Privacy Policy

The Yale Club of London ("the Club", "we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the UK Data Protection Act (which incorporates the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website, register for events, or make donations.

Personal Information Collection

We collect personal information, such as your name, address, email address, and credit card details, when you:

  • Register for events through our website or other means

  • Make donations to the Club

This information may be collected directly by the Club or through third-party service providers, which manage event registrations and donations on our behalf. Please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies, which we do not control.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

  • Your consent, which you may withdraw at any time

  • Our legitimate interests, such as improving our website and services

  • Compliance with legal obligations

Website Data Collection

Our website is hosted by Squarespace, which collects additional data when you visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace uses this data to operate the website, protect and improve its platform and services, and analyze the data in a de-personalized form.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These functional and required cookies are always used to allow Squarespace to securely serve this website to you.

Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses these cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace to learn about site traffic and activity.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect to:

  • Process event registrations and donations

  • Communicate with you about Club events, initiatives, and updates

  • Improve our website and services

  • Comply with legal obligations

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Rights

Under the GDPR and UK Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal information

  • Request correction of your personal information

  • Request erasure of your personal information

  • Object to processing of your personal information

  • Request restriction of processing your personal information

  • Request transfer of your personal information

  • Withdraw your consent

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites.

Terms of Use

By accessing our website, you agree that the Club is not responsible for any issues you may encounter while using the site. All content on the website is the property of the Yale Club of London and protected by copyright laws.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR or UK Data Protection Act , please contact us at secretary@yale.org.uk