Last Updated: 18 July 2024

 

​Introduction

The Metis Institute respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from). This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

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Contact details

Email: info@themetisinstitute.org

 

What information we collect, use, and why

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We strive to balance our legitimate interests with your privacy rights and freedoms. The benefits of processing your personal information for these purposes outweigh any potential risks or impacts on your privacy. We ensure that our data processing activities are necessary and proportionate to achieve these legitimate interests without unfairly infringing upon your rights.

 

How long we keep information

We retain your information, as stated above, for a reasonable period, or for as long as it may be necessary to provide our services.

 

Who we share information with

We may share your data with data processors:

• Website Hosting Service Provider: Our website is hosted on the wix.com platform. Your data may be stored through wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

• Others: We may share personal information with professional consultants
   

Sharing information outside the UK

Where necessary, we, or our service provider wix.com, may share personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, we / they comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place. Please contact us for more information.

 

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.

• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.

• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.

 

You don’t usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you. To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

 

How you may complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice. If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

 

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

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