Privacy, Personal Data and Cookies
Border Collie Rescue is
a charitable institution operating under charitable law in England,
Wales
and Scotland.
Registered throughout the UK as Border Collie Rescue - Charity No 1128983
(UK) - Charity No SC040796 (Scotland) and incorporated as a Non Profit Distributing Charitable Company No 3037504.
PRIVACY STATEMENT - Personal Data
This Privacy Statement sets out the way Border Collie Rescue collects, stores and processes
personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and
the additional provisions of the 2018 EU
General Data Protection Regulations, known in short as GDPR.
"Personal Data" is defined as any information which can
be used to identify someone as an individual person.
Border Collie Rescue collects personal data for a variety of
purposes related to the relationship the charity has with
the individual person.
In doing this Border Collie Rescue is classed as a Data
Controller.
Border Collie Rescue no longer stores any
personal data electronically, online or on any of its computers, other than
emails and email address's.
Border Collie Rescue will not share,
sell or give
personal data, with or to, any third party without the consent of
the person to whom the data relates unless we have a legal
obligation to provide such information to government or law
enforcement agencies.
Personal data held by Border Collie
Rescue is only accessible
on a need to know basis to trustees, officers and
staff who have have signed an agreement of confidentiality
not to share or disclose such data and to keep it secure.
Border Collie Rescue does not partake in email, postal,
telephone or other forms of mass or targeted marketing,
promotional or fundraising campaigns and would only use
personal data to contact individuals for the purposes set
out below and in context of the charity's relationship with
the individual person.
Border Collie Rescue
recognises and respects the privacy of all people it comes
into contact with as part of its work and does not want to
retain or hold any personal information of any individual
unless it is warranted for continuation of its work, the
benefit of its clients or the security of the charity and
its beneficiaries.
Border Collie Rescue holds
personal data for the following purposes under the
provisions of the GDPR:-
Consent
People may consent for Border Collie
Rescue to hold personal data relating to them as an
identifiable individual.
They may consent for their data
to be held and used for a specified purpose or purposes or
generally at the charities discretion.
Data may include
their name and address,
home or work landline telephone numbers, mobile telephone
numbers, email address or addresses and any other contact or
other personal information they consent to provide.
People can provide any data they wish Border Collie Rescue
to hold and can remove consent for the charity to hold all,
or any part, of their personal data at any time.
Data held
by consent will be deleted, in whole or in part according to
instructions, immediately consent is withdrawn.
Consent
and withdrawal of consent must be in writing by email or
post.
Contractual
Border Collie Rescue holds
personal data when there is a contractual service or
arrangement between the charity and an individual and when
an individual has asked the charity to initiate a possible
contractual service or arrangement.
These circumstances will arise
when an individual applies to the charity to adopt a dog or
applies to gift their dog to the charity or applies for any
form of grant or support from the charity or offers support
to the charity with conditions attached by the charity or the
individual offering support. There may also be
other circumstances where personal data would be acquired
and held for contractual or potential contractual reasons.
In cases where an application is made for any potential
formal contractual service or arrangement, Border Collie Rescue
will take the applicants contact name and address and issue
a form to facilitate the application.
When the form is issued the applicants details are destroyed. No personally
identifiable data is held at this stage.
If the applicant returns the form the charity will hold the form as
supplied for a period of one month from its receipt in order
for the applicant to phone the charity, verify receipt and
'activate' the form in order to proceed with the
application.
If the applicant fails to 'activate' their
application within the month, all personal details are
physically removed from the form and destroyed.
Non-identifiable information provided on the form may be
retained for reference and statistical purposes.
Once an application is 'activated' the information on the form is
held until the contract is implemented or until the
individual cancels their request for a contractual service
arrangement or until a period of 12 months has elapsed.
At that point all personal details are physically removed from the form and destroyed.
Non-identifiable information provided on the form may be retained for
reference and statistical purposes.
If other information has been acquired from other sources about the applicant for
the purposes of enabling the requested contractual service
or arrangement to progress any information identifying any
individual will be destroyed.
If the application results in a successful contract being drawn up between the
charity and an individual all personally identifiable
information provided by the individual, by third parties on
behalf of the individual or acquired by the charity from
other sources that is relevant to the contract is retained
for the duration of the contract.
On termination of the contract all personal details relating to any individual
held in relation to the contact is removed and destroyed.
Non-identifiable information provided on the form may be
retained for reference and statistical purposes.
The
duration of a contract will depend on the nature of the
contract.
If a dog is adopted from, or gifted to, the
charity both contracts will remain effective until the death
of the dog, at which point any personally identifiable data
is removed and destroyed.
Non-identifiable information provided on the form may be retained for reference and statistical purposes.
If the dog is returned to the
charity for any reason the contract of the adopter will
cease but while the dog lives the contract of the individual
who gifted the dog continues in effect.
In both cases,
and in any other situation where personally identifiable
details are held in relation to a dog, these details are
held in a file indexed by a reference number issued to the
dog and are kept on paper other than email addresses which
may be kept in an electronic address book on a computer.
If the charity is not informed of the death of the dog, it's
death will be presumed to have occurred at 18 years of age,
to be calculated from the date given as the dogs date of
birth when gifted or estimated if no other information is
available.
In some circumstances an exchange of
emails or letters will form a contractual relationship or the intent
to form a contractual relationship without the need for a formal
written contract.
Legitimate interests
Border Collie Rescue may hold personal data on the basis of
a legitimate interest it may have with a third party.
