The Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project is working to secure the outstanding wildlife interest of the Bristol side of the Avon Gorge and Clifton and Durdham Downs and to raise awareness and understanding of this unique location and its importance for people and wildlife.

The Project is a partnership of Bristol City Council, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Natural England, University of Bristol, the Society of Merchant Venturers, Downs Committee, and Bristol Zoological Society. The project has three roles: wildlife monitoring, habitat management and education.

The Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project education programme is managed by Bristol Zoological Society. Bristol Zoological Society is a conservation and education charity, which runs and operates Bristol Zoo Gardens and the Wild Place Project.

Registered Address: Bristol Zoological Society Ltd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HA

Company registration: 5154176

Charity registration: 1104986

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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The ‘legal basis’ is our reason under data protection law for having this information. You can find out more about these at https://ico.org.uk

When we are providing you with a product or service your personal data is held under the basis of contract. We will only ask for the information we need and will only use it for administration and provision of the product or service.

To develop what we offer to participants and as part of our education sessions, we use data for analysis, including customer comments and feedback. The basis for this is legitimate interest. Whenever possible, data is anonymised for these purposes.

In some areas we have a legal obligation to keep data such as on purchases and incident reports.

For other areas we will ask for consent – this means we would like to use the information for a specific stated purpose and are asking your permission. If you give your permission it is only for this purpose, and you may withdraw permission at any time.

We collect information to process your booking. If you contact us with queries or feedback, we will use your information to respond. If you agree, we will email you with events or activities which may be of interest to you.

Marketing

We would like to send you information about future events which may be of interest to you. If you have given permission for this, you may withdraw this at any time by contacting us. We do not share your information with other organisations for marketing purposes.

Medical information

Some events require us to obtain medical and emergency contact information. This helps us ensure that all participants are safe to take part. In the unlikely event of an incident they allow us to contact a suitable person and to pass essential information on to emergency services.

In most cases these forms are destroyed at the end of the event or experience. If there was an incident, the form would be kept with the incident report which is stored for 5 years as part of our Health and Safety records.

• We have to keep all data relating to purchases and other financial transactions for 6 years for our tax records.
• Incident reports are kept for 5 years for our health and safety records.
• Medical information forms are destroyed at the end of the day they are needed, unless there has been an incident, or it will be needed for a future event and you have asked us to keep it on file instead of giving a new one.

Customer feedback and complaints are kept for 3 years from the year of contact.

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of the information we hold, please email mleivers@bristolzoo.org.uk or write to Avon Gorge & Downs Biodiversity Education Manager, Learning Department, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HA

We want to ensure that your information is correct and up to date, so you are also entitled to ask us to update or remove information which you think is inaccurate.

You have the right to request that we remove your information from our records, or stop using it for particular purposes. We will do this wherever possible, with the following exceptions:

• If restriction would prevent us providing a service you have asked for (e.g. booking) and you still wish to receive the service
• Where we have a legal obligation to retain the information
• There may be other situations where our business interests require  us to keep your data, and we will advise if it is not possible to remove your data entirely in our response

We review and update our policies regularly, and any update will be made available on our website.

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you.

• By email at mleivers@bristolzoo.org.uk
• By mail at Avon Gorge & Downs Biodiversity Education Manager, Learning Department, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HA