Privacy Policy
Who we are
Bristol Hackspace is administered by Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C. (Company No. 7071572). Our registered address is:
Our websites are bristolhackspace.org, bristolhackspace.org.uk, and bristolhack.space, as well as their associated subdomains.
Web Visitors
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on our sites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, maps etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact forms
Any data submitted through our contact forms or public facing email addresses will be directed by secure email to the appropriate volunteer staff to respond to your inquiry, and used solely for the purpose of fulfilling your request. We will also store information submitted by your browser such as IP address and User Agent for 14 days for the purpose of spam prevention.
Accounts
Should you create an account on any of our sites we will hold account data for the lifetime of the account. Any content you create on our sites becomes licenced to Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C. under a CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence in perpetuity. Deleting your account will not remove any published content or its licence but may affect our ability to accurately credit your work.
Members
Should you become a member we will hold information you provide for the duration of your membership. This includes information we are required to hold about our members by law, and information needed to contact you.
If you choose to pay by Direct Debit your payments will be processed by GoCardless, see their privacy policy here for more information.
Upon becoming a member we will add you to our Lettermint mailing list, and our members-only forum hosted by Discourse. Please see Lettermint’s privacy policy here and Discourse’s privacy policy here for further information.
Some limited information about you may be shared with our volunteer staff (such as inductors on a specific tool) where needed for administrative purposes.
Your Data
What rights you have over your data
All our websites provide the option to delete your account should you wish to do so.
Upon termination of your membership we will delete any membership information we hold about you within 28 days, unless you request us not to (if you wish to resume your membership in future for example). This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Termination of your membership does not automatically delete accounts on our wiki or forum, but will remove you from our Mailing lists and any other members-only areas. Deleting your account will not remove any published content or its licence but may affect our ability to accurately credit your work.
If you require a copy of data we hold about you or the deletion of your data please request this in writing to “Bristol Hackspace Data Compliance” at the registered address listed above. We will respond to your request within 28 days of receipt of a valid request. Please note for data protection we will need to confirm your identification prior to releasing any data we hold.
How we protect your data
All data we hold is protected as per industry standard best practice. In the unlikely event of a breach of security of your personal data we will follow the Information Commissioners Office reporting requirements according to the severity of the breach.