This website is operated by Andrea Egan for General Secretary. We are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.

This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website. We confirm that we will keep your information secure and that we will comply fully with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation and regulations. Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting our website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

Types of information we may collect from you

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:

• Information you supply to us. You may supply us with information about you by filling in forms on our website. This includes information you provide when you submit a contact/enquiry form. You may also provide us personal information through electronic communications, in person or via phone. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and trade union membership information.

• Information our website automatically collects about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect information including the following: technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform; information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit, what you click on, documents downloaded and download errors.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.

How we use your information

We use AWS SES email newsletter services to send you communications by email. If you do not wish to have your email data processed by AWS SES’s servers, you should not supply your email address to us. We also use your personal information to provide you communications more relevant to you. 

In terms of Information we automatically collect about you, we use this to administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes; to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; security and debugging as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

Disclosure of your information

We do not rent or sell your personal information to third parties. From time to time we may share your personal information for organisational purposes with other campaigns or individuals who share our aims and values, if we have your consent or if we have a legitimate interest to do so. Any such sharing will always be limited in duration and scope to what is strictly necessary for our organisational purposes. If we share your information with other campaigns or individuals, this will not entitle them to use that information to electronically canvass or market you without your explicit consent. 

We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.

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.

Third party links

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the third party websites. 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.

Retention

We will retain any personal information we have collected from you for the purpose of campaigning for the 2025 General Secretary UNISON elections until the end of those elections unless you have given us explicit consent to keep it longer or unless we have a legitimate interest or legal obligation to keep it longer. 

Your rights – access to your personal data

You have the right to ensure that your personal data is being processed lawfully (“Subject Access Right”). Your subject access right can be exercised in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. Any subject access request must be made via email to tfrc.unison@gmail.com. We will provide your personal data to you within the statutory time frames. To enable us to trace any of your personal data that we may be holding, we may need to request further information from you. If you have a complaint about how we have used your information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to privacy@andrea4gs.org.uk.