Your personal data and our website

When you access or interact with this website, we record and process some of your personal information. This page tells you more about what information we gather, what we need it for, and your rights relating to your personal data.

We protect your personal data and will never sell it to anyone.

The Outward Bound Trust is a data controller for your personal data relating the use of this website. Our contact details are at the foot of every page on this site. Please also see our general Privacy Statement for information about ways we use personal data that aren’t related to the use of this website.

We use some third-party suppliers to help us manage our website’s security and functionality, and to understand more about how people use it and how people came to the website in the first place. Where this is the case, we use legal and contractual arrangements to ensure that your data is looked after appropriately. However, some content on our pages, such as embedded YouTube video, is served directly by third parties who gather and process personal data on their own terms as independent data controllers.

Data we process

We gather and process the following types of personal data as people use this website. We don’t necessarily gather every type for every person. Most of the data we gather is primarily used for statistics and to keep the website running securely.

• The public IP address of the device you’re accessing the website on;
• Information your device sends us about the web browser and operating system that you’re using;
• Statistical information about which pages you visit and how long you spend on them;
• If you visited via a link that we shared on social media or in an email, details of that link and which of our marketing campaigns it came from;
• If you’re making a donation or a booking, technical information related to processing the payment;
• Any information you enter into a form on this website – see our general Privacy Statement to find out how we look after that information.

The lawful basis of gathering and processing these types of data is our legitimate interests as an educational charity and as the operator of this website.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to make this website work properly, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We may also share some information about your use of our site with our social media and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. Some of these cookies may involve third-party services where the exact data destinations may not always be disclosed or identifiable. Apart from necessary cookies, we will only place cookies on your device with your consent. 

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies, including marketing cookies, are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. Some of these cookies may involve third-party services where the exact data destinations may not always be disclosed or identifiable to our cookie tool.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

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Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites and to collect data to inform marketing campaigns and target advertising. We use some marketing cookies to help us understand how effective our marketing campaigns are. For example, if you click a link from one of our Facebook posts, the Facebook cookies help us to know that's how you came to us.

Some third-party content on our site also sets marketing cookies for the third party providers' own purposes. This is the case with YouTube videos, where YouTube uses cookies to know which videos you've watched and then uses this data for their  own advertising sales business.

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Your data rights

You have the following rights relating to your personal data. If you want to exercise any of your data rights, just get in touch with us using the details at the foot of this page. We may need to check that you are who you say you are, to keep your data safe.

• The rights to know what data we hold about you, what we use it for, and to request a copy of personal information held about you
• We will provide this information within one month. It will help us if you can be specific about the types of data you would like a copy of.
• The right to request that any inaccuracies be corrected
• We will usually be able to do this immediately, although in some circumstances it might take us up to one month to complete your request.
• The rights to request us to stop processing your personal data and to request us to delete your personal data
• There might sometimes be good reasons why we need to keep some data, even if you have asked us to delete it. For example, if you have asked us not to send emails to you, we will need to keep your email address to check against so that we don’t accidentally send you emails in future.
• The right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or the Fundraising Regulator

You can do this at any time. The Information Commissioner’s Office can be found at ico.org.uk and the Fundraising Regulator can be found at fundraisingregulator.org.uk

Data Protection Officer

Our Data Protection Officer is John Chivall, Quality and Compliance Manager.
Email: [email protected]