CheckCarbonFact Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was released on July 3^rd 2023

Our contact details:

Name: CheckCarbonFact (C/O OrderPaper UK Ltd)

Address: 14 Caton Crescent Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Phone Number: +44 (0)7466578979

E-mail: privacy@checkcarbonfact.com

The type of personal information we collect:

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers (names and other characteristics)
• Contact details (email, telephone)
• Website user stats
• Employee data

How we get the personal information and why we have it:

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• For climate action and advocacy
• To advance the fulfilment of net zero objectives and targets

We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:

• When you visit and interact with our social media pages on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. The information collected is used to enhance our website user experience and improve our service offerings

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

• Provide climate awareness and advocacy
• Undertake research and education on climate change
• Improve user experience on our website
• Design new products and services
• Send you periodic newsletters
• Invite your participation in polls and surveys
• Contact you on new products and services

We may share the information you provide us with our parent company, OrderPaper UK Ltd.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting privacy@checkcarbonfact.com

(b) We have a legitimate interest.

How we store your personal information:

Your information is securely stored in our database

We keep your personal information for as long as we have your consent and continue to render legitimate services of climate action and advocacy. We will then dispose your information by deletion when the purpose for which we collected it is no longer valid.

Your data protection rights:

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 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 privacy@checkcarbonfact.com if you wish to make a request.

How to complain:

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

CheckCarbonFact Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies to access and store information (personal and device data) within browsers as users interact with the pages. By browsing this site you have freely given consent to our use of cookies which you are at liberty to withdraw at any time us via privacy@checkcarbonfact.com.

This website uses necessary cookies useful for the functionality of this website like maintaining security, troubleshooting and internal analytics and reporting.

This website also uses third party cookies to measure traffic and analyse user behaviour with the goal of improving functionality.

Our cookies also collect information about your computer, phone, tablet or other device you use to access the website. This information may include operating system, partial IP address (or proxy server, and browser type and version.

How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent

You can choose preferences, provide and withdraw consent to our use of cookies through the following:

• Directly within user’s device settings
• By setting preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences widget
• By deleting previously stored cookies, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent
• By deleting the browsing history

With regard to any third-party, users can manage preferences and withdraw consent via provided opt-out link, by using the means indicated in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party directly.