Privacy Policy

‘Against BID’ (“we”, “us” or “our”) is a not for profit campaign providing information about Business Improvement Districts (BID’s), and we have procedures in place to safeguard your personal data (information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person).

We are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act, and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  As these are recognised as some of the most stringent data protection laws in the world, you can be rest assured that your personal data is being managed to the highest possible regulated standards.  We are committed to these standards whilst performing our information services. 

This privacy policy transparently explains:

  • The nature of the personal data we process.

  • How personal data is collected.

  • How personal data is used.

  • The legal bases on which we process personal data.

  • How long we retain personal data.

  • Sharing of personal data.

  • International transfers.

  • Data security and where personal data is held.

  • Your rights.

  • Changes to this privacy notice.

  • How to contact us.

If you would not like us to process your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy, then we request that you do not provide it to us.  For personal data we already hold, please see the “your rights” section below.

The nature of the personal data we process

‘Processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

We process personal data to provide tailored information, and the data may be provided to us by you and/or collected from a lawful source.  Personal data may include any of the following:

  • Name.

  • Job Title.

  • Business name.

  • Business postal address.

  • Business email address.

  • Personal email address.

  • Telephone numbers.

  • Social media profile URL’s.

  • Other contact details.

Our only purpose in collecting your personal data is to maintain contact with you in order to provide information related to BID’s, in order to assist you with information on BID’s.

Sensitive Personal Data (“SPD”) is data consisting of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.  We respect that the processing of SPD has additional compliance obligations for us, including the need for explicit consent from you to be holding any SPD.  We do not need any SPD to perform our services to you, and therefore we request that you do not provide us with any SPD unless absolutely necessary.  If however you freely provide us with any SPD we will delete it upon receipt if we deem that we don’t need to hold the information, or we will only hold it if you provide explicit consent to it’s processing by us. 

How personal data is collected

In order to provide information, we lawfully collect personal data in the following ways;

  • From you or another member of your business freely providing us with your personal data, through verbal or written means.

  • From 3rd party and publicly available sources, including social media and internet searching.

  • From “guessing” your business email address based on publically available email formats of companies.

How personal data is used

We process your personal data in order to conduct the following activities:

  • To provide information on BID’s. Where we do so, you are able to unsubscribe from such communications.

  • To answer your enquiries.

The legal bases on which we process personal data

All personal data we process is for the sole purpose of providing our information on BID’s, and we will only use your personal data when the law allows us to.  Most commonly we will process your personal data on the lawful basis of one of the following:   

  • Consent. Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data.  However at times we may process your data because you have provided your consent either verbally or in writing for us to do so for a specific purpose.  If you have provided consent you have the right to withdraw it at any time (see the “your rights” section of this policy).

  • Legitimate Interests. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.  Legitimate interest means the interest of our organisation to provide our information services to you as having an interest in BID’s. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights, before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests.  We do not use your personal data where our interests are overridden by the impact on you, unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by legal obligations. 

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.

How long we retain personal data

Unless we are asked at any time to delete it (right to be forgotten, see your rights), we will hold personal data only as long as necessary to provide BID information to you.  Personal data we have no lawful basis to process or deem is no longer required to be held, will be deleted.

Sharing of personal data

We will not share your personal data unless we are entitled to do so. 

We will not share your personal data with any company outside our company for marketing purposes.

International transfers

We are only providing information services in the united Kingdom, so there will be no international transfers of personal data.

Data security and where data is held

We are committed to ensuring that all your personal data we hold is secure.  To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure all personal data we hold.

Your rights

You may contact us at any time to exercise any of your following rights:

  • To request a copy of the personal data we hold on you.

  • To have any inaccuracies corrected (update).

  • To place restrictions on us processing the data.

  • To request data be ported (data portability).

  • To opt-out of receiving communications from us.

  • To withdraw consent to our processing of your data.

  • To delete the data (right to be forgotten).

To exercise any of the above rights, write to AgainstBID@gmail.com.  

In response to requesting a copy of the data we hold, we will respond by email within 30 days of receiving the written request with a document containing copies of the data we hold. 

To update your data email us providing us with the correct information.

If you withdraw your consent to our processing of your data, please note that we may continue to retain or use your personal data only where we have a legitimate interest, contractual or legal obligation to do so.

For a deletion of personal data request, we will action within 5 business days and confirm deletion by email.  If you have provided us with consent as the basis to process your data, this consent may be withdrawn at anytime and we will action as a deletion of data request, subject to any legal or regulatory requirements that necessitates us holding any of your personal data.

Before actioning any of the above rights to amend or delete data, we reserve the right to verify your identity.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be changed by us at any time due to revised legislation or business reasons to ensure our compliance with current data protection legislation and best practices.

How to contact us

For further clarification on the information provided in this policy, to make a complaint about our handling of data, or to exercise your data subject rights, please contact us by emailing us at AgainstBID@gmail.com.