Privacy Policy

Last updated August 19, 2020

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at The Independent network (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).  We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right  to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy  notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information,  please contact us at info@independentnetwork.org.uk.

When you visit our website http://www.independentnetwork.org.uk (the "Website"), use our mobile application, use our Facebook application, as the case may be (the "App") and more generally, use any of our services (the "Services", which include the Website and App),  we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information.  We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to  explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect,  how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you  take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If  there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes our Website and App), as well as any related services, sales, marketing or events.

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

4. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short:  We collect information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services or otherwise when you contact us.

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Personal Information Provided by You. We collect names; phone numbers; email addresses; mailing addresses; contact preferences; job titles; and other similar information.

Payment Data. We  may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make  purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card  number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument.  All payment data is stored by paypal. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev.

Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your  existing social media account details, like your Facebook, Twitter or  other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we  will collect the information described in the section called "HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS" below.

All  personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and  accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal  information.

Information collected through our App

In Short:  We collect information regarding your geo-location, and Facebook permissions when you use our App.

If you use our App, we also collect the following information:

• Geo-Location Information. We  may request access or permission to and track location-based  information from your mobile device, either continuously or while you  are using our App, to provide certain location-based services. If you  wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device's  settings.
• Facebook Permissions. We by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email, gender,  birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other  information that you choose to make public. We may also request access  to other permissions related to your account, such as friends, checkins,  and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us access to each  individual permission. For more information regarding Facebook  permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference page.

The  information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation  of our App, for troubleshooting and for our internal analytics and  reporting purposes.

Information collected from other sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

In  order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers and  services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about  you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing  partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. This information includes mailing  addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or  user behavior data), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, social media  profiles, social media URLs and custom profiles, for purposes of  targeted advertising and event promotion. If you interact with us on a social media platform using your social  media account (e.g. Facebook or Twitter), we receive personal  information about you such as your name, email address, and gender. Any  personal information that we collect from your social media account  depends on your social media account's privacy settings.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short:  We  process your information for purposes based on legitimate business  interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our  legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your  personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate  business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with  you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal  obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next  to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To facilitate account creation and logon process. If  you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such  as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed  us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation  and logon process for the performance of the contract. See the section below headed "HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS" for further information.
  
  
• To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Services that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial,  we will obtain your consent to use your name and the consent of the  testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please  contact us at info@independentnetwork.org.uk and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
  
  
• Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
  
  
• To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
  
  
• To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
• To send administrative information to you. We  may use your personal information to send you product, service and new  feature information and/or information about changes to our terms,  conditions, and policies.
  
  
• To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
  
  
• To  enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to  comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our  contract.
  
  
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
• To send you marketing and promotional communications. We  and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal  information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in  accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing  an interest in obtaining information about us or our Services,  subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect  personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails  at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS" below).
  
  
• Deliver targeted advertising to you. We  may use your information to develop and display personalized content  and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your  interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
• For other business purposes. We  may use your information for other business purposes, such as data  analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our  promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience. We  may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so  that it is not associated with individual end users and does not  include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal  information without your consent.

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short:  We  only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to  provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill  business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose.
  
  
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
  
  
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  
  
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so  in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a  judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response  to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public  authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
  
  
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to  investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of  our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to  the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in  litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We  may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during  negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or  acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

4. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

In Short:  If  you choose to register or log in to our services using a social media  account, we may have access to certain information about you.

Our Services offers you the ability to register and login using your third-party  social media account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins).  Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information  about you from your social media provider. The profile Information we  receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but  will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile  picture as well as other information you choose to make public on such  social media platform. If  you login using Facebook, we may also request access to other  permissions related to your account, such as your friends, check-ins,  and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us access to each  individual permission.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services.  Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other  uses of your personal information by your third-party social media  provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to  understand how they collect, use and share your personal information,  and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short:  We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We  will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary  for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer  retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax,  accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will  require us keeping your personal information for longer than 2 years.

When  we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal  information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if  this is not possible (for example, because your personal information  has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your  personal information and isolate it from any further processing until  deletion is possible.

6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short:  We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We  have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security  measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we  process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your  information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information  storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot  promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized  third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly  collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do  our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal  information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short:  We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services,  you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or  guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of  the Services.  If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of  age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take  reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If  you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under  age 18, please contact us at info@independentnetwork.org.uk.

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short:  In  some regions, such as the European Economic Area, you have rights that  allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

In  some regions (like the European Economic Area), you have certain rights  under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i)  to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii)  to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of  your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability.  In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the  processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please  use the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If  we are relying on your consent to process your personal information,  you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note  however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing  before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your  personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds  other than consent.

If  you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are  unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right  to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You  can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most  web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications  include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to  signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online  browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform  technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has  been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser  signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your  choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is  adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that  practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short:  Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

California  Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law,  permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain  from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of  personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct  marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with  which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding  calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make  such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the  contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with a Service, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services.  To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact  information provided below, and include the email address associated  with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will  make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services,  but please be aware that the data may not be completely or  comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).  

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short:  Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from  time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated  “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it  is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we  may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or  by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this  privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at info@independentnetwork.org.uk or by post to:

The Independent network 25 Castle StreetHertfordHertford, Hertfordshire SG14 1HHUnited Kingdom

HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based  on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to  request access to the personal information we collect from you, change  that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to  review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form by clicking here. We will respond to your request within 30 days.  This privacy policy was created using Termly’s Privacy Policy Generato