Data Protection and Privacy Notice

The purpose of (this "Privacy Notice") is to inform users of our Site of the following:

  • The personal data we will collect;
  • Use of collected data;
  • Who has access to the data collected;
  • The rights of Site users; and
  • The Site's cookie policy.

CleanupUK takes the protection of your data seriously. Our aim is to provide a personalised and valuable service whilst safeguarding our users’ privacy. Collecting some personal information is necessary if we are to satisfy the expectations and requirements of our users and we have set out below what we will do with your personal information.

GDPR


For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

Visitors to this web site

When someone visits this website we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Security and Performance

We use a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of our website. To deliver this service it processes the IP addresses of visitors to the site.

Links to other websites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Use of Cookies

This site uses cookies to maintain and keep track of users’ preferences and authenticated sessions, to identify technical issues, user trends and effectiveness of campaigns and to monitor and improve the overall performance.

Data collected automatically

When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information through tools including Squarespace Analytics, Google Analytics and Hotjar:

  • IP address;
  • Location;
  • Hardware and software details;
  • Clicked links;
  • Content viewed;
  • Demographic data

Data collected in a non-automatic way



We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:

  • First and last name; and
  • Email address.

This data may be collected using the following methods:

  • When you submit a contact request through our website, your data is held so that we may contact you.
  • When you request to be added to our newsletter, your data is held so that we can email you.
  • When you register as a user on our website. 

Children

We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data, their parent or guardian may contact our data protection officer.

Disclosure of personal information

We collect contact details via the web site for the purposes of providing a service to existing and potential users. We will never disclose personal details without the consent of the owner. Details are only held for as long as is necessary to fulfil the service request.

Access to personal information

Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the General Data Protection Regulations. If we do hold information about you we will:

  • give you a description of it;
  • tell you why we are holding it;
  • tell you who it could be disclosed to; and
  • let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

Please make any such request in writing via our email address info@cleanupuk.org.uk or by post to:

CleanupUK
PO Box 95
Tetbury
GL8 0BA

If at any time you feel that we have failed to meet these standards then please either contact us or make a complaint direct to the Information Commissioner using their website www.ico.org.uk/concerns

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