LIFE In The Ravines
Project Privacy Notice & Cookies Policy

Who collects your personal data

The data controller is Natural England at: Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York, Y01 7PX

Send questions about how Natural England uses your personal data and your associated rights to the Natural England Data Protection Manager at foi@naturalengland.org.uk or:

Natural England, County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester, WR5 2NP

The Data Protection Officer for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) group is responsible for checking that Natural England complies with legislation. You can contact them at DefraGroupDataProtectionOfficer@defra.gov.uk or:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, SW Quarter, 2nd floor, Seacole Block, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF

What personal data’s collected and how it’s used

Natural England collects personal data to carry out its work on the LIFE in the Ravines project.

Mailing list

Natural England collects your name and contact details. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time by emailing LIFEintheRavines@naturalengland.org.uk.

Images you submit

Natural England collects your name and contact details.

Surveys and interviews

Natural England collects:
- Your name and contact details
- Information about you
- Your opinions
- Information about your activities in the Peak District Dales SAC

Natural England uses your data to understand how activities affect sensitive habitats of the Peak District Dales SAC.

How your personal data has been obtained, if from a third party

Data will be collected of the individual concerned via:
- The LIFE in the Ravines website
- Face to face events organised or participated by the LIFE in the Ravines project
- Photo Points Monsal Dale

The legal basis for processing your personal data

Processing is necessary for:
- The performance of a task carried out in the public interest
- The exercise of official authority vested in the data controller

This is to allow Natural England to carry out its work on the LIFE in the Ravines project.

Consent to process your personal data

The processing of your personal data is based on consent. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing LIFEintheRavines@naturalengland.org.uk

Who Natural England shares your personal data with

Natural England may share your information with other partner organisations in the LIFE in the Ravines project. These are:
- Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
- Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
- National Trust
- Chatsworth Estate

Defra respects your personal privacy when responding to access to information requests. We only share information when necessary to meet the statutory requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

External contractors

External contractors carry out certain tasks within the LIFE in the Ravines project. To perform these tasks, Natural England shares personal data with them. They follow their own data processing procedures under their contract with Natural England.

How long Natural England holds personal data

The partnership will keep your data for 5 years after the end of the project, due in November 2026. It will delete your mailing list contact details at the end of the project. Contractors will delete any personal data they have at the end of their contract.

What happens if you do not provide the data requested

If you do not provide the data:
- Natural England will not be able to email you about the project or invite you to take part in workshops, surveys or interviews
- You will not be able to volunteer for the project
- Natural England will not be able to use your image in the project
- The project team will not be able to take your experience and opinions into account

Use of automated decision making or profiling

The personal data you provide is not used for:
- automated decision making (making a decision by automated means without any human involvement)
- profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual)

Transfer of data outside the UK

Natural England will only transfer your data to another country that is deemed adequate for data protection purposes.

Your rights

Find out about your individual rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office at any time.

Natural England’s personal information charter

Natural England’s personal information charter explains more about your rights over your personal data.

Website Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

External Links

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

An introduction to cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information concerning your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Cookies deployed by our website

• Ensure that functionality operates as intended.
• Remember your choices and preferences during and between visits.
• Allow you to share pages via social network widgets like Facebook, Twitter and AddThis.
• Allow you to interact with our website by leaving comments or opinions.
• Post enquiries via our Anti-Spam enquiry form.
• Track your visit for statistical analysis, allowing us to improve usability, speed and security on our website.

Cookies are not deployed to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission).
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission).
• Pass data to advertising networks.
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
• Pay sales commissions

Your consent for cookie deployment by our website

Upon your first visit to our website, you may have noticed our banner alerting you to the use of cookies on our website. In compliance with the 2011 EU Directive Cookie Law, our website operates on an ‘Implied Consent’ basis. This means we will assume that you have opted-in for our website to deploy cookies until you choose to deactivate them within your browser settings or via the instructions below. By default, the majority of popular web browsers automatically permit websites to deploy cookies onto your device. Below you can learn more about the specific cookies deployed by our website and how they can be disabled. For more information on the EU Cookie Law in the UK, we recommend visiting the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website where you can find the latest information, guidelines and advice on the EU Cookie Law.

Social Network Sharing

We encourage users to share our content and/or like our profile on popular Social Media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. To make ‘Social Sharing’ accessible, our website utilises widgets either provided directly from the Social Networks and/or via amalgamative widgets from third parties such as AddThis. Cookies and privacy implications from the social networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each Social Network. Social Sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you have an account on that respective Social Network at the time of being on our website.

Analytical Tracking

Our website has Google Analytics installed which allows us to track and compile anonymous visitor statistics. The information collected ranges from simple traffic volume to the type of browser you are viewing our website with. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification but to improve the usability, security and load speed of our website content. Google Analytics is a popular, secure, flagship webmaster product from Google. The privacy and security of Google Analytics data is a high priority at Google that you can read more about on Google’s Analytics Data Safeguarding page. Google also offer a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will allow you to automatically Opt-out of all websites that track your activity via Google Analytics. No personal information is collected by Google Analytics.

Cookie Consent Check

As mentioned above, upon your first visit our website displays a banner at the bottom of the page alerting you about cookies being deployed by our website. In order for our website to remember your choice of opting in, we store an anonymous cookie to remove the alert banner for seven days. To prevent this cookie from being stored, do not accept and close the alert. If you have already accepted the alert and you wish to remove the cookie, please clear your cookies within your browser settings.

WordPress

Our website, either in full or in part, is built on the popular open-source CMS framework – WordPress. WordPress utilises cookies to allow visitors to register, log in and comment on our website’s content. If you do not wish to participate in commenting on our website, WordPress will not deploy any cookies onto your device. Cookies will only be created by WordPress if you actively register or comment via the clear forms on our website.

Enquiry Forms

Visitors can contact us via enquiry form(s) on our website. To prevent spam enquiries, we protect our forms with a ‘CAPTCHA’ challenge to ensure the submission is from a living person rather than a computer bot. This CAPTCHA challenge creates a cookie that is used only to check the input response from the user is correct. The CAPTCHA cookie does not store any other information from your enquiry.

Google Maps/Places

Our website may have our Google Maps/Places profile embedded within an iframe. Google Maps creates cookies that enable the functionality of their powerful mapping software. No personal information is stored or shared on the cookies deployed by Google Maps/Places.

Actual cookies deployed

When you enter a comment on this site you will be asked to provide certain information about yourself, including your name, email and website address

How to disable cookies

Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings for all websites that you browse. You can disable cookie deployment completely by editing your browser settings, however, in doing this you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website. To learn how to disable cookies on your preferred browser we recommend reading this advice posted by Google.

If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet, you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal information about you. There are many antispyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening. Learn more about antispyware software – Spyware. As mentioned earlier in this page you can also disable Google Analytics on all websites by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.