Nature on the Board Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Notice

Last modified: 06/09/2022

Faith in Nature and Nature on the Board and our subsidiaries and affiliates ("We") respect your privacy and commit to protecting it through our compliance with the practices described in this notice.

This notice describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the personal data we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website (our "Website"). This notice applies to the personal data collected through our Website, regardless of the country where you are located.

The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Please read this notice carefully to understand our policies and practices for processing and storing your personal data. By engaging with our Website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this notice. This notice may change from time to time. Your continued engagement with our Website after any such revisions indicates that you accept and consent to them, so please check the notice periodically for updates.

Data We May Collect About You

We collect and use different types of data from and about you including:

Personal data that we could reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, user name or other similar identifier, or any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline ("personal data").
Non-personal data that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
Technical information, including the full/partial Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform.
Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream information to, through, and from our Website (including date and time), products viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from the page.
Your company details that you have provided.

If we combine or connect non-personal, demographic, or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal data.

How We Collect Data About You

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us information about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you create an account, subscribe to our service, search for a product, place an order, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our Website, leave us your details via the ‘get Nature on your Board’ section of our website and when you report a problem with our Website.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns as specified above. We collect this information by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive information about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies or from third parties including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, data brokers, or aggregators.

Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies

Our Website uses cookies (small files placed on your device) or other automatic data collection technologies to distinguish you from other Website users. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized service when you browse our Website. It also allows us to improve our Website by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store your preferences so we may customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, certain parts of our Website may become inaccessible and certain features may not work correctly. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue them. Certain features of our Website may use Flash cookies (local stored objects) instead of browser cookies to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies and browser cookies use different management tools and you must manage their settings separately.

Our Website pages [and emails] may contain web beacons (small transparent embedded images or objects, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors or email readers, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording Website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity.

Third-Party Use of Cookies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies [alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies] to collect information about you when you use our Website. They may associate the information collected with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites or other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control how these third-party tracking technologies operate or how they may use the collected data. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly..

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data to provide you with products, offer you services, communicate with you, deliver advertising and marketing, or to conduct other business operations, such as using data to improve and personalize your experiences. Examples of how we may use the personal data we collect include to:

Present our Website and provide you with the information, products, services, and support that you request from us.
Meet our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing or collections, or comply with legal requirements.
Fulfil the purposes for which you provided the data or that were described when it was collected.
Notify you about changes to our Website, products, or services.
Ensure that we present our Website content in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Administer our Website and conduct internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
Improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
Enable your participation in our Website's interactive, social media, or other similar features.
Protect our Website, employees, or operations.
Measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
Make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Website about goods or services that may interest you or them.

We may also use personal data to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your data ins this way, please [check the relevant box located on the form where we collect your data.

We may use non-personal data for any business purpose.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with:

Any member of our corporate group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, and our affiliates, including, but not limited to, Nature on the Board, Lawyers for Nature, Earth Law Centre, and similar organisations.
Business partners, suppliers, service providers, sub-contractors, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization).
Third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep that personal data confidential and use it only for the contracted purposes.
To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
For any other purposes that we disclose in writing when you provide the data.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where one of the transferred assets is the personal data we hold.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
To protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction.

We may share non-personal data without restriction.

Your Personal Data Use Choices

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have the following personal data control mechanisms:

Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not want us to use your email address/contact information to promote our own products and services, or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form where we collect your data or by sending us an email with your request to data@faithinnature.co.uk. You may also opt-out of further marketing communications by replying to any promotional email we have sent you or following the opt-out links on that message.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates, or include plug-ins enabling third-party features. If you follow a link to any third-party website or engage a third-party plug-in, please note that these third parties 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 third parties.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data

You can access, review, and change your personal data by contacting us with corrections.

You may also send us an email at data@faithinnature.co.uk to request access to, correct, or delete personal data that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively impact the information's accuracy.

Data Security

The security of your personal data is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards designed to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. We store all personal data you provide to us behind firewalls on servers employing security protections.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to take care when providing information in public areas of the Website like message boards, which any Website visitor can view.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Children's Online Privacy

We do not direct our Website to minors and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 18 or as defined by local legal requirements. If we learn we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or received personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will delete it.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We will post any changes we may make to our privacy notice on this page and indicate on the Website home page that we updated this privacy notice. If the changes materially alter how we use or treat your personal data we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.

Contact Information

Please address questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy notice and our privacy practices to Faith In Nature, 4^th Floor, 115 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JN / data@faithinnature.co.uk.