Who we are
This is a campaign site for the Green Open Homes campaign run by Wiltshire Climate Alliance, a community group interested in all aspects of the Climate Emergency and Nature Degradation.
To our hosts
If you agree to be a host we will collect and hold the data you provide us about you and your home, including contact, address data and images, sufficient to offer visitors a visit to your home. We will not seek to collect any information that you do not volunteer to us. We will support booking visits at the times you tell us suit you. We will share the details you provide with prospective visitors but not publicly in either analogue or digital form.
The primary basis for this is your consent but there is also a contractual basis. If you wish, we will allow you to withdraw from that contract at any stage but please be aware that we may not be able to withdraw data already shared or cancel appointments already made.
To public bodies
We will regularly update the published contact details for local bodies such as parish and town councils for the purpose of promoting low Carbon and nature restoring events and activities to residents and businesses in Wiltshire and Swindon.
We do this on the basis that it is both legitimate community activity and in the public interest. We will take reasonable measures to keep this data up to date and will correct it in accordance with your rights under UK GDPR regulations.
To visitors
We will collect and store the contact details you provide to us in order to facilitate visits to local Green Open Homes. We ask your understanding that our hosts are opening their homes to you in order to share their journeys towards a low Carbon and revived nature future. We will share the details you provide with the hosts you select. We will also retain your details to follow up with you on your Green Home journey and to track the cumulative benefits from the work of our group. We will not share these details in a personally identifiable form except as required by appropriate authorities (and frankly we can’t imagine what those might be).
We do this on the basis of your consent and the contract between us to facilitate visits. As we do for hosts, we will allow you to cancel at any stage but if may be impossible to withdraw data already shared. However, we hope that you will find these events informative and motivating and that you will want to stay in touch, perhaps even offering to host your own visitors in future events.
Cookies
We use cookies like almost all websites do. But we are not interested in harvesting your data, only in providing the service apparent from our site. For example:
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
The personal data you share with us will usually/ be retained indefinitely to support future events and activities. Please update us with your low Carbon journey or if you move away.
What rights you have over your data
We are committed to being transparent in our work. You may request a copy of whatever data we hold about you as well as for us to correct or delete it. There are some occasions that we are obliged to keep data for administrative, legal, or security purposes.