We want you to feel assured that any information you give us is held securely and safely, whether you are working for us, supporting us through membership, campaigning, donations, volunteering, fundraising or events.

This policy outlines what data we collect, how we may use it and how we keep your data safe.

‘We’ or ‘us’ means Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE North Yorkshire), P.O. Box 189, York, YO7 9BL. Registered charity 1089685, registered company number 1174989 (see Data sharing within the CPRE network below).

This privacy and cookie policy seeks to comprehensively cover the key areas relating to personal data held by CPRE, but in the interests of clarity it is not an exhaustive list of all our policies and practices in these areas.

This policy will change from time to time, as we keep up to date with legislation and regulation and to remain aligned with any relevant changes in our programmes and operations. If material changes are made, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website. You can keep up to date by visiting these pages.

This text was last updated in October 2020.

Need to see our privacy policy for volunteers? You can find everything you need to know here.

Getting in touch

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. You also have the right to ask us to delete any personal information we hold about you. In some cases, we may be unable to delete data, such as if it is required for tax or Gift Aid purposes. In these cases, we will ensure that you are removed from future communications and processing. We are committed to ensuring you receive only those communications you choose.

You can access your personal data held by us or request to receive your information in part or its entirety in machine readable format.

For all questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal information, please do get in touch. You can write to:

Data protection lead
CPRE  North Yorkshire,
P.O. Box 189
York
YO7 9BL

You can email dataprotection@cpre.org.uk, or contact the CPRE North Yorkshire administrator info@cprenorthyorkshire.co.uk or call 07983088120

Cookie consent

Like most websites, we store information about your visit in the form of ‘cookies’. The cookies help us to tailor our website to your preferences. Cookies are placed on your computer, which provide information about how you use the site. This information is used statistically and the cookies, do not gather personal information about you and do not allow us access to your computer.

For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic (the number of visitors and how visitors move around the site when they are using it).

For more information about how we use cookies on this site, please review our Cookie Policy below.

E-newsletter sign up

When you sign up to our e-newsletter, your email address will either be added to a mailing list managed by MailChimp, a third-party provider used to deliver the newsletter or kept on a password protected Excel spreadsheet. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, see MailChimp Privacy Policy

Members’ annual newsletter

As a member/supporter of CPRE North Yorkshire,  you are entitled to receive as part of your subscription a annual Newsletter, which is posted out once a year to the address supplied to us by CPRE National Office. The mailing out of our newsletter is handled by a third-party mail house, Page Engine.

Page Engine is formally contracted to CPRE  to use your data for the sole purpose of the mailing out of CPRE North Yorkshire Newsletter, after which your data will be permanently deleted from its system. If you do not wish to receive the Newsletter, then please email the office on info@cprenorthyorkshire.co.uk or call us on 07983 088120.

You can sign up for membership of CPRE North Yorkshire using a link on our website that directs you to CPRE National Office website. You can opt in to any communications of your choice and CPRE National Office will hold that information centrally in accordance with their own privacy policy and also share that information with us so that we can keep you informed of things that may interest you at local level. We also use your data to send you other information from time to time including our members’ magazine, depending on what you have chosen to opt into. For more information see CPRE National Office Privacy and Cookie Policy.

E-ticketing data

From time to time we will host events and conferences. When you purchase a ticket (or tickets) we use a third-party ticketing service, Eventbrite. Any details you enter (name, address, email, telephone number) will be stored securely by Eventbrite for the sole purpose of administering ticketing information. For more information, see Eventbrite Privacy Policy. We may host an event or conference in partnership with another organisation. If we do, we may need to share booking data with that organisation.

Other fundraising platforms

We use other organisations to help us raise funds:

• Easyfundraising Privacy Policy
• Amazon Smile Privacy Policy
• eBay Privacy Centre

Access to your personal information

You are entitled to request to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold.

Email or write with your request to Fran Evans via email info@cprenorthyorkshire.co.uk or write to us at CPRE North Yorkshire, P.O. Box 189, York, YO7 9BL   All requests must be made in writing.

