Privacy policy

We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully. This page tells you about how we collect, use and store your personal information.

If you have any queries about our privacy policy, please contact the Fair Shot team at info@fairshot.org.uk.

Fair Shot is a content campaign supported by the Refugee Council. For more information about the Refugee Council, please visit our website.

This policy covers:

Why we collect information
What information we collect and how we collect it
How we keep your information safe
Our legal bases for processing your personal information
Who we share information with
Relevant legislation
Your rights under current data protection law
Changing your information contact preferences
Finding out what information we hold about you
How to make a complaint about our use if your information
Cookies
Changes to our privacy policy

1. Why do we collect information?

We need to collect some personal details so we can respond appropriately to your contact with us. For example, to contact you about your competition entry or send you email updates. We also collect statistical information to see how our website, social media channels and emails are performing in order to improve our communications.

Occasionally, we take time to learn more about our supporters. We use profiling and screening techniques to ensure communications are relevant and timely, and to provide an improved experience for our supporters. It also allows us to target our resources effectively.

When building a profile we may analyse geographic, demographic and other information relating to you in order to better understand your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with the most relevant communications. In doing this, we may use additional information from third party sources when it is available.

If at any time you would like to opt-out of your data being used in the ways described above please do contact us at info@fairshot.org.uk.

2. What information do we collect and how do we collect it?

When you get in touch with us directly, we may ask you for personal information. For example, if you would like to sign up to receive email updates, we may ask for your name, email address, and telephone number.

We only collect other information, such as relevant medical information, if it is necessary—for example, to ensure your safety if you take part in a Fair Shot competition event. The information we collect and in which ways are set out below.

2.1 Website visit tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, and better understand how they find and use our web pages.

Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 4 below). Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google's developer guides.

2.2 Email updates

We invite visitors to our website to sign up to receive regular email updates about Fair Shot. These may include news related to Fair Shot, information about our competitions, and opportunities to get involved in other ways, such as through following our social media accounts or attending events.

You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from our email mailing lists at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email from us or by contacting us - see section 9 below for further details.

2.3 Website forms

Should you use a form on our website, this data will be stored securely in our website systems. This may include contacting us, signing up for email updates or entering a competition.

We may collect your name, address, phone number, and email address. This data will be stored securely in our website system. We routinely remove form data; for users who are not subscribed to email updates, data will not remain in our website system for more than 18 months.

When you submit a contact form you may also choose to sign up to email updates. We will only send these if you give your active consent for us to do so, and you can update you contact preferences or withdraw your consent at any time - see section 9 below for further details.

We also collect information when you agree to provide it to us via third parties. Further details can be found at section 6 below.

2.4 Social media

We may occasionally use your email address to match to your account on Facebook or other online advertising sites in order to include or exclude you from Fair Shot advertising. We will only do this where you have opted in to our marketing emails.

We may also use your email address to link to Facebook or other online advertising sites in order to identify other users who may be interested in Fair Shot content. We will only ever use these advertising platforms in accordance with their own terms and conditions.

3. How do we keep your information safe?

We take all appropriate measures to ensure your personal information is kept secure. Personal information stored electronically is kept on secured servers with limited access from appropriate staff for as long as is necessary for the fulfilment of our legal obligations or our obligations to you as a visitor, supporter or service user.

To ensure our staff understand and are able to keep your data secure, all Refugee Council staff receive data protection training when joining the organisation.

Please note that while we have taken every appropriate measure to secure your data, transmission of information over the Internet is never 100% secure so while we take all possible precautions, we can’t 100% guarantee the security of any information you submit to us via our website.

4. What are our legal bases for processing your personal information?

Under current data protection law, we must have an appropriate legal basis for collecting and processing your personal information. The relevant legal bases are set out in the General Data Protection Regulation and in current UK data protection legislation.

Consent

Consent means you have actively given consent for us to use your information for a specific purpose. We use this legal basis to send you email updates about Fair Shot. Under this legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent for any future use of your information for this purpose at any time.

Legal obligation

In some cases we must collect personal information in order to comply with one of our legal or regulatory obligations. For example, may need to share your information with our various regulators such as the Charity Commission, the Fundraising Regulator or the Information Commissioner, to use information we collect about you for due diligence or ethical screening purposes.

Vital interests

We must use your personal information where it is necessary for us to protect life or health. For instance if there were to be an emergency impacting individuals at one of our events, or a safeguarding issue which required us to contact people unexpectedly or share their information with emergency services.

Legitimate interests

The UKGDPR allows us to collect and process your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to achieve our or others’ legitimate interests, as long as that processing is fair, balanced and does not unduly impact your rights.

We consider our legitimate interests to include all of the day-to-day activities Fair Shot carries out. For example, by gathering content such as film, photography and copy, or running Fair Shot events.

“Legitimate interests” can also include your interests, such as when you have requested information from us. We rely on legitimate interests where we consider that any potential impact on you (positive and negative), how intrusive it is from a privacy perspective and your rights under data protection laws do not override our interests in us using your information in this way.

5. Is my information shared with anyone?

We will never sell or share your personal information with other organisations who can contact you except where we are required to by law. We work with suppliers or professional agents to process your data, for example in order to mail our newsletters. When we do this, we always put in place legal agreements with these third parties governing how your data will be used.

