Empower – Movement and Wellbeing Privacy Policy

This Website is operated by Empower – Movement and Wellbeing. We take your privacy very seriously, therefore, we urge you to read this policy very carefully because it contains important about:

• Who we are,
• How and why we collect, store, use and share personal information,
• Your rights in relation to your personal information, and
• How to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.
  
  
  

Who we are

Empower – Movement and Wellbeing (‘we’ or ‘us’) collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulations which apply across the European Union (including the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

The personal information we collect and use

a) Personal information you provide about third parties

If you give us information about another person, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on their behalf and agreed that you:

Shall consent on their behalf to the processing of their personal data;

Shall receive any data protection notices on their behalf, and shall consent on their behalf to the transfer of their personal data abroad.

1. b) Cookies and similar technologies
   
   

A cookie is a small text file that is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects (‘flash cookies’) and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users’ actions and activities, and to store information about them, We use these cookies and/or similar technologies on this website.

For example, we may use cookies to monitor and/or collect the following information:

How Many times you visit the page; Locations; Traffic flow.

This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this information may be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

On the first occasion that you use our site, we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies. If you do not, cookies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on our use of cookies, please see our website cookie policy.
www.anoutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

How we use your personal information

We collect information about our users for the following purposes:

Identify you and manage any accounts you hold with us;
Process your requests;

Conduct research, statistical analysis and behavioural analysis;
Keep a record of your progress with us.

Who your information may be shared with

We may share your information with:

Law enforcement agencies in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity.

We will not share your personal information with any other 3^rd parties.


Marketing

We would like to send you information about products, services, offers, competitions and our business which may be of interest to you. Such information could be sent by post, email, telephone, text message or automated call.

We will ask whether you would like us to send you marketing messages on the first occasion that you provide any relevant contact information (i.e. on purchase, signing up to a newsletter, entering a competition etc). If you do opt-in to receive such marketing from us you can opt-out at any time (see ’What rights do you have?’ below for further information). If you have any queries about how to opt-out, or if you are receiving messages you do not want you can contact us using the details provided below.

Whether personal information has to be provided by you, and if so why

The provision of the following information is required from you:

Name, email address, contact number, and your main concern.

This is to enable us to do the following:

Respond with an educated approach to how exactly we can help you.

We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.


How long your personal information will be kept

We will hold your personal information for the following periods:

All your general data for as long as you work with us;
Progress data will be held for 12 months prior to you working with us.

These periods are no longer than necessary in each case.

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on the following as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information:
Contract
Public task
Legitimate interests

The legitimate interest relied upon are as follows:

The information is used for marketing purposes, the impact on privacy is minimal and it is necessary for the business.


Keeping your information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We will also use technological and organisational measures to keep your information secure.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach.  We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Indeed, while we will use all reasonable efforts to secure your personal data, in using the site you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason, we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us using the details below.


Transfers of your information out of the EFA

We will not transfer your personal information outside of the EFA at any time.

What rights do you have?

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to

The information is used for marketing purposes, the impact on privacy is minimal

and it is necessary for the business:

• Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information.
• Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy notice is already designed to address
• Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
• Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
• Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
• Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
• Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
• Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
• Otherwise, restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
• Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulations (http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/)

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please:

• Email, call or write to us
• Let us have enough information to identify you
• Let us have proof of your identity (a copy of your driving license, passport or a recent credit card/utility bill)
• Let us know the information to which your request relates
  
  From time to time, we may also offer other methods to unsubscribe (opt-out) from direct marketing, including
  unsubscribe buttons or web links. If such are offered, please note that there may be some period after selecting to unsubscribe in which marketing may still be received while your request is being processed.
  
  

Changes to the privacy policy

This privacy policy was published on 01/11/19 and last updated on 02/05/24

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you know the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website. We will also attempt to notify users of any changes by email.


Contacting us

If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us by:

Email: info@empowermaw.co.uk

Post:
Unit 10 Ashbrow Mills,
Ashbrow Road,
Sheepridge,
Huddersfield,
HD2 1DU

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