Privacy Policy About this Policy The recent changes to data protection (GDPR) mean that we need your permission to collect information about you. We also need your permission for the different ways we use this information. This Privacy Policy explains more about how bemix protects your privacy, and how you can give us permission to contact you. bemix is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. bemix may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. What information we collect You can choose whether we can collect the following information: Name and job title Contact information including email address Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers 2. What we do with the information we gather We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: Internal record keeping We may use the information to improve our products and services. We may wish to periodically send you emails about what people are achieving, events we are running, fundraising appeals or campaigns, support opportunities and other information which we think you may find interesting. From time to time, we may wish to also use your information to contact you for market research purposes so that we can improve the work that we do. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use the information to customise our website according to your interests. When you are filling in your information on the website, please use the tick boxes to indicate if you are happy for us to contact you in this way. We cannot contact you without this permission. 3. Security We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. 4. How we use cookies A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. 5. Links to other websites Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. 6. Use of information by platform provider Your data may also be available to our website provider to enable us and them to deliver their service to us, carry out analysis and research on demographics, interests and behaviour of our users and supporters to help us gain a better understanding of them to enable us to improve our services. This may include connecting data we receive from you on the website to data available from other sources. Your personally identifiable data will only be used where it is necessary for the analysis required, and where your interests for privacy are not deemed to outweigh their legitimate interests in developing new services for us. In the case of this activity the following will apply: Your data will be made available to our website provider The data that may be available to them include any of the data we collect as described in section 1 above. Our website provider will not transfer your data to any other third party, or transfer your data outside of the EEA. They will store your data for a maximum of 7 years. This processing does not affect your rights under section 4 of this privacy policy 7. Controlling your personal information You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you are happy for us to use your information to tell you about what we do and the things you might be interested in. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR). There is no charge for this. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to bemix, Unit 3, Roper Yard, Road, Canterbury, CT2 7ER. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.