This privacy policy explains how The Tulip Community collects and processes any personal data about you when you visit our websites, including any data you may provide through this website or through direct email communications. Our website is and this privacy policy relates to TheTulipCommunity.com and any linked domain variations of The Tulip Community that are owned and operated through the brand including the Tulip Mapping Project.
In this privacy policy, “personal data” means any information about an individual either living or dead, from which that person can be identified, such as your name and contact details or an accident victims details and supplementary information. For the purpose of this policy we refer to www.thetulipcommunity.com and its databases collectively known as ‘the website’ or ‘we’.
This privacy policy should be read together with any other privacy policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.
We will only process personal data where the law allows us to, and by providing us with personal data you are consenting to the terms of this policy.
Your personal data will be processed in compliance with the UK GDPR (meaning the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union(Withdrawal) Act 2018 ) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “Data Protection Legislation”).
We keep our policy under regular review. We may update or change this policy or parts of it to maintain our compliance with the Data Protection Legislation or following an update to our internal practices. You will not necessarily be directly notified of such a change, therefore, please ensure that you regularly check this policy when you use our products and services to ensure that you are fully aware of any changes or updates.
We may collect various personal data from you in order to process it for a number of different purposes, including to enable us to manage our operations, to provide goods and services to you, for our legitimate interests or to comply with our statutory obligations. We collect personal data only from the information you submit in communications with us during the course of your relationship with us.
If you give us personal data about other individuals, you confirm by giving us such personal data that the third party has given consent for you to transfer their personal data, that the data is in the public domain, or that you have another lawful basis in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation to send it to us.
In the case of personal details of an accident victim including imagery, you confirm by giving us such personal data that you are acting as or on behalf of the 'next of kin' in respect of a fatality, or that you have another lawful basis which allows you to provide us with such data, and that data is free of any copyright.
By legitimately providing us with personal information of the victim of a fatal accident, you always remain the owner of the information you have provided and can request that the information provided is removed from our website at any time in the future. Any information displayed will then revert back to data which is provided within publicly available police statistics, or is available within public domain bona-fide news services.
• Full name
• Email address
• Landline or mobile number
• Mailing or billing address
• Accident victim details and imagery
• Any personal data you send us via email, or website contact form
Our website does not knowingly collect any data through the use of cookies or tracking program code embedded within any webpages on our websites. Your IP address is not recorded and no personal data is knowingly shared with any advertisers, affiliates or third parties.
We hope that you find this policy open and transparent, but if you have any requests regarding your personal data processed by us or complaints regarding the use of any data displayed or stored under this policy please contact the data officer by email on gdpr@thetulipcommunity.com stating your concerns. If your concern is about personal details that are displayed on the website mapping project pertaining to an accident victim, please state your relationship to the victim within your communication and we will do what we can to resolve your concerns.
You do have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), please visit www.ico.gov.uk for full guidance and contact. We would, however, be grateful if you would contact us in the first instance so we can endeavour to deal with your concerns directly.