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The website author recognises and complies with the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

The recognised Data Protection Officer (DPO) is Christopher J. Wilkinson.

This website and its infrastructure is hosted by WordPress.

Privacy Policy

(1) Introduction

The purpose of this Privacy Policy (the ‘Policy’) is to explain how the website author and any identified Controllers and Processors (‘I’ / ‘me’ / ‘we’ / ‘us’ / ‘our’) collects, uses, stores, transfers and discloses your personal data and why. We make a commitment to protect the privacy of our visitors, users, advisers, consultants, contractors and freelancers. ‘Personal Data’ means any identified or identifiable information relating to you.

(2) What Personal Data do we collect?

For the purposes of conducting our business and complying with legal obligations, we collect the following data:

  • Personally Identifiable Information (names, street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers etc.)
  • Comments
  • Cookies
  • Credit or debit card information
  • Payment Details (as provided by third party payment processors)

We reserve the right to obtain Personal Data about you from third parties, such as the Electoral Commission, the Information Commissioner’s Office and local authorities.

(3) How do we collect your Personal Data?

You directly provide us with your Personal Data on a voluntary basis. We may collect and process your Personal Data when you:

  • Contact us via email or social media
  • Use or view the website
  • Subscribe to our direct marketing
  • Make a donation or fundraising contribution
  • Submit a response to a survey on paper or online
  • Place an order with us for any of our products and services

(4) How will we use your Personal Data?

We collect your Personal Data in order to:

  • Transmit your Personal Data between our associated Data Controllers and / or Data Processors
  • Allow use of our website, services and facilities
  • Contact you via email, social media or otherwise
  • Process any enquiries and reply to any comments
  • To complete orders, contracts or agreements
  • To accept donations or fundraising contributions (via third party payment processors not covered by this Privacy Policy)

When the Campaign processes your Personal Information, we may send the data to, and also use the resulting information from, external agencies to prevent election fraud and fraudulent purchases.

We may share your Personal Data with other parties for only the outlined purposes as stated above and under contract to protect the confidentiality and security of your Personal Data.

(5) How do we store your Personal Data?

We implement safeguards to protect your Personal Data against loss, destruction, alteration, transfer, access or disclosure of an unlawful, unauthorised or accidental nature. The Data Protection Officer is the only authorised individual permitted to access your Personal Data for legally authorised purposes.

We undertake reasonable measures to securely store your Personal Data at our registered office on a disconnected external hard drive equipped with anti-virus software and using password protected files. Our email provider and associated direct marketing uses encryption. This website is accessible via a secure (HTTPS) connection.

We will keep your Personal Data for the entire duration of your relationship with us and up to twelve months after the termination of your relationship with us, or until you submit a request to us to delete it in which your Personal Data will be destroyed securely. Financial records will be retained indefinitely in line with current legislation. Comments will be retained indefinitely.

Please report any data breaches immediately via email to instigate an investigation. Should a data breach be confirmed, an assessment of the size and scope of the breach will be produced. We will contact the parties concerned, inform them of the data breach and what information has been lost or compromised. We will notify the Information Commissioner’s Office should they believe this to be necessary under UK data protection laws.

In some cases we are required by law to share data with the Electoral Commission. We will report details of income and expenditure to the Electoral Commission.

(6) What are your Personal Data protection rights?

We would like to make you fully aware of all of your Personal Data protection rights. You are obliged to comply with our policies (including any and all confidentiality or security agreements and contracts) and the law. You must inform us of any changes to your Personal Data at the earliest possible moment. You are entitled to:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request us to provide copies of your Personal Data.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request us to correct any inaccurate Personal Data or complete any incomplete Personal Data.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request us to erase your Personal Data under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict or object to processing – You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data under certain conditions, and the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data under certain conditions.
  • The right to portability – You have the right to request us to transfer the Personal Data we have collected to another party or directly to you under certain conditions.

(7) Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy relates only to website of Christopher J. Wilkinson and was last updated on 25 June 2023. We regularly review our Privacy Policy. Any updates or amendments will be made known on this web page.

To make a Personal Data request, please send an email to christopherjwilkinson@protonmail.com. We will respond within twenty-eight days of receiving your request.

Copyright Notice

All content, products, services and materials produced by Christopher J. Wilkinson are protected by UK copyright law.

You may not copy or reproduce any material from any of our products without prior written consent obtained from the Christopher J. Wilkinson except in the case of brief excerpts embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by UK copyright law.

To apply for permission to use material produced by Christopher J. Wilkinson, please send an email to christopherjwilkinson@protonmail.com with details of your request.