Privacy Policy

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A Better Start Southend (ABSS) and Southend Supports Breastfeeding (SSB) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains when, what and why we collect personal information from you, how we use it, how we keep it secure and conditions when we may need to disclose it to others.

How do we collect your information?

We obtain information about you if:

  • You are a part of a company that submits their interest in the Southend Supports Breastfeeding scheme.
  • Complete a paper form registering your interest in the Southend Supports Breastfeeding scheme.
  • You sign up to hear more about the Southend Supports Breastfeeding scheme.
  • You completed a survey with us.
  • You submitted any feedback to us.
  • You accept the cookie terms on our website.

 What type of information is collected from you?

When you complete a survey with us, sign up to receive event updates or our newsletter, send us an email, or fill in an online or paper form, we may ask for personal information about you and your family. This might include your name, personal or business contact details and address. This allows us to provide the right information and service to you, your family and or business.

When you submit personal information to us, you are consenting to that information being used by ABSS and Southend Supports Breastfeeding for the purpose of that service.

How do we use your personal information?

We may use your personal information to:

  • Contact you for reasons related to your expressed interest, query or submission
  • Provide you with the right information and/or service
  • Provide you with a newsletter, if signed up to receive one
  • Contact you where you have opted in to receive further information about Southend Supports Breastfeeding services/activities
  • Participate in any surveys to conduct research about your opinions of current services/activities or potential new services/activities that may be offered, if opted in to do so
  • To help operate and improve our website and deliver the services that you have requested
  • If we would like to use your personal information for any other reason, we will obtain your permission first.

Sharing with Third Parties:

We may pass your information on to our third-party service providers and partner organisations for the purposes of providing you, your family and/or business the appropriate information and services. We disclose only the minimum information required and ensure that your information is kept secure. These third parties include Southend City Council and the Environmental Health Team. Where we wish to share your personal data, we will inform you and obtain your consent first.

How can you update your information?

To ensure ABSS has the most up to date information about you, you can contact us via email at [email protected] or call 01702 356050 or write to us at the address below.

If you change your mind? or need to update your information?

If you no longer wish to receive updates regarding Southend Supports Breastfeeding, then please contact ABSS at [email protected] or call 01702 356050 or write to us at the address below. We will remove you from the distribution list.

The address to contact is:

FAO ABSS
Pre-school Learning Alliance
50 Featherstone Street
London
EC1Y 8RT

Your rights and your personal information?

Unless subject to an exemption, you have the following rights with respect to your personal information;

The right to be informed of what we are doing with your information, who we are sharing with and how long we are going to keep it

The right to request a copy of your personal information, which ABSS holds about you

The right to request that ABSS corrects any personal information if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date

The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for ABSS to retain such data

The right, where there is dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal information, to request a restriction is placed on further processing

The right to object to the processing of personal information (where applicable)

The right to data portability if you are moving out of the area/country and you want your information to be sent over to your new place

The right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). You can contact the ICO on 0303 123 1113 or via email at or write to Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how people use our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. It will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

YouTube

We may embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. For more information on YouTube’s use of cookies, please see Google’s Policies & Principles.

Cookies

The Southend Supports Breastfeeding website uses cookies to help us to know that you have visited our site:

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your computer or smartphone (your device), when you visit our website. It allows the Southend Supports Breastfeeding website to recognise your device and store some information about your past preferences or past actions.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

External links

Our site contains links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to our website. When you go to another site you should read their privacy statement.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page.

Regular reviewing of this page ensures you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Contact the ABSS Data Protection Lead (DP Lead):

If you have complaints or questions about this policy, please contact:

Paul Donaldson (A Better Start Southend – Data Protection Lead) [email protected] or write to him at Pre-school Learning Alliance, 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.

You can find the Early Years Alliance Privacy Policy here.

Last reviewed: July 2024

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