Legal & Compliance
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For data protection enquiries, please contact us at directorate@isar-global.org. We aim to respond within five working days.
When you subscribe to our governance intelligence updates, we collect:
This information is used solely to send you notifications about new ISAR Global publications and analysis.
When you purchase an Associates membership, we collect:
When you contact us via our website, we collect:
This information is used to respond to your enquiry and, where appropriate, to maintain a record of our correspondence.
We may collect anonymised data about how visitors use our website, including pages visited and time spent on site. This data cannot be used to identify you personally.
Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018), we must have a lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information.
Our lawful basis is Consent — we have your permission, given after providing all relevant information. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email we send, or by contacting us directly.
Our lawful basis is Contract — processing is necessary to fulfil the membership agreement you have entered into with us.
Our lawful basis is Legitimate Interests — responding to correspondence you have initiated.
The following rights are available to you under UK data protection law:
| Right | What it means |
|---|---|
| Access | You can ask for copies of your personal information held by us. |
| Rectification | You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information. |
| Erasure | You can ask us to delete your personal information. |
| Restriction | You can ask us to limit how we use your personal information. |
| Objection | You can object to our processing of your personal information. |
| Portability | You can ask us to transfer your information to another organisation or to you. |
| Withdraw Consent | Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. |
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at directorate@isar-global.org. We must respond within one month.
All personal information we hold is provided directly by you, either by completing our subscription form, purchasing an Associates membership, submitting a contact form enquiry, or corresponding with us by email.
We do not obtain personal information about you from any third party, data broker, or public source.
We retain your information for as long as you remain a subscriber. Upon unsubscribing, your data is removed from our active mailing list. MailerLite (our email service provider) may retain anonymised analytics data in accordance with their own retention policy.
We retain membership records for the duration of your membership and for seven years thereafter, in compliance with statutory accounting obligations.
We retain correspondence records for a maximum of two years from the date of last contact, after which they are securely deleted.
Some of our data processors operate outside the United Kingdom. Where personal data is transferred internationally, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in compliance with UK GDPR.
| Organisation | Country | Safeguard |
|---|---|---|
| MailerLite | European Union & United States | EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) with UK Addendum |
| Stripe | United States | EU-US Data Privacy Framework; UK adequacy |
| Cloudflare | United States | EU-US Data Privacy Framework; UK adequacy |
For further information or to obtain a copy of the relevant safeguard documentation, please contact us at directorate@isar-global.org.
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If you have concerns about how we use your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at directorate@isar-global.org. We will respond within five working days.
If you remain unhappy after raising a complaint with us, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):