The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.
Site Terms and Conditions
Publishing Terms and Conditions
Editorial Policy
Events and Courses Booking and Payment Terms and Conditions
Our Principles
What information do we collect?
Email updates
Sharing your information
Cookies and Website usage data
Access to your personal information
Security
Exclusions
Contacting WAWWD
Useful links
- These are the terms and conditions for use of the We Are What We Do website (www.wearewhatwedo.org) and affiliated sites or web pages that are operated by WAWWD, including online surveys, learning applications and earlier versions of the WAWWD site. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access www.wearewhatwedo.org, on whatever device.
By using this website, you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the site. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use the WAWWD website.
Some areas of the WAWWD website require registration. By completing the registration form, and by entering your username, email address and password, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. If you register with www.wearewhatwedo.org, you should read our Privacy Policy. If you subscribe to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions.
Any changes we make to the Terms and Conditions will be reflected on this page. - Information purposes only
This website provides information of a general nature. This website should not be relied upon without making other enquiries appropriate to the circumstances. WAWWD does not accept any liability for your use of or interpretation of the information contained on this website. WAWWD shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information contained on the website is accurate and up-to-date. WAWWD may make improvements or changes in the information, services, products and other materials on this website, or terminate this website, at any time without notice. - Registration
When you register, you are registering as a personal user of WAWWD. Access to your user profile is via your email address at the time of registration and password. Any personal information you supply to WAWWD will be used as set out in our Privacy Policy. You undertake that all details and representations you provide to us for the purpose of registering on the website are correct. - Use of material appearing on WAWWD
For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means written text, graphics and diagrams published on the WAWWD website, whether copyright WAWWD or a third party.
You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any WAWWD content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on the WAWWD website.
You may not reproduce any part of the WAWWD website, or transmit it to, or store it in, any other website without a prior agreement in writing from the WAWWD editorial staff, who can be contacted by email at sara@wearewhatwedo.org - Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted at law, WAWWD disclaims all express and implied warranties with regard to the information, services and materials contained on this website. You must not rely on any statement we have published on the WAWWD website without first taking specialist professional advice.
For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any damages arising as a result of your use of this website, or any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing or reading the material or any part of it.
We give no warranties of any kind concerning the WAWWD website or the material published on it. We do not warrant that functions contained at this website will be uninterrupted or error-free or that defects will be corrected. We do not warrant that the WAWWD website or any of its contents is virus free (although we endeavour to ensure that this is so). You must take your own precautions in this respect, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything that has destructive properties - Links to other websites
This website contains links to other websites which are independent of WAWWD and are maintained by third parties. WAWWD is not responsible for the content of any third-party websites and shall not be liable for any damages or injury arising from the contents of such websites. Any links to other websites are provided as a convenience to you as a user of this website, and do not imply WAWWD's endorsement of the linked websites or association with their operators. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website. - Jurisdictional issues
This website is controlled and operated by WAWWD from its offices in London, United Kingdom. WAWWD makes no representation that materials on the website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. - Variations
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted.
Publishing Terms and Conditions
By submitting content to the WAWWD website you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions:
- Privacy Policy. This may include publications or other works of media produced by WAWWD for sale. If you do not want to grant to WAWWD the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to WAWWD.
- Where you are invited to submit any contribution to WAWWD (including any text or graphics) you warrant that your contribution:
- is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to WAWWD for publication on the WAWWD website and other purposes outlined above; and
- is not defamatory; and
- does not infringe any law; and
- you indemnify WAWWD against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by WAWWD as a result of your breach of the above warranty.
- Removal of content
WAWWD has the right to remove content from the WAWWD website at any time without advance notice or explanation.
WAWWD is not legally bound to remove content (that is published on the WAWWD website) at the request of the author or copyright holder. However, it is our policy to do so; if you would like your content to be removed from the WAWWD website, please email sara@wearewhatwedo.org, with a note explaining the reasons for your request.
In addition:
General Principle
This document constitutes the Editorial Policy for the WAWWD website.
