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Privacy Statement (UK)

How ACHFN collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data gathered through the website and related forms.

Overview

This statement applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom and explains how ACHFN handles personal data gathered via achfoodnetwork.org.

ACHFN states its processing purposes clearly, aims to collect only the data it legitimately needs, requests explicit consent where required, and puts security controls in place for information it stores or shares with processors.

What ACHFN uses data for

The source document names contact through phone, post, email, and webforms, as well as newsletter subscriptions, as the main reasons personal information may be collected.

  • Responding to contact and partnership enquiries
  • Managing newsletter subscriptions and updates
  • Handling requests about personal data access, correction, or deletion

Disclosure, security, and third parties

ACHFN may disclose information when required by law, court order, or public safety investigations, and may transfer details during a merger, acquisition, or organisational transfer.

The organisation states that it applies appropriate security measures and regularly reviews them, but it also notes that third-party websites linked from the site are governed by their own privacy practices.

Your rights

The policy states that people can ask why their data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained.

  • Right of access
  • Right to rectification
  • Right to revoke consent and request deletion
  • Right to transfer data to another controller
  • Right to object to processing unless ACHFN has justified grounds
  • Right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office

Children and contact details

ACHFN says the website is not designed to attract children and asks anyone under the age of consent in their country of residence not to submit personal data.

The listed contact details in the source document are 71-75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom, with the contact email info@achfoodnetwork.org.

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