Privacy policy - newsletter subscription

1. Information we collect

For the purpose of the email newsletter, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you as follows:

• your name and email address

We use different methods to collect personal information about you, including the information you provide if you subscribe to our e-newsletter when you visit our website. This includes, where we use cookies to collect information on how you use our website. Our main privacy policy and cookie policy can give you more information.

2. How we use the information we collect

The Data Protection Regulation gives us a number of different conditions to allow us to process your personal information lawfully. We’ll only use your information when one of those conditions has been satisfied. We will only use your personal information for the purpose for which we collected it which is to:

• Contact you by email with news and information from Scottish Friendly.

This processing is required to fulfil your request and by consenting to receive product and service information via email you agree to your personal information being processed on this basis.


3. How we share the information we collect

We may share your personal information within Scottish Friendly and with other companies we work with. Our employees will access your information for the uses outlined in the sections above. However, only employees requiring particular access to your information are given it. 

We will use our website and email service providers to process your information for you to subscribe to and receive an email newsletter, and who agree to treat your personal information as securely as we do. By providing your information you consent that your personal information will be used by us and our website and email service providers.

When we use our appointed service providers and agents we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure. They will have access to the personal information needed to perform functions on behalf of Scottish Friendly, but may not use it for any other purposes.

4. Your rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information including the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you, that inaccurate personal information is corrected, that your personal information be deleted, processing restricted, a copy of your information be provided in a format that allows for easy transfer and the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

In cases where we are processing your personal information on the basis of our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We will do so unless we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue to process your personal information.

If you have asked us to send you our newsletter and no longer wish to receive these we will need to add you to our ‘suppression’ list of people who do not want to hear from us again in order that we can fulfil your request.

5. Further details

If you are looking for more information on we process your personal information including on data security, data retention and lawful processing bases, please refer to our main privacy policy.