The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative is an initiative hosted at and coordinated by the FIA Foundation.
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The FIA Foundation is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (No. 4219306) and a registered UK charity (No. 1088670) of 60 Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DS.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies not only to the website (the "Site") which is run by the FIA Foundation (“FIA Foundation”, “we” or “us”), but also applies to those situations where you contact us directly, whether through the website or using other means. In this Policy we explain how the FIA Foundation collects, uses and discloses personal information about you, and will provide you with contact information (see Section 10 below) should you want more information about how we process your personal information.
In some instances (for example for specific campaigns), we may collect further personal information about you. On those occasions we may provide you with a separate privacy notice which will provide you with further details about our use of your personal information in relation to that campaign and which is appropriate in those specific circumstances (where this is legally required). In such instances, that specific privacy notice will apply to the collection of that further personal information.
When you visit our Site, we will automatically collect certain standard internet and website log information and details of patterns about how you use the Site. The information we collect is:
While some of the above listed information is not your personal information, we consider that it is important to let you know about all of the information which we collect and process when you visit our Site. We use this information to better understand and improve how our Site works, to better understand which portions of our Site are the most visited, and how you got to our Site. This information helps us to improve our Site, and your experience whilst visiting it.
In addition to the above information, the Site also uses cookies. Cookies are files that store information on your hard drive or browser that mean that our Site can recognise that you have visited the Site before and which are used to facilitate access to the Site, to tailor your experience of the Site and to allow you to move through processes including the payment processes on the Site. They make it easier for you to maintain your preferences on the Site (including by remembering your log in details when you access the members area of our Site), and, by seeing how you use the Site, we can tailor the Site around your preferences and measure usability of the Site. You can find out more information about the different types of cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use cookies to:
The specific cookies which we use on our Site are listed below:
Cookie | Name of cookie | Type of cookie (session/persistent) |
Purpose of cookie | First or third party |
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- | ELOQUE | Persistent | To manage user session on the website (persistent as cookie is still being fired once user leaves the website) | First |
Google Analytics | _utma | Persistent | To calculate new and returning visitor statistics. It is used by Google Webmaster and Analytics | First |
_utmc | Persistent | Counts duration of a session/visit by a user (persistent as cookie is still being fired once user leaves the website) | First | |
_utmt | Persistent | To throttle request rate | First | |
_utmz | Persistent | To collect information anonymously about how visitors use the site | First | |
_ga | Persistent | To distinguish users | First | |
_b | Persistent | Cookie for contents sharing | First | |
_pinterest_cm | Persistent | Cookie for contents sharing | Third | |
_pinterest_pfob | Persistent | This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site, so Google Analytics can tell where visitors came from when arriving on the site | Third | |
csrftoken | Persistent | Cookie for contents sharing | Third | |
mp_ec105c7498f02195 cf3c945a | Persistent | Cookie from Mixpanel setting by Pinterest | Third | |
Pinterest-AdmissionToken | Persistent | Enables Pinterest functionality | Third | |
act | Persistent | Allows you to control the "Follow us on Facebook" and "Like" buttons | Third | |
csm | Persistent | Allows you to control the "Follow us on Facebook" and "Like" buttons | Third | |
datr | Persistent | Allows you to control the "Follow us on Facebook" and "Like" buttons | Third | |
fr | Persistent | Allows you to control the "Follow us on Facebook" and "Like" buttons | Third | |
p | Persistent | Session cookie (persistent as cookie is still being fired once user leaves the website) | Third | |
c_user | Persistent | Contains the user ID of the currently logged in user | Third | |
i_user | Persistent | Contains the user ID of the currently logged in user | Third | |
lu | Persistent | Used to manage how the login page is presented to the user | Third | |
presence | Session | Session cookie | Third | |
xs | Persistent | Values contained within the XS cookie are: the first portion is an up to two-digit number representing the session number; the second portion is a session secret (makes users sessions anonymous) ; the third, optional, portion is a secure flag, which is used if the user has enabled the secure browsing feature. | Third | |
_twitter_sess | Persistent | Used by Twitter services, to monitor referral links, and login status. | Third | |
auth_token | Persistent | This cookie saves information about the authentication token that a user uses to connect | Third | |
guest_id |
Persistent | "Follow Button" Twitter plugin is used to help market the business using Twitter. The plugin detects whether a user is logged in to Twitter when he visits a website and uses this information to present either a "Follow" or "You Follow" message with various other details from Twitter. The plugin creates four Third Party cookies - pid, _twitter_sess, kdt, guest_id- if a visitor accesses the site when not logged into Twitter, and a further cookie if accessed while logged on to Twitter. | Third | |
YouTube | PREF | Persistent | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | Third |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Persistent | A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old. | Third | |
use_hitbox | Session | The use_hitbox cookie increments the ‘views’ counter on the YouTube video | Third | |
YSC | Session | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video | Third |
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies. You may delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings (click “Help” in the toolbar of most browsers for instructions or review the cookie management guide produced by the Interactive Advertising Bureau – www.allaboutcookies.org.) If you do so, some of the features and services of the Site may not function properly. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all Sites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The Site allows you to interact with the FIA Foundation in many ways, such as providing you with our contact telephone number and email address or the “Subscribe/Sign up” page which allows you to sign up to receive email communications and updates about project activity, progress and other news from the Foundation. If you do choose to contact us in any way, and, in doing so, provide us with your personal information, we will collect that information for our own use and for the purposes described in more detail below.
