Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy – For Detained and Previously Detained People

To understand how we can help you, our staff and volunteers often ask you about your private situation. This can include asking about your health or if you have had any involvement with the criminal justice system. We may ask about many aspects of your personal circumstances and your history to support you and to see if there are other organisations that could help you.

We will keep all your information completely private. We will not disclose your information to anyone else unless you have agreed to this in advance or we think this is necessary for your safety. GDWG does not agree with the use of long-term administrative detention because of a person’s immigration status. This means as well as offering practical help to individuals in detention, we are an organisation which calls for an end to indefinite immigration detention. To support this work we gather information about the use and effects of immigration detention.

We may include your anonymised information in statistical and/or anonymised research. We are careful to ensure that no such information is published in a way that could identify you. We will not use any information that could identify you in any way, for any purpose, without your express permission in advance except where we have serious Safeguarding concerns. In that instance only we will disclose the minimum information necessary to the appropriate authority to seek to safeguard your welfare.

We try to keep our information about you up to date and accurate so please contact us if you think we have misunderstood or made a mistake when dealing with your information. We will keep your information for six years since your last contact with our staff. After this date, your information will be erasedo understand how we can help you, our staff and volunteers often ask you about your private situation. This can include asking about your health or if you have had any involvement with the criminal justice system. We may ask about many aspects of your personal circumstances and your history to support you and to see if there are other organisations that could help you.

We will keep all your information completely private. We will not disclose your information to anyone else unless you have agreed to this in advance or we think this is necessary for your safety.

GDWG does not agree with the use of long-term administrative detention because of a person’s immigration status. This means as well as offering practical help to individuals in detention, we are an organisation which calls for an end to indefinite immigration detention. To support this work we gather information about the use and effects of immigration detention.

We may include your anonymised information in statistical and/or anonymised research. We are careful to ensure that no such information is published in a way that could identify you. We will not use any information that could identify you in any way, for any purpose, without your express permission in advance except where we have serious Safeguarding concerns.  In that instance only we will disclose the minimum information necessary to the appropriate authority to seek to safeguard your welfare.

We try to keep our information about you up to date and accurate so please contact us if you think we have misunderstood or made a mistake when dealing with your information. We will keep your information for six years since your last contact with our staff. After this date, your information will be erased.

How you can request a copy of your data

You can email us at info@gdwg.org.uk to request a copy of your personal data.

How you can request that we delete your data

You can email us at info@gdwg.org.uk to request data deletion.  We will delete as much of your data as we are permitted to. Some data may need to be retained longer for legal purposes.