Last Updated: 27th June 2018

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LSE Student’s Union Political Risk and Investment Society (PRIS) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a student society of the London School of Economics’ Student Union and for the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), we are the data controller.

When you visit the PRIS website, www.lspris.co.uk you may provide us with specific personal information about yourself, such as your name and e-mail address via our “Contact Us” function or when you register an account with us. In addition, PRIS will receive some general information regarding your use of the Website, such as your browser information or your Internet Protocol (IP) address. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that PRIS receives from you when you visit our Website, what we do with it, how we protect it, and how you can contact us if you have a question or concern about the information we hold about you.

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WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DOES PRIS RECEIVE WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE?

PRIS receives Personal Information or General Usage Information from you when you visit our website. By “Personal Information”, we mean information such as your name and e-mail address; information that personally identifies you. PRIS only receives Personal Information about you if you choose to provide it to us.

PRIS receives Personal Information from you when you:
●Fill out the contact for,
●Contact us via email

By “General Usage Information”, we mean your browser information, your IP address, location information, device information including, identifier, name, and type of operating system, mobile network information, and standard web information, such as browser type and the pages you access on the website and other information regarding your use of the website.

 

HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

In general, we use your Personal Information to complete the transaction that you have requested from us. For example, we will use your Personal Information to:
●Communicate with you;
●Establish or verify your identity;
●Address the question or feedback which you have sent to us; an

With respect to General Usage Information, PRIS will use this information to monitor, protect, maintain and improve its website, to measure and understand the effectiveness of the content PRIS serves to you and others, and to personalise the Website to ensure content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device.

 

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE RECEIVE ABOUT YOU?

PRIS does not sell your Personal Information or General Usage Information to anyone. Nor do we provide this information to non-PRIS parties to market non-PRIS products to you. PRIS will share your Personal Information and General Usage Information with the following categories of recipients:
●PRIS committee members.
●Non-PRIS parties who assist PRIS with providing PRIS products, services and information to you, such as but not limited to website and email hosting providers, 
●Non-PRIS parties such as hosting, analytics and search engine providers located in United States and Europe and which store your personal data in United States and Europe that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of the website and who may have access to your Personal Information.
Whenever we provide your Personal Information to non-PRIS parties, we enter into agreements with these parties that restrict use of your information only to the extent necessary for the non-PRIS party to provide services to PRIS .
PRIS will also disclose your information if we are required to do so by law,, or in urgent circumstances to protect personal safety, the public, or our Website.
We will also disclose your information to third parties in the event that we sell any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets or if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case information held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.

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WHERE DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Where the GDPR applies, you should be aware that this website is hosted by a third party. The service providers who process your Personal Information are located in Europe. These countries do not always provide the same level of protection for your information. 

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HOW DOES PRIS PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
PRIS protects your Personal Information by maintaining up-to-date physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. For example, we use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption. In addition, we only allow employees to access Personal Information only when required fulfil their job responsibilities.

 

HOW LONG DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We will retain your Personal Information as follows (unless you have consented to joining our mailing list in which case your contact details will be removed only when you unsubscribe);
●if you contact us via email we will keep your data 14 months after; and
●your General Usage Information for 14 months

 

YOUR RIGHTS
In certain circumstances you have rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you. We set out below an outline of those rights and how to exercise those rights. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests.. To exercise any of your rights, please email pris@lsesu.org. Please note that for each of the rights below we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case.

Access:You have the right to know whether we process Personal Information about you, and if we do, to access data we hold about you and certain information about how we use it and who we share it with.

Correction:You have the right to require us to correct any Personal Information held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete data completed.
Erasure:You may request that we erase the Personal Information we hold about you in the following circumstances: where you believe it is no longer necessary for us to hold the personal data; where we are processing it on the basis of your consent & you wish to withdraw your consent; where we are processing your data on the basis of our legitimate interest & you object to such processing; where you no longer wish us to use your data to send you marketing or you believe we are unlawfully processing your data. Please provide as much detail as possible on your reasons for the request to assist us in determining whether you have a valid basis for erasure.

Restriction of Processing to Storage Only:You have a right to require us to stop processing the Personal Information we hold about you other than for storage purposes in the following circumstances: you believe the personal data is not accurate for the period it takes for us to verify whether the data is accurate; where we wish to erase the Personal Information as the processing we are doing is unlawful but you want us to simply restrict the use of that data; where we no longer need the Personal Information for the purposes of the processing but you require us to retain the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and where you have objected to us processing personal data we hold about you on the basis of our legitimate interest and you wish us to stop processing the Personal Information whilst we determine whether there is an overriding interest in us retaining such Personal Information.
 

Objection:You have the right to object to our processing of data about you and we will consider your request. Please provide us with detail as to your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compelling overriding interest in us continuing to process such data or we need to process it in relation to legal claims.
Withdrawal of Consent
Where you have provided your consent to us processing your Personal Information, you can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing pris@lsesu.org

 

SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES AND WIDGETS
Our Website includes social media features and widgets which allow you to share articles from our website and display our latest social media activities. These features are usually recognizable by their third party brand or logo and may collect your IP address, and set a cookie to enable the feature to work properly. These social media features and widgets are hosted by a third party and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.