Your privacy matters to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we safeguard your data and maintain transparency in our practices.

Your Privacy

Please read this notice carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information. This notice may be updated from time to time, so please review it periodically. For any significant updates, we will inform those people with whom we are in regular contact. By using our website, you indicate your agreement with the terms outlined in this notice.

Who We Are

The Advocacy Academy is a youth organising movement, working to create a more fair, equal, and just society in which young people with lived experience of injustice have the power to make lasting change for themselves and their communities. We are building the power of young people, combining the practice of community organising, rigorous training in justice systems, with the heart and soul of radical youth work. We are a registered charity in England and Wales, No. 1161785.

The Data We Hold

We collect information you give us directly — through our website, by corresponding with us, or as you visit and interact with our site. This may include:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your contact details
• Your IP address
• Information about your browser and operating system
• Information about your visit, including pages viewed, visit duration, errors encountered, and how you interacted with pages

How We Use Your Information

Any personal information we collect is used in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable laws. Specifically, we may use it to:

• Respond to any enquiry you have made
• Send you our newsletter, if you have opted in
• Provide you with the information and services you have requested
• Let you know about other services we offer that are similar to those you have already used or enquired about
• Notify you about changes to our services
• Keep our website safe and secure
• Improve and personalise our website for you
• Provide interactive features
• Measure the effectiveness of our communications

We have taken reasonable steps to protect both the digital and physical storage of your data, and it is our policy to ensure your personal data is not made accessible to unauthorised individuals. We cannot, however, guarantee the security of information transmitted to us over the internet, and you do so at your own risk. Your data may also be retained where required for legal or accounting purposes.

Your Rights

You have a number of rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you:

• Right to be informed — you have the right to be told how we use your personal data, which is the purpose of this notice.
• Right of access — you may request a copy of the information we hold about you.
• Right of rectification — if any data we hold is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected.
• Right to erasure — in certain circumstances, you can request that we remove your data from our records.
• Right to withdraw consent — where our processing of your data is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

There are some situations in which these rights may not apply — for example, the right to erasure may not be available if your data is required for ongoing legal proceedings