Privacy Policy

Save Marlow’s Greenbelt is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We want you to understand how we collect and use your personal data.

Who we are

Save Marlow’s Greenbelt is a Community Volunteer Charity (registration pending) whose principle aim is to protect the Greenbelt area around Marlow from inappropriate development. If you would like to contact us
about this notice or your data, you can email us or mail us on Treasurer, Corner Cottage, Westhorpe Farm Lane, Little Marlow, SL7 3RQ.

We are not registered with the ICO in accordance with the exemption allowed for Charities.

What information we collect

We collect information via various ways in which you interact with us and our website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Newsletter

We collect your email address and optionally your name when you opt-in to receive our newsletter. There is an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every newsletter you will receive from us.

Donations

If you donate money to Save Marlow’s Greenbelt, you may provide us with information such as name, address, phone number, email address and Gift Aid status.

Objections

If you complete our form for Save Marlow’s Greenbelt to submit an objection on your behalf, we will collect your name, email address and address. This information will only be used to submit the objection to Buckinghamshire County Council.

How we use your data

We will always seek to ensure that we use your personal data with your interests and rights paramount as well as in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations. We will only use your personal data to contact you when it is relevant to our legitimate interests or where
we have your consent. Specifically, this will include but is not limited to: group news, eg. campaign updates or requests relating to fundraising consistent with our legitimate interests. Should you wish to opt-out from any of the above communications, please email us or use the unsubscribe link if it is available in our electronic communication.

Who we share your data with

We share name, house number and postcode with HMRC in order to claim Gift Aid.

We might share stories involving members/supporters on social media but only with their explicit consent.

Data is otherwise not shared with any 3rd party without the member’s consent. We do not sell member, supporter or visitor data.

How we keep your data secure

We take all reasonable steps to keep your data safe and secure and to ensure the data is accessed only by those who have a legitimate interest to do so.

Electronic files containing supporter information are kept securely on password protected devices/accounts.

Our electronic database is password protected and accessible only to the limited people who need access to support Group activities.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We will keep personal data for as long as they remain supporters in order to communicate in line with our legitimate interests.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we correct or erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You have the right to object to us using your personal data to contact you and to opt-out of all communications from the Group. You have the right to withdraw consent if you have given it and later change your mind.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.