Why and how we collect your data

When you give it to us directly

The vast majority of personal data we hold is given to us directly by our members, supporters and volunteers in the course of them interacting with our services, websites or fundraising activities. 

When we are working with a third party

We may work with fundraising sites such as Just Giving and Change.org. These independent third parties will only share your data with us when you have given permission for CPRE to contact you. We use Mailchimp to manage our email marketing and Eventbrite to manage event attendees. You can find the privacy policies of our third-party data processors here:

• Just Giving – https://about.justgiving.com/info/privacy
• Mailchimp – https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
• Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-privacy-policy
• Survey Monkey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/privacy-policy/

When your information is available publicly

We may combine information that we already have about you with information available publicly or information available from external sources to gain a better understanding of you.

This includes the use of profiling and screening techniques to ensure communications are relevant and timely, and to provide an improved experience for our supporters. Profiling also allows us to target our resources effectively, which supporters consistently tell us is a key priority for them. We do this because it allows us to understand the background of the people who support us and helps us to make appropriate requests to supporters who may be able and willing to give more than they already do. Importantly, it enables us to raise more funds, sooner, and more cost-effectively, than we otherwise would.

You can opt out of your data being used in any of the above-mentioned ways at any time by contacting us at info@cprenorthyorshire.co.uk, or call 07983 088120.

What data we collect

Personal information is any data that can be used to identify you. It can include, but is not limited to, any of the data listed below. 

Data protection law recognises that there are sensitive categories of personal information, such as health information, racial or ethnic origin, or religious beliefs or other beliefs. We would only collect sensitive personal information where there is a clear need to do so such as health information to enable participation in a challenge event. Before we collect any sensitive personal information, we will make it clear what information we are collecting and the purpose we are collecting it for. 

Information we collect from you directly or from third parties with whom we work, may include:

• name
• address
• email address
• telephone number
• contact preferences
• bank account details for setting up a regular direct debit
• credit card details for processing credit card payments
• employer details for processing a payroll gift
• taxpayer status for claiming Gift Aid
• National Insurance number
• marital status
• health history
• date of birth, age, and/or gender

We do not use cookies to collect this type of information. 

We may also collect and process information about your interactions with us, including details about our contacts with you through email, post, on the phone or in person. This might include the date, time, and method of contact, details about donations you make to us, events or activities that you register for or attend or any request for support.

We may also collect and record other relevant information you share with us about yourself, such as your interests or your affiliations with other charities, community or campaign groups, your Council or Planning Team.

Children’s data

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children and young people who volunteer with us, fundraise for us, attend events organised by us or engage on our website. Where necessary we will obtain the consent of a parent or guardian in order to collect and use personal data of children. 

If you are a child and would like to get involved with CPRE, please obtain your parent or guardian’s consent before sending any personal information to any website or CPRE. Where we have activities for those under 18 we will ask your age. Please ensure you speak to your parent or guardian before taking part in these activities. 

How we use your data

Campaigning for a beautiful, living countryside is something we cannot do without the help of people who share our passion. Raising funds, running campaigns and involving as wide a range of people as we can in our activities is hugely important to us.

We try to offer diverse ways to support and get involved, and use a range of channels to suit supporter preferences, such as our website, postal, email and information publications. We may create profiles and database segmentation to ensure communications are relevant and timely and to provide the best possible experience for our supporters. We will always ensure we have your consent before contacting you by email for marketing purposes.

The law allows personal data to be legally collected and used by an organisation if it is necessary for a legitimate business interest of the organisation – as long as its use is fair and balanced and does not unduly impact the rights of the individual concerned. We will send relevant marketing by post on the basis that it is within our legitimate interests to do so. If you feel you would like to reduce the amount of post you receive from us or prefer not to receive postal marketing at all, simply contact our Data Protection Lead at info@cprenorthyorshire.co.uk, or call 07983 088120.

If you are a member of CPRE and request not to receive post, please note that we will continue to post legally required membership documents such as voting papers and AGM notifications, and membership renewal notices but you will not receive information materials such as North Yorkshire Views, our annual appeal or local updates.

