Privacy Policy

Reform UK Carmarthenshire (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website, reformukcarmarthenshire.com (the “Site”), or interact with us online.

We comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

1. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you provide to us: When you fill out contact forms, sign up for updates, or communicate with us via email, you may provide your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other details you choose to share.

Automatically collected data: When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect standard technical information, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and platform.

Cookies: Our Site may use basic cookies to ensure proper functionality and analyze general traffic to improve user experience.

2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we hold about you in the following ways:

To respond to your enquiries, comments, or requests.

To provide you with information, updates, or campaign materials that you have requested or consented to receive.

To manage, maintain, and improve our website and ensure its security.

To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

Consent: Where you have explicitly agreed to let us process your data for a specific purpose (e.g., signing up for communications).

Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate activities as a political branch, provided those interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal requirement.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your data only under the following circumstances:

With trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our activities, under strict confidentiality obligations.

When required by law, court order, or governmental regulation.

5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure, and any transmission is at your own risk.

6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on consent to process your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact us via the contact details provided on our website.