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This privacy policy is for this website (www.teensunite.org) and is served by Teens Unite Fighting Cancer and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer. This form uses your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you, the consumer, have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the charity a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights regarding receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
 

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy url’s [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/In2W0x).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened url’s published on social media platforms by this website and its owners.

Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine url’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
 

Teens Unite Fighting Cancer Policy 

Right now, for every young person we can support, there’s another we can’t. We want to offer every young person overcoming the challenges cancer brings the support they need, when they need it – through diagnosis, during treatment, and beyond; and we rely on the generosity and support of individuals like you to achieve our goals. We want you to know that we really value your support, and we are committed to protecting your personal information, as well as being open and honest about how we collect, store and use personal data. We know that your personal information needs to be kept safe, and we never give or sell any personal data to other charities or organisations.

We will keep you up to date on how your support is changing the lives of young people overcoming the challenges that cancer brings across the UK. We will always keep your personal information safe, secure, and confidential within Teens Unite. We feel it is important that we are completely transparent about why we need the personal information we request and how we will use it. This privacy policy explains how Teens Unite collects and uses your personal information.  

Teens Unite Fighting Cancer (Teens Unite) is a company registered in England and Wales (6111574) and a charity registered in England and Wales (1118361) whose registered office is at Bratton House, Church Lane, Wormley, EN10 7QG
Our website is at https://www.teensunite.org is owned and operated by Teens Unite Fighting Cancer (Teens Unite)
 

Personal Data 

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (‘GDPR’) and Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the Act’), personal data is defined as ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’), by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person’.
 

Our Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

We will only collect and use your personal information where we have a legal basis to do so and will always respect your rights. 

Where we use your information, it may be because you have consented to us doing so or because we consider we have a legitimate interest to do so. Where we do rely on a legitimate interest to use your information, we promise never to do it in an intrusive way or to cause distress, and to always respect your rights.  Other reasons may include using information because we have a legal obligation to do so or because we must fulfil contractual obligations, for example if you order merchandise or tickets from us.  

Examples of why we use your personal information include: 

•    You have given us your explicit consent to use the information for a specified purpose, for example to receive our e-newsletter, information about our events, volunteering, fundraising opportunities etc. 
•    You have expressed interest in the charity by a positive action, for example by completing a registration form to take part in an event and to hear updates about our events programme. 
•    We have a legal obligation to use your information, for example to maintain Gift Aid records.
•    We regard people who chose to volunteer with Teens Unite as entering a contract with us – therefore we may use contract as the legal basis for communicating with you.
•    We also reserve the right to apply our legitimate interest wherever we believe it is appropriate, but we promise that we will never do this in an intrusive way and will always respect your rights and freedoms when doing so. Some examples of when we would rely on our legitimate interest include: 

1.    To pursue our organisational aims and objectives. 
2.    To fundraise (both now and in the future) to fund our work.
3.    To ensure we meet our regulatory requirements as a charity. 
4.    To manage our ongoing relationship with our supporters and anyone we work with. 
5.    To manage our financial transactions and prevent fraud.

If you are a corporate supporter, we are permitted to contact you unless you tell us that you would like no further contact from us. We may also mail you unless you tell us that you don’t want us to do so. And, we will not make contact by calling you if you have advised us that you do not wish us to.
 

What Personal Information We Collect  

The personal information we collect about you will depend on how and why you are engaging with us.  It could include (but is not limited to): 

•    Your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, motivation for supporting the charity and your contact preferences. 
•    Debit or credit card information (we won’t store your debit or credit card details; this information will be deleted as soon as we process your donation or payment). 
•    Your bank account number, sort code and other banking information, and information required to validate your identity and prevent fraud, this information will be stored securely and will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required.
•    Other information you provide to us from time to time which is relevant and necessary for us to collect and process.  For example, the events you have participated in. 
•    We may also collect information about your activity online when you visit our website and when we send you an email. Please see the section below on our Cookies Policy for further details. 
•    When you give them your consent, we collect information from third parties such as event organisers or sites like Just Giving. You can check their privacy policies to see how they handle your data. 

If you shared with us any sensitive information, including your medical history, the information you have provided will be kept by Teens Unite and will be treated with the strictest of confidence. It will not be shared with a third party without your consent unless we have a statutory obligation to do so, or there are concerns for your safety which Teens Unite has a duty to report to the relevant authority for appropriate action to be taken.  We will only keep your information where it is relevant to your interaction with us and only for as long as it is necessary.

If you give us personal information about another person, we expect you to be responsible for ensuring that they know we are using their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and we will make every effort to obtain the necessary conditions for processing that data, for example if it is in our legitimate interest. 

