CASP

Topics

• What data do we collect?
• How do we collect your data?
• How will we use your data?
• How do we store your data?
• How long we keep your personal data
• What are your data protection rights?
• What are cookies?
• What types of cookies do we use?
• Changes to our privacy policy
• How to contact us
• How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

We may obtain contact details, names, email addresses, location information and other identifiers about activists, members of the public and the police present at actions. Also, we obtain contact details and names of our volunteers and contractors.

How do we collect your data?

The personal data involved may be provided by the individual or provided by legal observers or others present at a protest from their personal observation, or it may be from other publicly accessible resources (like social and other media).

We also process personal data in the form of:

Names, phone numbers, and email addresses and any other personal information provided by people contacting us by email, over the phone or through Zoom This processing is on the basis of our legitimate interests as an organisation in supporting individual activists and keeping activists up to date.

How will we use your data?

We may email activists who have provided us with their email address. We ask for consent to stay in touch by email. Where people have provided us with their phone numbers, we may get in touch with them by phone or by text message in order to support them or other activists. Data may be processed to generate reports (with personally identifying details removed) for example to help activists understand the range of outcomes of being charged with an offence.

How do we store your data?

We ensure that all personal data is subject to access controls, and is stored securely according to current security best practices. We use pseudonymisation when sharing personal data, where appropriate.

Who we might share your personal data with?

Where appropriate, we may share personal data in the following ways:

• with solicitors representing activists
• with other activists representing themselves
• with individuals supporting activists at police stations or at court
• with other groups offering support to activists

We endeavour to ensure there is consent to the sharing of personal data from the key protester (e.g. the arrestee) but the sharing of relevant personal information about other people present at the protest is based on the legitimate interests of CASP.

How long we keep your personal data

We will only keep this data for as long as is necessary to meet our legitimate interests described above.

What are your data protection rights?

• The right to access – You have the right to request CASP for copies of your personal data. We won’t normally charge you a fee for this service.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that CASP correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request CASP to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that CASP erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that CASP restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to CASP’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to data portability – You have the right to request that CASP transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: contactCASP@protonmail.com.
• You have the right to complain to the ICO about the way in which we process your personal data. Please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office for further information: website www.ico.org.uk.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

What types of cookies do we use?

Our service providers may use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using CASP’s website. CASP does not use cookies otherwise.

Changes to our privacy policy

CASP keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 11/1/24.

How to contact us

If you wish to exercise any right, or for any queries you may have, or if you wish to make a complaint, please contact us at contactCASP@protonmail.com.

How to contact the appropriate authorities

You have the right to complain to the ICO about the way in which we process your personal data. Please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office for further information: website www.ico.org.uk.