Introduction
This website is operated by Envirocrops Consortia and whose registered address is 18a Newforge Lane (“We”) are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.
This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website. We confirm that we will keep your information secure and that we will comply fully with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation and regulations. Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting envirocrops.com (our website) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
Who we are
Partners
Envirocrops Consortia
https://envirocrops.com/
Crops for Energy
https://www.crops4energy.co.uk/
Calvium
https://calvium.com/
NFU Energy
https://www.nfuenergy.co.uk/
AFBI
https://www.afbini.gov.uk/
Data Controller Name: Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute
Data Protection Officer Name: Glenn Montgomery
Address: 18a Newforge Lane
Telephone: 028 9025 5494
Telephone: 02890 255636
Email: info.gov@afbini.gov.uk
Email: info@afbini.gov.uk
hello@envirocrops.com
Types of information we may collect from you
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:
Information you supply to us.
You may supply us with information about you by filling in forms on our website. This includes information you provide when you submit a contact/enquiry form. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, and age bracket.
Information our website automatically collects about you.
With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect information including the following:
- technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit and what you click on. We use different methods to collect data from and about you on our Envirocrops website. Your information is used to deliver services you have requested and to contact you, including but not restricted to, publication orders, subscription to our newsletter and general enquiries, as well as to improve the website and game experience for our users.
Information may also be collected through third party sites such as Mailchimp, Matomo Analytics, and Google. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, and age bracket.
If signed up to the Envirocrops newsletter information such as your name, email address will be taken via MailChimp.
For more information, please visit MailChimp’s Privacy Policy.
For more information, please visit Matomo’s Privacy Policy.
For more information, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.
How we secure your information
To prevent your information from being read or changed while in transit and provide the strongest privacy and integrity protection, we use Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).
Our company has ISO 27001 certification that proves our system brings information security under management control. The web server has a Firewall in place with restrictive rules, so all ports are closed unless absolutely necessary.
How we may use the information we collect
Under data protection law, we need to have one or more lawful grounds to process your personal data. The legal grounds that we believe are most relevant to our use of your personal data are:
- if it is necessary for us to use your personal data to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
- if it is necessary for us to use your personal data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
- if we have a legitimate interest in using your personal data
- if you have given us your consent for us to use your personal information for a particular purpose.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data |
| Where you use our service |
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| Where you provide information to us through our website |
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| Where you visit our website to browse |
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| Where you contact us by phone or email or by other means or you have provided us with your personal data |
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Information you supply to us.
We will use this information:
- to provide you with information and/or services that you request from us
- updates on project progress and additions
- potential feedback sessions regarding Envirocrops and the game
Information we automatically collect about you.
We will use this information:
- to administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- security and debugging as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
This information is collected anonymously and is not linked to information that identifies you as an individual. We use Matomo Analytics to track this information.
Find out how Matomo uses your data at https://matomo.org/matomo-cloud-privacy-policy/
How long do we keep your personal information?
We will retain your personal information for as long as you continue to engage with us to provide the services and products requested. We may be required to retain certain information for longer where required by law, for example, to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
How we use Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to tell you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please be aware that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Measuring website usage with cookies
We use Matomo Analytics to collect information about how people are using our website. This is done to ensure it is meeting people’s needs and to understand how we could meet those needs better.
Matomo Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not store or collect your personal information such as name, address using Matomo, so we cannot identify who you are.
Remembering your settings
This website uses cookies to remember if you have received the cookie warning message so that the message does not appear more than once.
Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps to provide geo-location information for locating specific areas of land.
For more information please visit Google's Privacy Policy.
Research project and survey participants
Personal data collected: depending on the nature of the project or survey, collection of personal data will be kept to a minimum. This may include your name, age bracket, user type, and email address collected from ‘Third Party’ sites such as MailChimp. The personal data collected will not be shared.
Purpose: the information we collect will be used to support the delivery and continued improvement of the product via research and development.
Disclosure of your information
Any information you provide to us will either be emailed directly to us or may be stored on a secure server located near London. We use a trusted third party website and hosting provider (Digital Ocean) to facilitate the running and management of this website. Digital Ocean meets high data protection and security standards and are bound by contract to keep any information they process on our behalf confidential. Any data that may be collected through this website that Digital Ocean process, is kept secure and only processed in the manner we instruct them to. Digital Ocean cannot access, provide, rectify or delete any data that they store on our behalf without permission.
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies.
We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Third party links
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Your rights – access to your personal data
You have a number of rights in connection with the processing of your personal data, subject to certain conditions set out in the GDPR and local data protection laws, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (“data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request the rectification of the personal data that we process about you. This enables you to have incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- Request the deletion of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no overriding reason for us to retain it.
- Ask us to stop processing personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.
If you have given your consent for processing of your personal data and that consent has served as a legal basis for processing, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect by contacting us as stated in the ‘Contact’ section below.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to hello@envirocrops.com.
