Privacy Policy
At Adanna Women’s Support Group (AWSG), we collect and use your personal information to help solve your problems, improve our services, and tackle wider issues in the community that affect women’s lives. We only ask for the information we need. We treat all your information as confidential and always let you decide what you’re comfortable telling us, explaining why we need it.
At AWSG, we empower Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Women who are going through challenges in their lives including domestic violence, sexual violence, financial abuse, career struggles etc. To allow BME women to make a positive decision about their lives, therefore, protecting your personal information is essential to us, thus our approach also extends to keeping your personal data safe by protecting your Privacy.
This page will let you know about our privacy policy and where we stand.
If you have any questions about the above, please email our first point of contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help you.
What Personal information we collect
Definition: Personal data only includes information relating to natural persons who: can be identified or who are identifiable, directly from the information collected. This could be information such as: name, online identifier etc.
The UK GDPR specifically includes the term ‘online identifiers’ within the definition of what constitutes personal data.
These may include information relating to the device that an individual is using:
- internet protocol (IP) addresses.
- cookie identifiers; and
- other identifiers such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
When we record and use your personal information, we:
- Only access it when we have a good reason
- Only share what is necessary, relevant and when we are legally obliged to do so. or to enforce or apply our terms of use for this website or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of ADANNA WOMENS SUPPORT GROUP, our donors, or others.
- Exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud detection and protection, or with local authorities or social services for the purposes of the provision of health, legal or social care.
- We do not sell personal information to commercial organisations, neither do we buy.
We handle and store your personal information in line with the law – including the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Some of the personal Data ADANNA Women’s Support Group process about an individual:
- Race
- Ethnic Origin
- Health Information
- Age
- Political Opinion
- Religious or philosophical beliefs
- Sex life or Sexual orientation
- Biometric Data
How we use Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. We use cookies to make websites work more efficiently, make the website more secure and as most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party cookies for several purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
What type of cookies do we use:
- Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience our site much better. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.
- Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Using your personal information
We use your personal information for several reasons which are:
- To provide you with useful information, products, or services we have to offer, or we feel may be of interest to you.
- Allow you to participate in interactive features on our website such as completing forms of interest by auto completing your details which you can edit.
- To target relevant events/services to potential donors/service users/
By continuing to our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies; these cookie files and IP addresses will never identify you as an individual.
If you have any questions about how your information is collected or used, please contact us. You can:
- find out what personal information we hold about you
- correct your information if it’s wrong, out of date or incomplete
- request we delete your information
- ask us to limit what we do with your data – for example, ask us not to share it if you haven’t asked us already
- ask us to give you a copy of the data we hold in a format you can use to transfer it to another service
Questions or complaints about Privacy.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy or privacy practice or if you wish to file a complaint, please find our main contact details below:
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07906343050