Privacy Policy for ScottishPolicy.org
Effective Date: 1st May 2025
Welcome to Scottish Policy. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Information We Collect
– Personal Information: When you register for an account, sign up for newsletters, participate in surveys, or engage in other activities on our site, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.
– Non-Personal Information: We may collect non-personal information about you whenever you interact with our site. This may include the browser name, the type of computer, technical information about your means of connection to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar information.
– Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
– To provide, operate, and maintain our website and political activities.
– To improve, personalize, and expand our website and political engagement.
– To understand and analyse how you use our website and political content.
– To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for political updates, newsletters, and other information relating to our political activities.
– To process your donations and manage your contributions.
– To find and prevent fraud and ensure the security of our website.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal information:
– Consent: We may ask for your consent to process your personal information for specific purposes.
– Contract: Processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
– Legal Obligation: Processing your personal information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.
– Legitimate Interests: Processing your personal information is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.
4. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our trusted affiliates and partners.
We may use third-party service providers to help us operate our website and administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or processing donations. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
5. Security of Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our site.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
– The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
– The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
– The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
– The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
– By email: larch@scottishpolicy.org