Privacy Notice
UPDATED: 08/10/2022
This privacy policy is compliant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The Data Protection Officer at Centre for Women’s Justice is the Head of Finance and Operations.
Collecting Personal Information
We collect, store and handle the following types of information
1. Personal information such as name, telephone number, email and/postal address in relation to our charitable mission and objectives.
2. Information provided to us in relation to services to our clients, which may include special categories of data
3. Information you provide for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletters
4. Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (please ‘Cookies Policy’ below)
5. Information related to donations and payments on our website (please see ‘Payments and Donations’ below)
6. Information relating to any communications that you send to us directly by email or post, or sent though our website
Lawful basis for processing your personal data
1. Legitimate interest:
2. Consent
3. Contract
Clients and legal enquiries
If we are giving you legal advice, either directly or via a frontline support service such as Women’s Aid or Rape Crisis, we may need to collect sensitive personal data such as details of your physical or mental health, ethnic origin or sexual life. This data will be collected and held with your consent or will be held as we have a legitimate interest.
Donations and Payments
We have Paypal, Stripe and CrowdJustice accounts to administer on-line donations. Paypal allows you to close your customer account once you no longer require it. Your account information may stay active with PayPal for legal and audit purposes, in accordance with PayPal’s privacy policy available here. CrowdJustice gives you the choice over your data privacy. You can view CrowdJustice’s privacy policy here. Stripe’s policy is here.
Other organisations we use to administer donations include:
Donr – privacy policy
Just Giving – privacy policy
Don’t send me a card – privacy policy
Facebook – privacy policy
Easy fundraising – privacy policy
Donorfy - privacy policy
Our financial accounts are held with CAF Bank Ltd. Any donations made to us in the form of bank transfer or cheque will be processed by CAF Bank Ltd in accordance with its privacy policy, available here, and with UK law.
Mailing Lists
As part of the registration process for our monthly e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about or work and other information you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing CWJ’s Operation Manger, Nic Mainwood
Ticketing Data
We use a third-party provider, Eventbrite, to manage the registration and payment processing of tickets to our events. Information about Eventbrite’s data policy can be viewed here.
From time to time we may hold events in partnership with other organsiations such as Universities, Chambers or hired venues. We will let them know about your booking and share your name and contact details with them for event registration purposes only. We will not share sensitive information or your payment details.
Access to your personal information
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our Head of Finance and Operations, Nic Mainwood at n.mainwood@centreforwomensjustice.org.uk
Cookies Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer or mobile phone that lets us know that you have used our website before. You can find out more about how cookies work here.
How do we use cookies?
When you visit this website, we use Google Analytics cookies to understand how the website is being used so we can make it easier and more enjoyable for you to browse.
Cookies collect information in an anonymous form. This means we don’t know who the information has come from and we don’t make any attempt to find out.
We use these cookies to find out things such as how many people are using the website. We can also see where users have come to the site from and the pages they visited before. We view this information in reports (provided by Google Analytics) so we can see how well the website is working.
We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting this website. We will not link any data gathered from the site with any information from any source that could be used to identify you.
If we do want to collect personal information about you through out website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we are collecting personal information (such as your name or age) and will explain how we will use it.
If you want to know more about Google Analytics cookies, you can view their privacy information here: learn more