketing, we will immediately delete your personal information without making an assessment.  

Restriction - You can also ask us to restrict our Processing of your Personal Data:  

●     Whilst we are Processing a request from you for any of your other rights;

●     If, instead of requesting erasure, you want us to limit the Processing of Personal Data for a specific purpose. For example, if you do not want us to send advertising to you in the future, we still need to save your name in order to know that we should not contact you; or

●     In cases where we no longer need the information in relation to the purpose for which it was collected, provided that you do not have an interest in retaining it to make a legal claim.

Data portability - We may provide you with the data that you have submitted to us or that we have received from you in connection with a contract that we have entered with you. You will receive your information in a commonly used and machine-readable format that you can transfer to another personal data manager. 

Withdraw consent - If you have given consent to one or several specific Processing(s) of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and thus ask us to terminate the Processing immediately. Please note that you can only withdraw your consent for future Processing of Personal Data and not for Processing that has already taken place.  

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at info@thevavengers.co.uk.

Transfer of personal data

In order to run our business, we may need help from others who will process Personal Data on our behalf, so-called Processors.

In cases where our Processors transfer Personal Data outside the UK, we have ensured that the level of protection is adequate, and in compliance with Applicable Law, by ensuring that one of the following requirements is fulfilled: 

●     it has been determined that the level of protection is adequate in the third country where the data is processed;

●     the Processor has signed up to the EU Commission's standard contract clauses (SCCs) for data transfer to non-EU/EEA countries; or

●     the Processor has taken other appropriate safeguards prior to the transfer and that such safeguards comply with Applicable law.

We have entered into Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) with all our Processors. Each DPA sets out, among other things, how the Processor may process the Personal Data and what security measures are required for the Processing.  

We may also need to disclose your personal information to certain designated authorities in order to fulfill obligations under applicable law or legally binding judgements.  

Security measures

The Vavengers has taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that your Personal Data is processed securely and protected from loss, abuse and unauthorised access. Organisational measures are measures that are implemented in work methods and routines within our organisation. Technical measures are measures implemented through technical solutions.

Organisational security measures:  

●     Internal governance documents such as policies or instructions 

●     Login and password management 

●     Information security policy

●     Data protection impact assessments

Technical security measures:

●     Access control levels 

●     Access logs 

●     Secure networks 

●     Data back-ups 

●     Regular security inspections 

●     Two-step verification 

Cookies

The Vavengers uses cookies and similar tracking techniques to analyse the use of the Functions so that we can give you the best user experience. For more information on how we use cookies, see our Cookie Policy (Thevavengers.co.uk/privacy).

If we don't keep our promise

If you think that we are not Processing your Personal Data correctly, even after you have notified us of this, you are always entitled to submit your complaint to the Commissioner. You can contact the Commissioner on 03031231113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/.

More information about our obligations and your rights can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-protection-rights-for-data-subjects/data-protection-rights-for-data-subjects  

Changes to this policy

We reserve the rights to make changes to this Policy. In the event that the change affects our obligations or your rights, we will inform you about the changes in advance so that you are given the opportunity to take a position on the updated policy.

Contact

Please contact us if you have questions about your rights or if you have any other questions about how we process your personal information: info@thevavengers.co.uk