Last updated: October 2023 

Animal Law Foundation Website Privacy Notice 

“Animal Law Foundation”, “we”, “us” and “our” means the Animal Law Foundation, and we are committed to respecting your privacy. 

We are a charity registered in the UK. Our registered address is at Richard Place Dobson, 1-7 Station road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 1HT and our charity registration number is 1200108. 

About this privacy notice 

For the purposes of data protection law, including the United Kingdom’s (“UK”) GDPR, we are a controller in respect of your personal data (information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control). The Animal Law Foundation is responsible for ensuring that it uses your personal data in compliance with data protection law. 

This privacy notice (the “Notice”) describes how we collect, use and share the information you provide to us and the information we collect in the course of operating our business and website. This Notice sets out the basis on which any personal data that you provide to us, that we create, or that we obtain about you from other sources, will be processed by us. Please take the time to read and understand this Notice. 

Personal data that we collect about you 

We may collect and process the following personal data about you: 

Information that you provide to us. This includes information about you that you give us by filling in the contact form on our website or by communicating with us, whether by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This information may include: 

o Name, email address, mailing address, telephone number and date of birth when signing up for our mailing list; 

o PayPal details including your name and donation amount for the purpose of making donations; 

o Records of communications and interactions we have had with you, including information provided through our website or via social media; and 

o Information you provide when you sign up for newsletters, events or request free materials. 

Please note when you sign up to our mailing list on our website, the only way to remove yourself is from unsubscribing via our newsletter or by email us at hello@animallawfoundation.org. It is not possible to remove yourself by filling in our contact form again and opting out.

Information we collect or generate about you. This includes: 

o Financial information when you make donations to us, for example the amount of your donation; 

o Information about our relationship with you (including correspondence and attendance at events); and 

o Information gathered through any investigations we make following reports you make to us about enforcement issues. 

Cookies 

Cookies are small text files that includes a small quantity of information sent to the browser of website users, by a web server, and stored on the hard disk drive of a computer for purposes of archiving, collecting navigation data for statistical analysis purposes, and offering users services related to their interests or location. To the extent that we collect personal data with the help of Cookies we will process them in accordance with this Notice. 

Cookies used on the Animal Law Foundation Website are used to record information necessary for the proper functioning of our website, audience measurement, use monitoring and security. 

Each time a User is identified on our website, a Cookie is placed allowing us to identify the computer or hardware used and the user navigating our website. This Cookie allows services to be provided seamlessly and therefore without re-identification. This Cookie is invalidated when the browser is closed or after a period of inactivity on our website. 

Uses of your personal data 

Your personal data may be stored and processed by us in the following ways and for the following purposes: 

● to communicate with you where you have subscribed to marketing, newsletters, communications, invitations, or other information or where you have requested free materials; 

● to thank you for donations, letters or gifts sent to us, including for events such as auctions; 

● to record PayPal donation for accounting purposes; 

● to discuss and further investigate any reports of enforcement issues that you have made to us; 

● to gather further information to assist with any investigations or, where applicable, court cases; 

● to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that we have to discharge;

● to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings; 

● to record and monitor your use of our websites or our other online services for our business purposes which may include analysis of usage, measurement of site performance and generation of marketing reports; 

● for our legitimate business interests, such as undertaking business research and analysis, managing the operation of our websites and our business; and 

● to look into any complaints or queries you may have. 

We are entitled to use your personal data in these ways because: 

● we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal data. Where we are relying on your consent for our processing, you can withdraw this by contacting us; 

● we may need to collect and use your personal data to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you; 

● we may need to collect and use data as it is necessary for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above; 

● we have legal and regulatory obligations that we have to discharge; or 

● we may need to in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or for the purpose of legal proceedings. 

Disclosure of your information to third parties 

We will not disclose your personal data with anyone else or to any third parties unless it is necessary for the purpose for which you have given us the data. Examples of where we may share your data include: 

● to the extent required by law, for example if we are under a duty to disclose your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, establish, exercise or defend our legal right. 

Transfers of personal data outside the UK and European Economic Area 

The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the UK. Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA and UK, we will ensure that it is protected in a manner that is consistent with how your personal data will be protected by us in the EEA and UK. This can be done in a number of ways, for instance: 

● The country that we send the data to might be approved by the European Commission / UK Government (where applicable); or 

● The recipient might have signed up to a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission / UK Government (where applicable) obliging them to protect your personal data. 

We may also make such a transfer outside the EEA and UK where we have a person’s consent to do so or where another legal exception from the requirement to provide appropriate safeguards to protect such information applies. If we rely on your consent to transfer personal data outside the EEA and UK, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time. 

In all cases, however, we will ensure that any transfer of your personal data is compliant with data protection law. 

Retention of personal data 

How long we hold your personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria, including the purposes for which we are using it (as it will need to be kept for as long as is necessary for any of those purposes) and legal obligations (as laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal data). 

Your rights 

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. These rights include: 

● the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which we hold about you; 

● the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time. Please note, however, that we may still be entitled to process your personal data if we have another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so; 

● in some circumstances, the right to receive some personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that we transmit those data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to us; 

● the right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete; 3

● the right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your personal data, but we are legally entitled to retain it; 

● the right to object to, and the right to request that we restrict, our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask us to restrict, our processing of your personal data but we are legally entitled to continue processing your personal data and / or to refuse that request; and 

● the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator (details of which are provided below) if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us. 

You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out in the “Contacting us” section below. 

You can find out more information about your rights by contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office, or by searching their website at https://ico.org.uk/. 

Marketing (programmes and fundraising)

As a charity we communicate with individuals to encourage participation in our programmes and to raise money to fund our work.

BY EMAIL: We will only communicate for programme participation and fundraising purposes via these channels if you have given us your consent for us to do so. As is your right you can withdraw your consent for any method of communication at any time. All our campaigning and fundraising emails include an unsubscribe link, and you can also contact us using the email below.

Contacting us 

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure, transfer or processing of your personal data or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please address questions, comments and requests to hello@animallawfoundation.org