The Gérard Basset Foundation Privacy Policy (last update March 2024)
At the Gérard Basset Foundation (we, us, The foundation or our), we are committed to protecting and respecting your personal data and privacy. We seek to ensure that any personal data we collect about you will be held and processed strictly in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The terms Personal Data, Data Controller and processing have the meanings given to them in GDPR, unless otherwise indicated.
We collect certain personal information based upon the information provided to us from you. This Privacy Policy demonstrates how we handle the Personal Data you provide to us.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), and GDPR the data controller is Gérard Basset Foundation (The Foundation). If you have any queries regarding this policy or complaints about our use of your Personal Data, please contact us at enquiries@thegeradbassetfoundation.org
This policy (together with other documents referred to) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
The types of information we may collect from you are set out below. We use that information for the following purposes:
Data:
Individual name
Individual contact details – telephone number and email
Purpose:
To provide, maintain and enhance our products and services and to send you reports and newsletters from time to time about us and our services. To permit us to perform any contract/answer queries raised by individuals
Legal Basis:
Legitimate interests
Performance of contract
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our partners or suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, for example, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Sharing of Information
Please note that we may on occasion be required to share your information with the following categories of recipients:
our directors and officers.
our professional advisers and third parties who provide services on our behalf and their respective service providers.
Our service providers are subject to data processing arrangements which are compliant with the requirements set out in the GDPR.
In relation to any other third parties, we will only disclose your information in the following circumstances:
where you have given your consent;
where we are required to do so by law or enforceable request by a regulatory body;
where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights; and
if we sell our company, go out of business, or merge with another company.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under the GDPR, you will have the following rights in relation to how we process your Personal Data:
Right to request access – you may obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not your Personal Data is being processed and, where that is the case, access to your Personal Data.
Right to rectification and erasure – you have the right to obtain rectification of inaccurate personal data we hold concerning you and to obtain the erasure of your Personal Data without undue delay in certain circumstances.
Right to restriction of processing or to object to processing – you may require us to restrict the processing we carry out on your Personal Data in certain circumstances or to object to us processing your Personal Data.
Right to data portability – you have the right to receive your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Right to withdraw consent – where you have provided your consent to us processing your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This can be done by emailing enquiries@thegeradbassetfoundation.org at any time or by clicking the “unsubscribe” link on any marketing communications you receive from us.
Right to lodge a complaint – you may lodge a complaint with any supervisory authority in the EU. The supervisory authority for the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
For further information on your rights, please see the Information Commissioner’s website
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us using the Contact form.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
GENERAL
Please note that in certain circumstances, there may be a statutory or contractual requirement for you to provide your Personal Data to us but, where there is not, you are not obliged to do so. Please note, however, that we may not be able to provide our services in the way that we do, if you do not provide your Personal Data.
We do not undertake automated decision-making or profiling on your Personal Data.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We keep our privacy policy under constant review and may change it from time to time to reflect our practices or to remain compliant with relevant legislation. We will notify you of any material changes to our privacy policy via a notification on our website. Your continued use of this website or our other marketing services, following the posting of changes to these terms, will mean you accept these changes.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to us using the Contact form.