Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

The TCS Foundation (Tomorrow's Changed Society) is a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales, Company No. 16493374. Our registered address is 2 Beards Hill Close, London, TW12 2AH.

We are the data controller for personal information collected through this website. If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, contact us at enquiries@thetcsfoundation.org.

2. What personal data we collect

We may collect the following personal data:

• Contact form submissions — your name, email address, and the content of your message.
• Email correspondence — when you contact us directly by email.
• Technical data — IP address, browser type, and pages visited, collected automatically when you use our website (see Section 6 on Cookies).

We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as information about ethnicity, health, or religion) unless you voluntarily provide it in a message and it is necessary to respond to your enquiry.

3. How we use your data

We use personal data for the following purposes:

• To respond to enquiries and requests submitted through our contact form or by email.
• To provide information about our programmes and services where you have asked us to.
• To improve our website and user experience using aggregated, anonymised analytics data.
• To comply with our legal obligations.

4. Legal basis for processing

We rely on the following lawful bases under UK GDPR:

• Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — for responding to enquiries and maintaining the security and functionality of our website.
• Consent (Article 6(1)(a)) — where you have opted in to receive communications from us.
• Legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)) — where we are required to process data to comply with applicable law.

5. How long we keep your data

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary:

• Contact form enquiries are retained for up to 24 months to handle any follow-up and to maintain a record of programme interest.
• Email correspondence is retained in line with standard email retention practices and deleted when no longer needed.
• Website analytics data is retained in anonymised form.

6. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for full details of which cookies we use, why we use them, and how you can control them.

7. Sharing your data

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We may share data with:

• Service providers — such as our web hosting provider and form processing services (e.g. Netlify or Formspree), who process data on our behalf under data processing agreements.
• Legal authorities — if required to do so by law or in response to a valid legal request.

We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA without ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place.

8. Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure — ask us to delete your personal data where there is no longer a lawful reason to hold it.
• Restriction — ask us to limit how we process your data in certain circumstances.
• Portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format where processing is based on consent or contract.
• Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Withdraw consent — where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, email us at enquiries@thetcsfoundation.org. We will respond within one month.

9. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority:

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
www.ico.org.uk · 0303 123 1113

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will reflect any changes. We encourage you to review this page periodically.