Privacy Notice
Community Futures’ Privacy Notice
Registered name: Community Council of Lancashire
This privacy notice explains how we will handle and protect your personal information.
- Contact details
- What information we collect, use, and why
- Lawful bases and data protection rights
- Where we get personal information from
- How long we keep information
- How to complain
Contact details
Post
Community Futures, Brentwood House, 15 Victoria Road, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 8PS
Telephone
01772 717461
Email:
admin@communityfutures.org.uk
What information we collect, use, and why
We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals:
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Records of meetings and decisions
We collect or use the following information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities:
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
We collect or use the following personal information for service updates or marketing purposes:
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Marketing preferences
• Recorded images, such as photos or videos
• Website and app user journey information
We collect or use the following personal information for research or archiving purposes:
• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Recorded images, such as photos or videos
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals are:
• Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities are:
• Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:
• Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes are:
• Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Where we get personal information from
• Directly from you
• Family members or carers
• Publicly available sources
How long we keep information
Please note this is a working document and is subject to change.
Who we share information with
Others we share personal information with
• Current employers
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated
4 March 2025
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