Cookie Policy (UK)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 30/10/2023 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://plan_A.scot (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

6. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

6.1 Manage your consent settings

Functional

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

7. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.

  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.

  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.

  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.

  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.

  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

9. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us at hello@plan-A.scot.

This Cookie Policy was synchronised with cookiedatabase.org on 30/10/2023.

Privacy Policy

We do not track information from visitors to this website. We only hold information that is provided explicitly in order that we may contact you in future. For example where you fill in the mailing list sign-up form, asking to be kept up to date about the details of Plan A, or where you provide this information to us by e-mail.

Our GDPR Policy can be viewed below.

GDPR Policy

Data Protection Act 2018

The Data Protection Act 2018 brought the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation into UK law (UK GDPR). It governs an individual’s data rights, including the way organisations handle personal data in order to help protect people’s data and privacy.

As best practice, we abide by the following principles of the Act, set out in the guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Namely: 

  • We will not keep personal data for longer than we need it.

  • We think carefully about – and are able to justify – how long we keep personal data. This will depend on our purposes for holding the data.

  • We review the data we hold annually.

  • We carefully consider any challenges to our retention of data. Individuals have a right to erasure if we no longer need the data.

  • We may keep personal data for longer if we are only keeping it for public interest archiving, scientific or historical research, or statistical purposes.

CONSENT TO HOLD DATA: 

  • We will make our consent request prominent, concise, separate from other terms and conditions, and easy to understand. 

  • We will confirm the information is to be collected by the Collective.

  • We will use the data for administration purposes only.

  • We will not sell or otherwise utilise the information with any organisation that is not a managing partner of Plan A.

  • You may withdraw your consent to us storing or using your personal data at any time.

DATA WE HOLD:

  • We only hold contact details, in order to permit communications, where our request to do so has been specifically agreed. Such details may include name, address and email address.

  • We hold phone numbers of contacts who have specifically accepted our request to do so, in order than we can communicate with them using media like WhatsApp.

  • In relation to management of Plan A, we hold the information required by and relevant authorities or funders. Specifically in relation to GDPR, this includes the name and address details of the Management Committee of Plan A.

  • All data is securely held on password protected computer systems.

OBTAINING CONSENT:

  • We obtain consent from persons whose data we hold at the point where they provide the data (the provision of data, as noted above, being explicitly for communications). 

  • We will periodically review – at least annually – the need to continue to hold the data.