Specifically, this document refers to the content published by WAWWD on www.wearewhatwedo.org and does not relate to any comments published by the users of www.wearewhatwedo.org (e.g., user comments posted after articles).
This document also applies to content published by the organisation elsewhere, such as marketing information, electronic newsletters, and external publications.
In some cases, content sourced by the editorial team may not be considered suitable for publication on www.wearewhatwedo.org. In such cases, this document should be used as a guide to what is and what is not acceptable
Content is required to comply strictly with this guideline to ensure that nothing is published that may damage WAWWD, its interests or the interests of Community Links. It is therefore necessary to define the types and nature of suitable content; to ensure all members of the WAWWD team work from the same definitions; to ensure compliance in every aspect; and to ensure consistent application of this Editorial Policy.
If there are requirements to adapt the policy, a new and separate genre document can be developed.
Editorial Input
WAWWD's Editorial Staff reserve the right to discuss certain decisions based on this Editorial Policy. For example, this document would not allow specific and in depth discussions relating to racism, nor would it allow potentially racist comments to be published. However, certain articles may be based around, for example, certain current events or views of certain people that, in context, would allow such comments to be published. In such a case an adapted compliance policy would be developed.
WAWWD's Editorial Staff also carry the ultimate responsibility in publishing those comments. The articles in question will only go live if WAWWDs Director approves the articles.
Policy Overview
- Clean, constructive comments within articles only
- WAWWD does not allow denigrating comments
- WAWWD will show a fair and balanced view
- Debate is allowed but without one-sidedness
- WAWWD does not allow libellous comments
- WAWWD must not be shown to be encouraging or condoning criminal or immoral activity
If in doubt:
- WAWWD will reject the article
Or - WAWWD will edit the article as necessary and publish it
Violence
- WAWWD does not allow comments that encourage violence
- WAWWD does not allow comments that sympathise with violence
- WAWWD allows reasonable comments, which mention violence in appropriate circumstances
Religion or Racism
- WAWWD does not allow any text that can be deemed offensive or pertaining to any group of people
- WAWWD does not allow denigrating comments in reference to religions
- WAWWD allows fair and reasonable comments/questions (and where necessary, represent both sides of the discussion.
Harassment
- WAWWD does not allow any comments that may result in others feeling threatened or specifically targeted or abused.
Hatred
- WAWWD does not allow an article to express genuine hatred or excessive negative feeling towards other groups or individuals
- Fair and reasonable hatred expressed towards policies or situations is allowed (in the instance of WAWWD rants)
- Debate is allowed without prejudice or nastiness
Libellous Statements
- WAWWD does not allow any statements or comments about a person or organisation that cannot be proved to be true and may be considered damaging to their reputation and or interests.
- WAWWD does not take any risks: Invasion of privacy in relation to people or organisations is to be strictly avoided.
- WAWWD does not allow any comments that could be judged as defamatory.
- References to upsetting/distressing subjects
- Comments must be specifically relevant to the topic being discussed
- Must be fair and reasonable
- Name of victims in relation to specific legal events should not be mentioned unless they are already in the public domain.
Editorial tone
- Must be objective
- Should create a thoughtful dialogue by being provocative, stimulating and dynamic to reflect WAWWD
Reporting vs. Opinion
WAWWD seeks to portray diverse views and opinions but des not endorse all the views whose material it publishes. When the core of content is purely personal opinion of the author and is intended to promote only one side of an argument, the content will be clearly labelled as opinion.
WAWWD as an organisation may adopt or facilitate a position, or become involved in a campaign, based on the process of agreement as upheld by the WAWWD management. Any such decisions will be made explicit.
Corrections Policy
When WAWWD recognises it has published false or misleading information, it will publish corrections on the WAWWD website with due prominence, and bring it to the attention of the originator of the material.
Right to Reply
WAWWD welcomes comment/feedback of all our content and alternative points of view.
Press Release Embargoes
WAWWD respects embargoes in all material issued to the press, to the extent that they are respected by other media.
