The Learning Tree Partnership Privacy Notice
Who we are
The Learning Tree Partnership is a registered charity in Scotland (Charity Number: SC046044).
We have made a commitment to treating your personal information with respect and to protecting it at all times. It is our aim to ensure that your details are processed in a fair, open, and transparent way.
For the purposes of EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“Data Protection Law”) we are the “controller” of your personal data. This means that we are responsible for, and control the processing of, your personal information.
For more details about how we process personal information about you, your rights, and the measures we take to protect your details, please contact us via the contact details below.
How we collect information about you
How we collect information about you is largely guided by why we are collecting it. Our primary reasons for requesting your personal information are:
Some of the ways we collect personal information about you are:
Information we collect and why we use it
The personal information we collect includes details such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, as well as information you provide in any communications between us.
We will mainly use this information:
We may also use your personal information:
A note about Special Categories of information
GDPR recognises that some categories of personal information is more sensitive and classifies this as special category personal data. This sensitive information can include information about a person’s health, race, ethnic origin, political opinions, sex life, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.
If you provide us with special categories of personal information we will only:
Legal basis for using your information
When we process your personal information we will always have identified a “lawful” reason for doing so. Depending on why we need to process the information, the “lawful” basis will vary. Some of the reason we may use are listed below.
Consent
In this case we will have told you what information we are collecting and why we are processing it. We will ask for you to agree
to let us do this by signing a consent form.
Public Interest
We would use this basis when we are carrying out work in the public interest that is supported by a piece of
legislation.
Legitimate Interest
This means that the reason that we are processing your information is because there is a legitimate interest for The Learning
Tree Partnership to process your details to help us to achieve our charitable objectives. When we use this basis we will have performed a ‘balancing test’ to ensure that your rights and interests are
protected.
Legal Obligation
We will use this reason if we need to process personal data to comply with common law or a statutory obligation. An example of
this would be holding Gift Aid information for a minimum number of years.
Contract
We would use this basis to fulfil contractual obligations. To process special category data we also need to identify an
additional basis. As a charity we refer to Article (9) (d) of the GDPR as the condition.
Marketing
We will only contact you about our work and how you can support The Learning Tree Partnership by phone, post, email or text
message, if you have agreed for us to contact you in this manner.
If you would like to stop receiving these please get in touch with us.
If you would like to receive NO future correspondence from The Learning Tree Partnership relating to marketing and updates then please email info@thelearningtree.org.uk stating your request and we will work to remove you from all distribution lists.
Sharing your information
The information that we collect will be used by The Learning Tree Partnership staff and volunteers to support you.
We will never sell or share your personal information with organisations so that they can contact you for any marketing activities. Nor do we sell any information about your web browsing activity.
The Learning Tree Partnership may share your information with trusted partners and suppliers who work with us on or on our behalf to deliver our services, but processing of this information is always carried out under our instruction.
We enter into contracts with these service providers that require them to comply with Data Protection Laws and ensure that they have appropriate controls in place to secure your information.
Legal disclosure
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law (for example, to comply with applicable laws, regulations and codes
of practice or in response to a valid request from a competent authority); or, in order to enforce our conditions of sale and other agreements.
Keeping your information safe
We take looking after your information very seriously. We have robust technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both on and off-line, from improper access, use, alteration, destruction, and loss.
Our websites may contain links to other sites. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. Please be aware that websites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. This privacy statement does not cover the information practices of those websites.
How long we hold your information for
We have created retention guidelines for all the personal information that we hold. The periods set are based on what we feel is safe and reasonable and will allow us to perform the task that we have collected the information for.
Where we still require to hold your information after a period, we will attempt to minimise and archive it as appropriate.
Some types of data will need to be kept for a set period of time as set out by law/regulations.
The protection and security of your personal information will be paramount when we set retention periods.
Your rights
Depending on the legal basis for processing your information you have specific rights surrounding the personal data that is held about you. These are set out below.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights or to make a complaint relating to your information processing, please get in touch with The Learning Tree Partnership:
Your rights
Please note, some of these rights only apply in certain circumstances and we may not be able to fulfil every request.