GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice
Effective Date: September 22, 2022
This document is structured so you can easily scroll to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the included Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy policy.
- Important Information and Who We Are
- The Data We Collect About You
- How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
- How We Use Your Personal Data
- Disclosures of Your Personal Data
- International Transfers
- Data Security
- Data Retention
- Your Legal Rights
- Glossary
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Purpose of This GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice
This GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in Children’s Health Defense’s Privacy Policy (so all defined terms used in that Privacy Policy have the same meaning in this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice), and applies solely to visitors and users of our Website located at childrenshealthdefense.org (our “Website”) who reside in the European Economic Area (EEA) and/or the United Kingdom (UK). We adopt this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR, and any terms defined in the GDPR and UK GDPR have the same meaning when used in this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice.
Eligibility
We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 13 (16 in the EU/EE/UK). If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at [email protected]. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (16 in the EU/EE/UK) without verification of parental consent, then we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Controller
This GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of Children’s Health Defense Group so when we mention Children’s Health Defense, “we”, “us” or “our” in this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice, we are referring to the relevant company in Children’s Health Defense Group responsible for processing your data.
Contact Details
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice. If you have any questions about this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice, please contact us as follows:
Full name of legal entity: Children’s Health Defense
Email address: [email protected]
Postal address: 852 Franklin Ave, Suite 511, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
Telephone: (404) 941-6515
To exercise your data subject rights, please fill out and submit our GDPR Consumer Privacy Request form.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) located in the member state in which you reside for purposes of EU/EEA resident data protection issues and with the UK supervisory authority for purposes of UK resident’s data protection issues (ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the relevant ICO so please contact us in the first instance as set forth above.
Changes to the GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes
We keep our GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice under regular review. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
In the event material changes are made to this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice, you will be asked to renew your acceptance of this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice the next time you login to your account on our Website. If required, we will obtain your consent before the changes go into effect.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under the law as this data does not and will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature of the Website. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data, which will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
If You Fail to Provide Personal Data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is Your Personal Data Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity Data, Contact Data and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- make a donation or purchase products or services;
- create an account on our Website;
- subscribe to our service or publications;
- request marketing information to be sent to you;
- enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
- give us feedback or otherwise contact us.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we will automatically collect Technical Data and Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new user | (a) Identity
(b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges |
(a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey |
(a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business re-organisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | (a) Technical
(b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f) Marketing and Communications |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
Technical Data from the following parties:
- analytics providers based inside and outside the EU;
- advertising networks based inside and outside the EU; and
- search information based providers inside and outside the EU.
Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based inside or outside the EU.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
We may also use the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
- To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.
- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
- To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in our Privacy Notices.
- To evaluate or conduct a 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, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising:
Promotional Offers from Us
We may use your Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data, Usage Data and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-Party Marketing
We do not currently sell, rent, lease, disclose or otherwise share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes and have not done so, including in the most immediate 12 months.
Cookies
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.
Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we disclosed to you in our Privacy Policy or via other communication, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose for which we collected it. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We do not share your personal data with third parties except with:
- Internal Third Parties as set out in our Privacy Policy.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this GDPR and UK GDPR Privacy Notice and they will also be under confidentiality agreements that provide for contractual protections of your personal data.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our written instructions.
6. International Transfers
We share your personal data within the Children’s Health Defense Group. This will involve transferring your data outside the EU, EEA, and/or UK.
We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. As such, to the extent we transfer data from the EU, EEA, and/or UK to a jurisdiction without an adequacy decision, we will ensure that it is done so through a Data Processing Addendum with the proper Standard Contractual Clauses as approved by the European Commission and/or the ICO, which give personal data the same protection it has in the EU, EEA, and/or the UK. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EU, EEA and/or UK.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate technical and organizational security measures to help prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We endeavor to incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, mobile networks, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, and you access our Website and provide us with your information at your own risk.
8. Data Retention
How long will you use my personal data?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
In some circumstances, we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. Your Legal Rights
If you reside, or resided within the EU, EEA, or UK during the time you accessed our Website or otherwise provided us any personal data, you may have some or all of the following data subject rights:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
- If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.
- Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
- Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to determine if you are eligible to exercise any of the rights and, if so, exercise any of the rights set out above, please submit our GDPR Consumer Privacy Request form.
No Fee Usually Required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What We May Need From You
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request in order to clarify your request and/or to help speed up our response.
Time Limit to Respond
We try to respond to all verifiable, legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. Glossary
Lawful Basis
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject.
Third Parties
Internal Third Parties
Other companies in Children’s Health Defense Group acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based in Europe, the United States, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and Ireland and provide IT and system administration services.
External Third Parties
- Service providers based in Europe or the United States who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in Europe or the United States who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
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