Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2 April 2026

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

  1. There are six data protection principles that Liberty must, and does, comply with. The personal information we hold about you must be:
    Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
  2. Collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes that have been clearly explained to you and not further processed in a way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
  5. Kept in a form that permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for those purposes.
  6. Processed in a way that ensures appropriate security of the data.

‍WHO IS COLLECTING YOUR DATA?

For the purposes of data protection law in the UK, Liberty Investigates is a unit of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) of Liberty House, 26-30 Strutton Ground, London, SW1P 2HR, which is the data controller in relation to the collection and use of your personal information in the United Kingdom.

As a non-profit, cross-party, non-party human rights organisation, Liberty is committed to protecting and promoting individual privacy. This privacy policy relates to your use of the Liberty Investigates’ Campus Accountability Mapping website located at: campusprotest.org.uk

Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. You should also read if relevant the privacy policy for Liberty Investigates’ website and Liberty’s overarching privacy policy, which explain show we process data that does not relate to Liberty Investigates.

WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE COLLECT IT?

We collect personal information in three ways from your use of the Liberty Investigates’ Campus Accountability Mapping Project website.

  1. Anonymous data is automatically collected from all visitors to the Campus Accountability Mapping Project website. For more information, please see the ‘Website Analytics’ and ‘Cookies’ section.
  2. Personal data is voluntarily submitted by you so that we can carry out further investigations based on your data or we can provide you with a service. For more information, please see the ‘Personal Data (including Special Categories of Personal Data) that you volunteer to us directly’ section.
  3. Personal data is collected indirectly through third party service providers to undertake verification checks using their own information sources for the purposes of fact-checking information provided to us.

The type and amount of personal information we collect depends on how you use the Campus Accountability Mapping Project website.

By visiting the Campus Accountability Mapping Project website, you acknowledge the terms of this privacy policy and the use and processing of your personal information as set out in this privacy policy.

If you do not want us to collect any of the information described in this section, please do not use the Campus Accountability Mapping Project or contact us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

You can access all pages on theCampus Accountability Mapping Project website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on your computer by your web browser while you are browsing the website.

For more information on cookies on the Campus Accountability Mapping Project website, see our cookie policy below.

PERSONAL DATA (INCLUDING SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA) THAT YOU VOLUNTEER TO US DIRECTLY

We may collect information directly from you which personally identifies you (such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, age, employment history or any other information which you voluntarily submit) when you participate in the following activities:

  • contacting us, for example by phone, email or through our online contact form
    during interviews with our journalists
  • subscribing to an email list to receive more information about our work and how you can get involved or donate
  • attending an event
  • donating to Liberty or the Civil Liberties Trust

The information given may constitute special categories of personal data to the extent that it includes information on your political or religious beliefs, ethnicity, health or any other special category of personal data (asset out in data protection law in the UK) that you disclose within the content of your correspondence with us.

LEGAL BASES FOR USING YOUR DATA

We will seek your opt-in consent for all email, text or phone communication after a confirmation of your initial interaction.

For example, if you have contacted us to provide information for our investigations, you will receive no further information from Liberty unless you opt in to receive this by ticking a clearly labelled box.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to these activities. You can do so at any time by contacting us via email.

The primary type of special category of personal data we collect is information relating to your political beliefs which you may voluntarily disclose to us.

We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interest in furthering Liberty’s campaigning aims.

We do not think that any of the above activities prejudice you in anyway. However, you have the right to object to us processing your personal data on this basis. You can do so by contacting us via email.

FOR WHAT PURPOSES WILL YOUR DATA BE PROCESSED?

If you email Liberty Investigates’ journalist, Aaron Walawalkar, to provide information relevant to the Campus Accountability Mapping Project, your data will be used only for responding to, and further communicating with, you in relation to the purpose of your query.

If you provide information to us in relation to a subject matter which we are investigating, we will use your data for the purposes of carrying out our investigations and publishing our findings in any articles or other editorial content.

If you give opt-in consent, we may contact you by email or post to give you further information about Liberty’s work and ways in which you can support us.

This section was previously worded in regards to the “contact us” page on the Liberty Investigates’ website. I have changed as we don’t have such a page on the Memorial site.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?

