PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how BARDO (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects and uses personal information when you visit or use our website, BARDO.com.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. We will only use your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and will never sell, rent, or provide your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

1. Who We Are

The website is operated by:

BARDO
Email: jamiepowe@bardo.org.uk

For data protection purposes, BARDO is the data controller responsible for the personal information collected through this website.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when using our website.

This includes:

Contact form: your name and email address.
Newsletter sign-up: your email address.

You may also choose to provide additional information when communicating with us.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through our website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information you provide to:

Respond to enquiries submitted through our contact form.
Contact you in relation to an enquiry or request you have made.
Send newsletters, updates, news, offers, and other marketing communications where you have chosen to receive them.
Manage and maintain our website and communications.

We will not use your personal information for unrelated purposes without a lawful basis to do so.

4. Marketing Communications

If you sign up to the BARDO newsletter, we may use your email address to send you our own marketing communications, including news, updates, offers, events, and information about BARDO.

You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included in our emails or by contacting us at jamiepowe@bardo.org.uk.

We will not sell, rent, trade, or provide your email address to another company for that company's own marketing purposes.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal information.

Depending on how you interact with us, we may rely on:

Consent – for example, when you voluntarily subscribe to our newsletter.
Legitimate interests – for example, when we need to respond to an enquiry submitted through our contact form.
Legal obligation – where we are required to process or retain information to comply with a legal requirement.

Where we rely on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

6. Wix

Our website is built and hosted using Wix Studio. Information submitted through our website, including information submitted through our contact form or newsletter sign-up, may be processed or stored by Wix as part of providing its website and hosting services.

Wix may process information in accordance with its own privacy policy and applicable data protection laws.

7. Sharing Your Information

BARDO does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

We may use third-party service providers where necessary to operate our website, deliver communications, manage newsletter subscriptions, or provide technical services.

Where these providers process personal information on our behalf, they will only receive information necessary to provide their services and are expected to handle it in accordance with applicable data protection law.

We may also disclose personal information where we are legally required to do so, for example, to comply with a legal obligation or valid legal request.

8. How Long We Keep Your Information

We will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Contact form information may be retained for as long as necessary to deal with your enquiry and maintain appropriate business records.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will retain your email address while you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we will stop sending you marketing communications. We may retain limited information where necessary to ensure that we respect your unsubscribe request.

9. Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:

Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
Ask us to restrict how we use your information in certain circumstances.
Object to certain processing of your personal information.
Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our legal basis for processing.
Request certain information in a portable format, where applicable.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:

jamiepowe@bardo.org.uk

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled unlawfully.

10. Cookies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to make the website function, understand how visitors use the website, and improve our services.

Some cookies may be provided by Wix or by third-party services used on our website.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.

You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie settings provided on our website.

11. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information we hold against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children. We do not knowingly request personal information from children through our contact form or newsletter sign-up.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, services, or applicable legal requirements.

Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how BARDO handles your personal information, please contact us at:

BARDO
Email: jamiepowe@bardo.org.uk
Website: bardo.org.uk