Privacy Policy

This web site is operated by The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs (a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales no. 4180639) of 123 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JJ.

This policy sets out how The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs ("we") will use any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, via this web site. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following information about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on, or linked from, our site www.unltdadvantage.org.uk. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site as a social entrepreneur or investor, posting material or requesting to receive our email newsletter. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, and when you report a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you access.

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Please note that our advertisers and third party payment processors may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Where we store your personal information

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.

If you are a social entrepreneur, we may pass on details of you and your venture to selected third parties (such as potential investors) only in consultation with you and with your further consent.

We may also use your details to provide you with information about UnLtd Advantage or our other ventures that may be of interest to you.

If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your information (the registration form), follow the instructions to unsubscribe in our correspondence or contact us.

Disclosure of your information

We may also disclose your personal information to selected third parties:

As set out in this privacy policy;
In the event that we sell any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective buyer of such business or assets;
If The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs or substantially all of its assets are acquired by, or transferred to, a third party, in which case personal information held by it about its customers [members and/or supporters] will be one of the transferred assets;
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, our customers, [members, supporters] or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your personal information) if we intend to use your personal information for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us or by following the instructions to unsubscribe in our correspondence.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a reasonable fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .