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Privacy Policy

GOOD NEWS BIG Privacy Policy

Better World Creative Limited trading as GOOD NEWS BIG ("We" or "Us") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our Terms of Website Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting goodnewsbig.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act) and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016, we are the data controller in respect of such personal data.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Cookies

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to analyse and improve our Site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.

Uses made of the information

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

Disclosure of your information

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, stored at and/or processed at a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will use all reasonable technological and operational methods to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and, although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site. Any transmission is at your own risk.

Your rights

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information

GDPR

We acknowledges that in accordance with The General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and the guidance of the EU Article 29 Working Party, we process personal data and we are the data controller.

GOOD NEWS BIG will at all times comply with its data protection obligations under the GDPR, in keeping with the six core principles of GDPR that personal data shall be:

Lawful Basis

The GDPR stipulates that we must establish that we have a lawful basis for processing data. In relation to 'members and former members data', i.e. that related to registering, and using the website.

Type of EngagementLawful basis for processing personal data
Registering to use our Site (members and former members)Necessary for "Contract"
Using our Site as a registered user (members and former members)Necessary for "Contract"
Sponsors of the Site and Advertisers on the SiteNecessary for "Contract"
Members of the Site involved in reports and contact formsNecessary for "Contract"
Non members of the Site involved in reports and Contact forms"Legitimate Interest" and "Legal"

Legitimate interests with Non members involved in Reports and Contact forms is to allow processing of reports and resolution of the problems contained within the reports and contact forms.

Data may be transferred to service providers in non EEA countries under the legal basis of "Contract" any data transferred out of the EU, either to or by the service provider, is transferred and processed in a manner compliant with GDPR requirements.

Your personal information will remain on our live server until you decide to delete your account. At that point:

Data Subject Access Request, Rectification Requests, Erasure Requests, Restriction to Processing Requests, Objection to Processing requests can be made by submitting a Report form to us on the Site, using category Account Admin. Simply write out your request in the "Outline your Request" box or you can use the Site Contact form ("Report Something" category). We will comply with your request within 30 days.

We will not comply with DSARs made by anyone other than the data subject him/herself. All data relating to any individuals other than the maker of the request will be redacted. We will consider whether our legal obligations require any data held by us to be kept confidential.

You can consent or retract your consent to your data being processed with regards to receiving promotional material from us or third parties on your settings page.

Almost all of your personal data on our Site has been provided by you. If you go to your settings page you can can edit, hide or delete much of this information for your self at any time. Please go to Help, Settings Page, for more information about how to do that.

You have the right to submit a complaint to the relevant Data Protection Supervisory Authority (i.e. DPC or the ICO).

We do not currently use automated decision making profiling.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed. Please contact us using the Contact form on the Site ("Report Something" category).