Double Standards Board is the name of the noncommercial project is located on this website (https://doublestandardsboard.org.uk), based in England, and which uses the social media and online petition accounts linked on the website. If you have any queries please use the contact form.
This privacy policy applies between you and the owner and provider of this website. The relevant law is the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and all other applicable law and regulations.
Personal data collected by this website
Your data is collected by you providing it. For example:
- First and last names;
- Email address;
- Content of your enquiry;
- Content of correspondence you send.
You provide your data when you submit an enquiry or send an email.
The data collected depends on what you submit. Your data is necessary to make an enquiry, to email the project, and to be contacted by the project.
Form submissions are saved to the website’s database and forwarded by email to the project email address. Any response you receive will be sent by email to the address you provided.
Personal data processed on social media and online petitions
If you interact with the social media accounts/content and online petitions linked to the project, your data may be processed by the project:
- Username and profile information;
- Interaction or message content.
Check third-party websites’ respective privacy notices to see how they process your data.
Embedded and linked content from other websites
This site may include embedded and linked content (e.g. videos, images, articles, petitions, social media posts etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. Linked content takes the visitor to the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content, including tracking your interaction with the content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How your data is used
Your data is used to:
- enable you to submit an enquiry;
- respond to your enquiry;
- correspond with you;
- engage with you on social media;
- collect petition responses.
Lawful basis for processing
Your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests. This project is collecting or using your information because it benefits you, the project, or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. The legitimate interests are:
- Responding to your contact form enquiry;
- Managing project communications;
- Corresponding with interested parties;
- Managing any petition(s);
- Collecting responses for any petition(s).
How your data is stored
Your personal data is stored securely on the project’s UK server using Hostinger UK Limited. Contact form submissions are stored securely on our website database and automatically forwarded to the project email address. Emails are held in our email account.
Social media and online petition data is stored on the relevant third-party websites/platforms in accordance with those third-parties’ own policies.
How long your data is retained
Your data is only kept on our server for as long as it is necessary for the purposes above. Emails and website form submissions will be kept for a maximum of 12 months unless further correspondence is required.
It may be necessary to retain data for longer e.g. if it later becomes required by law or for the purposes of legal action.
Sharing your data
Your data may be shared with third-parties where necessary for the website’s operation e.g. with the web and email hosting provider Hostinger UK Limited.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to processing
- Request data portability
- Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)
- Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects
To exercise any of your rights, please get in touch using the contact form.
Updates
Any updates to this notice will be uploaded to the website https://doublestandardsboard.org.uk. This is version 1.0 (29th April 2026). Amendments will be listed at the end.
Complaints
You can complain using the contact form.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk.
Cookies
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Amendments
This section will list any amendments made to this privacy notice.