What Data Do We Collect?
We don’t receive any personal data about you other than what you provide to us, either by creating an account, signing up to receive our newsletters, by contacting us via our contact form or the data submitted as part of your interest / sign up to a wider DEAL initiative, such as Global Donut Days. We also collect anonymised data through your use of our website.
When you create an account with us, we will collect some basic contact details, including your name, location and email address. We will also ask you for a password so you can gain secure access to your account in the future.
While setting up your account, and at any point during your membership, we will encourage you to upload a profile picture and write a short personal biography, so that other community members can learn a little more about you, but this is completely optional. You can also choose to include a link to any other social media profiles you may have (i.e. Instagram/Twitter etc) as well as any other personal information you think may be interesting.
As a member of our platform or as a contributor to a DEAL initiative, such as Global Donut Days, you are asked to share tools and other content based on Doughnut Economics which you have developed yourself alongside the wider community. Please note that we collect any content you upload or share, as well as comments that you post on other member’s public content.
While you may contact other community members directly if they choose to provide their contact information, we do not oversee or facilitate private sharing of messages or resources between users and you should only share resources which you are happy to share with the wider community.
When you sign up to receive our personalised newsletters, we collect your name and email address so that we can manage your contact preferences.
In addition to this, if you choose to make contact with us using our contact form or form shared as part of a DEAL initiative, such as Global Donut Days, we will also collect any personal information you provide within the free text section (i.e. any comments / queries you may have). If your comment includes a question, you will receive a response from a member of the DEAL team and we will store a record of our communications with you.
If you apply to work with us, we will collect data such as; your name, home address, references and employment history so that we can process your application. If we need to contact those you have listed as referees, we will tell you beforehand.
How Do We Use Your Data?
If you become a member of our community, we will use your personal data to create and maintain your profile, to personalise and improve your experience while using our platform, or to contact you with other initiatives from DEAL that you may be interested in. If you have consented to receiving our newsletter, we will use your personal information to send you updates about our community. We may also invite you to participate in surveys, research or other initiatives from DEAL (although this will always be voluntary).
We will also use your information to detect, investigate and prevent any content or activities that may violate our community code of conduct or be illegal.
If you choose to
support DEAL financially, we will use your personal information to process your donation and to meet our legal, tax and accountancy requirements.
We may also process your personal data for administration purposes (for example, we may contact you regarding the content you have uploaded, a comment you have posted, a donation you have made or a DEAL initiative you may be interested in), recruitment purposes and selection of staff, and also internal management (such as record keeping for enquiries, feedback or complaints we receive).
Posting and uploading onto our platform
One of the key principles of our community and purposes of our platform is to provide you with the opportunity to share any tools and stories about the Doughnut and connect with other Doughnut Economics practitioners. Please be aware that when you choose to share content publicly, we cannot stop the wider distribution of your content and your content may become accessible through search engines such as Google. You should also be aware of our
licensing rules before posting any content to the platform.
If you choose to delete content, tools or posts that you have uploaded, these may not be erased entirely if they have been previously downloaded or shared externally. Please make sure that you are completely comfortable with the wider community and general public being able to view and make use of your content before uploading onto our platform.
Lawful processing
EU data protection law requires us to have a lawful basis for the processing of all personal information, and there are several lawful bases available. We will only process your personal information in line with the lawful bases outlined below:
