Privacy Policy & Data Protection

In making nominations on this portal, you acknowledge that:

Entrants’ and Nominees’ personal data (“Personal Data”) shall be processed by Howden Group Holdings Ltd (acting as Data Controller) for the purposes of administering this campaign and selecting possible donations.

Entrants are responsible for ensuring that their Nominees are aware that their personal information (including any photographs) have been provided to Howden Group Holdings Ltd for the purposes of this campaign, including for any subsequent use on our website.

Howden uses Flywheel to host this portal, with Personal Data being stored in the UK.

Full information regarding how we use your personal data, including your rights can be found by accessing Howden Group Holdings Ltd.’s Privacy Policy, which is available here.

The organisation will not be eligible if its activities include (but not limited to): discrimination in the provision of services which go against Howden Group’s equal opportunities policy; engagement in controversial issues; use of controversial tactics to advocate its beliefs; is political in nature; actively proselytises; or results in an employee, or any individual designated by the employee, receiving a material or financial benefit as a result of the donation.

Website Terms and Conditions

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

Management of the site

This site is operated by Howden Group Services Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 02937399 and have our registered office at One Creechurch Place, London, United Kingdom, EC3A 5AF.

We may make changes to the terms of this policy

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

Prohibited uses

You agree:

Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or sell any part of our site save that you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Content

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site contributed by anyone but us is accurate, complete or up to date.

Any content or material you upload to our site (Contribution) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Any content submitted to the site may be posted on the site and shall be considered a Contribution. You retain all of your ownership rights in your Contribution, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store, copy and distribute that Contribution.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any Contribution.

We will determine, in our discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the content standards.

A Contribution must:

Be accurate (where it states facts).
Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.

A Contribution must not:

Be defamatory of any person.
Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
Promote sexually explicit material.
Include child sexual abuse material.
Incite violence or hatred against particular groups.
Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Include content that would be considered a criminal offence under laws relating to terrorism, child sexual abuse material, racism or zenophobia.
Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.
Be likely to deceive any person.
Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
Promote any illegal content or activity.
Be in contempt of court.
Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.
Transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
Transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

Suspension or withdrawal of the site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

When we consider that a breach of these terms has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our site.

The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

How this contract can be transferred

We can transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to any third party in our organisation, provided this does not adversely affect your rights under these terms.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

The terms of this policy, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.