The Six Acts project empowers people to take the initiative for designing a more effective democracy. Our Privacy Policy outlines how we obtain information from you and what we do with it. It also explains the choices you can make to control your privacy when you use The Six Acts.
When you sign or create a petition via our SixActs.org platform, an account is created for you; all of your activities on SixActs.org are then tied to this account. In the chart below, we’ve detailed the information we may collect about you, depending on your activities on the platform, and how we obtain this information.
| What we collect | How we collect it |
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| Your name. | We require you to provide a chosen name when you create a Six Acts account. |
| Your email address. | We require you to provide an email address when you create a Six Acts account. |
| A password. | We require you to enter a password when you create a Six Acts account. |
| Your IP address. Your “IP Address” is a designator that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). | An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you use our platform and services, along with the time of your visit and the specific page(s) that you visited. |
| Your post code. | We will ask you for your postcode when you register for a Six Acts account. This enables us to compile demographic data based on city and area and will be used purely for sociological research. You will not be profiled or targteted for marketing or commercial interests and we will not share or sell this information with third parties. Providing a postcode is required to use the service. |
| Your country. | We will ask you for your country when you register for a Six Acts account. This enables us to compile demographic data based on city and area and will be used purely for sociological research. You will not be profiled or targteted for marketing or commercial interests and we will not share or sell this information with third parties. Providing a country is required to use the service. |
| The name and type of the browser you use to access Six Acts. | Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows PC or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the SixActs.org platform you are using. Collecting this information helps us build and deliver the best possible version of SixActs.org to you. |
| Your social media account ID, and information shared with us via your social media account. | We may obtain certain information through your social media accounts connected to your Six Acts account, if you choose to link them. Linking a social media account is not required to access the service. For example, if you log in to Six Acts via Facebook, we ask for your permission to access certain information about your Facebook account, activities and friends. Social media sites make information available to all apps through their API, such as friend lists. The information we receive depends on what information you or the social media site decide to give us. |
| Information collected through cookies as disclosed in our linked Cookies Policy. | We, and/or our service providers may use cookies, pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs), and other similar technologies to understand user activities. Like other websites, Six Acts will not function properly if cookies are not enabled. We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). These analytics services may use cookies and similar technologies to analyze how people use our services and provide statistical reports about aggregate user behaviour. Such services may also collect information about platform visitors’ use of other websites. Please review our Cookies Policy for detailed information on the cookies we use, and how you can manage these. |
Some of the information above reveals your specific identity, or is directly tied to your specific identity, such as your name and email address. Some of this information does not reveal your specific identity, or does not directly relate to you, such as your browser and device information or information collected through cookies. If we ever combine non-personally identifiable information with personally identifiable information, the combined information will be treated by us as personally identifying information and protected accordingly.
Our services are not directed to people under the age of sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Here are the ways we might use your information to run our platform, and compile better content.
We and our service providers may use your information for legitimate interests for societal benefit by providing a poll platform that enables people to make suggestions for changes to the way we conduct democracy. Our legitimate interests are explained below, alongside examples of how your information may be used for these purposes.
| Purpose | Examples |
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| Providing the functionality of our platform. We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you. |
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| To fulfill your specific requests through the platform. We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you. |
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| Accomplishing our business purposes. We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, because we have a legitimate interest, and/or with your consent. |
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Here we outline who may receive your information when it is shared either by you via the platform, or by us.
• All information you post on our platform in the form of reform proposals and comments will be visible to other users. If you choose to send messages or connect with others through our platform about submissions you have submitted, voted for or shared, you disclose your personal information to the recipient of your message. Our platform provides an open forum for communication by users all around the world. We do not monitor, verify, or perform any background check on submitters of reform proposals, voters, or other users of Six Acts.
• We consider an online voting platform to be a public expression of support for an issue. Therefore, your name, general geographic location (postcode, country), and a link to your SixActs.org user profile may be displayed on the landing page for any reform proposal you submit, and on related areas of our platform. This information will be viewable to any visitor, including the media, search engines, and other organisations that provide archival internet activities. If you do not wish to have your vote or submission for a reform to be public, we recommend you do not participate in the poll.
