The Researchery
The research surgery for the charity sector

Privacy Policy

 Privacy Policy

What information does this site collect?

The Researchery is committed to best practice in research and data protection, and is fully compliant with the Data Protection Act 2018, The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy explains how TheResearchery.com collects, uses, stores, shares and protects your data as a data controller and a data processor.

Website provider: Squarespace

Certain information is automatically collected by the website provider, Squarespace, in order to run this website effectively and to give you a better user experience. This information is set out below.

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to send an alert when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of the site may not function properly.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Third party links

There are some third party links on the website (links to external websites). These websites will have their own policies and you may want to read those before subscribing or purchasing from them.

We collect personal information in the following ways:

When might theresearchery.com collect personal data from you?

Unless you are taking part in research undertaken by The Researchery (which will be governed by our separate research data policies) we will only collect personal information from you if you send a comment or query using the CONTACT messaging function on the website. In this case we might reasonably collect the following:

  • Personal identifiers such as your title, name and contact details including email address (telephone number and postal address including post code if you supply this)

In accordance with article 5 of the GPDR, personal data shall be:

“a) processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;

b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;

c) adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

d) accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;

e) kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and

f) processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.”

By visiting this website you are agreeing to these terms and the collection of this information.

Further information

If you would like to find out more, or have any questions, about this Privacy Policy or anything else on theresearchery.com, please contact us here.