'MARA' is the data collector and this privacy policy, (which complies with the General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force from 25th May 2018) sets out how Mara uses and protects any information that you give is as you browse our website. and whenever or however else you communicate with us. It applies to all of our products and services, except those that have a separate privacy policy. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. Should you wish to contact us about data protection, you can do so using the contact details noted below.

Importantly, we will only be in receipt of your personal data if you contact us to share your details. We do not require email addresses from website visitors. If you don’t directly contact us to share your details, we won’t get them from you having visited our website.

However, we may obtain personal data about you, for example, when (1) You engage us to provide services and during the provision of those services; (2) You apply to become a volunteer or an intern and act as a volunteer or intern; (3) You contact us by email, telephone, post or social media.

The information we hold about you may include some or all of the following, (1) Your personal details (such as your name and/or address); (2) Details of any volunteer activities you have performed for us; (3) Details of any services we may have provided to you, or you to us; (4) Details of correspondence and communications with you; (5) Information from research, surveys, and fundraising activities.

We may process your personal data for purposes necessary for the performance of the charity and to comply with our legal obligations. This may include processing your personal data where you are a trustee, volunteer, intern, contractor, supplier, donor, research institution or government agency. We may also process your personal data for the purposes of the charity’s legitimate interests provided that those interests do not override any of your own interests, rights and freedoms which require the protection of personal data.

We may process your personal data for certain additional purposes in the interests of the charity with your consent, and in these exceptional circumstances where your consent is required for the processing of your personal data then you have the right to withdraw with immediate effect your consent to processing for such specific purposes.

We may use your personal data in order to provide you with information which we feel may interest you, provided you have consented to be contacted for such purposes

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it is collected and we will only use your data for the purpose for which we collected it.

We are committed to keeping the personal information you provide to us secure and we will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration. The data that we hold will not be shared with any third parties for marketing purposes. We will not sell the data we hold to any other organisation.

We reserve the right to update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in applicable law or other requirements. or to reflect changes to our use of your personal information.

You have the right to know what personal data of yours we hold from you at any time and for it to be deleted from our records if you wish. If you want to know what information we have about you (if any) or to delete any personal data we hold (if any), please contact us on hello@mara.scot