Privacy Policy
SITA Trust Limited (company number 03323121) of The Barn, Brinkmarsh Lane, Falfield, South Gloucestershire GL12 8PT (“We” or “Us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
We provide funding for community and environmental improvement projects and sustainable waste management projects through the Government's Landfill Communities Fund.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any documents referred to on it) 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 views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
We are the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”).
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
"Personal information" means information that allows an individual to be personally identified which may include the following:
Forename and surnameCompany/business name
Address
Email address
Telephone number
Fax number
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes our application form requesting funding, information provided at the time of registering to use our site, posting material, requesting further services and reporting a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Details of your visits to our site [including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data] and the resources that you access.
USE MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
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, products or services that your request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.
If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
It is our policy to take all necessary steps to ensure that personal information held by us is processed fairly and lawfully, and in accordance with the Act.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. All our employees who have access to personal information are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal information.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985 and as amended by section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.
If you are under 18 you should inform your parent or guardian before you provide information to us. You may, however, wish to contact us without an adult knowing about it. We keep all details confidential and if you do not understand how your information will be used (or any other aspect of this policy) please contact us before providing any information to us.
YOUR RIGHTS
We will not pass your personal information to any other party or use it for any other reason other than as set out in this policy unless we believe that there is a serious risk to you or another person. We would usually try to discuss this with you.
This website may contain links to and from other Internet sites that are not operated or controlled by us including our advertisers and affiliates. We therefore cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the content of such sites or for their privacy policies or use of your personal information by the operators of such sites. You should check their policies before you submit any personal data.
COOKIES
We do not use "cookies" or other similar tracking systems on our site. Please note that if you link to other websites they may use cookies, over which we have no control.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Under the Act, you may ask us to provide you with the details of any personal information that we hold about you. Such requests should be emailed or posted to our Communications Manager at the address set out below. Please note that any 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.
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.
CONTACT
By using the web site and not letting us know anything different, you agree to us using the information in the way set out above. If you have any queries, comments and requests regarding this policy please contact our Communications Manager at:
SITA TrustThe Barn, Brinkmarsh Lane
Falfield
South Gloucestershire
GL12 8PT
01454 262910
Email: sita.trust@sita.co.uk