What we collect
Your Story submissions: what you type into the form — your account of what happened, the county and age band you choose, and an email address if you choose to give one. Submissions go into a private moderation queue. Nothing is published without review, and nothing identifying is published without your explicit consent.
Help requests (Get Help): your account of the situation, a required email address, and the optional name, county and deadline you give. These can describe discrimination, work disputes or personal difficulty, so we treat them with extra care: help requests are never published, never quoted, and never used in campaign material — not even anonymised. Access is limited to the site owner.
Supporter registrations (Get Involved): your name, required email, optional organisation, link and professional registration number, what you’re offering, and the visibility you chose (public or private).
Email: if you email us, we hold your address and message to reply and to keep a record of the correspondence.
Analytics and cookies: this site currently sets no cookies and runs no third-party analytics.
What we do with it
- Review story submissions for publication, in anonymised form unless you explicitly agree otherwise.
- Contact you about your submission, request or registration if you provided an email and asked us to.
- Review help requests and — only with the sharing consent you gave on the form — make an introduction: we share your message and email address with one vetted supporter at a time, by an email you are copied on, so you always see exactly who received your details. We share nothing with anyone else.
- Contact supporters about campaign matters, and vet them (for legal professionals that includes checking the public professional register).
- List supporters publicly only after a separate written confirmation from you — the form tick alone never lists anyone, and private registrations are never named anywhere.
- Compile anonymised, aggregate patterns from story submissions (e.g. “x submissions mention promotion processes”) for campaign material. Help requests are excluded from this entirely.
We take no referral fees and pay none — introductions are free or they don’t happen. We do not sell data, share it with third parties for marketing, or use it for anything beyond the campaign purposes above. Data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore) in accordance with their security practices; introduction emails live in the campaign mailbox and are covered by the same deletion rights below.
Your rights (UK GDPR)
You can ask us at any time to show you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it entirely — including a story, help request or supporter registration you submitted and later think better of. Email hello@backbonebritain.uk with “data request” in the subject line. If you’re unhappy with how we handle it, you can complain to the ICO.
Retention
Unpublished story submissions are deleted after 24 months. Help requests are deleted when your case closes or after 12 months, whichever comes first. Supporter registrations are kept while your offer stands and deleted when you withdraw it; public listings come down promptly when you ask. Published stories stay up until you ask for removal — your story remains yours.