Privacy Policy.
Autism Understanding Scotland has prepared this document to explain how we manage your data in relation to the use of our website.
In this statement, references to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ relate to Autism Understanding Scotland. This Privacy Statement is designed to ensure that Autism Understanding Scotland complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on Friday 25th May 2018. Autism Understanding Scotland comply with these regulations and are committed to protecting your privacy.
We only collect and store information about you that is relevant to the our services. If you have any questions about how your data is stored, you can email help@autismunderstanding.scot.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We will only collect and process information with your consent. We collect your email address when you contact us so that we may reply to your email or render other services, such as sending you information on autism or inviting you to events, seminars or training sessions.
We will not use your email or other contact details for any other reason. You can opt in/out to receive further communications about Autism Understanding Scotland through email, as well as using the controls at the bottom of every email campaign we send.
Your contact information will be stored securely by us.
We store this information with a number of secure third parties.These include:
Squarespace - our website content management platform
Google Sheets - which stores our signup lists from the website.
MailJet - our email communication platform.
Our website also collects and stores standard information about you to help improve your experience. This information will be collected and analysed for monitoring purposes. We may share this data publicly, but this information will be shared in an anonymised format.
If you access support through Autism Understanding Scotland we will collect the following information:
Name
Email address
Telephone numbers (if you request to access services by phone).
Our main funder, the Scottish Government, asks us to collect anonymised data regarding race, age, gender, dates of diagnosis and if such a diagnosis is provided by the NHS or privately.
We will only use the information you give us for the purposes it was collected. We will not, under any circumstances, share or sell your personal data with any third party for their own purposes, and you will not receive marketing from any other companies, charities or other organisations as a result of giving your information to us.
There is some other information that we collect in relation to the operating of the website:
Website 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.
Timestamps.
This information is collected automatically by 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.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
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
WHAT RIGHTS DO I HAVE?
You have certain rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you.
You can ask to see what information we hold – this is called a ‘data subject access request’.
You can ask us to change or erase information where reasonably the data should be changed/erased.
You can ask us to restrict our use of the information.
You can ask us to send information to other people.
You can ask us to stop using information.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you specific rights, which can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/
You have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) should you feel the need to do this.
If you have any questions about this policy, or the personal information we hold about you, please contact Marion McLaughlin, CEO, Autism Understanding Scotland on help@autismunderstanding.scot. If you have any further questions about how we use your data, please get in touch.
