Privacy policy

Stockport Bumps, Babies and Toddlers (“SBBT”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is a free community directory intended to help parents, carers and families find baby, toddler and family groups and activities in and around Stockport.

The website is operated as a community project by individuals and is not operated by a company, charity or public authority.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, the person or persons responsible for operating the website are the data controller(s) for personal information processed through the website.

If you have a question about how your information is used, or would like information corrected or removed, please contact us using the contact details provided on the website.

The directory contains information about local groups and activities, such as:

• group or activity names;
• descriptions;
• venues and locations;
• session days and times;
• websites and social-media pages;
• publicly advertised contact details where appropriate.

We compile and maintain directory information using information made publicly available by groups and organisations, information found on public websites and social-media pages, and information provided to us by group organisers or members of the community.

We aim to publish information that is relevant to the purpose of the directory and to minimise the amount of personal information we publish.

Personal contact details

We do not intentionally publish personal telephone numbers, personal email addresses or other private contact details of individual organisers where they are not necessary for the operation of the group.

Where a group has a dedicated public contact method, such as a group telephone number, organisation email address, website or social-media page, we may publish that information where appropriate.

If you believe that information about you has been included in the directory unnecessarily, please contact us and we will consider your request promptly.

Our purpose is to provide and maintain a useful, free community directory of local activities and groups for families.

Where information constitutes personal data, we generally rely on legitimate interests as the lawful basis for processing it under UK data protection law.

Our legitimate interest is the provision of a free community resource that helps local families discover relevant activities, services and groups.

Before publishing personal information, we aim to consider whether it is necessary for the directory's purpose, whether the individual would reasonably expect it to be used in this way, and whether the individual's privacy interests outweigh the benefit of including the information.

We aim to minimise privacy risks by avoiding unnecessary personal information and by providing a way for people to request correction or removal of information.

Some directory information may be obtained from sources such as public websites, search engines, publicly accessible social-media pages or other publicly available sources.

Information being publicly available does not automatically mean that all uses of that information are appropriate. We therefore aim to use only information that is relevant to the directory and to avoid publishing personal information where it is unnecessary.

If you are responsible for a group listed on the website and believe that information has been included incorrectly or should not be published, please contact us.

If you run or represent a group listed on SBBT, or if you believe that information relating to you has been published unnecessarily or inaccurately, you can ask us to:

• correct inaccurate information;
• update outdated information;
• remove information that should no longer be displayed; or
• remove an entire group listing where appropriate.

We will consider requests promptly and will normally remove or amend information where there is a good reason to do so.

Requests can be made using the contact details provided on the website.

When you visit the website, our hosting provider may automatically process technical information associated with your visit, such as:

• IP address;
• browser and device information;
• date and time of requests;
• pages requested; and
• technical information needed to operate and secure the website.

This information may be processed for purposes including operating, maintaining and securing the website, diagnosing technical problems and preventing abuse.

We do not use this information to build profiles of visitors for advertising purposes.

The website allows visitors to search for groups near a postcode.

When you enter a postcode, it is used to determine an approximate location so that relevant groups can be displayed.

We do not need to create or maintain a personal profile of you in order to provide this feature.

Where the postcode is sent to a third-party postcode lookup service to convert it into geographical information, that processing is subject to that provider's own privacy arrangements.

We do not use postcode searches to identify individual visitors.

We use Sentry to help us identify and diagnose technical errors and improve the reliability of the website.

Sentry may receive technical information associated with an error, such as information about the browser, device, website request and error itself.

We take steps to avoid unnecessarily sending personal information to our error-monitoring service.

The website may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary to operate the website or provide particular functionality.

Where non-essential cookies or similar technologies are used, we will provide appropriate information and, where required by law, obtain consent before using them.

The website may use third-party services to provide functions such as hosting, postcode lookup, error monitoring, search-engine indexing or other technical services.

Where a third party processes personal data on our behalf, we aim to use appropriate contractual and technical safeguards.

Third-party websites and services linked to from the directory are governed by their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites.

We keep directory information for as long as it is reasonably necessary to operate and maintain the directory.

We may retain records of requests to correct or remove information for as long as reasonably necessary to demonstrate how we responded to those requests and to prevent the same information from being inadvertently republished.

Technical and error-monitoring information is retained according to the relevant service's configuration and our operational requirements.

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights including:

• the right to ask for access to personal information we hold about you;
• the right to ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• the right to ask us to erase personal information in certain circumstances;
• the right to ask us to restrict processing in certain circumstances;
• the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests; and
• other rights that may apply depending on the circumstances.

If you object to our processing of personal information based on legitimate interests, we will consider your objection in accordance with applicable data protection law.

If you have a concern about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to resolve it.

You also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use or applicable data protection requirements.

The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.