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Privacy Policy

At Blurt It Out, we’re dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of mental health. On this page, you’ll find our Privacy Policy which explains how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website www.blurtitout.org, our platforms and any other affiliates.

Rest assured, we won’t ever sell your data nor will we ever misuse it.

Introduction

This privacy statement covers four key areas:

The type of information that Blurt It Out and its partners have access to.
How Blurt It Out uses this data and on what ground we process it.
The information gathering, storage, and sharing practices at Blurt It Out.
How we safeguard personal data.

The Data We Collect About You, For What Purpose And On What Ground We Process It

We may process the following categories of data from those who use our website and associated platforms:

Customer Data

This includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, your debit/credit card details and to authenticate your identity for your financial protection and safety. You might purchase a product or service as a gift for someone else. When you do so, we collect their delivery data.

We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions.

Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract. We may also need to interact with you regarding updates to our terms or your account, subscription renewals, etc.

User Data

This includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services.

We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business.

Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.

Technical and User Data

This is information about how people use our website, other electronic networks and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, the device you’re using, operating systems, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. It also includes any data you post for publication on our website or through other online services. Periodically, the program applications in our services might ask if you’d like us to keep updating you about any events or promotions we might be holding by sending you push notifications.

We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, and to deliver relevant website content and proper notifications, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. We may also use this information to make material and product suggestions based on your interactions and preferences.

Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business, to grow our business, to decide our marketing strategy and to keep you updated where you’ve asked that we do so.

Communication Data

Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, mailing list opt-in forms, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting, social media likes, competition or giveaway entries, consumer feedback, or any other communication that you send us.

We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims.

Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

Marketing Data

This includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. We also process your data to convey advertising and marketing materials for our services in compliance with legal requirements, such as details about our goods, services, sales, market analysis, or promotions.

We may use Customer Data, Technical and User Data, and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you.

Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or for our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

We also use the information we collect to detect security breaches, conform with legal responsibilities, demonstrate or exercise our rights, protect against legal complaints, and inspect, inhibit, or take measures regarding potential misconduct.

How We Protect Personal Information

Blurt It Out understands that cyber security and the protection of your personal data is of utmost importance. We, thereby, have extremely stringent security measures to guard against unintentional misuse, loss, alteration, disclosure, or unauthorised access to your personal information.

We only give staff, business partners, government entities, legal teams, and service providers who have a legitimate need to know about your personal data access. They must follow our instructions and only securely handle your personal information.

Blurt It Out’s security team has safeguarding procedures in place to handle suspicious personal information breaches; protect against malevolent, dishonest, fraudulent, or unlawful behaviour, such as attempts to alter or violate our policies, processes, and terms of service. We will inform you and any relevant regulator of a breach if required by law.

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Our Cookie Policy

What’s A Cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. By not blocking cookies and continuing to browse you are authorising the use of cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

Session Cookies

These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or

Persistent Cookies

A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

Performance Cookies

These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.

How To Contact Us?

Should you have any other questions, queries, or quibbles about these privacy policies, don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can send us an email at info@blurtitout.org.