Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Engage For Success uses and protects any information that you give Engage For Success when you use this website or contact us by other means. If you are a volunteer, especially if you are running EfS events, please also read this.

Engage For Success is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Engage For Success may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This current policy is effective from 11/05/18.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://engageforsuccess.org

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to surveys, projects and/or opportunities
  • What we do with the information we gather

    We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

The lawful bases under which we collect and use your data

We require your clear and unambiguous consent to process your data if you sign up to our newsletter. From time to time we may ask you to restate your consent.

If you are working with Engage for Success as a volunteer, secondee, supplier or other business contact, then we require your data in order to fulfil our legitimate interests (contacting you regarding internal meetings, research projects, events and other activities in fulfilment of our purpose of highlighting and improving Employee Engagement).

If you are working with Engage for Success under a formal contract or agreement, then we require your data on a contract basis.

What we collecT

Internal communications to fulfil the purpose of Engage for Success

Internal record keeping

We may use the information to improve our website and offerings.
We may periodically send emails about new projects, ideas or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security & Information Retention

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We regularly review the systems we use and the data we hold to ensure we are keeping it for an appropriate length of time and that it is still relevant.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

If you have previously provided us with your personal information so that we can send you newsletters, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@engageforsuccesss.org, or by unsubscribing within our newsletter.

If you have previously provided us with your personal information as a business contact, volunteer or secondee with the movement, then we will hold and process that data in accordance with pursuing our legitimate interests in the service of our purpose of highlighting and improving Employee Engagement. If you no longer wish to be associated with Engage for Success in this way, please let us know at info@engageforsuccess.org

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties as part of our newsletter.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR by emailing info@engageforsuccess.org

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

We will continue to hold information for as long as your relationship with Engage for Success is deemed active, and thereafter we may keep any information relative to the relationship as dictated by regulatory, legal or operational requirements. In the case of our newsletter, we will immediately remove and delete your data from the newsletter system if you withdraw your consent by unsubscribing or contacting us at info@engageforsuccess.org however you should note that if we also hold data relating to you through one of our other lawful bases for data processing (through our legitimate interests in operation, or through a contract or agreement) that we will continue to hold that data as required.Enter your text here...

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