How we ensure your data is private

In compliance with UK and European data protection regulations, this privacy policy explains what personal information we collect from you when you visit our website or are a recipient of our services.

inTurn is committed to processing any personal data or information about its volunteers, young entrepreneurs, potential young entrepreneurs & additional site users, in ways that comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, and to being clear about what it does with their personal information.

This Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy together with our terms of use, provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.

We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.

 

Personal Data Collected

inTurn young entrepreneur competition is a non-profit charity looking to assist the next generation of entrepreneurs.

The data we collect to fulfil these services is almost entirely from inTurn’s participants or individuals acting on their behalf. The personal information which we use will be taken when you contact us, use our website and/or voluntarily submit personal information (on sign-up sections, etc.) We may collect the following types of information:

• your name, your child’s name, contact telephone number(s) and email address

• information required to respond to enquires (e.g. medical information, etc)

• website data including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data

 

Why do we collect this information?

We collect your personal information:

• to provide you with support that you may request from us or as under contracted agreement

• to provide information about inTurn information which we feel may be of interest to you

• for our legitimate interests in the relationship we have with you as a young entrepreneur or related individual

• to meet our legal and regulatory obligations as a non-profit organization

• for the safeguarding and care of our volunteers and young entrepreneurs

 

How do we collect this information?

We collect personal information:

• directly from you: e.g. when you apply for inTurn or enquire on our website

• from publicly available sources: e.g. social media, internet services.

• directly from our volunteers: e.g. when someone applies to become a volunteer

We are committed to keeping your information up to date as far as is reasonably possible. However, if you believe that we have made an error, please contact us as we have outlined below and we will use reasonable endeavours to correct.

 

​Keeping your information safe and secure.

We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is secure and protecting it from being inappropriately or accidentally accessed, used, shared, or destroyed, and against it being lost.

To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online and in paper form. We only provide access to your data to staff who require access.

The inTurn website was built using Wix. Wix employs a range of technical and organizational security measures to protect user data. These include a dedicated security team, compliance with standards like PCI Level 1, ISO 27001, and ISO 27018, and the use of secure data centers hosted by AWS and Google Cloud. Additionally, Wix implements system access controls, application-level security, and regular monitoring and penetration testing.

 

Sharing your data with third parties.

Access to your personal information is only allowed when required by the law or is required as part our fulfilling our service obligations.  We do not, and will never, sell your personal information with other third parties.

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How long do we keep personal information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, or reporting requirements.

 

Marketing & Market Research.

inTurn undertake a range of marketing activity using the data held within our database. This includes:

• maintaining regular contact with our participants and prospect participants to keep them advised of competition news

• to share our newsletter or other promotional information

 

We make use of Social media channels such as Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for charity promotion.

We use industry standard cookies for various purposes, such as providing a great user experience, identifying registered members, monitoring performance, and ensuring platform security.

Any changes to our marketing activities will be updated in this Policy and we will ensure that the activity we undertake will be compliant with UK and European data protection regulations.

 

How we use cookies.

inTurn, like most organisations has a website and like most websites we also use ‘Cookies’. We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience on our website. Cookies are small files that are automatically downloaded to your computer and stored on your hard drive. They help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you by collecting statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns; they do not identify you as an individual. All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies; you may be unable to access particular parts of our website. We use cookies for important reasons, such as providing a great experience for your visitors and customers, identifying registered members, monitoring and analyzing performance, and ensuring platform security. For more details on our use of cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.

 

Links to other websites.

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.

 

Controlling your personal information (Your Rights).

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. If you believe that any information, we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) in relation to your personal information. You may have the right to:

• access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with data protection law.

• object to us processing or ask us to restrict our processing of your personal information for any of the purposes listed in this policy, at any time.

• ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal information that we hold about you free of charge.

• ask us to erase or delete your personal information (in certain circumstances).

We will do our best to respond to such requests, but these are subject to certain limitations such as legal requirements.

 

Request a transfer of your personal information (in certain circumstances).

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights or to review, verify, correct or question anything detailed in this policy or are unhappy with any aspect of how we use your data please contact us at admin@inturn.org.uk or telephone 01747 826900.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

 

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small pieces of data stored by a web browser on a user's device that facilitate the maintenance of stateful information between sessions, such as user preferences and session identifiers. They operate via HTTP headers and can be categorized into session cookies, which are ephemeral and exist only during a browser session, and persistent cookies, which have an expiration date and remain on the device until they are deleted or expire.

We use cookies for important reasons, such as:

- To provide a great experience for visitors.

- To identify registered members.

- To monitor and analyze the performance, operation, and effectiveness of the site.

- To ensure our site is secure and safe to use.

 

Cookies used on the inTurn site:

 

1. Cookie Name: XSRF-TOKEN

   - Purpose: Fraud detection of calls

   - Duration: Session

   - Cookie Type: Essential

 

2. Cookie Name: bSession

   - Purpose: System effectiveness measurement

   - Duration: 24 hours

   - Cookie Type: Essential

 

3. Cookie Name: hs

   - Purpose: Security cookie for Hive (legacy)

   - Duration: Session

   - Cookie Type: Essential

 

4. Cookie Name: ssr-caching

   - Purpose: Performance cookie for rendering

   - Duration: 24 hours

   - Cookie Type: Essential

 

5. Cookie Name: svSession

   - Purpose: Session cookie for identification

   - Duration: 6 months

   - Cookie Type: Essential