Privacy policy
The coordinators of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform, who are currently the trustees of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, are committed to safeguarding the privacy of its website visitors and members. This policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
(1) What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views);
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of becoming a member of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform, posting comments on the website pages of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform, notifying the coordinators and other members of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform of actions you have taken as a member, or amending or resigning your membership of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform;
(c) any other information that you choose to send to us.
(2) Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. This cookie text file consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
Our cookies policy is also available online as a separate page and contains more information about our use of Cookies.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available here. Google Analytics stores cookies containing information about this website and how people use it.
Content from external websites
We use external web services such as YouTube and Vimeo to display content on our site. When you interact with content provided through these services they may use cookies to record how you use their service. The information they collect will be anonymous unless you have an account with the service and are logged into it.
Disabling Cookies
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. For other browsers we suggest consulting the Help section. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
For further information take a look at the About Cookies website.
Our cookie policy is also available online as a separate page.
(3) Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the Democracy and Sustainability Platform website;
(b) send you general (non-commercial) email communications relating to the work of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform which we think may be of interest to you;
(c) provide our non-commercial partners and funders or contractors working with us to develop or manage our website with aggregated general statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
(d) deal with enquiries made by or about you relating to the Democracy and Sustainability Platform
We will not provide your personal information to third parties save insofar as this may be necessary for purposes of backing up data held on our website and computers to secure password-protected off-site servers, or in connection with a change in the coordination of the Platform for Democracy and Sustainability.
We will notify members of the Platform for Democracy and Sustainability at least twenty-one days in advance of any change in the coordination of the Platform for Democracy and Sustainability and any associated transfer of data.
(4) Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, contractors or officers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings; and/or
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention).
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
(5) International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in or transferred between countries in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy or to hold it securely (for example by means of off-site backups).
You should be aware that information which you provide for publication on the website could potentially be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.
In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world.
You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.
(6) Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. However, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
(7) Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
(8) Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (which is currently fixed at £10.00).
You may instruct us by email at any time (to manifesto at fdsd dot org) not to process your personal data for purposes of occasional email communications about our work.
(9) Third party websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
(10) Updating information
Please let us know if you would like us to correct or update any personal information which we hold about you.
(11) Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to manifesto at fdsd dot org.
(12) Data protection registration
As a registered charity collecting and processing personal information for limited purposes, the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development and its trustees do not hold a data protection registration number.