Who We Are
The Five Towns Plus Hospice Fund Limited (Registered Charity No: 514999 / Registered Company: 1797810) hereafter referred to as The Prince of Wales Hospice is committed to protecting your personal data. The Prince of Wales Hospice is registered with the Information Commissioner in the UK and any data collected will be used and held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018.
The Prince of Wales Hospice is registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). Details of our registration can be found at https://ico.org.uk/esdwebpages/search
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Purpose of Policy
This privacy policy applies to the websites, products and services offered by The Prince of Wales Hospice, with the exception of our direct services with patients and their carers’, families and visitors. These are covered by a separate document which can be found here, ‘Privacy Notice – Patient Information’.
The Prince of Wales Hospice is committed to protecting your personal data and this privacy policy states how we achieve this. The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how The Prince of Wales Hospice collects and uses the personal data that you provide to us and that we collect. We ensure that we use your data in accordance with all applicable laws concerning the protection of your personal data. If you have any queries about this policy or your personal data, please contact: Head of Income Generation The Prince of Wales Hospice Halfpenny Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 4BG Tel: 01977 708868 Email: fundraising@pwh.org.uk Alternatively, you can contact our Data Protection Officer, Martin Ward: Data Protection Officer The Prince of Wales Hospice Halfpenny Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 4BG Tel: 01977 708868 Email: info@pwh.org.uk How do we collect our information? We obtain personal data from you when you enquire about our activities, register, apply to volunteer or work with us, send or receive an email, make a donation to us, ask a question about our services or otherwise provide us with your personal data. Sometimes we may obtain your personal data from third party data suppliers but only if they provide the appropriate evidence that you have agreed for your personal data to be shared with other organisations. We also gather general information about the use of our website such as pages visited and areas that are of most interest to users. We use this information to improve our website and make it a better experience for everyone. For further information please see the cookies section below. Occasionally we obtain publically available information such as contact information or we research information to help us perform due diligence checks to ensure we are not being abused by fraudsters or criminals posing as genuine donors or to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest from potential supporters or organisations prior to our engagement. For further information around this, please see the marketing section below. What information do we collect? The personal data we collect might include name, address, email address, telephone numbers, date of birth, bank account details (for setting up regular direct debit or payment information), your family relationships to avoid duplicating communications, CCTV footage and if using the website, IP addresses. Data Protection law recognises that certain categories of personal data are more sensitive. These are known as special categories of data and cover health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions. We do not usually collect special categories of data about our supporters, unless pertinent to an event e.g. known medical conditions which can affect events. We will collect sensitive data for employees, casual workers, or volunteers as part of our statutory, contractual, and management responsibilities. How do we use your information? We may use your personal data for:
National Data Opt- Out
The national data opt-out applies to CQC-registered adult social care providers in England and only applies where a service user is receiving social care that is provided, arranged or funded (in part or whole) by Local Authorities or the NHS in England. The national data opt-out gives everyone the ability to stop health and adult social care organisations from sharing their confidential patient information for reasons other than providing their individual care and treatment and only applies where the data processing relies upon Regulation 5 of the Control of Patient Information Regulations 2002. Individuals can view or change their national data opt-out choice at any time by using the online service at www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters or by calling 0300 303 5678 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). We review all of our data processing on an annual basis to assess if the national data opt-out applies. This is recorded in our Record of Processing Activities. All new processing is assessed to see if the national data opt-out applies. If any data processing falls within scope of the National Data Opt-Out we use MESH to check if any of our service users have opted out of their data being used for this purpose.
How do we collect your information?
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices, and security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal or transactional data stored on our website and systems. There are strict rules in place to ensure your data is safe, whether it is on paper or in computer files and all Hospice staff are trained in information security and confidentiality.
Recruitment and employment
In order to comply with our contractual, statutory, and management obligations and responsibilities, we process personal data, including ‘sensitive’ personal data, from job applicants and employees. Such data can include, but isn’t limited to, information relating to health, ethnicity, disabilities and criminal convictions. In certain circumstances we may process personal data or sensitive personal data without explicit consent.
Further information on what data is collected and why it’s processed can be found in ‘Privacy Notice – Employment’ and ‘Privacy Notice – Recruitment’.
