At the Fortune Favours The Brave Group Ltd (FFTB), we respect the privacy of visitors to our website (https://www.fftbgroup.com/). This policy addresses how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have over your personal information.

FFTB is the only representative organization for people from african and caribbean backgrounds in live events, media and advertising. Our aim is to attract and retain our talent into the live events and media & advertising sectors and provide a support community for our members

We are a not for profit organization so any money earned or donated is used in pursuing our objectives to help minority talent thrive.

This policy explains how we collect, manage, use and protect your personal information, and the document may change from time to time to reflect the latest review. 

Please use the sections below for more details on how and why we use your personal information:

• Who are we?

• How and why we use your personal information

• Legitimate interests

• Sharing your information

• Retaining your information

• Your details on the web

• What are your rights?

 

Who are we?

In this policy, references to the Fortune Favours The Brave Group Ltd (FFTB) such as we or us are referring to FFTB. 

How and why we use your personal information

What we need

FFTB will usually collect basic personal information about you such as your name, postal address, telephone number, email address where required

Why we need it

We collect your personal information to keep you informed of news, to provide you with services, and for other activities, such as updates and feedback. You don't have to disclose any of this information to browse our site. However, if you choose to withhold some information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services.

Our marketing

Sometimes, with your consent, we will process your personal information to provide you with information about our work or our activities.

On other occasions, we may process personal information in which we are required to do so by law or other regulations.

FFTB also processes your information when it is in our legitimate interests and when these interests do not override your rights. Those legitimate interests include providing you with information on our campaigns, services, feedback and other activities. 

How we obtain your details

We will also hold information about your details so that we can respect your preferences for being contacted by us. We collect your personal information in several ways: 

• When you provide it to us as part of an opt-in request.

• When you provide permission to other organizations to share it with us.

• When we collect it as you use our website.

• When you have given it to a third party and you have provided permission to pass your information on to us.

• From publicly available sources (where possible) to keep your information up to date.

 

Anything else?

If you would like to change the way you hear from us or no longer wish to receive communications from us, then please contact us using the information below or on our Contact Us page. 

 

Legitimate interests

We have a number of lawful reasons that mean we can use your personal information. One of these is something called 'legitimate interests'. Legitimate interests means we can process your personal information if we have a genuine and legitimate reason and we are not harming any of your rights and interests.

Sharing your information

We do not share your information with any other organizations unless we are obliged to by law, for purposes of security, taxation and criminal investigations and in the following instances:

• If you have agreed that we may do so.

• We may disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors, supporters, customers and sales to describe our services and operations to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics won’t include any personally identifying information.

Retaining your information

We hold your information only as long as necessary for each reason that we use it. If you decide not to support FFTB any more or request that we have no further contact with you, we will keep some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future.

 

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of the website you visit.

What are your rights?

You have a number of rights about how the personal information you provide can be used. These are:

• Transparency over how we use your personal information (right to be informed).

• The ability to request a copy of the information we hold about you (right of access).

• Update the information we hold about you if it is wrong (right of rectification).

• Ask us to stop using your information (right to restrict processing).

• Ask us to remove your personal information from our records (right to be 'forgotten').

• Object to the processing of your information for marketing purposes (right to object).

• Obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes (right to data portability).

• Not be subject to a decision when it is based on automated processing (automated decision making and profiling).

If you would like to know more about your rights under the data protection law, you can find out more by visiting the Information Commissioner's Office website (www.ico.org.uk). 

How to contact us

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal information, you can contact the Head of Membership who will investigate the matter. If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal information in accordance with the law, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

If you wish to talk to us about anything in our privacy policy, find out more about your rights or obtain a copy of the information we hold about you, please contact us:

 

By email – https://www.fftbgroup.com/contact 

This document was last updated: March 2023

 

Legitimate interests

The new data protection requirements have a number of reasons by which we can use the personal information you provide to us. One of these is called ‘legitimate interests'.

This means that we have the potential to use your personal information if we have a genuine and legitimate reason and we are not harming any of your rights and interests. 

When you provide your personal details to us, we may use your information to keep you informed of news and events from the FFTB. Before doing this, we will carefully consider any potential impact on you and your rights.

The main reasons we would use your personal information in this way would be when we might use the approach for preventing fraud, direct marketing, maintaining the security of our system, data analytics, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our campaigns.

 

How we may use your personal information

• Direct Marketing: We will send postal or email marketing which further the aims and objectives of the FFTB. When you have been a member or attended one of our events we are keen to keep you informed of our other news and events.

• Online subscription (if applicable): In order for us to process your membership subscription, payment has to be taken and contact information collected, such as name, delivery address and telephone number.

• Your best interest: Processing your information to protect you against fraud when transacting on our website, and to ensure our website is secure.

• Personalisation: Where the use of the information enables us to personalize, enhance or otherwise improve our services and communications for the benefit of our members.

• Analytics: To use your personal information for the purposes of customer analysis, assessment, profiling and direct marketing, on a personalized or aggregated basis, to help us with our activities and to provide you with the most relevant information as long as this does not harm any of your rights and interests.

• Research: To determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising and to develop our products, services, systems and relationships with you.

• Due Diligence: We need to undertake due diligence on potential customers and business partners to determine if those companies and individuals have been involved or convicted of offences such as fraud, bribery and corruption.

We will also hold information about you so that we can respect your preferences for being contacted by us.

Your interests

Before we use your personal information for our legitimate interests, we will always consider any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection legislation and any other relevant law. Our legitimate business interests do not automatically override your interests – we will never use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

Remember, you can change the way you hear from us or withdraw your permission for us to process your personal details at any time by contacting us. 

 

Last Review Date: March 2023

 

Privacy policy: Cookie policy

 

This policy explains what cookies are, how FFTB uses them and what you can do to manage how they are used.

Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies help us make our website work, improve the speed and security of the site, allow you to share pages with social networks and make our marketing more efficient.

If the settings on 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. 

How long do cookies last?

When a web server sends a cookie, it asks your browser to keep that particular cookie until a certain date and time. These dates can be a date in the future, when you close your browser or a date in the past.

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions.

• Helps the website to know when you have access to certain parts of the site

• There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Anonymous visitor statistics cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, how long they spend on the site and what page they look at. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to develop our services. 

Social website cookies

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.

Turning cookies off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings. Doing so, however, will likely limit the functionality of our website.