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Privacy policy
This privacy notice explains how Data4Good collects, uses and protects your personal information when you use our website at data4good.co.uk. We have tried to keep it clear and free of jargon. If anything is unclear, email us at team@data4good.co.uk.
Last updated: 4 November 2026
Who we are
Data4Good is a UK social enterprise established in 2025. We connect data volunteers with UK charities and non-profits that need insight from their data.
Data4Good is the "controller" of the personal information described in this notice, which means we decide how and why it is used.
- Legal name and status: Data4Good to be confirmed
- Company number: to be confirmed
- Registered address: to be confirmed
- ICO registration number: to be confirmed
- Founder and CEO: Kieran Zhané
- Contact: team@data4good.co.uk
What information we collect
We only collect information you choose to give us through our forms, plus limited technical information needed to run the site.
Volunteer waitlist form
We are currently at capacity for new volunteers, so you can join a waitlist. We collect:
- your name and email address
- your role (for example student, graduate, professional or career changer)
- your skills
- optionally, your location, LinkedIn profile and organisation
- how you heard about us
- your consent to us contacting you
- optionally, whether you would like our newsletter
Charity support request form
- your name and email address
- your organisation and, optionally, its charity number
- the type of support you need
- a description of your project or needs
Partnership enquiry form
- your name and email address
- your organisation
- what you are interested in
- your message
Newsletter and event interest
- your email address
Technical information
Our hosting provider may process technical information such as your IP address and browser details in server logs, for security and to keep the site running. to be confirmed
Please do not include sensitive information (such as health details) or personal information about other people in free-text boxes unless it is necessary.
How we use your information and our lawful bases
Under UK GDPR we must have a lawful basis for using your information. Ours are:
| What we do | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Hold your waitlist details and contact you when a volunteer place opens | Consent (you tick a consent box when you join) |
| Send you our newsletter, or tell you about events you have registered interest in | Consent |
| Respond to a charity support request and assess how we can help | Legitimate interests (running our service for the charities that ask us) |
| Respond to a partnership enquiry and discuss working together | Legitimate interests (developing partnerships that fund our work) |
| Keep the website secure, prevent abuse and fix problems | Legitimate interests (keeping our service safe and working) |
| Keep records we are legally required to keep | Legal obligation |
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered whether they are outweighed by your rights and interests, and we do not believe they are. You can ask us about this at any time. We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not sell your information.
Who we share your information with
We share information only with service providers who help us run the website and our service. They act on our instructions.
- Hostinger: hosts our website.
- Supabase: provides the PostgreSQL database where form submissions are stored. Our database is hosted in the London region (UK/EU).
- Email provider: some submissions may be emailed to our team inbox. to be confirmed
- Analytics provider (only if enabled): a privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics service such as Plausible. to be confirmed
If a volunteer team supports a charity project, we may share relevant contact details with the people involved to arrange the work. Volunteers and partners agree to separate terms covering confidentiality and data protection. to be confirmed
We may also disclose information where the law requires it, for example to a regulator or the police.
International transfers
Our database is hosted in the UK/EU. Some of our providers, or their support staff or sub-processors, may be located outside the UK. Where information is transferred outside the UK, we make sure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as an adequacy decision or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum. to be confirmed
How long we keep your information
We keep information only for as long as we need it for the reasons above. Our current plan is:
- Waitlist details: until you are offered and decline or accept a place, or for up to to be confirmed if you do not respond, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
- Charity support requests: for to be confirmed after the request is closed.
- Partnership enquiries: for to be confirmed after our last contact.
- Newsletter and event interest: until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent.
- Server logs: to be confirmed
When retention periods end, we delete or anonymise the information.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- be informed about how your data is used (this notice)
- access a copy of the personal information we hold about you
- rectification: ask us to correct information that is wrong or incomplete
- erasure: ask us to delete your information in certain circumstances
- restriction: ask us to pause using your information in certain circumstances
- object to us using your information where we rely on legitimate interests
- portability: ask for information you gave us to be provided in a reusable format, where it applies
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we did before you withdrew it. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter using the link in any email we send.
To use any of these rights, email team@data4good.co.uk. We will respond within one month. We may need to check your identity first. There is no fee, unless a request is clearly unfounded or excessive.
Cookies and analytics
Our website does not set any cookies by default, and we do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Our fonts are hosted on our own site, so your browser does not make requests to Google Fonts.
If we enable analytics, we will use a privacy-friendly, cookieless tool that does not track you across sites and does not use cookies or store anything on your device. to be confirmed. Because nothing is stored on your device, we do not currently show a cookie banner. If this changes, we will update this notice and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, including using encrypted connections (HTTPS) and restricting access to our database to people who need it. No online service is completely secure, so please take care about what you share. to be confirmed
Links to other sites
Our website may link to other websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, so please read their notices.
Children
Our service is aimed at adults and young people studying or working in data. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. to be confirmed
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please contact us first at team@data4good.co.uk so we can try to put it right.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator:
- Website: ico.org.uk (opens external site)
- Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed. If we make significant changes, we will make this clear on our website.
Contact us
Data4Good Email: team@data4good.co.uk Postal address: to be confirmed