Privacy notice

Home-Start Erewash

At Home-Start Erewash, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Privacy Notice explains when and why we collect personal information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it safe and secure and your rights and choices in relation to your information.

Any questions regarding this notice and our privacy practices should be:
sent by email to office@home-starterewash.co.uk or by writing to 6 Heanor Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8DX.
Alternatively, you can telephone 0115 9304640.

Our Data Protection Officer/Lead is Liam Caldecott

Home-Start Erewash is committed to protecting your personal information and to being transparent about what information we hold.

Home-Start Erewash understands its obligations to you to help you understand how and why we process your personal data. We will only do so in accordance with all applicable UK data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation. In this notice ‘Home-Start’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ means:

  • Home-Start Erewash a charitable company limited by guarantee.
  • Company no. 05303098
  • Charity no. 1107411
  • Registered office: 6 Heanor Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8DX.

Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have certain rights over the personal information that we hold about you. Here is a summary of the rights that are likely to apply to you when we are processing your personal information. we think apply:

Right of access

You have a right to request access to the personal data that we hold about you.You also have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you, and we will provide you with this unless legal exceptions apply.If you want to access your information, please contact the address provided below, telephone or e-mail

Right to have your inaccurate personal information corrected

You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you corrected. The accuracy of your information is important to us so we're working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or if you believe any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us via email, telephone or post (see below).

Right to restrict use

You have a right to ask us to restrict the processing of some or all of your personal information if there is a disagreement about its accuracy, or we're not lawfully allowed to use it.

Right of erasure

You may ask us to delete some or all of your personal information and in certain cases, and subject to certain exceptions; we will do so as far as we are required to by law. In many cases, we will anonymise that information, rather than delete it.

Right for your personal information to be portable

If we are processing your personal information (1) based on your consent, or in order to enter into or carry out a contract with you, and (2) the processing is being done by automated means, for example, when you shop from our website, you may ask us to provide it to you or another service provider in a machine-readable format.

Right to object

ou have the right to object to processing where we are using your personal information based on legitimate interests, (or for statistical/research purposes). In these circumstances we will consider your request against our legitimate reasons for continuing to process your information. You have an absolute right to object to direct marketing. If you wish to opt-out of receiving marketing materials from us at any time, please contact the address below. If you want to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us. We may be required to ask for further information and/or evidence of identity. We will endeavour to respond fully to all requests within one month of receipt of your request, however if we are unable to do so we will contact you with reasons for the delay. Please note that exceptions apply to a number of these rights, and not all rights will be applicable in all circumstances. For more details we recommend you consult the guidance published by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office. Keeping your information safe .When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that appropriate technical and organisational controls are in place to protect it, such as Firewalls, anti-virus protection and encryption. Home-Start UK has developed a set of security policies that include device security, authentication requirements, acceptable usage of resources, data storage requirements. We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your info is only accessible by appropriately trained staff, volunteers and contractors. Keeping your information up to date. We take reasonable steps to ensure your information is accurate and up to date. Where possible we use publicly available sources to identify deceased records or whether you have changed address. We really appreciate it if you let us know when your contact details change. 16 or Under-We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information. Vulnerable circumstances-We are committed to protecting vulnerable supporters, customers and volunteers, and appreciate that additional care may be needed when we use their personal information. In recognition of this, we observe good practice guidelines in our interactions with vulnerable people. Changes to this notice-Any changes we may make to this notice in the future will be posted on this website so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. If we make any significant changes, we will make this clear on this website. Review of this Privacy notice-We keep this notice under regular review. This notice was last updated in January 2019.For further information on each of these rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, visit the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) website at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public . If you would like to exercise any of the rights, please email, call or write to us using the details in ‘How to contact us’ below, let us have enough information to identify you, let us have proof of your identity and address, and let us know the information to which your request relates. For more information on the Home-Start UK policy please follow the link below: https://www.home-start.org.uk/privacy How to complain-Please report any complaint to the details set out in ‘How to contact us’ below. We hope we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone: 0303 123 1113. How to contact us-Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the information we hold about you at office@home-starterewash.co.uk or by writing to 6 Heanor Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8DX. Alternatively, you can telephone 0115 9304640.