ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT
All-Party Parliamentary Groups are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in these webpages are those of the group. Find out more information our group and members on our About us page.
You can contact us by emailing info@appguniversalcredit.org.uk or using the form on our contact page.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
The only way we can see any of your personal information is if you send us an e-mail, use the contact form or subscribe to our mailing list. This information is stored securely and only seen by the website’s administrators and in some cases will be directed to the relevant group members and their case workers.
This website uses cookies to capture anonymous technical data, such as how many people visit the site, which pages are popular and how long people spend on the website. This is to help us understand how people are using this website. We also use cookies to help mitigate malicious activity, blocking traffic which attempts to exploit our services and ultimately help protect all legitimate visitors of the website.
We use some third party plugins to enhance your experience and provide these services.
Contact forms
Personal data is captured when someone submits a contact form (Such as your name, your email address and your message), we will generally keep your messages for a period of 6 months but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
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 exact same way as if had visited the other website. For example if you watch a Facebook video which is embedded on this website and you are a Facebook account holder, anonymous data will be sent to Facebook to tally how many people had interacted with the video.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to gather anonymous data about your visit to this website. You can find out more about Google and their privacy policy.
Only the website administrators will have access to this anonymous data. For example how many visits the website gained from a certain source or the average length a visitor spends on the website.
How long we retain your data
We keep your consent to use cookies for 30 days, contact form entries for six months, Google analytics records for three years.
What rights you have over your data
As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Policy and our use of personal data have been designed to uphold:
- The right to be informed about our collection and use of personal data;
- The right of access to the personal data we hold about you;
- The right to rectification if any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete;
- The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you (we only hold your personal data for a limited time, as explained above but if you would like us to delete it sooner, please contact us);
- The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;
- The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);
- The right to object to us using your personal data for particular purposes.
Cookies
- Cookie means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of our site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site;
- Cookie Law means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;
- Personal Data means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you provide us such as your name and email address. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the EU Regulation 2016/679 – the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for legal or security purposes.
Where we keep your data
The data on this website is hosted by SiteGround Hosting Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales (registration number 09348602), with registered address: 3rd Floor, 11-12 St James’ Square, London, SW1Y 4LB
How we protect your data
Your data is stored securely on this website using PCI compliant hosting, SSL Encryption (by Let’s Encrypt) and a security service called WordFence. Website administration is provided by Turn2us and the website’s creators MM&B Studio, a registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
