Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Rise Beyond Barriers CIC

Last Updated: 12th November 2025

Rise Beyond Barriers CIC ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and store your personal data when you visit our website, risebeyond.org.uk (the "Site"), or use our services.

We are a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales.

1. What Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information you give us: This is information you provide by filling in the contact form on our Site. This includes your name, email address, and the message you provide.
  • Usage Data (Analytics): We may automatically collect information about how you access and use the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the time and date of your visit.

2. How We Use Your Data

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

  • To respond to you: We use your name, email, and message to respond to your inquiries, comments, or questions submitted through our contact form.
  • To improve our Site: We use Usage Data to understand how visitors use our Site and to improve its functionality and user experience.
  • To send updates (with consent): If you opt-in, we may use your email address to send you newsletters or marketing communications. You can opt-out at any time.

3. How We Share & Store Your Data

We do not sell your personal data. To provide our services, we use the following third-party data processors who are contractually bound to keep your data secure:

  • Supabase: Our website's backend is hosted by Supabase. When you submit our contact form, your data (name, email, message) is securely stored in our Supabase database, hosted in the UK.
  • Resend: We use Resend as a third-party email service to send and receive email notifications related to your contact form submissions.

We take security seriously and have implemented appropriate measures to protect your data. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.

4. Your Legal Rights (UK GDPR)

Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate.
  • Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at cristian@risebeyond.org.uk.

5. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at cristian@risebeyond.org.uk.