Privacy notice

Who we are

This notice covers our pages on cornwallconservatives.co.uk and the forms on them. The data controller is North Cornwall Conservative Association, Camelford Conservative Club, Market Place, Camelford PL32 9PB, registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under number ZA285083. We are part of the Conservative Party.

The rest of the website is run by Cornwall Conservatives, the Party’s county office, and its county privacy notice covers the county pages.

What we collect

We only collect what you type into our forms: your name, email address and message when you contact us, and, if you offered to volunteer through the website before 23 October 2026, your postcode, how you’d like to help, and your phone number and a message if you gave them. If you sign up for our emails, we keep your email address and your agreement.

If you buy a ticket for one of our events, Ticket Tailor (Zimma Ltd, London) takes your booking for us, and Stripe or PayPal takes your payment. We receive your name, email address and booking details.

To stop automated spam, the website keeps a scrambled form of your internet (IP) address for one day. We can’t read your address back from it.

Political opinions

Contacting a political party, or offering to help one, may show your political opinions. The law treats that as special category data, and we handle it with extra care. We rely on UK GDPR Article 9(2)(g) and the Data Protection Act 2018, Schedule 1, paragraph 22, which allows a registered political party to use this information for its political activities. We won’t use it in a way that is likely to cause you substantial damage or distress, and we’ll stop if you ask us to.

Why we use your details

• To reply to you, and, if you offer, to arrange volunteering. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in answering people and organising our volunteers.
• To run our events, when you book a ticket. Our lawful basis is the contract you make when you book.
• To send you our news and campaign emails, only if you’ve agreed. Our lawful basis is your consent. You can withdraw it at any time, using the link in any of our emails or our contact form.

Who sees your details

Your form is emailed to our association, or to the county office on our behalf, so someone can reply. If you contact the county office and ask to be put in touch with us, it passes your message to us. Other parts of the Conservative Party may see it where they need to, for example to arrange volunteering in your area. We never pass your details to anyone outside the Conservative Party for their own use, unless the law requires us to.

The website is hosted for us by services that handle your details only on our instructions. The county privacy notice lists them, and explains how your details are protected when they go to the United States. It also explains how the website counts visits and measures how quickly it loads: in totals only, with no cookies, and not at all if your browser asks not to be tracked.

How long we keep it

• The website deletes its copy of each form after 90 days.
• We keep your message, and our replies, for two years after we were last in touch.
• We keep ticket bookings for six years, as our financial records.
• We keep your email sign-up until you unsubscribe.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your details, ask us to correct or delete them, ask us to limit how we use them, object to how we use them, or withdraw your agreement to emails. To do any of these, use our contact form, or write to us at the address above. We’ll reply within a month.

Complaints

If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your details, please tell us first, using our contact form. We’ll confirm we’ve received your complaint within 30 days, and tell you what we’ve done about it.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at any time.

Changes to this notice

We’ll update this notice when anything changes. The date at the top of the page shows when it was last changed.