Data & Privacy Policy
PRIVACY
Here's a summary of what data we collect and use.
"We" is LGND Campaigns Ltd, a private company limited by guarantee (company registered in England No. 15005520).
In the text below we say get in touch or contact us quite a lot. You can do this using our Contact page or by using the contact details which are in the footer of all our webpages and email communications.
We adhere to the UK law, and most of this page is in reference to the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and the related General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Important update January 2025: the Worker Climate Project was founded in 2022 as a campaign within the wider organisation Labour for a Green New Deal (LGND) . On 7th December 2024 LGND decided to cease activity as LGND and focus solely on the Worker Climate Project. Please read the announcement here. As a legal entity the Worker Climate Project is still operating as LGND Campaigns LTD, and there has been no change to the way we hold the data collected by the WCP since 2022 or data previously collected by LGND before the creation of the WCP. We remain the same organisation with a slight change in focus. If you no longer wish us to hold your data since this change, please follow the instructions below. Thank you.
At the Worker Climate Project (WCP) we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly. This Data & Privacy Notice outlines how we collect, use, and store your personal information in relation to our Worker Climate Project.
The Type of Personal Information We Collect
We collect data about trade unionists’ activities through various means, including:
Surveys and Questionnaires: Responses may include personal opinions, experiences, and demographic information.
Interviews: Conducted in-person, via telephone, or online, capturing audio and transcriptions.
Recorded Discussions: Audio and video recordings of group discussions.
Website Data Collection
We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Cookies are small files stored on your device that allow us to remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our site. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Donors and Supporters
When you make a donation or sign up for our mailing list, we collect your information through Action Network, which handles payment processing via Stripe. We do not store any financial information on our systems. For more information, please refer to the privacy policies of Action Network and Stripe.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
Communication: To inform you about the Worker Climate Project and related activities.
Research: To understand trade unionist activities and experiences.
Reporting: To produce reports, visuals, and infographics about worker climate organising.
Event Organisation: To facilitate discussions and events for knowledge sharing and movement building.
Networking: To connect worker climate organisers working towards similar goals.
Showcasing Success: To highlight success stories and lessons learned from worker climate efforts.
GDPR Privacy Notice for Worker Climate Project
WCP will collect data about trade unionists' activities through surveys, interviews, and recorded discussions. Any public or non-internal use of this data will be anonymised unless explicitly agreed with the individual involved. Where data about individuals is intended to be shared in an anonymised but non-aggregated way, we will seek permission first. For example, we would seek permission before sharing an account of a specific industrial dispute where the place or person could be deduced, even if it was going to be anonymised. The organisation reserves the right to use aggregated or summarised data or non-attributed quotes (where the quotes don’t identify the individual with detail about specific workplaces or industrial struggles) without first seeking permission.
Example of Data Use: At an event, an individual chats to one of our activists and gives them their email. They are then emailed a link to our workers’ survey form, which they fill in. Their data is then securely stored on the software Airtable. They are then contacted again by email to see if they would be willing to participate in an interview about their experience organising industrially for climate demands. The interview transcripts and recordings are then securely stored on Airtable and Google Drive.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We process personal data based on the following legal grounds under GDPR:
Consent: We obtain your explicit consent to collect and process your personal data for specific purposes.
Legitimate Interests: We process personal data as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests, provided that such interests are not overridden by your rights.
How We Store Your Personal Information
We take the security of your personal information seriously and implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect it, including:
Data Encryption: Data is encrypted during transmission and storage to protect against unauthorized access.
Access Control: Access to personal data is restricted to authorized personnel only.
Data Retention: We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it or to comply with legal obligations.
Personal information may be stored in the following systems:
Airtable
Google Drive
Action Network
Email (Gmail)
We do not share your personal information with third parties unless necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy. In such cases, we ensure that your rights are protected, particularly in situations where data may be transferred outside the EU.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under GDPR, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:
The right to be informed about how we use your personal information.
The right to access your personal information.
The right to rectify any inaccuracies in your personal information.
The right to request the erasure of your personal information.
The right to restrict processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability.
The right to object to processing your personal information.
You can exercise these rights by contacting us at data@labourgnd.uk.
How to Complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us at data@labourgnd.uk. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe your data protection rights have been violated.
The ICO’s Address: Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Data & Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes will be communicated via our website or through direct communication.
WEBSITE USERS
We use cookies to help make our website work. Cookies are small bits of data stored by your web browser on your computer that are then sent back to our web server with future requests. They're not needed for general browsing but are required for processes like login or donations to work. Some of these processes use "session cookies" which are automatically deleted by your browser when you close it down; others rely on "persistent cookies" which will expire automatically within a month. Most web browsers offer a way to disable and/or delete cookies, should you want to, but this will result in certain parts of our website not working.
We use Squarespace Analytics on our website so we can understand how well the site is communicating, which bits are popular, and other aggregated non-personal information like how many people visit the site from on their mobile etc.
