Privacy statement

1. Who we are 

Haringey Community Benefit Society (HCBS) is a non-profit organisation that provides affordable housing and support to people at risk of homelessness nominated by Haringey Council. HCBS ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our website. 

2. Purpose 

Our website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. These cookies are categorised as necessary and stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyse and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. By opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. In addition to cookies, we may process your personal data for other purposes, such as responding to enquiries, providing customer support, and improving our services when you contact us. 

3. What we collect 

The types of cookies we collect/use are as follows: 

  • Analytical Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors/residents interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This data helps us to improve our website’s performance and use experience

Through this tool, you can choose whether or not to allow non-necessary cookies by selecting 'Turn/Yes' to 'Reject/No' or ‘Enabled/Disabled’. Please note that disabling these cookies may impact your experience of our site and the information that we collect about you through cookies cannot be used to directly identify you. 

4. Who we share with  

HCBS collaborates with the IT team from Haringey Council in the development and maintenance of our website. This involves joint decision-making on how the website is built, maintained, and improved. This allows us to ensure that our website operates efficiently and effectively, providing the best possible experience for our users. This also ensures that both HCBS and Haringey Council share the responsibility for complying with data protection rules, even though HCBS does not collect or hold any personal information through the website. 

5. Your data rights 

Under data protection law, you have rights including: 

  • your right of access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data
  • your right to rectification – you have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete
  • your right to erasure – you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances
  • your right to restriction of processing – you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances
  • your right to object to processing – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances
  • your right to data portability – you have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances
  • your right to withdraw consent – when we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent

For further questions about cookies and how we use data at HCBS, please email HCBSGovernance@haringey.gov.uk with the ‘subject request’ HCBS Cookies query then we will pass them to the council. Please note that if you contact us then we will be using your contact details to proceed your queries.