Privacy Statement

The purpose of this statement is to explain how the NSPA processes your data; whether you are just browsing our website, signing up to become a member or supporter of the NSPA, or registering for an event.

This website is run by the Secretariat of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA). The NSPA is a cross-sector, England-wide coalition committed to reducing the number of suicides in England and improving the support available for those bereaved or affected by suicide. The NSPA’s Secretariat is hosted by Samaritans. We regard your privacy as important and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.

The purpose of this statement is to explain how the NSPA processes your data; whether you are just browsing our website, signing up to become a member or supporter of the NSPA, or registering for an event.

You are welcome to access our site without disclosing your personal data.

We will only use personal information you send us for the purposes for which you provide it, for example for the purposes of membership administration. We will only hold your information for as long as necessary and will not pass on to third parties. If we wish to use your personal data for other purposes, we will offer you the means to consent to those purposes by indicating in a box at the end of the relevant form.

“Members” of NSPA are organisations that have been accepted as a member of NSPA according to the membership rules appearing on this Website.   Data collected on Members includes name, email address, and other contact details. This data will be stored securely electronically and is only used for the purpose of membership administration unless consent has been given otherwise, for example consent for lead contact details to be available to other members in the secured members’ area of the website.

“Supporters” of NSPA are individuals that have been accepted as a supporter of NSPA according to the supporter rules appearing on this Website. Whilst we do not collect Supporters’ personal data through the Website, all Supporter data collected by NSPA will be stored securely electronically and is only used for the purpose of supporter administration unless consent has been given otherwise.

For some of the NSPA’s events, such as our Annual Members’ Meeting, we may require registration for the event via our website, a third party such as Eventbrite, or in some cases, an NSPA Member’s Website. We only collect information that is necessary for the purpose of the event and personal information is not used for any other NSPA activities or passed to third parties, unless permission has been given otherwise. When registration information is collected through a Members’ website, this will be clearly noted, and the terms and conditions of the Member’s website will apply with regard to any personal information collected.

Representatives of NSPA Member organisations are granted access to the NSPA Members’ Area on the Website. The purpose of this Area is for Members to share knowledge and information about their organisation; its work and the wider suicide prevention landscape. The Members’ Area Terms of Use are available here

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. You can find more information about cookies here:

http://cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies

Almost all websites use cookies to ensure that you can interact with our website successfully.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our services more efficient
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

The full list of cookies used on the NSPA website, including a description of what they are used for, is set out below.

If you want to prevent our cookies being stored on your computer in future, you may do so by referring to your internet browser’s instructions. You can do this by clicking on the “Help” menu. You can find out how to do this on your computer here

If you wish to prevent Google from collecting any information about your presence on our website, they offer a tool here:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout