PRIVACY POLICY

Legal Terms

Welcome! Come on in to learn what’s up and what’s down, legally speaking, when visiting Black Labour.

BLACK LABOUR MOVEMENT UK (BLM UK) is committed to protecting your privacy. We keep your data secure and we do not use it for any other purposes. We will never share your data with third parties. This policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.

What information BLM UK collects about you?
You/individuals can visit BLM UK website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. On occasions, however, when we may request information from you. We collect information you give to us by email, various forms on the website, over the telephone, in person or by postal mail.
We collect information about you when you register, make a donation, become a supporter or member, make an order for products, provide BLM UK with data about campaigning or interests also when you interact with our social media tools. Website usage information may be collected using cookies.

How will we use the information about you?

BLM UK will send you information by email or SMS or WhatsApp that may be of interest to you. BLM UK might share your data with organisers, but only in order to fulfil the aims of BLM UK. This enables us to appointed individuals to communicate to you about events and relevant information. BLM UK will endeavour to follow data protection guidelines. If you would prefer to opt out or be excluded from sharing of information with affiliated organisations, please contact BLM UK so that we can ensure your data preferences are adhered to and process put in place.

Security Policy
BLM UK are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. Specific technology and physical infrastructure has been deployed to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, furthermore BLM UK managerial procedures are designed to safeguard and secure the information collected.

Access to your information and amending your details

BLM UK endeavours to fulfil all reasonable data requests, meaning a disclosure of the personal information held about you. It is important to BLM UK that information is accurate and represented therefore BLM UK welcomes requests to amend or change the information held about you. As stated under BLM UK security policy, personal information is retained primarily to avoid sending you unwanted materials or duplicate information, as such this superseded by your right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten”).  Following this request all of your data will be removed from all BLM UK systems and any financial agreements, such as Direct Debit, will be ended.

Please email info@blacklabour.org to discuss your data requests or concerns.

Cookies
Cookies are text files, used by your computer’s browser, that store visitor session data. Cookies, by themselves, do not identify the individual user. Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your system. If you want to know more about cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org which explains how cookies work and how you can manage their use.
Black Labour Movement currently use cookies to collate general management data which is used to plan enhancements to our services. Some cookies are external managed e.g. Google Analytics and are covered by their own privacy policies.
Black Labour Movement never stores any personal information in cookies (on any computer that you may use) that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address or account numbers.
If you do not want BLM UK to use cookies you may be able to configure your browser not to accept them. Please refer to your browser’s ‘help’ facility for further information. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

Transfer of your data internationally
The DPA and GDPR restrict the transfer of data outside of the EU and EEA. BLM UK primary web server is located in the UK, however some of the suppliers and systems that are operational can be based outside of the EU and EEA. This may occur, for example, by using online services with servers based in other countries or which route data via such will ensure that information which you provide is only transferred to other countries (which do not have data protection laws equal to the DPA and GDPR) provided that the organisations involved have certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield (for organisations based in the USA) or similar stringent certification to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect your rights and your data.

Changes to our privacy policy
BLM UK keep our privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on this webpage. This privacy policy was reviewed and updated in April 2019.