Data sharing within the CPRE network

When you become a member of CPRE, you join both the national office and the North Yorkshire branch. National office shares your data with us so we can keep you informed of local news and events and invite you to our Annual General Meeting. We will inform National Office of any changes to your data as you inform us. National office will keep you up to date with national news, events and to invite you to their Annual General Meeting. You can choose not to receive certain communications from national office at any time by contacting the Data Protection Lead at dataprotection@cpre.org.uk or call 020 7981 2870.

This policy applies to only your interactions with CPRE national office and our branch. The independently registered branches, like CPRE North Yorkshire, within the CPRE network each have their own privacy policy.

Data sharing with third parties

We do not share, sell or swap your information with other organisations for their own marketing purposes. We will share membership data within the CPRE’s National Office as described above.

There are a number of legitimate situations where we may share your information with third parties whom we have contracted to fulfil specific services for us. This will include organisations such as mail fulfilment houses and email broadcasters who will send out our marketing materials on our behalf. In all of these situations we set up a written contractual agreement that will ensure that those organisations can only use the data provided for the specific purposes we direct them to do, and that they have in place strict security requirements in order to protect your personal information.

We may disclose your personal information if we are requested or required to do so by a regulator or law enforcement or to enforce or apply our rights (including in relation to our website or other applicable terms and conditions) or to protect CPRE North Yorkshire, for example in cases of suspected fraud or defamation, or to comply with any other applicable legal obligation.

Keeping your personal information safe

We take appropriate physical, electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date.

Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We do our best to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our website, so any transmission is at the user’s own risk. However, any payment card details (such as credit or debit cards) we receive on our website are passed securely to our payment processing provider according to the Payment Card Industry Security Standards.

How long we will keep your data

We remove personal data from our systems in line with our data retention policy. The length of time each category of data will be retained will vary on how long we need to process it, the reason it is collected, and in line with any statutory requirements. 

After this point the data will either be deleted or rendered anonymous. In certain specific situations, for example where a supporter has kindly pledged a legacy to CPRE in their will, we will maintain their details up to the time when we need to carry out the legacy administration and communicate effectively with their family.

Some of the reasons why we may contact you

• Process membership subscriptions, donations or other payments
• Set up or alter a direct debit payment
• Notify you of opportunities to get involved in North Yorkshire e.g. volunteering opportunities, attending events
• Ask you to support one of our campaigns e.g. signing a petition or lobbying your MP
• Ask you to donate to one of our appeals
• Reclaim tax on your donations by claiming Gift Aid
• Send you publications such as North Yorkshire Views
• Update you on campaigns through email newsletters
• Participate in fundraising events
• Making or changing your Will
• To put you in touch with your local volunteer group

If at any time you wish to change the information you receive from us or how you are contacted for marketing purposes you can let us know, emailing us at info@cprenorthyorshire.co.uk, or call 07983 088120.

Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 19-Jan-2024
Last Updated: 19-Jan-2024

 

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What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and help the owner of the website improve the user’s experience of the site. 

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu, for a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/policies/technologies/cookies 

Does CPRE’s website use cookies?

Yes. If you visit our website, we use cookies to record information about:
• the areas of the website you visit
• the amount of time you spend on the site
• whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before
• the country, region, city and/or borough associated with your IP address or device
• how you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine
• the type of device and browser you use
• how you use the website and the quality of your experience – for example we may track your bandwidth when viewing videos
• how you interact with our donation and sign-up forms – for example what you select as your communication preferences
• any error messages that you receive on the site. 

We use cookies to track how visitors come to our site. For example, we use marketing or referring tracking codes in internet addresses (URLs) to show us whether a visitor has come to our site via a link on a referring website or in a specific piece of marketing and to give us insight into the effectiveness of our marketing. Although not through cookies, we do measure the success of the emails we send – so we know what subject lines and stories people liked the most. We don’t share this information. 

