Forward Momentum collects data in order to inform you and other activists of our activities and what you can do to get involved. We take seriously our duty to keep your data secure.
Forward Momentum is an Unincorporated Association.
1. How your data is collected
1.1 Who collects your data
Forward Momentum's campaign board is the controller of your data, and is responsible for the collection and processing of your data. Forward Momentum has an appointed Data Protection Officer, Charlie Macnamara, who you can reach at [email protected].
1.2 What data is collected
In most circumstances we will only ask you for your name and contact details. Sometimes we ask for additional information about you and your views and interests and activities you take part in, if this helps in campaigns or in keeping campaigns relevant to you. Additional information we may ask you to provide may include geographic information (for example, your postcode and constituency), your willingness to volunteer, your date of birth, gender, ethnicity, employer and occupation, whether or not you are a member of a political party, trade union or other organisation, and whether or not you are a student.
We will also collect information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address for monitoring and improving the effectiveness of our website services as well as its security.
1.3 Where we obtain your data from
In most cases, we will obtain your data directly from you, using an electronic or physical form, or verbally.
We also make use of cookies. Cookies are small files that are downloaded onto your computer (or your mobile phone or other electronic device) from websites that you visit. Cookies contain information that allows websites to recognise that you have used the site before.
We may sometimes supplement your data with other publicly available information where we have your consent to do so.
2. How your data is kept secure
Who has access to your data
We will never sell your data but we can securely share your data with
– Service providers (including Nationbuilder, Paypal and GoCardless)
How your data is processed
We have and collect data for use in Forward Momentum's campaign and to build a lasting network of support and debate around the ideas it inspires. It will be used to help us provide you with information to match your interests. We may also use it to alert you of activities you may be interested in and events happening in your area now and in the future.
We will process your data and contact you for the following reasons:
Other purposes for which we may process your data include:
This is a short-term campaign, and at the end of the campaign the data we hold on you will be deleted.
How Forward Momentum will communicate with you
For any direct "marketing" communications about our campaigning we will only contact you via email, phone call or text if we have your permission to do so. We may occasionally send you campaigning materials (with your permission).
You may also see campaigning online and on some social media sites if you have interaction with us before. To respond to your queries we will contact you either via the medium you used to contact us or by a medium you have indicated you would like us to respond with. If it is necessary to contact you for any administrative purposes then we will usually try to email, text or call you, usually in that order, depending on what contact details we have available for you.
How Forward Momentum Protects Children's privacy
No information should be submitted or posted to Forward Momentum by children under the age of 13 without prior consent of their parent or guardian.
How you can affect the way Forward Momentum communicates with you
When you interact with us, we will ask you to tell us how you prefer to be contacted.
You can unsubscribe from contact at any time here. You can contact us via to make enquiries about what information we hold or to change the details or to ask us to erase the data that we hold on you.