Privacy Policy

Leeds University Union is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

We have a privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

You can find this on our main website including details about your rights in relation to your personal data:

https://www.luu.org.uk/legal/data-protection-privacy-policy/

The rest of this page contains information specific to this website.

What do we collect?

Name, contact details, payment information e.g. your credit or debit card details, IP address, information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device and browser type), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time when you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), your answers to quizzes or surveys, and information about your internet connection.

What do we do with the information?

For administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders you place on our website), to improve our business and website, to fulfil our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations. 

What information do we share with others?

When someone visits www.leedsgear.com we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

How we secure your information?

Using reasonable technical and organizational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, encrypting payments you make on or via our website using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.

To process your payments, we use SagePay, a secure payment gateway.

Use of cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar information-gathering technologies such as web beacons on our website including essential, functional analytical and advertising cookies.

Data Controller

Jasper Hegarty-Ditton, Director of Digital & Communications

(Contact via: data-subject-request@luu.org.uk)