Privacy policy.
ALRA.life is committed to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018 in the acquisition, processing and disposal of your personal data.
ALRA.life is the data controller responsible for your personal data (referred to as ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ in this notice). This privacy policy describes what personal data will be collected from you through your use of this website or when you interact with us.
It outlines our commitment to process it, store it, access it and dispose of data in such a way that your personal data is protected at every stage.
If you want to request information about our privacy policy or provide feedback regarding this policy, please email our Data Controller at sashahanau@outlook.com. If you wish to make a Data Subject Access Request, please see the relevant information below for more details.
What personal data does alra.life collect?
When you contact us online, for example by completing a form on our website, you are showing interest in the website, ALRA and its news and upcoming events.
The data we collect about you includes the following:
Your full name
Your email address
Background data: information about how you are connected to ALRA for the purposes of the database
Marketing and communication data: your preference in receiving ongoing communications from the site admins
How your data is collected
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
You are an ALRA alumni interested in the site, and news about its community
You are a supplier or subcontractor to us
You have made an enquiry to ALRA.life, online or via social media (Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter)
You wish to attend, or have attended, an event in the past
You subscribed to one of our e-newsletters or otherwise indicate you wish to receive communications from us.
How we use your personal data
To the extent permissible under applicable law, we use your information to:
Provide information that you have requested or any services you have enquired about
Provide, maintain, protect and improve any website or other services and information you have requested from us
Manage your use of our the site
Monitor measure and improve our content, website and services
Deliver targeted information which may be useful to you
To help detect, prevent, investigate or remedy a crime, or any illegal activities
We process personal data only for the purpose for which it is collected.
We will obtain your specific consent to other uses, or unless otherwise required or permitted by law or professional standards.
We do not disclose your personal data except as required and permitted by applicable law.
You can ask us to stop sending you messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you
Lawful basis for processing
We only process your data where we have identified a valid lawful basis to do so. For ALRA.life services specifically, these are as follows:
Consent
Where possible we will seek to obtain your consent to process your data outside our contractual obligations (see above) unless we have identified a legitimate interest (see below)
Legitimate interest
We rely on legitimate interest where processing of the data we hold on you does not, in our opinion, affect your rights or freedoms and is proportionate to our interests, e.g. keeping you up-to-date with our latest products or obtaining your feedback on our website.
Third parties and sharing PERSONAL DATA
We will keep your information within the group except where disclosure is required or permitted by law or when we use third party service providers (data processors) to supply and support our services to you. This may include adding it to email providers like MailChimp so we can contact you with key updates. They have strict data handling and processing contracts in place and privacy is of the utmost importance to us and the suppliers we choose to work with.
Your DATA PRIVACY rights
Under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679, you have the rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
ALRA.life tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage individuals to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office in their capacity as the statutory body that oversees data protection law – www.ico.org.uk/concerns
To request deletion of your personal data, you should submit a request here.
Access to personal information
We want to be as open as we can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Act or the Regulation.
You can make a subject access request in writing.
Third-party links
Our website links to other social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn. If you follow a link from our website to another site or service or allow them to post content on your behalf from our website, this privacy notice no longer applies. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of third party sited or services and we encourage you to read the privacy notices appearing on those sites.
USE OF THIS SITE & Changes to this privacy notice
By using this website and associated subdomains, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our website. Continued use following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed as acceptance of those changes.
This privacy notice is regularly updated. Please check back to this page for updates.
This privacy notice was last updated on 27/07/22.