How We Use Your Personal Information 

We use your personal information for the following purposes: 

•    To respond to or fulfil any requests, complaints or queries we receive from you 
•    To keep you up to date with news about our work
•    To confirm that your gift or purchase has been processed correctly, to validate your Gift Aid claim and maintain records of your past and future donations.  
•    To provide you with information and support for any events, fundraising activities, or volunteering opportunities you sign up to. 
•    To raise funds and to promote the aims and objectives of the charity
•    To pursue our organisational goals, including offering every young person overcoming the challenges cancer brings the support they need, when they need it – during diagnosis and treatment, in to remission and beyond  
•    To manage your contact preferences.  If you ever want to change the way we keep in touch, just let us know by emailing info@teensunite.org or calling our team on 01992 440091. 
•    To keep records of your relationship with us for example questions you have asked us
•    To manage our recruitment. 
•    To make better decisions, communicate more efficiently and develop a better understanding of our supporters and potential supporters. This might involve non-intrusive profiling and data segmentation so that our communications with you are as relevant as possible.  
•    To create anonymous and aggregated reports about our supporters and the young people we support, to ensure our organisation is communicating with and delivering the best possible information and services. 
•    To inform our digital and social media marketing.  
•    For our internal purposes such as management, research, analytics, organisational reporting, and ways that will improve efficiencies. 
•    To prevent and detect criminal activity and fraud. 
•    To comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, government, and law enforcement agencies’ requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect ourselves, young people we support, our supporters, our employed and funded staff and to solve any customer disputes. 
•    To help the emergency services if required

Who We Share Your Personal Information With 

We never give or sell any personal information to other charities or organisations. However, there are some circumstances where we would share your data with third parties. For instance: 

If we are legally required to do so, e.g. court order, law enforcement agency pursuing an investigation. 

If we believe it necessary to protect or defend our rights or the personal safety of our personnel or a young person we support. This includes young people we support through our events and those who choose to fundraise or support us in other ways.

When we work with carefully selected partners, e.g. our fulfilment warehouse to ensure we can provide services to you. These partners (called ‘data processors’) will only have access to your information when the necessary contractual arrangements have been agreed and signed and they will always be obliged to follow the strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations. Currently all fulfilment takes place in house.

Where you work for one of our corporate partners, we may share information with them about your fundraising efforts.

When information has to be sent to HMRC as part of the declaration process for Gift Aid so that we can reclaim the Gift Aid on your donation(s). 

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information 

We store your personal data in accordance with our data retention policy. This policy is reviewed and updated internally to ensure we do not store your data for longer than is necessary. We also review how and where we store any data to ensure that we meet our obligation to store data securely.

In addition, some of the data we hold may be subject to certain legal and regulatory obligations, which provide a minimum retention period for different types of data. The retention period varies depending on the data we hold.

If you would like to know how long we will hold any specific information, then please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@teensunite.org and they will provide you with further details. 

Access and Control Over Your Personal Information 

•    You have a right to know what personal information we hold about you. If you’d like a copy of this information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@teensunite.org. We reserve the right to charge a “reasonable fee” for the administrative costs of complying with this request and are legally bound to deliver this information in a format of your choice within ONE month. We may need to ask you to send us evidence of your identity and the one-month response period starts from the date we confirm your identity. 
•    You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate and/or incomplete personal information we hold about you. If our records are incorrect or incomplete, please let us know by emailing info@teensunite.org or calling our team on 01992 440091.  
•    If you have given us your consent to process your information, you can withdraw or restrict it whenever you wish by emailing info@teensunite.org or calling our Supporter Care team on 01992 440091. You will be offered the right to withdraw your consent (opt out) to every type of communication we send you. 
•    In certain circumstances you may request that we erase your personal information we hold about you (‘the right to be forgotten’). This will mean we may not recognise you should you decide to support us in the future. For further information and to understand your options please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@teensunite.org

How We Protect Your Personal Information 

We maintain the highest standards of data privacy and security to protect your personal details and other information about you because we want you to feel completely confident about engaging with us. We regularly review our processes and procedures to protect your information from unauthorised access and use, accidental loss and/or destruction.

Third Party Websites

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.   We use websites like Youtube to embed videos, and they may send you cookies too. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so check those websites for more information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in how we use your information.  Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on our websites for you to review.

Where appropriate, we will provide you with notice of any significant changes to how we use your information.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy and how we use your personal information, please get in touch with our Data Protection Officer by emailing info@teensunite.org or calling our team on 01992 440091. We’d love to hear from you! 


 

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