Privacy policy.
We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information. We aim to be clear and open about our data and security practices.
Where we ask you to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement, and in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect information about you when you fill in an online form to:
Register for a website account or update your account details
Sign up for email updates
Contact us
Complete surveys or provide feedback.
This information may include:
Name, role and organisation
Contact details including email address
Demographic information such as postcode and interests.
We collect material that you proactively post or contribute to our sites and any correspondence you have with us.
We also collect information on your website usage through cookies, if your browser accepts them. Some of our websites feature tracking software – this means that if you're a logged-in user, have filled an online form or have previously clicked a link in one of our emails, we may link your website usage information (such as pages visited, IP address, browser and device used) to other information we hold about you, such as your name and organisation.
When you contact us by email, letter or on the phone, we may also record this information on our customer relationship management system to help us process your request efficiently.
How do we use your information?
We collect information about you to manage your account, process your order or fulfil any contract we have with you.
We use information collected from your website visits to personalise your future visits and to improve the experience we provide to our online users. For example, information like the browser and device you are using helps us to maintain usable and accessible websites for all our audiences.
We also use your information to help us develop products and services that you need, and where we have a lawful basis and permission to contact you, we may use it to help us send you relevant and timely information about the help and support that we offer.
Where do we store your information?
Online forms
The forms on our website are built using a platform hosted in the US, so the information you provide to us is initially stored there. The contract we have with this provider ensures their practices comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and we regularly delete data from this system.
In the longer term your data is stored in our customer relationship management system, which is hosted on a secure server in the EU.
Website accounts
If you are a registered user of our website(s), the personal data within your account(s) is stored in secure web servers based in the EU.
You are responsible for keeping your website account password(s) confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone for your own security.
Security and encryption
We take great care to ensure that our websites operate at the highest security levels and that our suppliers are committed to best practice in digital security. All personal information and financial data is encrypted in transmission. However, the security of data transmission via the internet can never be 100% guaranteed, and data transmission is at your own risk.
Cookies
What are cookies and how do we use them?
The use of cookies is common practice on modern websites. A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive by a website. When you visit one of our websites, your browser checks to see if it has any cookies for it and sends the information contained in those cookies back to the site in order to tailor and improve your experience.
Our cookies record things like whether you are currently logged into your website account, to ensure you’re given the right access on each page. They make sure the display settings you’ve selected before (for example, preferred language) – or the settings associated with your account permissions – are activated correctly.
We also use third-party cookies to track how our websites are used, as well as to carry out our advertising and marketing activities.
Third-party cookies
When you visit our website, we allow a number of third parties including Google and Facebook. We use Google Analytics cookies to collect anonymous usage and visitor behaviour information – this includes:
IP address
operating system
browser type
pages visited
links you click on
services you purchase.
Google Advertising cookies help us understand the demographics and interests of our users so we can better meet their needs.
Email cookies
Our emails and website contain cookies to tell us whether emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links within an email. We use this information to help us understand how an email campaign has performed, what types of emails and content our users find interesting, and what actions our users took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to you.
You have a right to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes at any time. All our marketing emails contain unsubscribe links. You can also contact us at any time to request a change to your marketing preferences.
How long do we keep your information?
We do not keep your information for longer than necessary. We keep financial information for seven years due to legal requirements.
Access to your information
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, you can:
email Sustainable Three Rivers
We will not charge you for this service unless the request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive or repetitive’.
Keeping your information up to date
We want to make sure that any personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please contact us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
Sharing your information with other organisations
Sustainable Three Rivers will not sell your information to any third party. We may share your information with third parties where we have legal duty to do so or to provide you with a service you have asked for.
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 16 April 2021.
Your rights
Data protection regulations give you clear rights over how your data is used by us. You can find out more detail about your rights by visiting the Information Commissioner’s Office website’s section on individual rights.
You also have the right to report concerns or complain about our handling of your data to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Details of how to do this can be found on its website.