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Privacy Notice for Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station
1. Who We Are
Aldeburgh Lifeboat (“we”, “us”, “our”) is part of the RNLI a registered charity in England and Wales. We are the data controller, which means we decide how and why your personal data is used. If you have any questions about how your personal data is processed when visiting this website or adding your data to any collection forms on the website, you can contact us at: Email: binnie3@mac.com
2. The Personal Data We Collect
We collect and use personal data when you interact with our website or our charity. This may include:
Contact information — name, email address, phone number
Cookies and analytics — information about how you use our website
We only collect what we genuinely need to operate this website.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use your personal data to:
Respond to enquiries
Improve our website and services
4. Our Legal Bases for Using Your Data
We rely on the following lawful bases under the UK GDPR:
Consent – for the operation of cookies on our website
Legitimate interests — responding to enquiries
5. Who We Share Your Data With
We only share your data with trusted third‑party providers who help us run the website for example:
Website hosting and analytics providers
These organisations must keep your data secure and cannot use it for their own purposes.
6. Storing your information
Information is stored by us on computers located in the UK. We place great importance on the security of all information. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data under our control.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data across the internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to try to protect the security of your information, we encourage the safe sharing of data across the internet and advise that care is taken when sending personal, or sensitive data over a public connection.
7. Cookies
Our website uses essential cookies to function and optional cookies (such as analytics) to help us improve our services. You can accept or reject non‑essential cookies at any time.
8. How Long We Keep Your Data
We will keep your information as follows:
Enquiries via email are kept for a maximum of 2 years
When we no longer need information, we will always dispose of it securely.
9. Your Rights
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR) gives you certain rights over your data and how we use it. These include the right to:
access to the personal information we hold about you, known as a subject access request
object to our processing (automated or otherwise) of your personal information
object to your information being used for marketing purposes
restrict the processing of your personal information
obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable format so that you can reuse it
rectify your personal information if you believe it is incorrect – we want to ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date so please do let us know if anything changes
request the erasure of your personal information (please note that in certain circumstances we may need to retain your data for a specified period to comply with our legal obligations).
If you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact binnie3@mac.com You can find more information about your rights under data protection legislation from the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
If you would like to see the full RNLI Privacy policy it can be found here https://rnli.org/footer/privacy-and-security
10. Changes to This Notice
This notice was last updated on 1st July 2026