Picture Policy
WAWWD takes care not to wilfully misrepresent the subjects and objects portrayed in the images used on its site. Captions and attributions should always be fair and accurate. Digital manipulation will only be used to enhance a photograph (i.e. to clarify, not change, its meaning).
When possible, individuals depicted should be named and placed in context.
Video Policy
As with still images, WAWWD will take care not to wilfully misrepresent the subjects and objects portrayed in the video used on its site. WAWWD will acquire written (online) consent and copyright agreement to broadcast video footage. Every video clip will be credited to the producer and source.
When several clips are presented as a coherent storyline, the authorship of the storyline will be clearly identified. As with still images, individuals depicted should be named and placed in context, where possible.
Audio Policy
WAWWD will take care that the subjects and objects portrayed in the audio used on its site are not wilfully misrepresented. WAWWD will acquire written (online) consent and copyright agreement to broadcast audio footage. Every audio clip will be credited to the producer and source.
Contact information
Should you have other questions or concerns about these editorial policies, please email sara@wearewhatwedo.org
Our Principles
We Are What We Do's Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. WAWWD will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our members' needs.
What information do we collect?
We collect information on our users in two ways: through website usage data including cookies (see below), and through registration.
Registration allows you to use features of the WAWWD website, such as the Personal Action Tracker.
When you register on the WAWWD site you knowingly choose to provide WAWWD with personal information. The minimum information we need to register a user is their name, email address and a username of their choosing. Any further details you choose to supply about yourself and your company when you register are provided at your own discretion.
If you submit articles to the site or take part in discussions, we may retain the content of your articles, posts and related responses. You may be identified as the author of any content you supply to the WAWWD website by reference to the details you have chosen to make available to the public upon registration, and subsequently. (See the Publishing Disclaimer for details of WAWWD's policy on the use of content supplied by users of the WAWWD website.)
We also allow users to update their personal information and newsletter subscription status at any time.
Users can opt-in to receive regular email updates from WAWWD when they register for the WAWWD website, or when they update their personal information.
Users can also opt to receive email updates without registering on the WAWWD website by providing their email address only. WAWWD will retain the email address until they receive a request to unsubscribe sent from the same email address.
WAWWD email updates will be sent from time to time, and additional emails about WAWWD services may also be sent occasionally if you subscribe to them.
Only users who have opted in will receive email updates from WAWWD. We will never intentionally solicit or proactively send promotional emails to users unless they have explicitly asked to receive this type of communication.
Any user can opt out of communications at any time by updating their personal profile, by following the Unsubscribe instructions published in every WAWWD email update, or by sending an email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line to sara@wearewhatwedo.org.
At no time will we sell or release your personal data to any third party organisation. Many organisations collect data in order to sell on to partners and affiliates, but WAWWD has no intention of doing this.
Cookies and Website usage data
Our website utilises 'cookies' and Web server logs to collect information about how the site is used. Cookies allow Web servers to recognise the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user web browser software on the user hard drive. Cookies provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, which may include the duration of individual page views, paths taken by visitors through the site, the websites visited just before and just after our website, and other general information. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
If you are concerned about cookies, you can turn them off in your browser. However, if you do this please note that some areas of the site may not work properly. For more information about configuring how your browser handles cookies, consult the links at the foot of this page.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information WAWWD holds about you and have any inaccuracies corrected or removed. Please email requests sara@wearewhatwedo.org.
Should you send confidential personal information, such as credit card details, to the WAWWD website via the appropriate forms and interfaces, the information will be transmitted via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which is the industry standard method for protecting web communications. The SSL security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity and client authentication to ensure that not only is the data encrypted before we receive it, but the information can only be understood by authorised computers.
Other email that you send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information to us through an unsecured email. Please use the appropriate forms and interfaces provided for such circumstances.
Periodically, our business practices are reviewed for compliance with industry standard policies and procedures governing the security and confidentiality of our information.
We reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, and to operate our systems properly when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or those of our users.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of WAWWD, or your dealings with this website, please contact sara@wearewhatwedo.org.
Data Protection Act
Microsoft Cookie Guide
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Data Protection Forum