This may
include details of individuals submitting a gift aid declaration or
offering to fundraise by sponsorship or other means that require a
formal relationship to exist without a contractual obligation or to
offer any means of support or service to the charity on a voluntary basis.
It may include details of individuals -
Who are acting as executor or representative for an estate in which Border Collie Rescue has been left a legacy, or -
Who have informed the charity that they intend to leave a legacy, be it financial or a dog or dogs, or-
Who represent or have been nominated as contacts by contracted clients, or -
Who have an association with a dog at any stage of its history or journey through rescue until it's death, or -
Who are acting as agents for suppliers, services or acting on behalf of contracted individuals, or -
Who's relationship with the charity requires the charity to
retain personal data to enable the relationship to function.
Border Collie Rescue will delete and destroy any such data
on the request of the individual to whom the data refers or at a
point where the relationship ends and the retention of their
personal data is no longer a legitimate interest of the charity.
Individuals right to access their personal data held by Border
Collie Rescue
You can find out what sort of Personal Data is being held by Border Collie Rescue by
writing to our registered office at 57, Market Place, Richmond,
North Yorkshire. DL10 4JQ or by emailing us at
hq@bordercollierescue.org
Please note that for your own security we may need you to provide
some sort of proof of identity before we release information.
If
we are required to photocopy paperwork and post it out we reserve
the right to charge an appropriate fee.
You can also correct, update or
request the removal of your Personal Data from our records at any
time by sending an email to
hq@bordercollierescue.org.
Please note that we cannot delete or modify personally
identifying information we hold for contractual purposes unless it
is incorrect or the contract is terminated.
Deletion of data we
hold for purposes of legitimate interests may result in the
terminate the interest under which we are holding it, however it may
be modified if it is inaccurate without detrimental results to the
relationship.
Deletion of data held by consent
may result in us not being able to contact the person again unless
they contact us in future however it may be modified at any time.
How Border Collie Rescue retains and stores personal data
In the cases of releasing or
adopting a dog, all paperwork is held and filed under the dogs name
and reference number.
None of this information is held
electronically other than any relevant email address.
We do not
retain any financial/banking details of private individuals other
than pertinent details of standing order payments shown on our bank
statements. We do not take any form of payment by direct debit.
For the purposes of legal accountancy records, cheque payments to
the charity are recorded in our paying in books by name.
Cookies
Cookies are small files which are planted on any internet
connected electronic device when you visit most websites.
They can be used for a variety of reasons. Some websites need
cookies to function, others to trace where you have looked at or put
in your basket when visiting shopping websites.
Some websites use
cookies to track where you go on the internet and gather information
about you.
Some websites allow 'third party cookies' to be
planted on the devices of visitors to the website by people
advertising on the site or providing services or information to the
website owner.
Border Collie Rescue does not use cookies. We
do not use any site analytical service that monitors the movements
of people around our website or where they have come from or where
they go when they leave.
We do not allow adverts on any of our
websites.
We seek to try and prevent any third party, social media
website, search engines - in fact anyone - from monitoring our
website and our website visitors.
We embed videos from our official YouTube channels using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.
This mode may set cookies from YouTube on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player but YouTube will not
plant a cookie unless a video is watched.
If a video is watched
the cookies planted will not store personally-identifiable information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Cookies planted by YouTube can be blocked by your browser without
affecting playback.
Controlling Cookies
Cookies can be useful but they can also be very invasive.
If you
do not want websites planting cookies on your computer you can
change your browser setting to block them.
There are a number of
settings that give you some control over what type cookies are
allowed to be placed on your computer. These settings will vary with
the type of browser your are using.
You should make yourself
familiar with how to change cookie settings on your browser.
The safest browser settings are to block all cookies and only allow
websites you trust and use regularly to plant session cookies on
your browser by adding them to your 'exceptions' file. If possible
also set your browser to reject all third party cookies. Finally set
your browser to delete all cookies when you close it down.
Session cookies are set to expire at the end of a session viewing a
website but most will persist until the browser is closed and will
continue to monitor your internet activity and send information back
to their owners.
To avoid this you should clear all cookies when
you leave a website.
Many websites, but newspaper websites and
social media websites in particular plant tracking cookies so they
can gather and sell data about peoples internet usage to third
parties. Block them where possible and if you do need to allow
cookies to use a website clear all cookies when you leave it.
Websites that use analytical cookies to gather information about
visitors also share that information with the analytics company that
supplies the service. This enables the company to obtain information
that allows them to track your movements around the internet.
Websites that have social media links embedded feed information
about visitors movements to the social media companies and also
allow the social media companies to plant cookies on their visitors
computers to enable them to be tracked as they move around the
internet.
In most cases websites do not need cookies to
provide their service or information.
In some cases cookies only
help a website look better or stop irritating pop up boxes
appearing when you move from page to page.
For some, like
retail sites or comparison sites or surveys, some cookies are an
essential aspect of their function.
If you come across websites
that will not allow you access unless you allow it to place cookies
we would regard it as very suspicious and leave it alone and look
for the service, information or content elswhere.
Information about what you
do and who you are and where you go is your information.
It
belongs to you and should not be monitored or used by anyone else
for personal gain,
profit or even for statistics - unless you agree. You should not be
obliged to agree in order to obtain services or access.
If
anyone should be paid for your personal information it should be you
If you are interested in adopting a Border Collie from us,
please phone 0845 604 4941 during office hours.
(2 pm to 5 pm Tuesdays to Thursdays)
Please do not write to us or email us about adoption - we want to speak to you before we start the process.