Some of this information may be used by third party cookies to target you with relevant advertising (see below). However, you can choose to use our website anonymously without giving us any information. Please see ‘Changing your cookie preferences’ below. 

Types of cookies

We use ‘first party cookies’. These are cookies served directly from our website to your computer and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits our site and, in some cases, to remember your preferences as you browse the site. 

Cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached. Most of our cookies are persistent. 

Categories of cookies we use

We have assessed our cookies based on the ICC Cookie Guide. Most of our cookies fall into categories 1 and 3.

1. Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for the user to move around the website and to use its features.
2. Performance cookies: these cookies collect information about how the user makes use of the site, e.g. which pages the user visits most. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the user.
3. Functionality cookies: these cookies remember choices made by or attributes of the user and enhance the features and content you experience during your visit to our website, such as appeals visited or your location. This cookie is also used to remember a user’s preferences for a font size, or customisable parts of a web page.
4. Targeting or advertising cookies: these cookies collect information about the users’ browsing habits. This may also include your use of social media sites, e.g. Facebook, etc. or how you interact with our website which then shows you relevant content elsewhere on the internet. These may also be used to choose the advertisements that are displayed to you on our website and other websites. 

What information does CPRE collect using cookies?

We may collect some, or all, of the information available from cookies when you visit our website, depending on how you use it. We monitor how people use our website, so we can improve it. We collect this information anonymously. 

We use a standard type 1 cookie. This contains no personal information, but tells us if that device has visited before. If you log in to our local group area, however, the cookie will be able to identify the user and which user groups they belong to. Note that this data is not stored in the cookie itself. The session data on the website expires and is removed after about 120 minutes of inactivity. 

Some pop-ups, such as ‘Get our updates’ use a small type 3 cookie to prevent the pop-up being shown repeatedly once a user has dismissed it, or has already entered their email address. It is not used for tracking. Any pages with tabs or panels may store a small cookie to record the current state of the tab/panel between page requests. 

We use session cookies on the pages where you interact with us to give us money, either as a donation or paying membership, or take an e-action, because they allow you to proceed through pages quickly and easily without having to authenticate or reprocess on each page. This means you can link up pages, or use multiple pages, for your actions and donations. However, when you close your browser, the session cookie is lost. 

Facebook Pixel is also loaded on every page. The Facebook and Twitter and other social media share buttons don’t themselves generate cookies and are not tracked, but we note the URL of the site you came from to us, as it would be for any link to a third-party site. Pages with embedded Twitter feeds store several cookies for user tracking purposes. Pages with embedded media store a number of small cookies for user tracking and for saving user preferences. 

Changing your cookie preferences

The ‘Help’ menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. Below are links to the most common browsers to help you make any changes:
– Firefox cookie management
– Chrome cookie management
– Safari cookie management
– Internet Explorer cookie management. 

Website statistics analytics, testing and personalisation

Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which (as discussed above) are text files placed on your computer, to help CPRE analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Please read Google’s privacy policy if you are concerned about this. 

CPRE has no influence over Google’s activities but do note that Google has signed up to the US Privacy Shield standard for protection of data which has been declared adequate by the EU commission. You can always opt-out of Google Analytics cookies here Google’s opt-out tool. You should be aware that if you follow a link to another website and give any personal information to another company, the uses to which that information may be put will be determined by that third party Privacy Policy, we have no control over that third party.

List of cookies used on CPRE’s website

Types of Cookies we use

How to find out more or make a complaint

To make a formal complaint about CPRE’s approach to data protection or your privacy rights please contact:
CPRE North Yorkshire
P.O. Box 189
York
YO7 9BL

Or call 07983 088120. 

We will acknowledge your complaint within 2 working days and aim to provide a full response within 10 working days. If you are not happy with our response, or you believe that your data protection or privacy rights have been infringed, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which regulates and enforces data protection law in the UK. 

The ICO contact details are:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate number. Registration number: Z1843836. 

If you would like more information, or have any questions about this policy, please contact CPRE North Yorkshire by email info@cprenorthyorkshire.co.uk or write to our supporter care team at our address above.