Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Compass’ relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘Compass’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 7 Cecil Road, London, N10 2BU.

The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you do allow cookies to be used, personal information may be stored by us.

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

All trademarks reproduced in this website which are not the property of, or licensed to, the operator are acknowledged on the website.

Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

PRIVACY POLICY

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE HOLD ON MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS

If you have provided it, we hold the following:

1. Your name, postal address, email address and telephone number
2. Your X, Bluesky, Facebook and LinkedIn identifiers
3. Details of payments you have made to us
4. Your bank account and sort code (if you have authorised us to take direct debits)
5. Issues you are interested in (if you sign petitions we publish)
6. Your communication preferences and consent notices
7. Your responses to our communications 
8. What, if any, political party you are associated with (if you have provided that information)
9. Survey responses such as feedback on an event or why you discontinued with your membership
10. Your membership details such as when you joined, how long you have been a member and when you lapsed
11. Details of your Parliamentary constituency so we can run our letter-writing campaigns to MPs

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

All the data we hold has been supplied by you to Compass, directly or via an online system, usually Action Network, which you have authorised to supply it to us. 

These are the ways through which we collect your data:

1. By signing up for email updates
2. By signing one of our petitions, letter writing actions, events or similar 
3. By becoming a Compass member or making a donation 
4. When applying for employment, either as a staff member or as part of our board of directors
5. By joining one of our local groups and/or taking one of their actions on Action Network
6. By sharing data with us via one of our partner or co-sponsor organisations by signing one of our campaigns via their website. Usually through Action Network.
7. By filling in a form through social media, including Facebook, Instagram and X

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We use your data for these purposes:

1. If you are a member, to manage your membership, including collecting your subscription, enabling you to exercise your membership rights (for example by voting in elections) and to provide information on the activities you are supporting. This enables us to fulfil our contract with you.
2. If you are a member or supporter (i.e. someone who has signed up for email updates), to provide you with information on our activities, including asking for financial support for them and collecting any payments you have authorised. This reflects our legitimate interests.
3. If you have made a payment to us, to keep accounting records. This enables us to meet our legal obligations.
4. If you contact us by email, we will hold the information you provide so that we can communicate with you. This reflects our legitimate interests.
5. To carry out wealth screening using our trusted third party partners. You will always have the right to opt out of this processing. This research is carried out using publicly available information.

(If you provided us with an email address before 25 May 2018 to receive information about our activities (as opposed, for example, to providing it in correspondence) we will treat that as implicit consent to receive emails from us about our activities. We will always provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of receiving further emails. From 25 May 2018 we explicitly asked for your consent to this when you provided your email address.)

WHO WE PROVIDE YOUR DATA TO

We only provide your data to other people for the purposes above as follows:

1. To our own staff, volunteers and contractors (including data processing companies) who are under a legal duty to keep it confidential.
2. To trained members who act as data processors for their local mailing lists.
3. To HM Revenue and Customs, the Electoral Commission or similar organisations, where we are required by law to do so.
4. We may use your data in connection with an activity arranged by an organisation working in partnership with us (for example, organising a conference) but we will not share your data with them.
5. We do not sell or share your data.
6. We publish information on large donations (currently over £5,000) in our annual report and accounts, in the interests of transparency of funding.
7. When required under s116 of the Companies Act 2006.

DATA PROCESSORS

To help us fulfil contracts and to pursue our legitimate interests, we share your personal information with third parties who provide services to Compass or who act on our behalf, for instance vendors, IT and other suppliers, research agencies, payment processors, financial institutions, or postal authorities that are involved in fulfilling your request.  

We do not authorise these companies to use or disclose your personal information except for the purpose of providing the service we request of them. Compass is based in the UK, but some third-party data processors will be based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

We use Stripe and Paypal to process one-off donations and recurring payments. More information on how Stripe and Paypal process your personal data and your data protection rights, including your right to object, is available at – https://stripe.com/gb/privacy &  https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub

We use GoCardless to process your Direct Debit payments. More information on how GoCardless process your personal data and your data protection rights, including your right to object, is available at – https://gocardless.com/legal/privacy/

We use Action Network as our database, email and digital tools platform. You can read their privacy policy here – https://actionnetwork.org/privacy 

We use Google Drive for our internal file storage. You can read their privacy policy here – https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB

We use WordPress as our website provider. You can read their privacy policy here – https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ 

We use Meta advertising to publicise our campaigns and to grow our supporter base. If you have agreed to receive email communications from us, we may provide your email address in an encrypted format to Meta for the purposes of identifying people with similar interests to yours who we can display our advertising to.

This data is not retained by Meta and is not used for any other purpose by them. You can opt out of your data being used in this way by contacting us at info@compassonline.org.uk. Meta’s privacy policy can be found here – https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

We analyse the use of this website using Google Analytics, which uses cookies (Please see here for our Cookies policy) to generate reports. Such cookies may contain your information, in which case Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at – http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA FOR

If you ask us to delete it, we will delete your data as soon as reasonably practicable. The only exception to this is if you have made a payment to us – in this case we will not delete your data while we are legally required to retain it in our accounting records, usually for six complete financial years.

Unless you ask us to delete it, we will keep your data for as long as we are likely to use it for one of the purposes set out above, which may be indefinitely or unless we are legally required to retain it for company or account records. In line with new policies, we will regularly delete data which we believe is no longer accurate or up to date.

YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR DATA

Whenever you ask us to, we will do the following as soon as reasonably practicable:

1. Send you a copy of any data we hold on you
2. Delete any data held on you, except where we are legally required to retain it (such as details of your membership)
3. Correct any errors in the data we hold on you, and notify anyone we have shared it with, if reasonably practicable to do so
4. Stop processing your data, while continuing to hold it, unless and until we decide we have a legitimate interest in resuming processing it that overrides your request.

We will not charge you for doing any of these things. 

Whenever we communicate with you we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of receiving communications about our activities. Communications about your existing subscription or the governance of Compass are not marketing communications and we will continue to send you these if you are a member.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or to ask for more information, please email us at info@compassonline.org.uk or write to us at: 

Compass
New Economics Foundation
10 Salamanca place
London
SE1 7HB

ABOUT THIS POLICY

We will review and update this policy from time to time. The current version will always be available here on our website if you wish to see it.

Last updated 25 March 2026.

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