Volunteers
In order to comply with our management obligations and responsibilities we process personal data, including 'sensitive' personal data from our volunteers. This helps to ensure volunteers can work with us in a safe and efficient manner. Volunteers can sometimes be under the age of 16 years, particularly volunteers who undertake Work Placements with the Hospice. The data we collect and process can include, but isn't limited to, information relating to health, ethnicity, disabilities and criminal convictions. In certain circumstances we may process personal data or sensitive personal data without explicit consent. Data in relation to volunteers will be kept in line with our Hospice Records Retention Schedule Summary. Data in relation to those under the age of 16 years will include parental consent. Further information on what data is collected and why it’s processed can be found in ‘Privacy Notice – Volunteers’.
Financial information
All financial transactions are carried out securely and in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. You can find out more information about PCI DSS here: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pci_security/. Online Payments For payments for goods, entry to events or to make a donation online on the Hospice website, your payment is processed by SagePay, where you may choose to pay using either a debit/credit card or a PayPal account. In order to process credit card, direct debit or other financial transactions online, we may ask for your bank or card details. In order to input this information you will be directed to a secure page for financial transactions. The Prince of Wales Hospice does not store or record any of your bank or card details during this process. Where you want to raise funds for the Hospice from your own network of friends and family, you can create an online donation page (such as an event sponsorship form, or tribute fund for donations in memory) and encourage people to donate to it. Such forms can be created on the Hospice website, where 100% of any donation comes to the Hospice. However you can also use other sites, such as JustGiving, VirginMoney and Facebook Donate. There is also the opportunity for making donations and payments via these third party websites and you may choose to pay using a debit/credit card or a PayPal account. In Person Debit/credit card transactions in our shops or in person at the Hospice are passed securely to our payment processing partner, according to the Payment Card Industry Security Standards, Credit and debit card information is not stored on Hospice servers. Telephone / Entry Forms where Cardholder Not Present Debit/credit card transactions over the telephone or via a form to pay for goods, to make a donation or to pay an event entry fee where the cardholder is not present, are passed securely to our payment processing partner, according to the Payment Card Industry Security Standards. Only staff authorised and trained to process payments will able to see your card details. We do not store your credit or debit card details at all following the completion of your transaction. All card details are redacted from the event entry forms once the payment or donation has been processed. The event entry forms are deleted in conjunction with our retention policies. Regular Giving In order to process regular gifts to the Hospice via standing order, we need to collect and retain necessary bank information. This will only be retained for the period of the regular agreement and will be deleted on termination. Direct Debits To process regular payments made through our website we use a third party called RSM 2000 Ltd. They may use, retain and disclose your personal information as set out in their privacy policy, including transferring your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Where such transfer occurs, RSM 2000 Ltd ensure your data is adequately protected under UK data protection.
Marketing
Being able to communicate with you is important, as your support will help transform the lives of patients with life limiting conditions. We believe in being open, honest and transparent with our supporters and want you to feel comfortable about your decision to give us your personal data and how we use it. We will use the details you provide to us to communicate with you about how your support is helping us to provide services to people in our community with a life limiting illness. We will also tell you about other ways you can help, whether that’s through volunteering, participating in events, or fundraising. From time to time we might also send you appeals asking for a donation so we can continue to raise the funds needed for our care. Please be assured that we will take appropriate measures to keep your personal data safe and secure. We will never pass your personal data on to other organisations for them to use for their own marketing purposes. In certain instances, we collect and use your personal data by relying on the legitimate interest legal basis. However, we will always provide you with the option to opt-out of hearing from us. Consent and lawful processing of personal data The legal basis for the collection and use of your personal data in marketing activities is that either you have given your consent and/or that it is in our legitimate interests to contact you, as detailed below. Post/telephone marketing If you have provided us with your postal address or telephone number we may send you direct mail or telephone you about our work unless you have told us that you would prefer not to receive such information or we have received a notification from the Fundraising Preference