Privacy Policy

Blue Marine Foundation (“we”, “our”, “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy 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 practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Blue Marine Foundation of 3rd Floor South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA.

1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.bluemarinefoundation.com (“our site”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing, donating, viewing material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
  • General, aggregated, demographic, and non-personal data (such as aggregated anonymous information about website usage) may be collected by the Company. It will not be linked to any of your personal data, through cookies or other means, without your consent.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • Details of donations you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of such donations.
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you access.
2. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • For marketing purposes as described in section 3 below.
  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To provide you with information that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
3. E-MAIL MARKETING AND NEWSLETTERS

We may use your data to provide you with information about the work of Blue Marine Foundation or goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by post, telephone or by e-mail.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form or page on which we collect your data. You can also opt-out of receiving future marketing communications from us at any time by following the directions contained in the e-mail to unsubscribe, or by contacting us on the details below:

Blue Marine Foundation
3rd Floor, South Building
Somerset House
The Strand
London, WC2 R1LA

or

info@bluemarinefoundation.com

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner charities and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

4. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

Like many websites, we use “cookies,” to allow you to store settings and to track certain use of our site. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org. Although you can disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser, doing so may limit your ability to view our site and access certain functionality.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

5. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. 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.

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.

6. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or the sale of an individual website owned by us, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets or to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation (including responding to requests from law enforcement authorities outside the EEA), or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction, and may require us to transfer your personal data outside of the EEA.
7. ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

9. CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to:

Blue Marine Foundation
3rd Floor, South Building
Somerset House
The Strand
London, WC2 R1LA

or

info@bluemarinefoundation.com