Policies Privacy Policy

The Green Party of England and Wales believes that protecting your personal information is very important. In accordance with Data Protection law we are a Data Controller and accountable for the way we process your data. We have therefore implemented appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both online and offline. The Green Party is committed to protecting your privacy and the transparent use of any information you share with us in accordance with our legal obligations. This Privacy Notice sets out in detail the purposes for which we process your personal data, who we share it with, what rights you have in relation to that data and everything else we think is important for you to know.

The Green Party's Privacy Notice may change so please remember to check back from time to time. This is version 2.0 and was last updated on 15th January 2021. Where we have made any changes to this Privacy Notice, we will make this clear on our website or contact you to let you know. We are committed to treating you with respect and openness.

Personal data means any information that can directly or indirectly identify a living person –

1. from those data, or
2. from those data and other information, which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual.

If you have any questions about this Notice or you would like any more information in regard to how we process, store or use your personal information, please contact The Green Party:

• To call: 02036919400
• To email: [email protected]
• To write to us in the post: Data Protection Officer, The Biscuit Factory, Unit 215 J Block, 100 Clements Road, SE16 4DG
  

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioners Office if you would like to complain about us, please see their contact details below:

• To call: 0303 123 1113
• Their complaint page is: https://ico.org.uk/global/cont...

In this document, when you see words 'we' 'us' or 'our', it refers to The Green Party.

The Green Party are registered with the Electoral Commission under registration ----. We are a 'Data Controller' registered under Z9951530 for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018, the EU General Data Protection Legislation 2018 (EU GDPR) and the Data Protection & Electronic Communications Regulation 2019 (UK GDPR). This means we are responsible for and control the processing of your personal information.

Here at The Green Party, we are committed to protecting your personal information and making every effort to ensure that your personal information is processed in a fair, open and transparent manner.

It is important that you understand who is responsible for keeping your data safe. We are the "controller" of all personal data collected and used by the Green Party of England and Wales for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. 

This means that we are responsible for deciding how and why your data is used and for ensuring that your data is handled legally and safely.

Website subscription forms

We collect the details you submit to us when you complete an online form asking us to keep you updated on party activities and related issues.

Petitions and Surveys

We also collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you respond to petitions or surveys including your responses to any questions they might ask.

Membership Signups

When you join as member of the party, we collect all the details you provide including contact details and any other details that are voluntarily provided. 

We also collect your payment details where necessary to process your membership subscriptions and donations.

Cookies and IP addresses

We collect information about how you interact with our websites using Cookies and your connection's Internet Connection (IP) Address if your browser is set to accept/provide such.

Local Green Party Organisations

The Green Party of England and Wales is composed of hundreds of individual local parties, nine regional parties and Wales Green Party. 

The data we obtain from local and regional parties has been collected by those parties directly and relates to any relationship or communications you have with them including meetings, events, local campaigns and correspondence.

The Electoral Register

As a political party we and our local, regional and Wales parties are provided with access to the electoral register for the purposes of canvassing and promotion.

Social Media

We also collect anonymised publicly available information from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, for example likes, shares, tweets and posts about the Green Party and its activities and campaigns. This information is provided to us by the third-party social media platform.