Privacy Policy

• Introduction

• 1.1              Level Water and Swim Collective are committed to safeguarding and protecting the personal information of our website visitors and service users, by being transparent about how we process your personal data. 
  1.2              We are providing you with the following information in the Privacy Policy in accordance with our obligation to deliver you with this information under the applicable data privacy laws, namely the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
  1.3              This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; in other words, where there is a legitimate purpose and means of the processing of that personal data. 
  1.4       We will not do anything with your personal information that you would not reasonably expect. The following Privacy Policy explains how we store your personal information, what we do with it and why we use it.      
  1.5      In this Privacy Policy, when we refer to Level Water and Swim Collective, we will use "we", "us" and "our". For more information about us, see Section 13. If you have any queries about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@levelwater.org. 

• How we use your personal data

• We may collect, process and store personal information about you in the following ways detailed in this section. 
  2.1        In this Section 2 we have set out:
  (a)        the general categories of personal data that we may process;
  (b)        the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
  (d)        the legal bases of the processing.
  2.2        We may process data about you every time that you use our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include: your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, developing, and improving our website and services.
  2.3       We may process your account data when you register for an account via our website ("account data"). The account data may include your name, email address, first name, last name, postal address, and any other information that you choose to provide to us. The source of the account data is you or your employer. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
  2.4       We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website ("profile data"). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, gender, date of birth. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
  2.6  We may process some of your personal information that we collect under a specific category of ‘special category personal data’ (“special category data”) due to Data Protection Laws. The reason for this specific category is due to the sensitive nature of the personal information. Level Water and Swim Collective may collect your health data, specifically in relation to any disclosed medical conditions that we should be aware of. Special category personal data will only be collected where necessary and where such data is required for safety purposes. For instance, we need to be made aware of any medical conditions that you have for upcoming events, to ensure that our safety team can provide the correct care for you during an event. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
  2.5       We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services ("service data"). The service data may include name, address, telephone number, email address, gender, date of birth.  The source of the service data is you or your employer. The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
  2.6       We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
  2.7       We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information ("customer relationship data"). The customer relationship data may include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you. The source of the customer relationship data is you. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products and services to customers. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
  2.8      We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services that you enter into with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. Level Water and Swim Collective never have access to your full credit/debit card details when payment is taken using your chosen card method. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business. Financial transaction data, not including credit/debit card details, is held for as long as the law requires us to store your information for tax and accounting purposes. Financial transaction data can be stored for up to six years from the initial transaction date.
  2.9  We may process your data when you make a donation via our website (“donation data”). When you are directed to our website, you will be able to decide the amount you wish to contribute towards a donation to Level Water. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
  2.10    We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
  2.11    We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
  2.12  We may process your data contained in photographs taken at our events (“photograph data”).  There may be photographers at all of our swimming events, who will take photographs throughout the event. These photographs are only taken on the basis of a legitimate interest involving Level Water and Swim Collective, for example: our online events photo gallery, our newsletter, our website, our social media platforms (Facebook, X, and Instagram), and for our marketing and publicity purposes. If you do not wish for photographs of yourself to be used for the above purposes, please let the photographer know or email us at contact@levelwater.org.
  2.13    We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
  2.14    We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
  2.15    In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 2, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
  2.16    Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

• Providing your personal data to others

• 4.1       Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers, STRIPE. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. We never have access to your credit/debit card details when donations are processed, with any information processed by STRIPE. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices by viewing their Privacy Policies and Practices.
  4.5       In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

• International transfers of your personal data

• 5.1       In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to [countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA)].
  5.2       The hosting facilities for our website are situated in USA. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries. Transfers to these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which you can obtain from https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.
  5.4       You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

• Protecting your personal information

• 6.1 We use standard protections to ensure that your personal information is secure. Such information is only used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  6.2 We ensure that we take all possible precautions to safeguard that your personal information is safe, there are always inherent risks in sending information through public services, networks, or computers, and so we cannot always guarantee the security of your personal data and personal information, which are transmitted over public networks.

• Retaining and deleting personal data

• 7.1       This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
  7.2       Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  7.3       We will retain your personal data as follows:
  (a)        Transaction Data, Customer Relationship Data will be retained for a minimum period of a year following the date when we captured your data, or for as long as the law requires for tax and accounting purposes, and for a maximum period of 6 years following initial data capture or transaction.
  7.4       In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
  (a)        the period of retention of Transaction Data, Customer Relationship Data will be determined based if you still actively opt in to us communicating with you.
  7.5       Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

• Changes to our Privacy Policy

• 7.6       We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
  7.7       Please check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
  7.8       We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email.

• Amendments

• 8.1       In this Section 8, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
  8.2       Your principal rights under data protection law are:
  (a)        the right to access;
  (b)        the right to rectification;
  (c)         the right to erasure;
  (d)        the right to restrict processing;
  (e)        the right to object to processing;
  (f)         the right to data portability;
  (g)        the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
  (h)        the right to withdraw consent.
  8.3       You have the right to confirm as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
  8.4       You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
  8.5       In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  8.6       In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
  8.7       You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  8.8       You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
  8.9       You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
  8.10    To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
  (a)        consent; or
  (b)        that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
              and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
  8.11    If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
  8.12    To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
  8.13    You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal by contacting us on contact@levelwater.org
  Your rights

• About cookies

• 9.1    We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
  9.2      A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
  9.3      Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
  9.4       Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
  10.1    We use cookies for the following purposes:
  (a)        authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
  (b)        status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
  (c)         personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you;
  (d)        security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
  (e)        analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and
  (g)        cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
  (h)        We use technologies, such as cookies, to customise content and advertising, to provide social media features and to analyse traffic to the site. We also share information about your use of our site with our trusted social media, advertising and analytics partners. 
  Cookies that we use
  Cookies used by our service providers
  11.1    Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
  11.2    We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
  12.1    Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
  (a)        https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
  (b)        https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
  (c)         http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
  (d)        https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
  (e)        https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
  (f)         https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
  12.2    Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
  12.3    If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
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  13.1    This website is owned and operated by Level Water.
  13.2    We are registered in England and Wales under charity registration number 1151510 and our registered office is at 29-31 Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1LS  13.3    Our principal place of business is at 29-31 Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1LS .
  13.4    You can contact us:
  (a)        by post, to the postal address given above;
  (b)        using our website contact form;
  (c)         by email, using the email address published on our website from time to time.

• Our details

• Our data protection officer's contact details are: ian@levelwater.org
  Registered Charity 1151510

• Last updates - 25/10/2024