The American Civil War Round Table (UK) (referred to as “acwrt”, “we”, “us”, “our”),  we understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your information is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone that visits our website and only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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This privacy and cookie policy will help you understand how we process any and all data collected by us in relation to your use of our website, and what choices you have. 

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About us

Our website, https//acwrt.org.uk is owned and operated by The American Civil War Round Table (UK), a Charity registered in England under number 1117242. Our registered address is: 35c Eastern Road, London N2 9LB.

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Our data protection officer can be contacted at dataprotection.acwrtuk@gmail.com.

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What information do we collect?

We collect information about you when you register with us, complete a form on our website or when you book any tickets with us for one of our events. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete feedback, participate in competitions or quizzes and when you email us or contact us by telephone. Website usage information is collected using cookies.

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How will we use the information about you?

We will use this information to provide the products or services requested, to process your order, manage your account, respond to communications from you and, if you agree, to email you about other events and content that we think may be of interest to you.

We use your information collected from our website to personalise your repeat visits to our website. We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of our organisation.

 

Marketing

With your permission we would like to send you information about our events together with news of any blog posts together with details of other things pertaining to the Civil War or the Round Table we think will be of interest to you. We may use your data to contact you by email, telephone, text message and by direct mail. You may opt out at any time.

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If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email president@ EMAIL. You can opt out of our email communications  by clicking the unsubscribe link at the footer of any email you receive from us.

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How and where do we store your data?

Our site is hosted by wix.com. Therefore some of the Users Personal Information may be stored in data centers located in the United States of America, Ireland, Japan and Israel. We may use other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Services and/or as may be required by law (as further explained below).

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Wix.com Ltd. is based in Israel, which is considered by the European Commission to be offering an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information of EU Member State residents.

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Wix affiliates and Third-Party Service Providers that store or process your Personal Information on Wix’s behalf are contractually committed to keep it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction

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Transfer of EU Personal data : If you are located in Europe, when we will transfer your Personal Information to the United States or anywhere outside Europe, we will make sure that (i) there is a level of protection deemed adequate by the European Commission or (ii) that the relevant Model Standard Contractual Clauses are in place. Wix participates in, and has certified its compliance with, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List, here.

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We only keep your data if we have a valid legal reason to do so and will only keep it for as long as we need to in order to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. We will conduct an annual review to determine if we need to keep your data. Your data will be deleted if we no longer need it to maintain our obligations or if you have requested that we delete it.

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Data security is of great importance to us. We take steps to protect your data by using data encryption on our websites and applications. 

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Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some, or all of your personal information, please email us at president.acwrtuk@gmail.com.  We may make a small charge for this service.

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We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

 

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. It may also be used for the purpose of running re-marketing adverts to you about our events and articles.

 

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and can also remove cookies from your browser. However, if you do, some features on our website may not function as a result.

 

You can find out more information about cookies and how to remove cookies by visiting allaboutcookies.org or cookiecentral.com