Privacy Notice

Blue Alliance Partners ("we") are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about what information we may hold about you.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us is collected and processed by us, whether online (through “our Site”: https://bluealliance.net/), via telephone, email, in letters or in any other correspondence or from third parties.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

This privacy and cookies policy covers the following:

Who we are

In this policy wherever you see the words ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’, it refers to Blue Alliance Partners.

Information we may collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Personal Data:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services and might include the following:

·       First name

·       Last name

·       Gender

·       Date of birth

·       Email (for login)

·       Address

·       Postcode

·       Telephone number

We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Site.

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Information relating to your area of expertise as a result of communicating with us and us asking you questions to comprehend your business.

Information that we obtain from you when using our services may, in addition to the above, include credit card, debit card or bank account details, but such information will be stored only by our payment provider and will not be held by us.

Sensitive Personal Data:

Information that we obtain from you when you apply for a role at Blue Alliance Partners or have taken up employment with us. This may include, subject to your prior written consent, sensitive information such as:

·       Racial or ethnic origin

·       Religious beliefs

·       Physical and mental health details

·       Trade union membership

·       Sexual orientation

·       Commission of criminal offences and/or involvement in criminal proceedings

Information we get from your use of our Site and services:

In addition to cookies (for which see the section below entitled What Cookies We Use), we may also collect details about your usage of the Site. Those may include, but are not limited to:

·       Traffic data

·       Location data

·       Weblogs and other communication data (whether this is required for our own purposes or otherwise)

·       The resources that you access

Information from third parties:

We may also receive information about you from third party companies. This can include information such as:

·       Your name

·       Postal address

·       Email address

·       Emergency contact details

·       Telephone number

From the public domain:

We may obtain some information from publicly available sources such as news articles or open postings on social media such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

How your personal information may be used:

Where you have consented or a rule of law applies whereby your consent is not required, your Data will be automatically collected when you sign up to our Services.

We may use information held about you in the following ways:

·       to ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

·       to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes

·       to carry out our obligations arising from any such contracts

·       to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

·       to invite you to online workshops and events

·       to notify you about changes to our service

·       to fulfil orders for goods and services

·       to administer your membership

·       to carry out in-house research and analysis, for example data mining, marketing statistics or equal opportunities monitoring

·       to monitor customer traffic patterns, Site usage and related Site information in order to optimize your use of our Site; data collected in this way will be aggregated and anonymized and passed to a reputable third-party, but these statistics will include no information personally identifying you

·       For online workshops, your name, job title and company name will appear on the participant list through the official conference networking system enabling participants to connect with you during the conference

You can opt out of your data being used for any of the Purposes of Use by emailing us at info@bluealliance.net.

The Purposes(s) of Use in relation to:

·       your Personal Data is lawful because it is necessary for us to hold and use your Personal Data so that we can perform our obligations under the contract we have entered into with you

·       your Sensitive Personal Data is lawful because you have given us your explicit consent to process your data in this way when applying for a role at Blue Alliance Partners or if you have taken up employment with us

·       usage Data and Third Party Data is lawful because it is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us and/or our web developers in order to keep the Site up to date, organize events and functions and provide additional services to our users from time to time

Legitimate interest:

We may process your personal information for certain legitimate business purposes which are in our interests.

Those carefully considered and specific purposes might for example include the following:

·       inviting speakers and participants in a business / professional capacity to our online workshops and events.

·       engaging with particular individuals holding relevant policy-making positions, experts, corporate professional individuals and those working in other relevant sectors in a business / professional capacity

Where we store your personal data/Transferring your data outside the EEA

We aim to ensure that there are appropriate physical, technical and managerial controls in place to protect your Data.

Where we use external companies to collect or process data on our behalf, your Data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our sales representatives or consultants.  Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of our services.

The purpose for such transfers can be a combination of a number of things: the costs of data storage may be lower in countries based outside the EEA; our sales teams may be based there.

However, we will meet our obligations under the legislation by ensuring that the information has the same protection as if it were being held within the EEA because our hosting company either benefits from the Privacy Shield or has entered into model EU clauses with any sub-processor it uses and based outside the EEA or has established a set of binding corporate rules with its foreign subsidiaries who are based outside the EEA or the Information Commissioner has made a positive finding of adequacy in relation to the territory in which the sub-processor is based and to which your Data may be transferred .

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Data is treated securely as we do and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Sharing your personal information with third parties

We may share your Personal Information with third parties in the following circumstances:

·       If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Data held by us about you will be one of the transferred assets

·       If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Blue Alliance Partners, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of terrorism, fraud protection and credit risk reduction

·       Where we enter into a relationship with a consultant, any such arrangements will be subject to a formal agreement between them and Blue Alliance Partners to protect the security of your data

·       When working with partners to deliver an online or physical event, registration details may be shared with event partners for the purposes of monitoring attendance.

The Purposes of transfer of your Data (save in the case of Sensitive Data, where we will have obtained your specific consent to do so for one or more of the Purposes) are lawful because it is necessary for us to hold and use your Personal Data so that we can perform our obligations under the contract we have entered into with you for the provision of our services.

In the event of any of the above scenarios occurring, we will endeavour to ensure that your rights and freedoms in respect of the processing of your personal data are adequately and appropriately protected.

We will not sell your data to any third party.

Your rights

Withdrawing your consent

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for marketing purposes.

Accessing and managing your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data by making a ‘subject access request’ under The Act and to have any inaccuracies corrected.

You also have the following rights:

·       to request us to erase your Personal Data

·       to request us to restrict our processing of your Personal Data

·       to object to the way in which we are dealing with and processing your Personal Information.

Should you wish to exercise these rights, we will require you to prove your identity with two pieces of approved identification. Please address requests by email to info@bluealliance.net.

How long we store your data for

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary to operate the service in accordance with legal requirements and tax accounting rules.

Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of in a secure manner.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. By continuing to use our site, you shall be deemed to have accepted such changes.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy you can email us at info@bluealliance.net.