More in Common takes the protection of your personal data seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we use any personal information that you supply to us, or that might be collected from a third party, and sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.
In particular, this Policy explains:
We may collect your personal data in your capacity as a partner, donor, applicant, supplier, participant in a research project or training session, subscriber to our marketing lists, or because you are visitor to our website (www.moreincommon.com) (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions about your personal data. Please take a moment to read and understand it.
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If you have any questions about this Policy or want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us by sending an e-mail to us@moreincommon.com
We may collect your personal information in the following ways:
(1) When you give it to us DIRECTLY
You may give us your personal data directly in various ways, for example when you interact with us on social media, when you apply for employment with us, when you contact us by email or sign up to our newsletter online.
(2) When we receive your information INDIRECTLY
Your information may be provided to us when you follow us or otherwise interact with us on or via Twitter, when you like and/or join our Linkedin or interact with us on other social media platforms.
(3) When you give permission to OTHER ORGANIZATIONS to share it with us or it is AVAILABLE PUBLICLY
We may combine information you provide to us with information available from external publicly available sources. We use this information to gain a better understanding of you and to improve our communications.
(4) When you visit our WEBSITE
We use cookies when you visit our website, which may record personal information about you. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for details on the way we use cookies (see www.moreincommon.com/cookie-policy/)
We may process the following kinds of personal data:
We may use your personal information to:
(1) Manage and administer our relationship with you, including providing you with services and information you have requested;
(2) Market our services, including sending you information about our work, trainings, organization and any other information, products or services that we provide;
(3) Administer our Site, including monitoring its use;
(4) Administer payments;
(5) Administer your employment application;
(6) Conduct research and data analysis into the impact of our trainings;
(7) Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the Site or us in general;
(8) Audit and/or administer our accounts;
(9) Manage individuals’ preferences, including administering suppression files;
(10) Administer security requirements, including data and systems security;
(11) Conduct financial management and control;
(12) Meet any of our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations.
We may use your personal information to undertake research to gather further information about you from publicly accessible sources. This helps us gain a better understanding of your background, interests and preferences, in order to improve our communications and/or interactions with you, to help ensure they are targeted to be relevant and appropriate, and to provide information about trainings and other aspects of our services which we consider may be of interest to you.
We will contact you by e-mail with targeted marketing communications to let you know about our work and/or activities that we consider may be of particular interest, about the work of the company and to ask for donations or other support.
We use cookies on our Site, which may collect your personal information. For example, we may use Google Analytics and HubSpot to review some of your personal information, in order to analyse our digital performance, record how you are using our Site and/or assess the popularity of our email communications. This helps us improve our Site. For more information on how we use cookies, please view our cookie policy by clicking this link (LINK TO COOKIES POLICY)
The lawful grounds to process your personal information. We use your personal information on the following bases:
(1) Consent
We will ask for your consent to use your information to send you electronic communications such as newsletters updating you about our work
(2) Contractual relationships
Most of our interactions with subscribers and website users are voluntary and not contractual. However, sometimes it will be necessary to process personal information so that we can enter contractual relationships with people. For example, if you apply for employment or to volunteer with us.
(3) Legal obligations
Sometimes we will be obliged to process your personal information due to legal obligations which are binding on us. We will only ever do so when strictly necessary.
(4) Legitimate interests
Applicable law allows personal information to be collected and used if it is reasonably necessary for our legitimate activities (as long as its use is fair, balanced and does not unduly impact individuals’ rights).
We will rely on this ground for processing the data of all applicants and attendees of our training events, managing our fundraising activities and promoting our work to relevant organizations, where their information is publicly accessible.
Where we have relied upon your consent as the ground for lawful processing, you are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal of consent will not undermine the lawfulness of processing based upon consent prior to the withdrawal.
Where we have relied upon legitimate interests as the ground for lawful processing, you are entitled to object to our processing on this ground.
If you wish to exercise either of these rights, then please contact us as directed in Section 14 of this Policy.
Our work is not aimed at children and we do not knowingly process data of any person under the age of 16. If we come to discover, or have reason to believe, that you are 15 and under and we are holding your personal information, we will delete that information within a reasonable period and withhold our services accordingly.
We want to ensure your data is safe and so have put in place appropriate and proportionate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, destruction, misuse, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to your personal information.
Your information is only accessible by appropriately trained employees of More in Common and we provide training on the protection of personal data.
Where we rely on your consent to use your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This includes the right to ask us to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes or to be unsubscribed from our email list at any time.
We keep your personal information only for as long as is necessary for our purposes. In considering how long to keep it, we will take into account of its relevance to our business and our legal and regulatory obligations.
We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review and reserve the right to amend it from time to time by posting an updated version on our Site, not least because of changes in applicable law. We recommend that you check this Policy occasionally to ensure you remain happy with it. We may also notify you of changes to our Policy by email.
We link our Site directly to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not cover third party websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any external websites you visit via links on our website.
You may contact us with any privacy concerns – including to update your information or exercise your rights as a data subject – by email at us@moreincommon.com