Privacy Policy
Spotlight Humanity is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
1 Information collection
1.1 In order to provide a better service to you, we may collect
and process
the following data about you:
(a) information that you provide by filling in forms on our website
https://www.spotlighthumanity.org (the “Site”). This includes information provided at the time of
registering to use
our
Site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for
information at other times, for example in connection with a promotion or when you report a problem with our
Site;
(b) if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
(c) we may also ask you to
complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them;
(d)
details of your visits to our Site and the resources that you access.
1.2 We only retain personal data
for so long as it is necessary. Data may be archived as long as the purpose for which the data was used
still exists.
2 Uses made of the information
2.1 The purposes for which information may be used by us
in and outside
the United Kingdom include:
(a) ensuring that content from our Site is presented
in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
(b) providing you with alerts, newsletter,
education materials or information that you requested or signed up to;
(c) carrying out our obligations
arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
(d) allowing you to participate in
interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
(e) designing and conducting
surveys/questionnaires for client profiling/segmentation, statistical analysis, improving and furthering the
provision our
products and services;
(f) complying with laws and regulations applicable to us or any
of our affiliates in or outside the United Kingdom;
(g) legal proceedings,
including collecting overdue amounts and seeking professional advices;
(h) researching, designing and
launching services or products including seminars/events/forums;
(i) promoting and marketing services and
products subject to your exercise of the opt-out right (please see further details in Clause 2.2 below);
or
(j) purposes directly related or incidental to the above.
2.2 We intend to use your data in direct
marketing and we require your consent (which includes an indication of no objection) for that purpose. In
this
connection, please note that:
(a) your name, contact details (including address, contact number,
email address), products and services information, transaction pattern and behaviour,
background and
demographic data held by us from time to time may be used by us in direct marketing;
(b) the following
classes of services, products and subjects may be marketed in direct marketing:
(i) services and products
related to our Site and/or our affiliates (including marketing affiliates programs we are a part of);
(ii)
reward, loyalty or privileges programmes, promotional offers and related services; and
(iii) invitations
to events such as seminars/webinars/tele-seminars, conferences, live programs or events.
(c) We may
conduct direct marketing via fax, email, direct mail, telephone and other means of communication or send
e-newsletters to you. You may
choose not to receive promotional materials, by simply telling us (see
below for contact details), and we will cease to do so, without charge.
2.3 Disclosure of your
information – We will keep the personal data we hold confidential but may provide information to:
(a)
personnel, agents, advisers, auditors, contractors, financial institutions, and service providers in
connection with our operations or services;
(b) our overseas offices, affiliates, business partners and
counterparts (if any);
(c) persons under a duty of confidentiality to us;
(d) persons to whom we are
required to make disclosure under applicable laws and regulations in or outside the United Kingdom
; or
(e) actual or proposed transferees or participants of our services in or
outside the United Kingdom.
3 Cookies
3.1 Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our
website. This helps
us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our Site.
By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
3.2 A cookie is a small file of
letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies
contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
3.3 We use the following
cookies:
(a) Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors
and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our
website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
(b)
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links
you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more
relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
3.4
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external
services like web traffic analysis services) may
also use cookies, over which we have no control. These
cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
3.5 We may use the
following third party web analytic services on the website. The service providers that administer these
services use technologies
such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to help us analyse how
visitors use the website. The information collected through these means (including IP address) is disclosed
to these service providers, who use the information to evaluate use of the website. These analytic services
may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the marketing materials of their own advertising
network.
3.6 You block cookies by
activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you use your
browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not
be able to access all or parts of our Site.
4 Security
4.1 All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where
we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of our Site, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
4.2
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will
do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our
Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict
procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
5 Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google").
The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be
transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in United Kingdom or the United States. Google will use this
information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for
website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may
also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties
process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data
held by Google.
Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from
https://policies.google.com/privacy.
6 Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the
future will be
posted on this page.
7 Data transfers
We may hold your data on servers in United Kingdom, USA and any other
territories as we
see fit from time to time. We may also transfer your data to our overseas offices or to any people listed at
Clause 3 above, who may be located in or outside of the United Kingdom.
8 Your consent and rights
8.1 By using our service, making an application or visiting our website,
you
consent to the collection and use of your information and other activities as
outlined in this
policy.
8.2 Under the United Kingdom Personal Data Protection Act (the “AGC”), individuals have the
right:
(a) to check whether we hold personal data about you and to access such data;
(b) to require us
to correct as soon as reasonably practicable any data relating to you that is inaccurate;
(c) to
ascertain our policies and practices in relation to personal data and the kind of personal data held by us;
and
(d) to object to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes and we shall not use your
personal data for marketing purposes after you communicate your objection to us.
8.3 You may exercise
your opt-out right by notifying us if you wish to object to the use of your personal data for direct
marketing purposes. Please send requests for such objections, access to data, correction of data,
information regarding policies and practices and kinds of data held, questions or complaints to:
[email protected]
8.4 In accordance with the terms of the AGC, we have the right to and may
charge a reasonable fee for processing any data access request.
8.5 In the event that a User wishes to
access or amend his or her personal information and data, the Company may request him or her to provide
personal details in order to verify and confirm his or her identity. A
9 Governing law and jurisdiction
Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall limit the rights of
the data
subject under the AGC. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the United Kingdom. You agree to
submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United Kingdom courts.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website. The Terms and Conditions page can be found here: https://www.spotlighthumanity.org/terms.
Contact Us
Viewers and users who have any questions or queries regarding our Privacy Policy, can contact us using the information below.
Last updated: 12 November 2021
(the "Privacy Policy")