Service that you have requested marketing communications to stop. In order to send you such information, we process your personal information under a legal basis called “legitimate interest”. That means when we are contacting you by phone or post to show you the difference you’ve made and could continue to make, we’ve carefully assessed that we have a genuine and legitimate reason for contacting you and that we are not being too intrusive or harming your rights. We also actively check telephone numbers against the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and will only make telephone calls to you where your telephone number is listed on the TPS if you have specifically consented to receive them from The Prince of Wales Hospice. Email/text marketing If you actively provide your consent to us along with your email address and/or mobile phone number we may contact you for marketing purposes by email or text message. By subscribing to The Prince of Wales Hospice’s emails or opting in to email communication from The Prince of Wales Hospice you grant us the right to use the email for email marketing. Social Media Advertising The hospice uses targeted advertising via various social media platforms to provide appropriate information to supporters. The Hospice will only use this where you have consented to receive further marketing via email. This is achieved by use the email address provided/consented to use to match on social media platform for the purposes of showing them direct marketing. You can opt out of this at any time. Where personalisation and profiling has been undertaken this will also be incorporated to ensure most appropriate communication, which is relevant and timely and will ultimately provide an improved experience for you
It's your decision
It is always your decision as to whether you want to receive information about our work, how we raise funds, and the ways you can get involved. We promise to make clear from the outset, or at the earliest feasible opportunity, how we will communicate with you. We will offer you choices about the communications you receive and will respect these choices and your privacy. If you do not want us to use your personal information to communication with you, please indicate your preferences on the form on which we collect your data. If you have given your contact details to the Hospice without filling in a paper form or online form, we will send you an acknowledgement with information on how to tell us your communication preferences. At any time during your support of the Hospice, you can change your mind about the communications you receive. You can call the Fundraising Team on 01977 708868, email on fundraising@pwh.org.uk or by visiting www.pwh.org.uk/keepintouch You may also opt-out of our digital marketing communications by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in at the end of our marketing emails or sending us an "opt-out" text message following the instructions we provide you in our initial text. We will always respond to your wishes in a sensitive, timely, courteous and professional way.
Personalisation and profiling
We also carry out targeted fundraising activity to ensure that we are contacting you with the most appropriate communication, which is relevant and timely and will ultimately provide an improved experience for you. In order to do this, we may also use profiling techniques to provide us with general information about you, which you have volunteered, around your lifestyle and purchasing habits. For example, we may let you know about different ways you can support us partly based on ways you have chosen to support us in the past. This means our communications should be relevant and of interest to you and in turn it will help us reduce our costs by only communicating with supporters that want to hear from us. You can opt out of your data being used for profiling. However, this may mean that you stop receiving marketing communications from us or they become more generic and less relevant to you as they are no longer based on your interests in our cause. If you do wish to opt-out please contact the Fundraising team on 01977 708868 or email fundraising@pwh.org.uk
Disclosures
We will never pass your personal data on to other organisations for them to use for their own marketing purposes. However, we may disclose your personal data in the following circumstances:
To third parties, who provide a service to us and act as data processors. This would include our trusted partners that work with us in connection with our employment / volunteering charitable purposes, and other entities that may act as fundraisers for The Prince of Wales Hospice, sell The Prince of Wales Hospice’s products or provide The Prince of Wales Hospice’s information and marketing (subject to your communication preferences and our internal policies and procedures). We require these third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and data protection laws and we will make sure that appropriate controls are in place. We enter into contracts with all our data processors and regularly monitor their activities to ensure they are complying with The Prince of Wales Hospice’s policies and procedures.
Where we are under duty to disclose your personal data in order to comply with law or the disclosure is ‘necessary’ for purposes of national security, taxation and criminal investigation or we have your written consent.
We need to perform due diligence checks to prevent money laundering from the proceeds of crime, reputational risks, and to ensure we do not engage persons that are unsuitable to work in an environment with vulnerable adults and children.
