top of page

PRIVACY POLICY

Legal disclaimer

Effective Date: 06/05/2025

 

Start Young UK ("we," "our," "us" “the Charity”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website www.startyounguk.com or www.startyounguk.co.uk (the "Site") and interact with our services (such as providing the information requested on pledge forms, entering a competition, registering for an event, making donations to us).

1. What Personal Data We Collect From You

We may collect, use store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, your organisation’s name, your photos or video featuring you

  • Contact data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

  • Transaction data includes details about donations or gifts you may make

  • Profile data includes your pledge details, interests, preferences, donation records, feedback, preferences in receiving marketing from us

2. How Is Your Personal Data Collected

You may provide us with your personal data by filling out online forms or by corresponding with us via phone, email, or other means. This includes personal data you provide when you register for or attend an event, submit a pledge form, make a donation, request marketing communications, enter a competition, promotion, or survey, or provide us with feedback or contact us in any other way.

Transaction data may be collected from providers of technical, payment and delivery services to is including payment gateway on our website. As you interact with our website, some cookie data is also collected. Please see our cookie policy for further details. For use of your photos and videos, please see our image privacy notice.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will process your personal data including sharing it with third parties, where (1) you have provided your consent, or (2) the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or (3) we are required by law, or (4) the processing is required to protect your vital interests or those of another person, (5) or the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To keep you informed about our work and the different ways in which you can support us.

  • To provide information about our work and activities and to promote the Charity

  • To support our fundraising, including processing a donation

  • To process and manage your interactions with us (including for you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey)

  • To maintain internal records

  • To communicate with you regarding your inquiries, result of competitions, event registrations, pledge details, event attendance etc.

  • For research or archiving purposes.

  • To comply with legal requirements

4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data where necessary with the parties set out below for the purposes set above.

  • Suppliers and volunteers whose services or volunteering is necessary for the administration and management of our charity (including Wix which is used to host our website)

  • Our corporate partners who support the Charity.

  • Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons

  • Professional advisors

  • Relevant regulatory authorities

  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

  • We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK.

5. How Long We Keep Your Information

We will keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances, we will anonymise your personal data (so it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely.

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed.

6. Your Legal Rights

You have the right to ask us:

  • For copies of your personal data.

  • To correct personal data you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • To object to processing of your personal data where it is in our legitimate interests.

  • To limit how we can use your personal data in certain circumstances.

  • To the transfer your personal data to you or to a third party in certain circumstances

  • To delete your personal data in certain circumstances. Once you let us know, we will stop using your personal data in future materials. However, some people may still be able to see, for example, images from earlier uses/publications already in circulation and publicly available (on which we have no control). You have the right to withdraw your consent.

7. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements

8. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we encourage you to review the policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

9. Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at team@startyounguk.com.

bottom of page