Privacy Notice

Who We Are
Brighter Futures Social Investment CIC (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is the data controller for the information collected on this website. Our registered address is:
Brighter Futures Social Investment CIC
3 Birch Place Greenhithe Kent DA99DP
Email: garnetjohnson@brighterfutures-si.org.uk

Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Who We Share Your Data With
We may share your information with third-party service providers who help manage our website and services. These may include hosting providers, email services, and website analytics providers. We ensure that these third parties comply with data protection regulations and do not use your data for purposes beyond providing services to us.

How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to help us recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically, instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, or until you request deletion.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data
You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. You also have the right to restrict or object to processing in certain circumstances. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below.

Security of Your Data
We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. This includes secure storage, encryption, and restricting access to data to only those employees or third-party providers who need to know.

Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Personal data may also be transferred to third-party services as part of our website and service management processes, such as hosting providers, email providers, and analytics services. These third parties are required to maintain adequate safeguards for your data.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:
Email: garnetjohnson@brighterfutures-si.org.uk