These third parties have been carefully chosen. These may include (among others):

business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors
independent event organisers, for example fundraising sites like Just Giving
advertisers and advertising networks
analytics and search engine providers
email marketing tools such as Mailchimp, which uses a tracking pixel to monitor when you interact with our emails, such as open, click or unsubscribe (read Mailchimp’s privacy policy)
IT service providers
other beneficiaries, executors and legal advisers, when administering a legacy

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under any legal or regulatory duty to do so.

6. What legislation does our data protection policy comply with?

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website to complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR). This site’s compliance with the above legislation, which is stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well.

If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with data protection and user privacy legislation in your country of residence, you should contact our data protection officer (details can be found in section 10) for clarification.

7. What are your rights under the current data protection laws?

Under UK data protection law, you have rights over personal information that we hold about you:

Right to access your personal information

You have a right to request access to the personal data that we hold about you. You also have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you, and we will provide you with this unless legal exceptions apply.

If you want to access your information, send a description of the information you want to see by post to Data Protection Officer, c/o IT and Facilities, PO Box 68614, London E15 1NS.

Right to have your inaccurate personal information corrected

You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you corrected. If you believe the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, please provide us with details and we will investigate and, where applicable, correct any inaccuracies.

Right to restrict use of your personal information

You have a right to ask us to restrict the processing of some or all of your personal information in the following situations:

if some information we hold on you isn’t right
we’re not lawfully allowed to use it
you need us to retain your information in order for you to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim
you believe your privacy rights outweigh our legitimate interests to use your information for a particular purpose and you have objected to us doing so.

Right to erasure of your personal information

You may ask us to delete some or all of your personal information and in certain cases, and subject to certain exceptions, you have the right for this to be done.

Right for your personal information to be portable

If we are processing your personal information (1) based on your consent, or in order to enter into or carry out a contract with you, and (2) the processing is being done by automated means, you may ask us to provide it to you or another service provider in a machine-readable format.

Right to object to the use of your personal information

If we are processing your personal information based on our legitimate interests or for scientific/historical research or statistics, you have a right to object to our use of your information.

If we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes, and you wish to object, we will stop processing your information for these purposes as soon as reasonably possible.

If you want to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us by post at Data Protection Officer, c/o IT and Facilities, PO Box 68614, London E15 1NS.

We may be required to ask for further information and/or evidence of identity. We will endeavour to respond fully to all requests within one month of receipt of your request, however if we are unable to do so we will contact you with reasons for the delay.

Please note that exceptions apply to a number of these rights, and not all rights will be applicable in all circumstances. For more details we recommend you consult the guidance published by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.

8. How can you change your contact details and preferences with us?

If you have signed up for email updates from Fair Shot, or have entered a Fair Shot competition on our website, you can update your contact information and contact preferences by getting in touch with the Fair Shot team at info@fairshot.org.uk.

To stop receiving emails from us at any time please contact the Fair Shot team using the details above or you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email from us.

Remember: if you sign up for email updates, enter a competition on our website or request information online you will receive a one-off transactional email about that activity for your records.

9. How to find out what personal information we hold about you

You can request details of the personal information we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR).

You have the right to access this information free of charge, but we have the right to ask you for a reasonable administrative fee if your request is excessive or repetitive. We will respond within one month as required by data protection legislation.

If you would like a copy of the information we hold on you, in the first instance please write to:

Data Protection Officer
c/o IT and Facilities
PO Box 68614
London
E15 1NS

10. What if you would like to make a complaint?

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how we are using your personal information we’d like to hear about it. We appreciate the opportunity this feedback gives us to learn and improve. Please visit Refugee Council's complaints page for more information about this.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint about any use of your information with the Information Commissioners Office, the UK data protection regulator.

11. Cookies

This website uses cookies to help you in your interactions with the site. Most cookies are session cookies, lasting only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No personally-identifiable data is collected.

Examples of the sort of information that is collected via session cookies are provided below. This list is not exhaustive:

The last search term that you used within the site
Your preference in terms of accessible viewing options
A unique ID to track your session from page to page, which is vitally important should you sign in to the site
Which page you have looked at within a multi-paged index of content, or search results.

Certain cookies are persistent, meaning that they last beyond your session, enabling an enhanced user-experience when you return to the site.

Third-party cookies

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Google Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed.

The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site. Google does not permit us to access this data. Read Google’s privacy policy.

Embedded content

From time to time, we may embed external content from third-party websites (e.g. posts from Facebook or videos from YouTube) within our website.

These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be that published on the website of that third-party content provider.

Read Facebook’s privacy policy and Youtube’s privacy policy.

Facebook

Facebook is a social media platform we use to communicate with our supporters through our organisational paid, via posts and advertising.

We use cookies to measure the effectiveness of paid advertising and to include or exclude people who have visited our website. Read Facebook’s privacy policy.

Changing cookies settings

You can change your cookie settings at any time via your web browser settings. To find out more visit the About Cookies or All About Cookies sites.

12. Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.

12.1 Change log

30/05/24: policy launched