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We are the Wigan Conservatives Federation (The Federation), a Federation and an accounting unit of the Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly known as the Conservative Party (The Party). Wigan Conservatives Federation is a Registered Data Controller with the Information Commisioner's Office (ICO) under registration number Z196002X. This is the privacy policy of the Wigan Conservatives Federation and not just our website www.wlmconservatives.com. This privacy policy does not apply to our councillors or our MP, who have their own privacy policies. We retain the right to update this policy at any time. If there are changes that significantly impact your rights, we will contact you in advance.
We are happy to make this policy available in other accessible formats such as braille. If you wish to obtain a copy in an accessible format please contact our Data Protection Officer at office@wlmconservatives.com
This privacy policy covers activities and processing where Wigan Conservatives Federation is the data controller.
Where we act as a data processor for the Conservative and Unionist Party, we will abide by the privacy policy of the Conservative and Unionist Party.
The Conservative and Unionist Party is Registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission under registration PP52 and a Registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under registration number Z5909711. The privacy policy of the Conservative Part is available at https://www.conservatives.com/privacy. The Wigan Conservatives Federation privacy policy follows the principles enshrined in the privacy policy of the Conservative Party.
This Privacy Policy has been created in order to demonstrate the Federation’s commitment to the protection of your data and to be transparent in how we deal with it.
The Federation will process your data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
This privacy policy was published on 12th November 2020.
Contacting us about Data Protection:
If you have any questions about this policy or for more information about how we use your data or would like to exercise any of your rights you can contact our Data Protection Officer at:
Data Protection Officer
111 Bolton Road
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Wigan
WN4 4AD
You may contact us by e-mail at office@wlmconservatives.com
What information do we collect?
The types of personal information that we may collect about you include:
We may also collect special categories of information such as:
How we collect data
We collect data about you in the following ways:
Provided by you (Directly):
Third Party Sources (Indirectly):
How we use your information and why we are allowed to use it:
How your data is used is protected by law and we only use your data where we have an acceptable reason for doing so. The reasons we process your data are:
The law restricts the processing of what is termed “special categories of personal data”. The work of the Wigan Conservatives Federation is deemed to be of substantial public interest and therefore we are permitted to process special categories of personal data relating to your political opinions and voting intentions.
The list below lists examples of how we use your data and our justification and legal basis for it.
Bold - Purpose
Italic - Legal Basis and justification
Canvass Political Support
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interest to identify Conservative supporters
Send you messages about our campaigns and policies, including via social media adverts
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interest to inform the electorate about what the Conservative Party is doing
Contact you about issues or queries that you have told us about
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interests to engage with the electorate
Process and record voting intentions and political opinions
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interest to understand the electorate and identify Conservative supporters
Send you surveys and process your responses
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement
Process your application for membership and administration of your membership
Contractual necessity and our legitimate interest in engaging with our membership base
Send you information by post about fundraising activities to support the Party
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interests to raise funds for the Party.
Process your donation and checking your eligibility to donate
We have a legitimate interest to process your donation and a legal duty to check your eligibility to donate amounts of more than £500
Assess suitability of prospective members and donors using publicly available sources
We have a legitimate interest to ensure that our members and donors will not bring the Party into disrepute
Send you electronic messages about our campaigns
When you sign up to receive emails from the Conservative Party you are providing us with your consent to process your data for these purposes
Identifying potential supporters using commercially available modelled data
In pursuit of an activity that supports or promotes democratic engagement and our legitimate interests to identify Conservative supporters
Conduct anonymised market research
We have a legitimate interest to get a sense of general political opinion across the UK
Our legitimate interests:
Our objective is to promote our values and to elect Conservative candidates at every level of government, or when we campaign in referenda. In order to do this we rely upon the support of our members, donors, volunteers and supporters. We rely on being able to communicate and engage with the United Kingdom Electorate and those eligible to vote.
As a member: If you join the Conservative Party, and thus Wigan Conservatives Federation, we have a legitimate interest in processing your data and contacting you about all aspects of your membership including information about your entitlements as a member and about Federation events; either by post or by electronic means. The party is run by its members and therefore we have a legitimate interest in member engagement and retention. If you do not renew your membership with the Party and Wigan Conservatives Federation we will continue to send you information about the Conservative Party and Wigan Conservatives Federation, including information on how to rejoin, for a reasonable period after your membership lapses. We also have a legitimate interest to retain your data after your membership lapses, as well as a legal duty to keep a record of the financial transaction.
As a donor: If you donate money to the Wigan Conservatives Federation or Party then we have a legitimate interest in processing and retaining your information and to send you marketing about our fundraising activities; either by post or by electronic means. We justify this because our activities are funded by donations. For donations over certain thresholds we also have a legal obligation to report it to our regulator, the Electoral Commission, who will publish certain details on their website.
