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Contents:

Company Information
Cookie Policy
Data Protection and Privacy Policy

 

Company Information

Voice At The Table Ltd is registered in the UK at Companies House, established in 2013

Directors:

  • Rina Goldenberg Lynch, , Bachelor of Science Degree (BS), Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD), Executive Coach qualified in 2013 with Academy of Executive Coaching (AOEC), certified in Nancy Kline’s The Thinking Environment© methodology

You can contact us on +447798503483 Dalton House, 60 Windsor Avenue, London SW19 2RR, United Kingdom

Cookies are typically little bits of text downloaded to your computer when you interact with a website. Your computer uses this information to remember what you looked at and anywhere where you have set preferences for what you do and don’t want to see.The word ‘cookies’ is used to cover all technologies that behave in a similar way, such as ‘pixels’ or pixel tags’.

By using this website, you are consenting to the use of cookies.

There are different types of cookies and you have choices in managing them:

  • Required cookies: ensure that you receive a service requested (without them you may not get what you are expecting).
  • Advertising cookies: to track what you have shown an interest in (this works to both show you more and less of the same type of thing, depending on what you have done e.g. the ideal is to make sure you do not see repeat advertising for something you have already purchased).
  • Analysis cookies: these are used to track and monitor how you are interacting with the website, to ensure that popular information and pages are the easiest to find and that unused, unseen or otherwise less popular information is updated or changed (where legally possible, i.e. this page stays no matter what!).

We use a cookie consent tool, which is a plugin that provides a ‘pop-up box’ of permission to use cookies when you first visit this website. The pop up box can be dismissed for a period of time (it’s set to one month currently), but if you have enabled a pop-up blocker in your browser, this may not work as intended (the intention is to get your permission to use cookies).

In addition to this tool, most browsers give you a tool to manage cookie preferences: to see how many and which ones are being used, to notify you when a new one is added and to disable some or all cookies altogether. Please note that changing your browser settings might mean the website may not work as you expect.

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

The Voice At The Table Data Protection and Privacy Policy is in line with the laws set out in the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

We, Voice At The Table, collect and use certain information about the people we come into contact with in order to carry out our work and serve our clients to the best of our ability. This personal information is collected and dealt with as set out in the GDPR. The data we collect and store is:

  • First and last name so that we can address you personally in our communications and so that we can differentiate who is who using last names.
  • Email address
  • Company name and address
  • Title
  • Company and personal telephone numbers

Voice At The Table is the Data Controller under the GDPR, which means that it determines what purposes personal information held and will be used for. It is also responsible for notifying the Information Commissioner of the data it holds or is likely to hold, and the general purposes that this data will be used for.

We only share data with entities that assist us in managing our business, such as Mailchimp – our newsletter platform – and Eventbrite – our event management system.  The only data provided to these entities is the data needed to accomplish the specific goal, such as sending out an email or registering someone for an event.  We ensure that all entities that process and/or hold data on our behalf are GDPR-compliant.

We intend to ensure that personal information is treated lawfully and correctly.

To this end, we will adhere to the Principles of Data Protection, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.

Specifically, the Principles require that personal information:

  1. Shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless specific conditions are met,
  2. Shall be obtained only for one or more of the purposes specified in the Act, and shall not be processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes,
  3. Shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to those purpose(s)
  4. Shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date,
  5. Shall not be kept for longer than is necessary
  6. Shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under the Act,
  7. Shall be kept secure by the Data Controller who takes appropriate technical and other measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing or accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal information,
  8. Shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the UK, other than to global entities (like Mailchimp and Eventbrite) that have a UK presence and are GDPR-compliant.

We will, through appropriate management and strict application of criteria and controls:

  • Observe fully conditions regarding the fair collection and use of information
  • Meet its legal obligations to specify the purposes for which information is used
  • Collect and process appropriate information, and only to the extent that it is needed to fulfil its operational needs or to comply with any legal requirements
  • Ensure the quality of information used
  • Ensure that the rights of people about whom information is held, can be fully exercised under the Act. These include:
    • The right to be informed that processing is being undertaken,
    • The right of access to one’s personal information
    • The right to prevent processing in certain circumstances and
    • The right to correct, rectify, block or erase information which is regarded as wrong information)
  • Take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to safeguard personal information.
  • Treat people justly and fairly whatever their age, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity when dealing with requests for information
  • Set out clear procedures for responding to requests for information

Informed consent is when

  • An Individual/Service User clearly understands why their information is needed, who it will be shared with, the possible consequences of them agreeing or refusing the proposed use of the data
  • And then gives their consent.

We will ensure that data is collected within the boundaries defined in this policy. This applies to data that is collected in person, via electronic communications or by completing a form.

When collecting data, we will ensure that the Individual/Service User:

  1. Clearly understands why the information is needed
  2. Understands what it will be used for and what the consequences are should the Individual/Service User decide not to give consent to processing
  3. As far as reasonably possible, grants explicit consent, either written or verbal for data to be processed
  4. Is, as far as reasonably practicable, competent enough to give consent and has given so freely without any duress
  5. Has received sufficient information on why their data is needed and how it will be used.

We take our responsibility very seriously to keep your data confidential and have full regard to the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regs). We use it exclusively for communicating about Voice At The Table and under no circumstances do we provide this externally for marketing purposes. In order to keep you updated on forthcoming events, we will email you no more frequently than weekly and typically only twice per month, with relevant updates. Contact details are shared only with our core team and used to send out newsletters, updates and to contact our users and client.  You can opt out of our regular newsletter emails by clicking on the link at the end of every newsletter.  If anyone has any queries or concerns about data protection, please email rina@voiceatthetable.com

Information and records relating to service users will be stored securely and will only be accessible to authorised staff and volunteers.

Information will be stored for only as long as it is needed or required statute and will be disposed of appropriately.

It is our responsibility to ensure all personal and company data is non-recoverable from any computer system previously used within the organisation, which has been passed on/sold to a third party.

In case of any queries or questions in relation to this policy please contact the Voice At The Table Data Protection Officer: Rina Goldenberg Lynch.