This Privacy Policy sets out how we handle, store, and process personal data which we collect or which is provided to us. 

Collecting your information

We collect personal information from a variety of sources. Most often, you will provide us your personal information directly by: 

• Completing a form on our website
• Responding to an email from us
• Signing up to attend an event hosted by us
• Filling out a form provided by a NHA Party representative, for example at an event
• Having a conversation on the doorstep, phone, or online with a NHA Party representative
• Interacting with us on social media
• Applying for a job, or signing up to volunteer
• Donating

We also obtain information from other sources, including: 

• The electoral register
• Publicly available information, including census data and election results
• Estimates of other personal information, such as information linked to the area where you live
• Information derived from successful or unsuccessful efforts to contact you

Special Category Data

According to the Data Protection Act, “special category data” includes more sensitive data such as your political opinions. The NHA Party will sometimes need to process such data. 

The types of personal data we may collect about you

We may collect a range of personal data about you depending on your relationship with the party: 

We only use data from external sources if they are lawfully permitted to share the data with us and where we have a legal basis to process data from such sources. 

We may also collect information when you interact with the party’s website and social media pages, This may include additional data to that above, such as: 

• Your IP address 
• Your device, browser or operating system 
• Details of the links that you click and the content that you view 
• Your username or social media handle 
• Any other information you share when using third party sites (e.g. sending a tweet or using the Like function on Facebook) We may also place one or more cookies on your device. For further details on this, see below. 

How we may use your personal data 

We may use your personal data to further our objectives, share it with our elected representatives and/or contact you in future. Examples of the way we may use your data include to: 

If you have provided us with your email, mobile phone number or landline phone number and we have a legal basis to use them. We may contact you to promote causes and campaigns that we support, such as by sending you an email, online advert, or a text message. 

You may opt out of communications with us at any time. 

Legal basis 

We use a variety of lawful bases to process your personal data and this section explains this in more detail.

Record Management

The NHA Party will monitor its databases and ensure that we retain the minimum amount of personal data in order to fulfil its purposes. 

When we might disclose your data

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

We may share your data with third parties to perform services on your behalf and to help promote the NHA Party by serving you advertisements and content online about our politicians, campaigns and policies we think you might be interested in. Types of third parties who may have access to your personal data include:

• Third Party IT System Suppliers who may host your data on their systems and may need some level of access to resolve technical concerns
• Printers and digital advertising suppliers to print off and send out campaign materials
• Event venues, who may need your information for security purposes, or seating requirements
• The Electoral Commission for publication of donation information in line with regulatory requirements
• The Police in relation to security of specific events
• Solicitors, counsel and claimants in relation to legal matters
• Statutory agencies and/or the police in relation to safeguarding or member welfare concerns
• Social Media Providers
• Confidential Waste Providers
• Volunteers working on behalf of the NHA Party

We may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent that we are required to do by law
• in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal or safeguarding proceedings
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
• to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information

We will never sell or share your personal information with other organisations for their direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

Transferring data outside the European Economic Area (EEA)

Occasionally, in order to meet the purposes defined in this Policy, we may need to transfer personal information you submit to us to countries or jurisdictions outside the EEA.

In each case, we ensure that our suppliers provide adequate protection for the confidentiality and security of this information and the rights of data individuals in connection to the transfer of their personal data.

Specific safeguards are in place to govern this sharing, including ensuring that relevant suppliers include standard contractual clauses agreed by the European Data Protection Board for international transfers within their contracts.

The measures listed above have been agreed as appropriate by the Information Commissioner’s Office. 

Your rights

You have a number of rights under Data Protection law including:

• The right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data e.g. via this privacy Policy
• The right to access your personal data, also known as a subject access request (this allows you a right to your data, but not data related to other individuals)
• The right to have any inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed, if it is incomplete
• The right to have your personal data erased in certain circumstances (subject to the Party’s overriding legitimate interest, as outlined previously)
• The right to request the restriction or suppression of their personal data in certain circumstances
• The right to data portability – to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services
• The right to object to our use of your information in certain circumstances e.g. for marketing or profiling purposes

If you would like to do any of these things or raise any other concern about how we use your information, please contact us. 

We follow the ICO’s Code of Practice when dealing with requests for access to personal data, which you can find here:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/2014223/subject-access-code-of-practice.pdf

Full information on your rights under the Data Protection Act can be found from the following link:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/