Last Reviewed
10th June 2024
Who we are
The Firefly Project CIC, a Community Interest Company in the United Kingdom (Company registration number: 15470287) (hereinafter referred to as "The Firefly Project", "us", 'we', or "our") operates the website www.fireflyproject.co.uk (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
This Privacy Policy explains how The Firefly Project, as data controller, will process any personal data that we may collect about you as a visitor to www.fireflyproject.co.uk. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at jenna@fireflyproject.co.uk.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information collection & use
Information that you give us:
We collect, process and use your personal information when you:
sign up to our mailing list via our website;
contact us by email or through our website;
fill out forms out on our website;
sign up to volunteer with us.
The information we collect includes:
your name and title;
phone number and email address;
social media details (if you have provided them to us);
your country and city of residence;
business name (if applicable).
Information we collect from other sources:
We may also receive information about you from social media platforms including but not limited to when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. The information we may receive is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the applicable social media platform, and we encourage you to review them.
Cookies and similar tools:
Most of our websites do not use cookies or scripts designed to track the websites you visit. Where they do, your consent will be expressly requested with a link to our cookies policy.
How we use the information we collect
We use the information we collect:
to respond to your enquiries;
to send you our newsletters;
to allow you to volunteer with us;
to send you details of our products and services;
to comply with legal obligations to which we are subjext and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement authorities;
to send you the content you have requested from our products and services; and
to improve the services we provide to you.
Legal bases for using your personal information
here are different legal bases that we rely on to use your personal data, namely:
Performance of a contract: The use of your personal information may be necessary to perform the contract that you have with us. For example, if you purchase products from our website, we will use your personal information to provide you with such products.
Consent: We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information when we are required to do so by law (for example, in relation to our direct marketing activities).
Legitimate interests: We may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, for example, to respond to your enquiries made via the website. When we process personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
How we may share the information we collect
We may share the information we collect, including your personal information, with third parties under the following circumstances:
Service providers and business partners. We may share your personal information with our service providers and business partners that perform marketing services and other business operations for us. These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
With Law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party. We may share your personal information with these parties where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party. Where permitted by law or regulation and reasonably practicable, we will attempt to notify you of such requirements.
How we protect the personal data we collect
We implement technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to the personal data we process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the on-going integrity and confidentiality of personal information.
How long we will retain your personal data
We retain the information collected via our website for as long as required to fulfil the purpose for which the data was collected. For example, we will retain contact details when you subscribe to our newsletter until you choose to unsubscribe.
Rights with respect to your personal data
You can unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by unsubscribing to our newsletters or contacting us using the details at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Subject to local law, you may have certain rights regarding information that we have collected and that is related to you.
You can ask us:
to access your personal data;
that information we hold about you be updated or rectified;
to erase your personal information;
to provide you or a third party with a copy of certain personal data about you (referred to as the right of “data portability”); and
to restrict our use of your personal information.
Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to fulfil your requests.
If you would like to discuss or exercise such rights, send us an email at jenna@fireflyproject.co.uk. We also encourage you to contact us to update or correct your information if it changes or if you believe that any information that we have collected about you is inaccurate.
Alternatively, you may have a right to complain to your local data protection authority (if one exists in your country). For example, in the UK individuals have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office about the use of your personal data.
Third party websites
Our site includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from our practices. If you submit personal data to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any sites to which our website provides links. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date of the current Privacy Policy is noted at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this page.
How to contact us
If you would like to contact us with questions about our privacy or data protection practices, please contact us at jenna@fireflyproject.co.uk