Participation in any of the FIA Foundation’s campaigns – we will collect the following personal information:
Where a campaign involves the participation of children, we will collect the above information in relation to both the child and parent/guardian as appropriate in certain circumstances via a consent form tailored to the specific campaign event.
The personal information which we collect from you is used to respond to any communication or enquiry which you have sent to us. Alternatively, where you have subscribed to receiving copies of our publications, we will use your personal information to provide that information to you.
Where you choose to subscribe to receive our newsletters, or otherwise contact us (whether through the Site, or by using the contact information in the Sites to do so), we will collect the following personal information from you:
If you choose to contact us by telephone, we will also collect the following information:
As part of our follow-up contact with you, depending on the nature of your enquiry, and only where you choose to provide it, we will collect the following additional personal information about you:
the name and address of the company you work for; and
details of the sector in which you currently work.
The personal information which we collect from you is used to respond to any communication or enquiry which you have sent to us. Alternatively, where you have subscribed to receiving copies of our publications, we will use your personal information to provide that information to you.
The personal information which you provide us is provided on a voluntary basis, and is information which we receive directly from you. Where lawful to do so, we will also collect personal information about you from public sources (such as social media feeds), third party service providers, individuals who you have indicated have agreed for you to provide their personal information, government, tax or law enforcement agencies and other third parties.
The FIA Foundation will never sell your personal information once it has been collected and is being processed.
Where the FIA Foundation has collected your personal information through this Site, or as a result of communications with you, that personal information will only be used in accordance with this Policy. In the event that you have provided personal information to us as part of a particular campaign or programme, your personal information will be processed in accordance with this Policy, unless we provided an additional privacy notice to you relevant to that campaign or programme. In which case, that specific campaign or programme privacy notice will apply to our handling your personal information.
In terms of this Site, and our general communications with you, we will use your personal information for the following purposes:
Data Protection law requires that we have a legal basis for processing your personal information. In this regard, we rely on one or more of the following three lawful bases for processing personal information:
Your personal information will only be made available for the purposes mentioned above (or as otherwise notified to you from time to time) to staff who properly need to know these details for their functions within the FIA Foundation.
Your personal information will be made available to third parties (within or outside the FIA Foundation) providing relevant services under contract to us. Our service providers can be divided into the following categories of third parties:
Please note: The Site includes links to third party. We are not responsible for the personal information collected and/or processed on those third-party websites. As such, if you leave the Site, you should ensure that you have read that website’s privacy policy to understand what they may do with your personal information.
The personal information we collect is not transferred to and stored in countries outside of the UK and the European Union.
Relevant senior management or other individuals working for us may in limited circumstances access personal information outside of the UK and European Union. If they do so they will be using our security measures and will be subject to their arrangements with us which are subject to English Law and the same legal protections that would apply to accessing personal data within the UK.
In limited circumstances the people to whom we may disclose personal information as mentioned in the section “Disclosure of personal information” above may be located outside of the UK and European Union. In these cases, we will impose any legally required protections to the personal information as required by law before it is disclosed.
If you require more details on the arrangements for any of the above, then please contact us using the details in the “Contacting us” section below.
You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you. In order for us to comply with such a request, we may require you to prove your identity before we are able to commence with any work associated with such a request, both for your security and to ensure our own compliance with data protection laws.
As well as the right to access the personal information that the FIA Foundation holds about you, you have a number of other rights in respect of your personal information under the data protection laws. These may include (as relevant):
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, or if you would like to contact the FIA Foundation in respect of its data processing activities, please contact FIA Foundation at either 60 Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DS or via privacy@fiafoundation.org.
Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the specific purposes outlined in this Policy and to allow us to comply with our legal requirements. The criteria which we use to determine personal information retention periods include:
If you have any further questions regarding our holding of your personal information, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 7 above.
We keep this Policy under regular review. We may change this Policy from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices. The date at the bottom of this Policy will be updated accordingly.
Where required by law, we will notify you of any modified versions of this Policy that affect the way we use or disclose your personal information.
This Policy only extends to your use of the Site and your communication with the FIA Foundation through the contact methods as set out on the Site. As noted above, in some instances we may provide you with additional privacy notices in relation to certain projects and/or campaigns that we may run. In such instances, the terms of those project/campaign specific privacy notices will apply to our processing of your personal information.
You have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office, the Supervisory body in the UK for data protection – https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us using the below contact methods:
By e-mail: privacy@fiafoundation.org
By writing to us at:
FIA Foundation, 60 Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DS
25 May 2018 (version 1)
11 October 2023 (version 2)