Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01/09/25

1 Introduction and General Terms

Seablade CIC (Community Interest Company) is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy and Cookies Policy relates to our use of any personal information we collect from you via our website and hard copy forms.

It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence and in person.

This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains the following:

what information Seablade CIC may collect about you and how we will use such information we collect
when Seablade CIC may use your details to contact you
whether Seablade CIC will disclose your details to anyone else.
your choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.

Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information. No website can be completely secure: if you have any concerns that your data could have been compromised, please get in touch straight away by emailing [email protected]

The Seablade CIC website may contain hyperlinks to websites and social media sites owned and operated by third parties. These third-party websites (which may be Seablade branded) have their own privacy policies and are also likely to use cookies, and we therefore urge you to review their privacy policies. They will govern the use of personal information you submit when visiting these websites, which may also be collected by cookies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites, and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2 Seablade CIC, is a fully Companies House registered company, is the owner of the Seablade project.

Our online service

The Seablade project website, www.seablade.co.uk, is run by Seablade CIC although it may be hosted by a sponsor of the project. The website is available worldwide.

3 When you participate in, access or sign up to any of Seablade CIC’s services, we may receive personal information about you.

This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, age range and whether you wish to receive newsletters or volunteer.

These services include but are not limited to:

Creating an account on our website for whatever reason
Joining as a CIC Member or via a supporter’s club whether via the website or written form
Buying merchandise, donating money, or sponsoring the project

If you are the parent or guardian of a child aged under 13 years, we may process limited personal data about you, so you can give consent for the child to access our services. We may use your contact details to communicate with you about the child’s account or use of services.

Seablade CIC may collect information about how you use the Seablade website and the device(s) you use to access our services. This includes collecting unique online identifiers such as IP addresses, which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet.

4 Seablade CIC will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

to provide our services, activities, or online content to provide you with information about the project and to deal with your requests and enquiries.
to provide you with the most user-friendly online navigation experience.
for “service administration purposes”, which means that Seablade CIC may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for (for example: to provide you with password reminders; or to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance; or to notify you of updates to our Privacy and Cookies Policy or Terms of Use);
to contact you about a submission you have made, including any content you provide.
to use IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits from different countries, and to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not.

Where Seablade CIC proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first.

5 Seablade CIC may contact you:

in relation to any service, activity, or online content you or your child aged under 13 years have signed up for, to ensure that Seablade CIC can deliver the services.
in relation to any correspondence, we receive from you or any comment or complaint you make about Seablade project.
in relation to any contribution you have submitted to Seablade CIC, for example via the contact page.
to keep you informed of Seablade CIC via newsletters or other correspondence distributed by email or by post.

6 We may offer regular emails to let you know about Seablade CIC.

These emails may contain some marketing of Seablade -related products. Seablade CIC will only send you marketing emails where you have agreed to this.

From time to time, we may also contact you to ask your views on issues affecting Seablade CIC.

7 We will keep your information within Seablade CIC. We will not share your information with anyone outside the Seablade project except:

where we have your permission.
where required to fulfil your merchandise order.
where you have requested to attend an event and Seablade CIC has engaged a third-party organiser to process ticket sales, fulfil distribution of tickets and other event-related information, manage entry to an event.

Where you have agreed to volunteer to help at a Seablade project event, we will assume you are happy to share your contact details with organisers and other volunteers unless you tell us otherwise.

8 We will hold your personal information on our systems for the duration of the Seablade project, after which it will be deleted.

9 Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Seablade holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.

For information requests, we require you to prove your identity with two pieces of approved identification (see below). We will use reasonable efforts consistent with our legal duty to supply, correct, or delete personal information about you that we hold in our files. Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy and Cookies Policy to:

The Data Protection Co-ordinator
Seablade CIC
Seabraes
18 Greenmarket
Dundee, DD1 4QB
Scotland

(Email: [email protected])

To respond to your request, we will need copies of two different forms of identification, which can be:

Utility bill (from last 3 months)
Bank statement (from last 3 months)

10 You can send a request asking Seablade CIC to delete your personal information to The Data Protection Co-ordinator at the above address

We require two pieces of approved identification to prove your identity and delete your personal information: please see section 10 above for forms of identification that we can accept.

11 Web browser and email cookies

a) What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, which is sent to your computer, tablet, or mobile phone (all referred to here as a “device”) web browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your web browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website to track online traffic flows. Similar technologies are also often used within emails to understand whether the email has been read or if any links have been clicked. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from Grafton LSR Limited website and emails.

During any visit to the Seablade website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and its user) has visited the website before, and this may enable website publishers to tailor the information you see to improve your website browsing experience. This is done each time you visit by checking for any cookies from previous visits.

b) How does Seablade use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better user experience. It also helps us recognise you and remember you when you are signed in to any services Seablade CIC may offer if you are a sponsor, for example.

c) Third party cookies in embedded content on Seablade CIC website pages

Please note that during your visits to the Seablade website you may notice some cookies that are not related to Seablade and/or Seablade CIC.

The Seablade project website uses Google Analytics to collect data about user behaviour for analysis purposes. For more information, see the Google webpage “ How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”.

To support the Seablade project, we may embed content from social media and other third-party websites. These may include YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Seablade CIC does not control the dissemination of these cookies, and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the website.

For details view our cookies policy.

12 This Privacy and Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Seablade CIC.

The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the bloodhoundlsr.com website. If material changes are made to the Privacy and Cookies Policy, for instance affecting how we would like to use your personal information, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).

13 If you any questions or comments about this Privacy and Cookies Policy, please contact:

Seablade CIC
Seabraes
18 Greenmarket
Dundee, DD1 4QB
Scotland

(Email: [email protected])

Seablade CIC/ The Seablade project, September 2025