Cookie & Privacy Policies

CGLN (“We”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

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1. Data we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

a) Identity data including name and contact details (postal address, email address, phone numbers)
b) Profile data including organisation and organisation details

Within the Membership Portal, Named Members have control of editing the following Profile data:

• Profile summary (About yourself)

• Title

• First and last name

• Job title

• Phone number

• Website URL

• LinkedIn link

• Membership type

• Area of interest

• Country in which you are based

• Business interest

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As a Named Member your Profile is by default set as Hidden meaning you will not appear on the Membership Directory. You have the option to make your Profile available to the Directory – this is advised to maximise from the benefits of CGLN.

Within your Profile, you are also able to turn on the Private Messaging functionality so other Members can contact you via the CGLN platform. This is also advised to maximize from the benefits of CGLN.

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c) Financial data including credit card details
Card payments are not processed on a page controlled by us. We use an online payment service provider who encrypts your card details in a secure environment.

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d) Technical data including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and pattern and does not identify any individual

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e) Marketing and communications data including preferences in receiving marketing, attendance at events

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f) Website usage data including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.

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2. How is this Data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through;
Direct: You may give us your Identity, Financial and Profile data by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or face-to-face interaction.
Automated: Technical data is compiled through your interaction with our website. We collect this data by using Cookies. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.
Third-Party: We may receive data about you from third parties and public sources:
• Identity data from agents based inside or outside the EU
• Identity data from publicly available sources such as Companies House based inside the EU

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3. Where we store your Personal Data?

Data that we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the United Kingdom (“UK”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the UK who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

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4. How we use your Personal Data?

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

• To notify you about changes to our service

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5. Will CGLN share my Personal Data with anyone else?

We may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers contracted to The Clean Growth Leadership Network Ltd over the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide you on our behalf. 

If we wish to pass your sensitive personal data onto a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your consent unless we are legally required to do otherwise.

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6. Disclosure of your Personal Data

If The Clean Growth Leadership Network Ltd or all of its assets are acquired by a third party, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. In this case, personal data held by it about its Members will be transferred.

Under the following circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties:

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a) In order to process Membership data and in the management of the CGLN, Salamanca Group Holdings (UK) Limited (registered number 08679805 with registered address 3 Burlington Gardens, London, W1S 3EP) has been subcontracted to perform some of these tasks and your data will be shared with Salamanca Group Holdings (UK) Limited and Salamanca Group LLP and employees for both companies.

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b) If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Clean Growth Leadership Network, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

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7. Your Rights

We will stop sending you marketing communications at any time on receipt of an email from you asking us to do so. However, this does not mean your personal data will be deleted. You can ask us to Delete your Account and all your personal data, and you will automatically receive an Account Deletion email from the Membership team.

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Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data; requesting access, correction, erasure, objection to processing, requesting restrictions or transfers, and a right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@cgln.earth

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8. Access to Information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.

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9. Marketing and Promotional Offers

We may use your Identity and Profile data to form a view on what we think you may need or what you may be interested in.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you are a Member and if you have not already opted out of marketing. This is necessary for our legitimate interests to develop the CGLN and for you to get the most out of the network.

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10. Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. This version was last updated in February 2021.

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11. Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@cgln.earth.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. However, we would appreciate you contacting us in the first instance to deal with any concerns. We will respond to all legitimate requests within one month.