Children’s Privacy Policy
DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
Welcome to the DASH Charity, Before we send you any information that you may have requested, we must tell you about how we deal with your personal information.
This will include for example, your name, postal address and email. If we are offering you any help and support and you’re under 13 years old, we may reach out to your parent or guardian if it’s safe to do so to make sure that they know you are talking to us about The DASH Charity and our work.
In that way we can all work together. You’ll need to read our full privacy policy to learn more about the way we collect and use your data. But first here’s the really important stuff.
The law says we must protect your information, and not share it with anyone we haven’t told you about, and only keep it for as long as we need it.
The DASH Charity is a data controller and is responsible for your personal information when we collect it. We make sure we abide by the laws that ensure data is processed fairly, lawfully and we hold ourselves accountable for that.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer who independently oversees the processing of your data to make sure we get it right. You can contact that person directly on dataprotection@thedashcharity.org.uk.
The reason we process your data is to ensure we offer you the best help and support you need.
We will always ask for your parent/guardians consent to use this information. We will not use your data for any other reason. If we send you information by email we will do so with your agreement (consent). If we post you some updates, we’ll probably use our Legitimate Interest. This is when it might be in the best interests of DASH Charity so we can keep you updated. More details about this can be found on our website.
We do not transfer your data outside of the European Economic area and we have no plans to do so in the future. It is kept very safely in the UK.
We only collect the data we need. This will include your name, age, postal address, school you attend and email account, and any vulnerable experience you may be going through.
We only keep your data for as long as is necessary and regularly review this. We have clear guidelines on this important aspect of your personal information. If you ever decide you don’t want us to keep your data, we promise we’ll delete it straightaway, just let us know.
You have several really important rights under the law. You can ask us to update your data, for example if you move home. You can ask us to stop processing your data, you can ask for a copy of the data we may hold on you. You can take away your consent at any time as well.
Please contact us if you wish to action any of your rights or if you have concerns about anything whatsoever, it would be good to hear from you!
Remember, if you feel that there is something wrong you can report us to the Information Commissioner. They regulate data protection. You can call them on 0303 123 1113
or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns
If you are based outside the UK you have the right to complain to the relevant data protection regulator in your country.
There is lots more to know about how DASH Charity handles data. For further information please go to https://thedashcharity.org.uk/privacy-policy/.
