What data we collect and how it is used
What data we collect, how much and how it is used will depend on why you have provided it, but as an overall principle, we will only collect, use and otherwise handle your personal data:
- Where you have consented to this for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes;
- Where this is necessary to fulfil our own legal obligations;
- Where it is necessary for legitimate reasons connected with the day-to-day operations of GROW, so long as these reasons comply with relevant laws, including those providing you with legal rights and freedoms.
Data is stored on a secure spreadsheet and in our email system, and is only accessed by the Management Team at GROW and its Board of Directors. It is secured electronically with password protection on a hard drive which is backed up weekly onto encrypted auto and cloud back-up systems. Hard copy documents are kept securely in fireproof office furniture.
We will not share your data with any other organisation, unless required to do so for legal or regulatory reasons.
Below are examples of kinds of personal data we collect and how it is used.
Sponsored Attendees
We invite applications from people with a learning disability who have an enthusiasm, aptitude and interest in a career in horticulture or associated educational opportunities on our site. We keep any such data as is necessary to keep attendees safe and occupied appropriately according to our knowledge of their abilities.
Supporters
If you support us, for example by a donation or signing up for a fundraising event, we will usually collect your name, contact details, and whether you would like to be contacted in the future and how we would do so. If appropriate, we may (but will not automatically) also ask you for your date of birth, financial details, reasons for support, information relating to health and disability, and responses to our work.
We collect this data to keep you up to date with information and to ask for more support in a way you have chosen, and to fulfil any legal responsibilities we have, such as financial reporting.
Volunteers
If you volunteer with us, or enquire about volunteering opportunities, we will usually collect your name, contact details, emergency contact details, bank details (if relevant), contact preferences, ethnicity, gender, availability to volunteer, disability (including physical and mental conditions) and criminal convictions.
We collect this data so that we can contact you about further volunteering opportunities and so that we can ensure the safety of volunteers, staff, clients and customers, and so that we can pay expenses.
Photography
We occasionally use photographs of staff, attendees, volunteers and customers in our administration and fund/profile raising activities.
Job Applicants
Occasionally GROW advertises paid staff vacancies. We will use the contact details you provide to us to contact you to progress your application. We will use any other information you have provided to assess your suitability for the role you have applied for.
We do not collect more information than we need to fulfil our stated purposes and will not retain it for longer than is necessary.