Under 16's We are committed to protecting the privacy of the young people that engage with us. If you are aged 16 or under and would like to participate in an event, make a donation or get involved with us, we must ensure that we have your parent/guardian’s permission before receiving your personal information. Where a supporter is known to be under the age of 13, we will be glad to send an acknowledgement for their support, but will not send marketing communications about other Hospice initiatives. When we collect information about a child or young person we will make it clear why we are collecting this information and how it will be used. Vulnerable person policy Fundraising activities, public support and public trust are all essential to The Prince of Wales Hospice’s ability to provide excellent care to adults with a life limiting illness, and to those who matter to them. We believe that giving to your favourite causes should be a positive experience for all, whether an existing donor or potential new supporter. Everyone should have the opportunity to donate if they are able to, but we recognise that some people will not always have the capacity, to fully understand the nature of the donation they are being asked to give, or the consequences of making that donation. The Prince of Wales Hospice also understands that people in vulnerable circumstances may need further support before deciding whether to donate and we recognise our obligation to protect them. Whenever a fundraiser suspects that a person may be vulnerable; we will take steps to end the engagement whilst protecting their dignity. We will provide alternative options for the individual to engage with us later, respecting the right that everybody has, to donate if they wish to and are able to do so. Keeping your personal data We keep your personal data for as long as required to operate the service in accordance with legal requirements and tax and accounting rules. Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner Your rights Under the Data Protection Law, you have the following rights: Right to be informed You have the right to be told how your personal data will be used. This Privacy Policy, and shorter information notices used in our communications provide you with information regarding the type of personal data we collect, how we collect it and how we use it. If you would like further information please email info@pwh.org.uk Right of access You may contact us to ask what personal data we are holding about you and to request a copy of that information. You must provide proof of your identity by sending us two pieces of approved identification. We have 30 days to comply with your request once we are satisfied that you have the right to see the requested records and have successfully confirmed your identity. Please address requests to our Data Protection Officer or email info@pwh.org.uk Right of rectification You may ask us to correct any personal data where it is incomplete, incorrect or where it is out of date. Please address requests to the Fundraising team on 01977 708868 or email fundraising@pwh.org.uk Right of erasure You may request that we delete the information we hold about you. If there is no overriding legal reason why we cannot do that (for example, if you are a lottery player, the Gambling Commission requires us to keep records for a certain length of time) we will delete your record. We may suggest keeping basic details for a suppression list, to prevent us contacting you again, rather than complete deletion. Please address requests to our Data Protection Officer or email info@pwh.org.uk Right to restrict processing In some situations you have the right to ask for the processing of your personal data to be restricted, perhaps because you disagree with its accuracy or legitimate usage. We will still hold the data, but will not use it, until the restriction is lifted following the resolution of the disagreement. Please address requests to our Data Protection Officer or email info@pwh.org.uk Right to object You may object to the processing of your information for direct marketing purposes. Please address requests to the Fundraising team on 01977 708868 or email fundraising@pwh.org.uk Please provide as much information as possible about the nature of your contact with us to help us locate your records. Any changes you have requested may take 28 days before they take effect. Complaints In the first instance please talk to us so that we can try and resolve the problem. If you wish to complain about the way we collect, store or use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer. The Prince of Wales Hospice Halfpenny Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 4BG Tel: 01977 708868 Email: info@pwh.org.uk If we are unable to resolve your complaint you may contact the Fundraising Regulator using their online complaints form or by calling the Regulator on 0300 999 3407. If you wish to lodge a complaint or seek advice from a supervisory authority please contact: The Office of the Information Commissioner Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF Tel: +44 (0) 01625 545 745 Website: www.ico.org.uk Other websites Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy which may differ from ours. Internet-based transfers Given that the Internet is a global environment using it to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. If we ever need to transfer your personal data to other territories outside of the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, we will take proper steps to ensure that it is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection and privacy laws. By communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way. Use of cookies on the Hospice website The following explains the use of cookies on our website. Please note your use of this site implies consent for the setting of cookies. What are cookies? Our website, like many others, stores and retrieves information on your browser using 'cookies'. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience. What cookies do we use? The main cookies we use are functional and allow the site to work - examples include temporarily storing data for your shopping basket or for when booking on an event. The other cookies we use are 'Google Analytics' cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The Google Analytics security and privacy principles summarise the steps taken to help keep your data protected. Important: Google Analytics does not collect any personal information about our website users What happens if you don't want to provide us with such information? You can clear the cookies on your browser by following instructions found here. https://www.aboutcookies.org/ You can also block cookies from our site, or any other site you visit, using your browser settings. Unfortunately, if you chose to take this approach you will no longer be able to view our website as a number of the cookies listed above are critical to the site’s usage. Changes to our privacy policy We keep our privacy policy under regular review and may update it from time to time. When we do we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We would encourage that you frequently check this page for any changes, to stay informed about how we are helping to protect your personal data that we collect. If there are any significant changes in the way that we treat your personal data we will contact you and we will place a prominent notice on our website. This document was last updated on 27 June 2023.
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