Privacy Policy

The Association of Jamaican National Birmingham UK Ltd (AJN) is a Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of 'Limited' exemption and registered with UK Charity Commission under 1130750.
Version dated 12th August 2020

AJN recognises that the free flow of information must be balanced against the protection of an individual's and business's private interests. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your information, business and employees, whilst providing you with the opportunity to engage with us on programs which benefits you or your business activities. The fundamental Data protection principles apply to all our programs and activities. This policy ('Privacy Policy') describes the way we collect information from you, and the way we may use this information.

What Data ('User Data') do we collect from you?

All the data we collect from you is charity related and some data collected includes data on individuals within a business. AJN collects this information as a resource to enable interaction with you in order to allow appropriate decisions to be taken. 
We collect User Data from you in the following ways.

Some non-individually identifiable information is collected by web site servers such as what browser is being used (e.g., Chrome) or the domain name from which a visitor entered the site (e.g., www.yourcompany.com or www.youruniversity.edu).

When you request further information on AJN Charitable Activities ('Activities') or programs you will be asked to provide basic information about yourself or company including name and contact details.

We also collect further business related information from you, for instance when you submit an enquiry application to us.

Our use of User Data. 

We will use the User Data we collect from you only in accordance with the following guidelines. We will use User Data:

1. To provide and improve our Activities and Programs to you.

This will include enabling our help desk to deal with any inquiries you have about our Activities, and to enhance our service to you, where applicable to process payments and to notify you of any changes in our Charitable terms and conditions.

2. To send you information about our activities and programs.

From time to time AJN may wish to use User contact details to send you further information about what we are doing or to carry out market research in order to improve our services to you. If at any time you decide that you do not wish to be contacted in this way please contact AJN at info@ajn-birmingham.org This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

3. To generate and deal in aggregate data.

AJN may provide aggregated data about usage patterns to reputable third parties. This data will be in a non-attributable form and will not enable the third party to identify individual users or businesses.

4. To Provide data to third party providers.

AJN may pass User Information to third party providers of products and services to enable them to provide a service to you, and where necessary to facilitate billing. AJN does not authorize third parties to use your User Data to market their own products and services. 

5. Legal Requirements.

While it is not likely, in some circumstances AJN may be required to disclose your User Data by a court order or to comply with other legal requirements. AJN will endeavour to notify you before we do so, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.

6. No commercial disposal to Third Parties.

AJN will not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make User Data commercially available to any third party, except as described above.

7. Your Consent

You are entitled as an individual and corporate to protection under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you object to the use of your User Data in the manner described in sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 please inform us by email at info@ajn-birmingham.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

8. Updating information that AJN holds about you.

In accordance with the principles of data protection, you may have access at anytime to any User Data that AJN holds about you and/or your business and where appropriate have this data changed or erased.

9. Assent to the terms of Privacy.

By using the AJN website you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this privacy statement and that you agree that AJN can use your User Data for the purposes set out above. This Privacy Policy may be amended at anytime. AJN will make it clear where changes have been made to the Privacy Policy.