We do not disclose your personal data to anyone outside Liberty except:

  • where we have your permission (for example if you agree to provide information for our investigations, it will be disclosed to the Editorial Advisory Board (where necessary) and used in articles and other editorial content accompanied by your name),
  • to other organisations who provide a service to us or you (such as verification check providers), or
  • where we are required to do so by law.‍

HOW WILL YOUR DATA BE STORED?

Your personal data will be kept by Liberty, in the UK, in a secure environment. We care about protecting your information, which is why we put in place appropriate measures designed to prevent unauthorised access to, and misuse of, your personal data.

We are committed to taking all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access. We do this by having in place a range of appropriate technical and organisational measures, including security measures on our servers, restricted access controls and disaster recovery plans.

HOW WE STORE AND TRANSFER YOUR DATA INTERNATIONALLY

We want to make sure that your personal data is stored and transferred in a way which is secure. We will therefore only transfer data outside of the European Economic Area or EEA (the Member States of the European Union (EU), together with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) where it is compliant with data protection legislation and the means of transfer provides adequate safeguards in relation to your data, for example:

  • by way of a data transfer agreement with a third party, incorporating the current standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data by controllers in the EEA to controllers and processors in jurisdictions without adequate data protection laws, or
  • by transferring your data to an entity which has signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for the transfer of personal data from entities in the EU to entities in the United States of America or any equivalent agreement in respect of other jurisdictions, or
  • by transferring your data to a country where there has been a finding of adequacy by the European Commission in respect of that country’s levels of data protection via its legislation

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?

We will not keep your personal information for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we collect it unless we believe that the law or other regulation requires us to preserve it (for example, because of a request by a tax authority).

When it is no longer necessary to retain your data, we will delete the personal information that we hold about you from our systems.

YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW TO CONTACT US

As noted above, you have the right to withdraw consent or object to our processing of your data. You also have the right to seek information on which of your personal information we hold and you can, in certain circumstances, implement your rights to erasure, rectification or restriction of our processing. Find about more about your rights here.

If you have comments, questions or requests regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us via email or write to us at Liberty, 26-30 Strutton Ground, London, SW1P 2HR.

CHANGE OF POLICY

We may amend this privacy statement from time to time. If we do, we will post a notice of the change on the Campus Accountability Mapping Project Website.

NOTE ABOUT INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS

Liberty reminds visitors that most internet service providers (ISPs) maintain records of all URLs visited by their customers. Visitors should contact their ISP for more information.
You can find more information on how to protect your privacy online here.

WEBSITE LEGAL STATEMENT

The information contained on this site gives only general guidance as to the law as it applies in England and Wales and is written for people resident in, or affected by, the laws of England and Wales only.

It should not be relied upon as an authoritative statement of the law. If you think you have a legal problem, you should obtain advice from a lawyer or adviser.

Liberty cannot guarantee that information on the site is accurate, complete or up to date. Visitors who rely on any information do so at their own risk. Availability of information is subject to change without notice.
Liberty will not be held liable (to the fullest extent permitted at law)for any loss, damage or inconvenience arising as a consequence of any use of or the inability to use any information on this site.

Within the Campus Accountability Mapping Project website, you may be provided with the option to link through to other websites or services. These other domains, apps and websites are subject to their own privacy practices and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of each and every website and application with which you interact. You visit these other websites or applications at your own risk and Liberty takes no responsibility for the contents of linked websites and links should not be taken as an endorsement.

COPYRIGHT

Content on this site is protected by copyright. The copyright owner is Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties).

Liberty encourages people to download or copy the material for personal use. Liberty does request appropriate acknowledgment of the copyright owner if material is re-published in any format.

You may not make alterations or additions to the material on this site, or use it for commercial purposes.

How we use cookies

Last updated: 8 November 2022

What ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

We use them to help administer content for visitors to the Liberty website.
We do not use cookies to track people or identify them personally.

You can find out how to change your browser’s cookie settings using this EFF guide.‍

OUR COOKIES HELP US:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you

WE DO NOT USE COOKIES TO:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions
  • You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.

Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below.

MORE ABOUT OUR COOKIES

LIBERTY WEBSITE FUNCTION COOKIES

We use cookies to make our website work including remembering your search settings.
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

THIRD PARTY FUNCTIONS

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

  • YouTube – powers the videos on our site

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

SOCIAL WEBSITE COOKIES

So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

VISITOR STATISTICS COOKIES

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies),how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc.
This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics’” programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.

We use Matomo.

TURNING COOKIES OFF

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how).

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.

Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

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