Privacy Policy

We ask for information to process your application forms and provide you with access to our programmes and events.

• Your name, business and organisational details
  • Details such as your name, job title, organisation, and experience are used before the event to help us ascertain the right level of programme for you. This data is also used to manage the logistics of your attendance before, during and after an event/programme. You and your organisational details will be shared amongst the event/programme team, your co-participants and service providers directly associated with the delivery of the event/programme, including venues and taxi companies. This information is kept as a record of your attendance and will be used for subsequent communications related to your personal development with Windsor Leadership, and any communications promoting other opportunities where we have your consent.
     
• Diversity
  • Through the application forms, we collect diversity information about yourself, including ethnicity and faith. There is no obligation to provide this information, but should you agree to do so, it helps to ensure diversity amongst our event syndicate groups, and to ascertain the diversity of our participants over a year, which we report on in our Trustees end-of-year report. None of this information is attributed to you personally outside of our database, but it is kept within your record after the event in case, with your consent, you wish to be notified of upcoming events, or we wish to invite you to contribute or speak at future events highlighting the diversity topic.
     
• Security
  • Personal information about you, including your name, date of birth, home address and a passport style photo, is required by the security department at Windsor Castle. All attendees on all of our castle based events must have security clearance to be allowed in. Car details are shared where applicable.
     
• Emergency contact details
  • All programme attendees, staying overnight, are asked for the name and phone number of a contact to be used in the case of emergencies. This is shared with the venue concerned and our event/programme team only, and all copies are collected back in and destroyed after the event. These are also deleted from your file after the event or Part Two of your programme, unless you have requested otherwise (e.g. you may attend our events regularly, and do not wish to submit the same information over and over).
     
• Personal details
  • You may choose to provide your personal email addresses as a back-up, as this enables us to keep in touch with you even after you have moved from your current organisation to another. By informing us, you may choose for these details to be your primary means of communication, and these will be kept on file until you request otherwise. To meet security pass requirements, we collect your date of birth, which we keep on file to also help assess age distribution of our attendees, as well as your home address, to allow us to contact you about alumni events taking place close to your home region.
     
• Programme Feedback
  • At the end of each event/programme, we ask for feedback from you to help shape our future programmes. The returned information is kept on your record indefinitely as it may be referred back to in the future, e.g. when you come back for another event/programme with us. We share feedback pertaining to our speakers and programme team to help with their own development, but this is shared anonymously and never attributed to you without your express permission.

On each programme we take a group photograph of programme participants as a souvenir for participants. This is shared with participants of the programme by email, on our alumni portal and sometimes used for marketing and PR purposes. In addition, we occasionally take photographs at programmes and events for PR and Marketing purposes.

We will always let you know in advance if we are doing this, and if you do not wish to appear in any of these photographs please let a member of the Windsor Leadership Team know. No names will be attributed to the photographs when used, unless express permission is given.

Our Alumni portal, is used for networking and information sharing around leadership development. Those who sign up, agree to terms specific to the portal (supplied by Graduway), meaning Windsor Leadership can maintain communication via email for newsletters, information about upcoming events, requests for introductions and programme nominations, updates on our Alumni Giving and membership schemes, and information believed to be useful to support Alumni further around their own leadership development.

Individual Alumni have control over their own data record on the portal, including the ability to update or delete their information.

If you choose to join our regular giving scheme we require certain details to manage your account and to collect payment, including name, address and payment details. Personal addresses will be required to support Gift Aid declaration, and to enable any required invoicing. All other payments are electronic. Banking details will be required and held securely, please see the section on 'Payments and financial records' for more information. 

We will write via email to tell you about the impact of your donation, and to administer your payment(s). With your consent, we will email you to promote events and benefits relating to the Alumni Giving Scheme.

How we use and store your personal and contact information is covered within this Privacy Policy, including under ‘Administration on our Programme and Events’, above.

In addition, where we receive feedback from participants on your delivery/facilitation etc., this will be shared with you anonymously. This feedback will then be stored within your file for reference in the future. You are welcome to ask for past feedback at any time.

After agreeing to speak or work with us, we will promote the associated programme or event using your name, photograph and brief biography. This will be kept on your file for use on further events, in order that we can use it again. You may request for any of this information to be amended or erased.

We value our Alumni and supporters and encourage on-going contact to provide information on leadership, invitations to events, and introductions for programme nominations or networking. To do this, we communicate via email, with consent, using Outlook, Mailchimp (MailChimp store their data in the US but participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield) and our Alumni Portal, Graduway (Graduway stores the data on the portal in the European Union and uses a third-party provider for mass emailing services who are based in the US and are Privacy Shield certified.) Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

• Networking
  • Although mostly managed through our Alumni Portal, we are sometimes asked by an Alumnus/a to be introduced to someone. The requested party is then contacted by email, and then only after they have agreed, we connect both parties by email.
     
• Nominations
  • Our Alumni are our best providers of nominations for the programmes, and so we write occasionally to request nominations, especially when seeking participants from particular sectors, with certain levels of experience, or who may be interested in specific topics.
     
• Further development
  • We notify Alumni about upcoming events, including the Annual Lecture, Breakfast Briefings, the Leadership Academy, workshops and discussion groups.
     
• Newsletter and surveys
  • We send regular Windsor Leadership newsletters and an annual survey, administered through Survey Monkey (SurveyMonkey stores its data in the US but participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield). The survey helps us to develop our thinking and offerings and has been instrumental in shaping the positive changes to Windsor Leadership over the years.

Our own web site, and the use of it, is covered by this policy. If you leave our site via a link or otherwise, you will then be subject to the policy of that website provider. We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site
• A record of correspondence, when you contact us
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, operating system, browser usage and other communication data. To find out more please read our cookies policy.

• Programmes and Events
  • For attendees paying for themselves by BACS or cheque, we require your name and a personal address for invoicing, which is then recorded on our finance software, Sage. For those paying by credit card, we will take your credit card details for processing payment, but we do not keep these details.
     
• Alumni Giving Scheme and personal donations

  • For annual and monthly personal donations – we require your name, address and bank details to set up a Direct Debit. Your bank details are kept secure within our CAF Donate software, and are deleted after your Direct Debit period has finished. We will only need your name and address when you are using other payment methods if you are requiring an invoice.

    • None of your personal banking details are shared with any third party, except our bank, CAF Bank.

    • We keep records of banking and financial transactions, as well as Gift Aid forms for a minimum of 6 years from the end of the financial year to which they relate, in line with Government stipulation.

• Some of Sage’s applications or services or parts of them may also be hosted in the United States or otherwise outside of the EEA. In each case, such transfers are made in accordance with the requirements of Regulations (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulations or “GDPR”) and may be based on the use of the European Commission’s Standard Model Clauses for transfers of personal data outside the EEA.