Privacy policy: Our Power Campaign

Published: March 05, 2026

The Our Power campaign (“the Campaign”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a joint advocacy initiative dedicated to achieving a fair energy future for Scotland. This campaign is supported and led by Uplift. Uplift is not a legal entity as such but is hosted by the Social Change Nest (SCN), registered and regulated by the UK Companies House as a Community Interest Company. SCN will not be a processor or controller of the data that Uplift or its projects processes or collects.

Uplift is working in partnership with Community Energy Scotland, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Future Economy Scotland, Platform, and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland to deliver this campaign. For the purposes of the Our Power campaign, Uplift is the data controller.

Uplift’s mission is to support and energize the movement for a just and fossil fuel-free UK. We strategically resource, connect, and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production that is commensurate with the scale of the climate crisis. We put equity and justice at the heart of everything we do.

Uplift is committed to protecting the personal information and privacy of everyone we work with, including our team (including employees, consultants, associates, and interns), funders and website visitors. Under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK) (together referred to as the “GDPR”), you have a right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This policy sets out how we will treat your personal information and how it is kept secure in accordance with the GDPR.

This policy must be read in conjunction with our Data Protection Policy and our IT security policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us on info@upliftuk.org.

1. What data do we collect?

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of data:

Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views.
Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any booking or payment you make to us.
Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering your interest in one or several of our services (e.g., your email address, telephone number, address, purpose of the call and other personal information).
Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters.
Any other information that you choose to send to us.

2. How do we collect and store personal data?

Cookies

Our Power hosts websites that use “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. Some cookies are essential for a webpage to run; others are optional. You can give your consent for all cookies, only necessary cookies, or visit the preferences centre to personally choose which cookies you will allow. Please note that third party affiliates may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Movement (YourMovement.org)

We use Movement (yourmovement.org) as our primary CRM and advocacy platform. It helps us to keep our supporter information organised and to design and send our various newsletters and campaign actions. By signing up to our movement through any of the specific forms, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to Movement for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.

We will use the information you provide on the forms to sign petitions, add your name in support of the campaign, or other online actions throughout the campaign, to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us.

Social media

When you access Our Power or Uplift's social media, depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media such as Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn and associated messaging services, you may have given these services permission to share your details with us.

For example, if you register your interest in joining a campaign through Facebook, Facebook may share information such as your name and email address with us, but only where you have specifically consented. These other organisations may also receive and use personal data about your visit to our sites or social media. If you browse our site or social media, personal data they collect may be connected to your account on their site.

You may also see our advertising online and on some social media sites if you have supported us before, or if your use of these channels suggests that you would find our campaigns relevant. We use cookies to ensure that any investments we make in online advertising are as cost-effective as possible.

Pixel tags

A pixel tag is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of a website, which enables cookies to be downloaded to your browser. Pixel tags register when a particular computer and/or mobile device visits a particular page, allowing a particular user to be identified across various sites, and for targeted adverts to be served to that user across the various websites they visit.

Controlling pixel tags: Pixel tags are not stored on your computer or mobile device. If you disable cookies, the pixel tag will only detect an anonymous website visit.
Facebook pixel code: Facebook pixel code is a tracking pixel which matches users anonymously with their Facebook ID, enabling re-marketing, analysis, and reporting of our advertising campaigns.

Hashed lists, social media and web advertising

We may share your personal data for the purpose of targeted marketing through social media advertising so that they can determine whether you are a registered account holder with them. We may also share your personal data as part of an exclusion list for our ad campaigns, which helps us target new people for the campaign, rather than targeting people who have already engaged with us.

When sharing information with platforms like Facebook, we will upload “hashed” personal information to their Ads Manager. The platform then matches the hashed personal data with profiles in their database to create a "Lookalike audience." The hashed data is typically deleted shortly after the matching process and not used for any other purpose. If you wish to prevent this use of your data, you can adjust your settings via the social media site.

The Electoral Register

We may collect personal data indirectly from the Electoral Register (including the Open Register). We use this information under the lawful basis of Public Task to verify constituent information, cross-reference our internal supporter data, and ensure our advocacy and democratic engagement efforts are targeted accurately at the correct Scottish constituencies.

ManyChat & Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services such as ManyChat to communicate with you via automated messaging platforms (e.g., Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp). This allows us to provide instant campaign updates or help you take actions via social media. We may also use other third-party digital tools to help us analyze our audience or facilitate supporter communication. We will only do this with providers who meet our required privacy standards.

3. Events

Should you be attending an event (in person or online) which is hosted by Our Power, or where we are acting as co-host, data collected upon registration will be processed on one or more of the following platforms: Movement, Zoom, Eventbrite. We will retain data collected upon registration for a minimum period of two years but this will only be used in relation to event administration. We will not contact you for future marketing purposes unless you have consented to receive such information.

4. How will we use your personal data?

Personal data submitted on our various websites will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the websites.

We may use your personal information to:

Our Power Communications: Send you email notifications, newsletters, and campaign updates specifically relating to the Our Power campaign which you have requested or signed up for;
Uplift & Wider Campaigning: Send you communications relating to Uplift and our broader family of campaigns (such as those relating to a just transition, oil and gas, the environment, climate change, natural disasters, energy affordability) which we think may be of interest to you;
Support & Payments: Send statements and receipts to you, and collect payments or donations from you;
Administrative Messaging: Send you general (non-marketing) communications and answer your questions about our campaigns;
Statistical Analysis: Provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
Engagement & Publication: Where you submit information for publication (e.g., signing a public petition), we will publish that information in accordance with the license you grant us;
Enquiries: Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.

We will not sell or rent your personal data with third party organisations. We may share your personal data with third party organisations for specific purposes e.g. delivering to you a service in collaboration with other agencies or foundations, only after collecting your consent.

5. Your rights

Where Uplift is using your personal information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. You also have the right to ask Uplift to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

Right to be Informed: You have the right to be told how your personal information will be used.
Right of Access: You can request a copy of the information we hold on you.
Right of Erasure: You have the right to be forgotten (data deletion).
Right of Rectification: You have the right to ask for records to be updated.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to ask for processing to be restricted during disputes over accuracy.
Right to Data Portability: You may request to transfer your data to another service provider.
Right to Object: You have an absolute right to stop the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, and a right to object to processing based on Public Task or Legitimate Interest.

6. Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures identified elsewhere in this policy, we will disclose information about you only when required to do so by law.

7. Security of your personal data

We take appropriate measures to ensure that any personal data is kept secure, including measures to prevent data from being accidentally lost, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure; any transmission is at your own risk.

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