Co-operatives West Midlands Privacy Policy
Last updated: 25 September 2023
1. About this document
This privacy policy sets out how we protect and manage any personal identifiable information
and/or data that is held as a result of any dealings you may have with Co-operatives West
Midlands in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Personal information (which may also be called personal data), means any information about
an individual from which that individual can be identified, whether directly or indirectly. It
does not include data where personally identifying elements have been removed
(anonymous data).
Co-operatives West Midlands is the representative body of co-operative enterprise in the
region.
Co-operatives West Midlands is committed to protecting data and respecting the privacy of
any persons we deal with. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, why and what
we do with it. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be
identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy
policy. We will never share any information you provide with any third parties unless we are
under a legal obligation to do so.
Personal data such as name, address, email address, phone number, or financial data such
as account number and sort code for direct debit donations, are kept on a secure server.
Co-operatives West Midlands complies with legal, regulatory and professional obligations,
and in-so-doing must retain certain records to demonstrate compliance with those
obligations. Those records may contain personal data.
2. Security
Co-operatives West Midlands is committed to ensuring that your data, including any personal
identifiable information, is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we
have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and
secure the information we collect.
3. Visitors to our website
When someone visits our website we may use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to
collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this
to find out things such as the numbers of visitors to various parts of the site. This is to help
us improve our website experience for you the user as well as our services we offer to the
market.
This information is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. If we do want to collect
personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this and
clearly state what we will use it for.
3.1 Use of cookies
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best
experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile
phone when you browse websites. We do not use cookies to:
● Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
● Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
● Pass personally identifiable information to third parties
Google states:
“Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to report on visitor
interactions. These cookies are used to store non-personally identifiable information, such as
what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what
site referred the visitor to the web page. Browsers do not share first-party cookies across
domains.”
If you are not comfortable with cookies being used in this way, you can use your web
browser's privacy features to disable them. If you don’t disable them and continue to view
the Co-operative Futures website you are consenting to the use of cookies.
3.2 Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Please note that once you leave
our website we have no control over other websites and cannot be held accountable for any
aspect of data privacy and protection.
4. Newsletter Subscribers
If you sign up for any Co-operatives West Midlands e-newsletters we will only collect the
following information:
Full name
Email address
Phone number (optional)
Whether you are a member of an organisation or company
Your role at the organisation or company
We process this personal data solely for the purposes of delivering our e-newsletters and on
the basis that we have your consent to do so, which you provide when you sign up for a
newsletter. You can withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in
any of our emails. We use a third-party provider to deliver our e-newsletters who have their
own privacy policy. We will periodically clean the mailing lists to ensure they are up to date.
5. Social media
We use third party providers such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to manage
our social media interactions and they all have their own privacy policies.
6. Job applicants, current and former employees
Co-operatives West Midlands is the data controller for all the information you provide during
the processes of recruitment and employment.
We will only collect the information we need including to fulfil legal obligations to progress
and assess your application during the various recruitment stages; this may include from
third parties such as recruitment agencies.
This will only be used to progress and assess your application and we do this on the basis
that it is necessary to take steps at your request to decide whether to enter into a contract
with you.
6.1 Retention of personal information
If you are not successful in your application, your information (including third party referee
details) will be destroyed 6 months after the end of the recruitment process.
If you are successful in your application, your personal data will be used in accordance with
our Employee Data Privacy Notice, which will be provided to you on induction.
7. Clients and Business Contacts
Co-operatives West Midlands processes personal data about individuals through emails, by
phone or electronic calendar invites. We process this personal data solely for the purposes
of our business contract and on the basis that it is in our legitimate interests to do so (i.e. to
ensure that we can manage our relationship with them). This information will be retained
securely for as long as necessary for the purposes set out for that business contract.
Personal Data, such as emails or phone numbers, will never be given or shared with third
parties without express permission and only then will it be given if there is a business case
for doing so.
We have in place procedures and measures to manage and protect commercially
confidential information we are required to handle through delivering our services. These
are normally dealt with through specific contractual agreements as required.
8. Photos and video footage
Sometimes photos or videos taken by Co-operatives West Midlands will include members of
the public participating in our actions and events. We do our best to ensure that anyone who
would rather not be photographed or filmed is not included in the footage.
9. Your rights with regards to Personal Information
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you by writing to or
emailing us.
Address: The Transfer, The Old Print Works, 498-506 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12
9AH.
Email: contact@savebirmingham.org
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please
write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any
information found to be incorrect.
You also have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
● A right to ask us to erase personal data in some circumstances.
● A right to ask for an electronic copy of some personal data to transfer it to another
data controller.
● A right to object to the processing of your personal data where we process it on the
basis of our legitimate interests.
● A right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in some
circumstances.
● A right to ask us to erase your personal data in some circumstances.
● A right to opt out of direct marketing.
● A right not to be subject to wholly automated decisions that have significant effects
on you.
10. Sharing of Personal Information
We will be required to share your personal data with third parties in some circumstances.
These include:
● third party service providers, such as IT suppliers, hosting providers and web
developers, for the purposes of allowing them to perform their services for us;
● prospective or actual purchasers of all or any part of our business;
● law enforcement agencies, regulators and government bodies where required and
where permitted by laws.
Apart from this, we will not share your information without your consent.
11. Questions and complaints
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, please get in touch.
Contact us
Address: The Transfer, The Old Print Works, 498-506 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12
9AH.
Email: contact@savebirmingham.org
If you are not happy with how we have processed your personal data, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Please see www.ico.org.uk for more information on how to do this.
Co-operatives West Midlands may change this policy from time to time and update this page.
You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any
changes.
This policy is effective from 25 September 2023.