The code means that data on your browsing of our site is sent to these companies.
Google Analytics is a tool that lets us analyse how visitors use our site. We use this information to improve our website. This tool collects anonymised data. Please see Google’s privacy policy for further information. To opt out of these tracking cookies, please visit Google’s website.
DONORS
If you have made a donation or payment to WCP, for example using a secure online card payment on our website, we will use your name, email, phone, address to keep in touch from time to time about our campaigns, projects, appeals etc. and also to contact you about anything to do with administering your payment.
Please note that WCP does not have access to your credit/debit card details. We use third party secure payment service providers for taking card payments which means that your card details are never accessible to us.
We process your data for these purposes under the legitimate interest legal basis (e.g. administrative communications related to your being a supporter) and/or contract legal basis (we have offered an opportunity to support our work and you have agreed to do so with a donation). Any marketing communications (e.g. to ask you to consider increasing your giving) will be on a consent legal basis.
If you would like to make a donation you can donate securely online.
If you would like to check, correct or update your details, please email us.
EMAIL NEWSLETTERS
If you have signed up to receive our email newsletters (which you can do from the dedicated signup box on the website, or you may have done by checking an opt-in box as part of another process such as a donation) we will use your details to send and personalise emails we send. The legal basis for this is consent and these communications may be categorised as "direct marketing" under the GDPR since they can include the opportunity to support our work financially, e.g. donations, event tickets etc.
If you would like to receive our email newsletter, please use the box at the top of the website to sign up.
Our local groups are enabled to send newsletters to people in their area - you can unsubscribe from these while remaining subscribed to the national newsletter by clicking the “update preferences” link at the bottom of every email we send.
If you would like to unsubscribe from our email newsletter, please click the update preferences link which is at the bottom of every email we send. We will record this as you having revoked your consent.
If you would like to check, correct or update your details, please email us.
ACTIVISTS, EVENT ATTENDEES, PETITION SIGNERS, ORGANISERS...
We're a campaigning and movement building organisation so we need to know who's done which of our activities so we can communicate effectively and win campaigns. So we will store information including the activities, events and campaigning work of local groups and key activists.
We use your data and contact you for the purposes of supporting our work building a movement for change as is appropriate to the level(s) of involvement you've got with us; e.g. if you register to submit a CLP motion we need to know data about your CLP and need to be in contact with you and others about the motion; if you're a key contact in our grassroots network then we'll be in touch about how to support your campaigning. The basis for such processing is legitimate interest (that of us being able to organise the work we do) and/or contract (we've offered you a service or opportunity that you've accepted). However, any "marketing" communications (e.g. asking for donations) is done using your having given your consent for this. Where the data constitutes special category personal data (which include political opinions) it's processed under Article 9 para 2.d in that it is done by us, and only for our stated purposes.
Data will only be handled by staff or volunteers who have signed an agreement to use the data only for the purposes laid out in this policy and for work with WCP.
If you would like to check, correct or update your details, please email us.
SOCIAL MEDIA
You can like/follow us on Facebook and Twitter. We may store your page or twitter user name in our database for ease of access, if you have provided this to us.
YOUR RIGHTS
We're trying to build a movement for social and environmental justice, we're not here to spam people! It's really important that we only have correct, up-do-date information so please do get in touch if anything has changed.
We don't give/share/sell your data to anyone else except in cases where it's necessary for specific purposes. In those situations - e.g. if we are campaigning in partnership with another organisation - we will make it explicitly clear what, who and why we're doing that before we collect your data.
Where possible, your information is processed within the EU. In other cases we use internet services that may mean your data is transferred outside of the EU: where we do this we ensure that your rights are still protected by some other legal means (e.g. US companies that are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement). Non-EU third parties that we use are:
Google
Squarespace
Action Network (we have recently switched our email platform from Mailchimp to Action Network and have migrated our mailing list in order to facilitate this. Data will remain in our Mailchimp account for six months to ensure continuity at which point it will be deleted).
We keep data as long as we need it for our organisational purposes, including historical records and statistical analysis and as such we may store your data for a longer period than you are actively involved with us for. In some cases we may use an anonymisation process on old data so that it is no longer personally identifiable.
The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
The right to be informed (that's what this page is all about!)
The right of access (get in touch if you'd like to know what information we have on you and how we're using it)
The right to rectification (get in touch if anything's wrong or out of date)
The right to erasure (get in touch if you would like to request this)
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object (you can revoke consent at any time - get in touch directly or use an unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our "marketing" emails. If you object to any other processing of your data please contact us with the details of your objection. In certain cases where we have failed to resolve your objection, you have the right to object to the Information Commissioner's Office. Check out the ICO's page on this.)
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling. (we don't do this)
QUESTIONS?
We understand the need for control over personal data and respect your privacy. If there's anything you want to ask us about your data - what we've got and how we use it - please drop us a line and we'll get back to you ASAP.