Privacy Policy

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This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

• Contact details
• What information we collect, use, and why
• Lawful bases and data protection rights
• Where we get personal information from
• How long we keep information
• Who we share information with
• How to complain

Contact Details:

Post: First Floor, City Centre, Swan Buildings, 20 Swan St, Manchester, Greater Manchester, 

M4 5JW, GB

Email: info@internationalpeacesociety.org.uk

We collect or use the following personal information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of crimes:

• Names and contact information

We collect or use the following personal information for service updates or marketing purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Marketing preferences
• Records of consent, where appropriate

We collect or use the following personal information to comply with legal requirements:

• Name
• Contact information
• Any other personal information required to comply with legal obligations
• Safeguarding information

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access on the ICO website.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification on the ICO website.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure on the ICO website.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing on the ICO website.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing on the ICO website.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability on the ICO website.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdrawn consent on the ICO website.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of crimes are:

• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to comply with legal requirements are:

• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

• Directly from you
• Reports made via our reporting page

Records and information will only be retained when there is a genuine need to do so, the maximum records and information can be kept for is up to 6 years. Records and information which are not necessary are deleted, taking into account guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office.  

• Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons
• Legal bodies or authorities
• Local authorities or councils
• Relevant regulatory authorities
• Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint