Privacy Notice 

 

This page will tell you all about how we use the information you share with us on e-lectorate.uk 

It is our guiding mission to be a safe place where people can express views on society. We process data on our system to achieve this purpose. 

 

Our Privacy Promise

 

We promise that we will never track you and try to determine personal demographic information about you based on your use of our application. Any information we store about you will be freely given and published by you only.

 

Personal data we process:

 

We collect the following categories of personal data:

 

  • Name: this does not have to be your real name.
  • Email address: we need this to set up your account. 
  • Password: we need this to set up your account.
  • Date of birth: we need this so that we can verify you are over 13. If you are under 13 you will need parental consent before accessing our platform.
  • Title: you can call yourself what you like.
  • Bio: you can describe yourself however you like.
  • Your activity on e-lectorate: e.g. your up-votes, down-votes and indifferent-votes as well as who you follow and message as well as the content you post. We process this data to deliver the e-lectorate product to you. 

It is necessary for you to provide your Name, Email & DOB to set up an account.

 

 

Purpose of processing your data & legal basis:

 

Purpose

Legal Basis

 

To deliver e-lectorate to you

 

 

Legitimate interest

 

Processing special categories of personal data that you choose to share on the platform.

 

Explicit consent.

 

Your consent is obtained through the action of you writing and posting information about yourself on the platform. You can withdraw your consent by deleting the content you post. 

 

 

For security and content moderation purposes.

 

 

Legitimate interest

 

We set some functional cookies  for the following purposes: keeping track of your input in online forms, preventing unauthorised online form submissions, etc. You can control the use of cookies at the individual    browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your  use of certain features or functions of our services. 

 

Sharing your data:

We will only share your data with providers that help deliver the e-lectorate product. Hosting is within the UK. 

 

Data retention:

We retain your information for the length of time you have an account with us.

 

Your rights:

You have the rights to:

 

  • Information about how we use your data. We provide this to you in this notice.
  • Access the data we process about you. You can do this from your account page.
  • Rectify any inaccurate data we process on you. You can do this yourself by updating your account information.
  • Restrict or object to our processing of your data. You can do this by deleting your account.
  • Lodge a complaint to a data protection regulator.

We do not conduct any automated decision making that will produce a legal or similarly significant affect. 

 

The data controller is TEC- ETC Ltd. 

 

You can contact us on info@e-lectorate.uk