Privacy Policy

Introduction

At sdf.org.uk, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information You Give Us

Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, and any other details you provide when filling out forms on our site, contacting us directly, booking events, or applying for jobs.
Communication Data: Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication).

Information We Collect About You

Technical Data: Including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

To provide and improve our services: Ensuring that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device.
To manage event bookings: Processing your event bookings, sending confirmations, and providing you with information related to the events you are attending.
To manage job postings and applications: Processing job applications, communicating with job applicants, and handling recruitment processes.
To communicate with you: Responding to your queries and providing you with the information, products, and services that you request from us.
To comply with legal obligations: Processing your data as required by law or regulation.
To manage our website: Administering our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
For marketing purposes: Providing you with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. We will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights:

Right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our provided contact information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

Last Update Date: 20th May 2024

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

Email: commsteam@sdf.org.uk

Address:
Scottish Drug Forum
91 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3LN

TEL: 0141 221 1175