• Your first name, last name, country and/or postcode, and the day that you voted or submitted a reform proposal will be visible to administrators and moderators of the site. This is extremely important for moderators to demonstrate the legitimacy of respondents and to contact you with questions about your submission if necessary. If you do not wish to have this information shared with site administrators and moderators please do not participate in the poll.
• You may share your activities on Six Acts with friends on other social media sites, for example, sharing a petition you signed on Facebook. To do so, you must connect your Six Acts account with your social media account. In such case, you authorise us to share information with your social media account provider, and you understand that the use of the information we share will be governed by the social media site’s privacy policy. If you do not want your information shared with other social media users or with your social media account provider, please do not connect your social media account with your Six Acts account and do not use the social sharing features on the platform. For more details on how you can edit or remove the permissions you have granted to Six Acts to use information from your social media accounts, please see Section 4c “Your Privacy choices, social media”.
• You may voluntarily share information on discussion boards. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to other Six Acts users, social media platform users and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose any information about yourself via the social sharing features of our platform. For more details regarding posting content to our platform, please see our Terms of Service.
We may use and disclose your personal information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:
• Fraud prevention: We may use and disclose the information we collect from and about our users as we believe necessary to investigate, prevent, or respond to suspected illegal or fraudulent activity or to protect the safety, privacy, rights, or property of us, our users, or others.
• Law enforcement purposes: If requested or required by government authorities such as law enforcement authorities, courts, regulators, or otherwise to comply with the law (which may include laws outside your country of residence), we may have to disclose information we have about our users. We also may use and disclose information collected about you in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend against legal claims.
When you vote or submit a reform proposal via our Six Acts platform, an account is created for you. Your account will not be visible to the public. Your name or user ID will appear publicly on any reform proposals you submit and your votes will be recorded for internal use to ensure that you only vote for any proposal once. We may still send you important administrative messages (such as questions or alerts about your reform submission).
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, or delete personal information that has been previously provided to us by you, you may contact us directly by email thesixacts@gmail.com and ask us to specify what personal information we have about you and to delete certain personal information about you from our records, or request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law). Please let us know what information you would like us to remove from our databases or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your personal information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will respond to your requests consistent with applicable law, and we will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that in order to delete all of your information we will also need to delete any reform proposals you have submitted or voted on, along with any votes corresponding to a reform proposal that you have submitted.
You can edit or remove the permissions you have granted to Six Acts to use information from your social media accounts by using your application privacy settings on your social media account If you have signed in to Six Acts through Facebook connect, you are likely to have been cookied by Facebook. You can modify or change those cookies through the settings on your Facebook account.
We have provided details on the cookies we use and instructions for how you can opt out of these in our Cookies policy.
We take a lot of measures to protect your personal information. If you suspect someone else is using your account, let us know by contacting thesixacts@gmail.com We seek to use reasonable organisational, technical, and administrative measures to protect your personal information within our organisation from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration and/or destruction. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify our Data Protection Team by contacting thesixacts@gmail.com
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you, our legal obligations or whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Six Acts is a UK-based initiative, so if you are not a UK resident your information may be transferred across borders when you use the Platform. We have put in place measures to comply with laws regulating cross-border transfers. By using the platform you consent to the transfer of your personal information to the UK which may have different data protection rules from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in the UK may be entitled to access your personal information.
We’re not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties linked to from our Platform. This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which our services link. Our inclusion of a link on our services does not imply our endorsement of the linked site or service.
This policy may change over time. We’ve included here our contact information, but the best way to get in touch with us is via our email thesixacts@gmail.com
We may change this Privacy Policy. The “Effective Date” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our platform.
We welcome questions, concerns, and feedback about this policy. If you have any suggestions for us, feel free to let us know by contacting us via our email thesixacts@gmail.com
You can also write to the following address:
Six Acts
Flat 408, 41 Old Birley Street
Manchester M15 5RE
United Kingdom