SAY Women Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement was written in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998
and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 setting out how and why we obtain,
use and protect your personal information.
SAY Women is committed to providing a comprehensive support service to young
survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape/sexual assault, who are homeless or risk
homelessness aged 16-25. SAY Women is a company limited by guarantee and
recognised as a charity by the Inland Revenue, registered in Scotland (No: SC016526).
We are determined to be transparent about how we collect, store and use your personal
information and to use your personal information in accordance with all applicable laws
concerning the protection of personal information.
What type of information do we collect?
1.1 SAY Women has a number of services which process personal information in
accordance with this privacy policy. In supporting survivors of sexual violence we
collect sensitive information from the following services:
SAY Women’s Accommodation Service
SAY Women’s Emotional Support Service
SAY Women’s National Training
SAY Women’s Trauma Informed Education Service
1.2 SAY Women is permitted by law to collect personal data if it is used by the
organisation for the legitimate business interest of the organisation and for a clear
purpose. In broad terms, our ‘legitimate interest’ means our interests in being able
to run SAY Women’s services and support sexually abused young women eectively
thereby achieving our objectives. SAY Women will always ask for your explicit
consent to store personal information and tell you what we do with that information.
We do not sell any information about you to third parties, and your information is
always kept safely and securely. We will only collect the minimum amount of data
necessary for our legitimate interest. With your consent, we may also share
information with external support services where we have agreed data sharing
agreements, in order to operate our support services.
How we collect information:
2.2 SAY Women collects personal data e.g. your name, support needs, postal and email
addresses, when you give this information to us for various purposes. We may collect
information if you are referred to one of our support services, or complete an
application to take part in group work, training, or to volunteer with us. We may also
collect information for various purposes such as: if you donate to SAY Women, sign up
for an event, or apply for a job with us. We may also receive information about you from
third parties such as a referral source or websites such as Just Giving. Information
about you or your support needs is only received from third parties if you have given your
consent for this information to be passed on to SAY Women.
2.3 We will only send you marketing information electronically (e.g. by email, text/SMS,
social media) if you specifically agree to us doing so. You can change your marketing
preferences at any time by emailing enquires@say-women.co.uk or calling us on 0141
552 5803. If you ask us to stop sending marketing information we will update our
records to stop further mailings as quickly as possible. However, for up to 28 days you
may still receive further mailings which were already in progress prior to you asking us to
stop. We may send marketing information by post or call you for marketing purposes,
unless you have previously opted out or said that you don't want to be contacted. We
gather information about traic to and on our website and social media pages to
improve the sites and for marketing purposes.
2.4 We carry out data matching on people who support us through donating, fundraising
or campaigning. This means that we will combine information you have given us, such
as your postcode, with information from other sources. Consent 3. If we rely on consent
to process your data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. You can request a
copy of personal information that SAY Women has stored about you from our Data
Protection oicer. There may be a fee for this information. Once we have received your
request we will respond to you within 30 days.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact our Data
Protection Oicer in writing at SAY Women, 3rd Floor, 30 Bell Street, Glasgow G1 1LG, or
by email enquires@say-women.co.uk.
This Privacy Policy was last updated April 2026.