Privacy Policy

Welcome to The Forgotten Generations (https://theforgottengenerations.com/). We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to sharing the history, heritage, and lived experiences of British African and Caribbean people for educational and cultural enrichment. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website and interact with our services.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and processing your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

The Forgotten Generations is the data controller for the personal information we process. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at: info@theforgottengenerations.com

We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

• Identity Data: including your name and title.

• Contact Data: including your email address, postal address, and telephone number.

• Technical Data: including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

• Usage Data: including information about how you use our website, products, and services.

• Marketing and Communications Data: including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

We will only process your personal data if we have a lawful basis to do so. The lawful bases we rely on are:

• Consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose.

• Contract: Where processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.

• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for us to comply with the law.

• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

• Service providers: who provide IT and system administration services.

• Professional advisers: including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.

• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities: who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

• Third parties: to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at info@theforgottengenerations.com if you wish to make a request.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@theforgottengenerations.com.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by a “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.