Privacy Policy

The Common Room of the Great North does not obtain personally identifying information about its users visiting www.thecommonroom.org.uk unless the user chooses to provide such information. If a user visits our site to read or download information, the site does collect and store the following information about the user’s visit:

• The name of the domain from which the user accessed the Internet (for example, aol.com)
• The date and time the user accessed our site
• The pages the user retrieved/downloaded from our site

The Common Room utilises the collected information for statistical analysis in order to implement a continuous improvement process.

The Common Room will only send company news and information to those users who have expressly shared their postal or e-mail address for the purpose of receiving information in the future, i.e. “opt in”, or; who have purchased from or have an existing relationship with us.

Any email correspondence will include instructions to allow the user to request they be removed from our email list. The Common Room does not disclose any personally identifying information collected to any third-party companies or organisations.

We will keep any information we collect online for 10 years after which it is securely deleted.

The Common Room is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have implemented suitable physical, technical and procedural controls to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We regularly review and, where necessary, update our privacy information.

If we plan to use personal data for a new purpose, we update our privacy information and communicate the changes to individuals before starting any new processing.

The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:

1. The right to be informed
2. The right of access
3. The right to rectification
4. The right to erasure
5. The right to restrict processing
6. The right to data portability
7. The right to object
8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete or you wish to request details of personal information which we hold about you then you can do so by contacting us.