Privacy Policy

1.  INTRODUCTION

1.1 Data Strategy Alliance (“we/our/us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  This Policy sets out the basis upon which the personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us will be processed by us.

1.2 For the purpose of the General Data Protection legislation, the data controller is Data Strategy Alliance Ltd, 11 Grays Crescent, BN9 9FE.  Our nominated representative for the purpose of this legislation is info@datastrategyalliance.org

2.   INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

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

2.1.1  Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site:  This includes information provided at the time of signing up to use our site, subscribing for membership, registering for an event, login details, building your online profile, posting material or requesting services.  We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site;

2.1.2 If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence;

2.1.3 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes although you do not have to respond to them;

2.1.4 Details of transactions that you carry out through our site and the fulfilment of your request application or order;

2.1.5 Details of your visit to our site including traffic data, location data or other communication data, length of visits and the resources that you access.

2.2 We do not currently collect information about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system, platform and browser type for system administration.  This is statistical data about users’ browsers actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

3.  COOKIES

Our website does not currently use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. 

4. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

4.1 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 for one of our suppliers.  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.

4.2 All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.  Any payment transactions will be encrypted.

4.3 Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.  Although we will to our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data submitted to our site: any transmission is at your own risk.  Once we have received your information we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

5.  USES MADE OF YOUR INFORMATION

5.1 We use information held about you in the following ways:

5.1.1 To administer the site and for research, analysis, testing and statistical purposes;

5.1.2 To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, or which we feel may interest you;

5.1.3 To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;

5.1.4 To notify you about changes to our site or services.

6. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

6.1 We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

6.1.1 In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets in which case we may disclosure your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer.

6.1.2 If DSA or substantially all of its assets are required by a third party in which case personal data may be one of the transferred assets.

6.1.3 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 and conditions or to protect the rights, property or safety of the DSA or our members.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.  We will usually inform you before collecting the data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.  You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.

You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@datastrategyalliance.org.