As a volunteer: If you volunteer for the Party or enquire about volunteering for the Party, and are not a member, we have a legitimate interest in processing and retaining your information and contacting you about volunteering opportunities. We justify this because of the vital function that volunteers perform both during and outside of elections.
If you attend an event: If you attend one of our events such as Party conference or one of the Federation’s social or campaign events, and are not a member of the Party, we have a legitimate interest in retaining your information and to send you marketing about future similar events which we think might be of interest to you; either by post or by electronic means. We have a legitimate interest in inviting people to our events in order to raise vital funds for the Wigan Conservatives Federation and the Party and have determined that attendees would expect to receive such communications from us.
Much of the work of the Party is conducted by the Conservative Party. For this reason we have a legitimate interest in sharing certain personal information with the Party when it is necessary for our campaigns or activities.
Whilst a lot of our political activities are considered to be tasks carried out in the public interest, we also have a legitimate interest to carry out these tasks. We justify this due to our defined objective as a political party.
You will always have the opportunity to opt out of receiving any messages from the Conservative Party or the Wigan Conservatives Federation or to exercise any of your legal rights.
We are committed to respecting your rights over your data and in some circumstances we will have a legitimate interest to continue to process your data even where you have exercised one of your rights. For example if you request that we stop processing your data for purposes of direct marketing then we justify keeping a record of this request in order to ensure that your wishes are respected.
Data Processed with your Consent
Where we use consent as our legal basis for processing your data, or process special categories of your data on the basis of your explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect our right to process your data before you decide to withdraw your consent.
Who we share your data with:
We will never sell your data but sometimes it is necessary to share your information, either within the wider Conservative Party or Conservative Party, or with our service providers and data processors. Data is only ever shared where we have a justification and when the law allows us to do so.
We share data with:
Where we use a service provider to process your data on our behalf we will ensure that this processing is governed by a legally enforceable contract which sets out their responsibilities for protecting your data and your rights.
Where we share data with the wider Conservative Party we ensure that the recipient of the data signs an undertaking that they will use the data only for the purposes for which it was provided and will take necessary measures to ensure its security. Members of the wider Party receive training on data protection.
Transferring your data outside of the European Economic Area
Some of our service providers are located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) and therefore it may be necessary to transfer your personal data outside of the EEA. Where we do transfer your data outside of the EEA we will make sure that it is protected in the same way as if the data was inside the EEA.
We will use one of the following safeguards to ensure this:
We are not permitted to transfer Electoral Register Data outside of the EEA.
How long we retain your data for
We constantly review the data that we hold and regularly review its relevance and our need to hold onto it. Whilst we do not set finite periods for data retention we use several factors to determine whether we need to hold onto the data. Factors we take into consideration are:
Cookies
We use cookies on our website to analyse how visitors use our site. We use this information to improve our website and provide the best experience to visitors.
When you visit our website each visitor is offered the choice whether to accept or decline these cookies. We process cookies, as highlighted above.
Log Files and Statistics
We use IP addresses, URLs of requested resources, timestamps and HTTP user-agents to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. In addition to this we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, to help analyse how visitors use our site. The information generated by the cookie about the use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for the Conservative Party and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your Web browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to make full use of our website. By using this website, after agreeing to use cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
How we protect your data:
The security of your data is paramount to the Wigan Conservatives Federation and as such we ensure that appropriate technical and organisational measures are in place to protect it. We constantly review our measures to ensure that your data is protected from any threats that may emerge.
Your rights over your data
Right of access to your data
You have the right to request a copy of your personal information that we hold. This is commonly known as a Subject Access Request.
We follow the ICO’s “Subject Access Code of Practice” when dealing with requests for access to personal data. You can read this code by visiting https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/2014223/subject-access-code-of-practice.pdf
Right of rectification of your data
You have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information that we hold about you is corrected.
Right to be forgotten
In certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records. When we do so, we keep the bare minimum of your information in order to continue to respect your wishes when your personal data is next provided to us by a local authority, which is at least annually.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data where you are contesting the accuracy of the data or when the data has been unlawfully processed.
Right to data portability
You have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to a third party organisation and you can ask that we provide it in a machine readable format.
Right to object
You have a right to opt out of your data being used for direct marketing.
If we process your data on the basis of “legitimate interests” or “a task carried out in the public interest” then you have the right to object to us using your data in that way. This right is not absolute and we may continue to process your data if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing.
Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
We may use computer software to make decisions about you or to create a profile about you. You have the right not to be subject to such a decision or to that profiling where it creates legal effects concerning you or where it significantly affects you.
Making a complaint
You can make an informal or formal complaint directly to us by:
Writing to us:
Data Protection Officer
111 Bolton Road
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Wigan
WN4 4AD
Emailing us:
If you are unhappy with the way that we have processed or handled your data then you have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO is the supervisory body authorised by the Data Protection Act 2018 to regulate the handling of personal data within the United Kingdom.
The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are:
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