Privacy Policy

Keeping your data safe

Mortham Lamb is committed to protecting your privacy, including online, and in the transparent use of any online information you give us in accordance with our legal obligations. This Privacy Policy sets out in detail the purposes for which we process your personal data, who we share it with, what rights you have in relation to that data and everything else we think it’s important for you to know.

Personal data means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified:
1. from those data, or
2. from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, Mortham Lamb’s data controller,

and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual.

Who are we?

Mortham Lamb
Plover Hall, Gilmonby, Barnard Castle DL12 9LU

Who’s in control?

It is important that you understand who is responsible for keeping your data safe. The “controller” of all personal data collected and used by Mortham Lamb for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy is Rachel Godschalk.

What data do we collect and where from?

Website subscription forms

We collect the details you submit to us when you complete an online form on https://morthamlamb.co.uk, asking us to keep you updated on our activities.

Cookies and IP addresses

We collect information about how you interact with our websites using Cookies and your connection’s IP (Internet Protocol) Address if your browser is set to accept/provide such.

Social Media

We also collect publicly available information from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, for example likes, shares, tweets and posts about Mortham Lamb and its activities. This information is provided to us by the third party social media platform.

What do we use your data for?

We use the data you provide us to communicate with supporters about our business and activities.
We use your data, including any voluntarily provided information, to choose which activity we believe may be of interest to you. Our communications may be via Post, Telephone, Text message, Email or Social Media.

What is our legal basis for using your data?

In order to hold and process your data we are obliged to identify the lawful basis upon which we do so.

Purpose: General Purpose Direct Marketing, Lawful basis: Consent

We will only send email marketing messages to supporters where we have your consent to do so. Your consent may be obtained verbally, on paper. or via electronic means, for example signing up to receive updates from us via email.

Who do we share your data with?

Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform to send mass email. By subscribing to our messages, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here.

Other processors

From time to time we may need to share some of your data with third party data processors (such as technology providers, website hosts, online systems). Where we do so we will have a data processing agreement with the third party, and where they are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) we will ensure that they provide enough security and privacy to enable us to meet our legal obligations to you.

Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long do we keep your data for?

Where you join our mailing list your data will be held for as long as you remain on the mailing list.

What rights do you have?

You have a number of rights under data protection law. Some of these rights and how you can exercise them are set out in this section, more information can be found from the Information Commissioners office (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/).

We will normally need to ask you for proof of your identity before we can respond to a request to exercise any of the rights in this section and we may need to ask you for more information, for example to help us to locate the personal data that your request relates to.

The right to be informed

You have the right to be informed as to how we use your data and under what lawful basis we carry out any processing. This privacy policy sets this information out however if you would like further information or feel that your rights are not being respected please email rachel@morthamlamb.co.uk.

A right to access your information

You have a right to ask us to send you a copy of your all personal data that we hold about you (subject to some exceptions). A request to exercise this right is called a “subject access request” and must be made in writing to: rachel@morthamlamb.co.uk or to: Data Controller, Mortham Lamb, Plover Hall, Gilmonby, Barnard Castle DL12 9LU.

A right to object to us processing your information

You have a right to object to us processing any personal data that we process where we are relying on legitimate interests as the legal basis of our processing. You also have the right to withdraw your consent from our processing that requires it (such as our email communications). Every communication will have an option for you to withdraw your consent directly, or you can email rachel@morthamlamb.co.uk at any time to exercise this right.

A right to ask us not to market to you

You have the right to opt-out of any marketing or personally addressed direct mailings we send to you. If the communication is electronic it will include simple links and instructions to ‘unsubscribe’. For other media please email rachel@morthamlamb.co.uk or write to Data Controller, Mortham Lamb, Plover Hall, Gilmonby, Barnard Castle DL12 9LU.

A right to have inaccurate data corrected

You have a right to ask us to correct inaccurate data that we hold about you. If we are satisfied that the new data you have provided is accurate, we will correct your personal data as soon as possible.

A right to have your data erased

You have a right to ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances, for example if we have processed your data unlawfully or if we no longer need the data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

A right to have processing of your data restricted

You can ask us to restrict processing of your personal data in some circumstances, for example if you think the personal data is inaccurate and we need to verify its accuracy, or if we no longer need the data but you require us to keep it so that you can exercise your own legal rights. Restricting your personal data means that we only store your personal data and don’t carry out any further processing on it unless you consent or we need to process the data to exercise a legal claim or to protect a third party or the public.

To exercise any of the rights above please email rachel@morthamlamb.co.uk or write to Data Controller, Mortham Lamb, Plover Hall, Gilmonby, Barnard Castle DL12 9LU

To further understand your rights please visit the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at http://www.ico.gov.uk.