1. Background

Cost of Living ("We" or "Cost of Living") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This statement (together with our terms and conditions) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

2. About Cost of Living

Cost of Living is a service providing data-driven insights, visualizations, and analysis about housing, property, wages, and economic conditions. We are committed to ensuring the privacy and protection of all personal data processed through our service.

3. Data Protection Principles

We comply with data protection law. This requires that personal data we hold about you must be:

• Used lawfully, fairly, and transparently
• Collected only for valid purposes clearly explained to you
• Relevant and limited to those purposes
• Accurate and kept up to date
• Kept only as long as necessary
• Kept securely

4. Cost of Living as a Data Controller

Cost of Living is a data controller for the following purposes:

5. How do you keep my data secure and confidential?

We are committed to ensuring that your data is secure with us and with any third parties who act on our behalf. We have security precautions in place to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your data. All data is protected whether it is held in paper or electronic format.

6. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?

We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected and in accordance with legal obligations. In general, your data will be retained for no longer than is necessary to comply with our business and legal obligations.

7. Do You Share My Personal Data?

We use cookies and similar technologies to facilitate our Services in retrieving your user preferences; to personalize your visits; for the operation of our website; to collect statistical information about our visitors for analytical purposes; to simplify any sign-in procedures; understand user numbers, demographics and interests; and to provide social media features.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

8. How and Where Do You Transfer My Personal Data?

Your data is stored and processed primarily within the European Economic Area (EEA). If we ever need to transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information.

9. How Can I Access My Personal Data?

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it. This is known as a "subject access request."

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email address shown below.

If at any stage the data you have provided changes (e.g., change of email address), Cost of Living should be notified in writing so our records can be updated.

10. Automated decision-making

We do not use automated decision-making processes that would have a legal or similarly significant effect on you based solely on automated processing.

11. How Do I Contact You?

To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please contact: elliott@costofliving.org

12. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our practices in a way that affects personal data protection.