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Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 14001362; registered charity in England and Wales 1188814) with registered address at C/O Ymu Business Management Limited, 180 Great Portland Street, London, England, W1W 5QZ. At the Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust (“JESB”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), we are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of our website users (“you” or “your”). This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, process, share, and safeguard personal information that is collected via our website (https://jesbt.uk.com/) (“Website”) and other pages we maintain online. It also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information and how you can contact us if you have any questions.

We are a data controller for the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

We may change this Policy from time to time. Please check this page periodically to ensure that you’re aware of any changes. If we make material changes, we will let you know.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal information about you from the various sources listed below.

Personal Information You Provide to Us

  • Contact Information. The personal information we collect about you might include your full name, address, email address, and contact telephone number when you contact us via our Website, email, social media, or by other means. When you contact us, you also provide us with the content of your communications.
  • Through Donations. If you choose to make a donation via our Website, we will collect information from you, such as your address, email address, telephone number, and your contribution amount. We do not have access to your full bank details, but, Just Giving, our donation service provider does, for purposes of processing donations.

Automatic Data Collection

We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer, or mobile device, and our communications with you, including:

  • Device Information: The manufacturer and model, operating system, IP address, and unique identifiers of the device, as well as the browser you use to access the Service. The information we collect may vary based on your device type and settings.
  • User Experience Information: Information about how you engage with our Website such as the types of content that you view or actions you take on our Website, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities.
  • Location Information: We may derive a rough estimate of your location from your IP address when you visit the Website.
  • Email Open/Click Information: We may collect the date and time you open an email communication from us or click on any links in the email and we or our service provider may associate this information with the email address we already have for you.

We collect this information using cookies and other similar technologies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

Event Attendees

When you register for an in person or virtual event with JESB, we may collect your full name, email address, address, and telephone number. We may also take video and photographs in which you are featured. We may publish these photographs and videos to our Website and social media channels. If you want to have your photo removed, please contact us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below, including:

  • Details of the event you attended (including the date and venue); and
  • A copy of the picture you want to be removed.

Personal Information We Receive from Third Parties

We receive personal information from the third parties listed below:

Social media platforms: We maintain pages on social media platforms, such as Instagram and LinkedIn. You or the platform providers may provide us with information through the social media platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Policy.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will use your personal information for one or more of the purposes as set out below.

  • Provide, operate and improve the Website. It is in our legitimate business interests to use personal information to operate, maintain, and provide you with our services, including ensuring you can use our website.
  • To reserve your place at one of our events: We have a legitimate business interest to use your personal information to reserve your place at desired events, provide updates, including changes or cancellations, and offer information about accessibility and logistics.
  • To respond to your questions, requests, and complaints and to provide you with support. If you reach out to us for support or to ask us a question, it is in our legitimate interests to use personal information to respond and resolve your queries, and to facilitate support. The personal information we process when doing so includes your correspondence with us and your contact details.
  • To send you our newsletter and other communications. We may send you communications about our work at JESB that we think may be of interest to you as permitted by law, including by email. You may opt out of our communications by contacting us as set out in the “Contact Us” section or through the unsubscribe links in our emails. Where required by law, we will only send you marketing information if you consent to us doing so at the time you provide us your personal information. Otherwise, we will only send you marketing information if it is in our legitimate business interests to send such information.
  • For business administration. We have a legitimate interest to properly manage and administer our relationship with you and to ensure that we are effective and efficient.
  • To comply with legal obligations and to defend JESB against legal claims or disputes. It is in our legitimate interests to defend ourselves against legal claims or disputes. Where we do so, we will use the personal information relevant to such a case. Some processing may also be necessary to comply with legal obligations placed on JESB.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We disclose personal information about you with the following recipients and in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers. We may share your information with our third-party service providers on whom we rely for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process registrations, subscriptions and send you communications).
  • Professional Advisors. We work with various advisors, including tax consultants and legal advisors, with whom we may share your personal information.
  • Legal Requirements. We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, public authorities or pursuant to the exercise of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or request, to enforce our terms and conditions, to prevent or resolve security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property or safety of JESB, you, a third party, or the public.
  • Partners. We work closely with various third-party product and service providers to bring you a range of educational webinars, employment opportunities and pipelines to community support. We might share information with our business partners in these situations.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you are based, and as provided under applicable law and subject to any limitations in such law, you may have the right to:

  • access the personal information we hold about you;
  • request we correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you;
  • request we delete any personal information we hold about you;
  • restrict the processing of personal information we hold about you;
  • object to the processing of personal information we hold about you;
  • receive any personal information we hold about you in a structured and commonly used machine readable format or have such personal information transmitted to another company; and
  • withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your personal information at any time. We will apply your preferences going forward. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your consent.

Please note that, prior to any response to the exercise of such rights, we may require you to verify your identify. In addition, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, and will inform you if that is the case. For more information on your rights, please contact us using the details in the “Contact Us” section below.

You have a choice about whether you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us about our events, membership offers, news and development of JESB, then you can select your choices by ticking the relevant boxes situated on the form on which we collect your information.

We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not contact you for marketing purposes by post if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.

If you wish to lodge a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact us at [insert]. We will endeavour to respond to your complaint as soon as possible. If you are based in certain jurisdictions, you may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work, or where you believe an incident took place. For example, if you are based in the UK, you may choose to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.

International Data Transfers

As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the UK or EU. By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the UK or EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to where you are based. If we transfer your information outside of the UK or EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to afford adequate protection for your personal information. We will comply with applicable data protection laws, in particular if you reside in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK by relying on an EU Commission or UK government adequacy decision, on contractual protections for the transfer of your personal information, or a derogation if available. For more information about how we transfer personal information internationally, please contact us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.

Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.
Retention of Personal Information

We will hold your personal information on our systems only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and processed, in accordance with our retention policies and applicable laws..

To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we use your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Security of Personal Information

When you give us personal information, we use reasonable organisational, technical, and administrative measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. that it’s treated securely. For example, any sensitive information is encrypted and protected with 128 Bit encryption on SSL. Any data transmitted over the Internet can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Do Not Track

Some internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website, so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

Contact Us

JESB is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal information, and is the data controller in respect of such processing. If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights with respect to your personal information, please contact us by email at enquiries@jesbt.com

Review of this Policy

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in May 2024.