The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Email addresses and also optionally names for institutions for the Bristol Investment Fund’s Newsletter with consent. As Well as collecting CV’s and professional information including degree programmes from applicants that can all be published on the website to increase the profile of applicants.

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• For access to our Newsletter and for applicants to increase their profiles.

We use the information that you have given us in order to send you copies of our informative Newsletters and to increase applicant profiles

We will not share this information with any third party.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

- Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting team@the-bif.co.uk

- We have a legal obligation.
- We have a vital interest.
- We need it to perform a public task. - We have a legitimate interest.

Date: 01/07/2021

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored on an encrypted Microsoft Excel Document.

We keep for 5 years and at the September of the 5th Year we will then dispose your information by deleting information from documents and deleting previous copies to ensure data is no longer kept past needed.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at team@the-bif.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

Date: 01/07/2021

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at team@the-bif.co.uk

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk