Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 September 2024

1) WHO ARE WE

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of climate and health commitments made by governments worldwide. 

This website (www.lancetcountdown.org) is legally owned and operated by the Lancet Countdown (“The Lancet Countdown”, “we”, “us”, “our”). The Lancet Countdown’s registered office is Institute of Global Health, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TJ.  

The Lancet Countdown respects confidentiality and the privacy of our online visitors. This Privacy Policy is designed for individuals whose personal data The Lancet Countdown collects in their capacity as visitor to the Lancet Countdown website. It explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, when we may share this data and how we keep it secure. 

2) WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT

We may collect and process the following information about you: 

• Information that you give us: This is information about you that you give to us by:  

• • (i) making use of our website and the options on our website (e.g. contacting us for information or help). It may include, for example, your name and email address. 

• Information that our website and other systems collect about you: 

• • If you visit our website third parties (Analytics) will collect some information about you and your visit, such as your browser type and version and the pages on our site that you visit. Analytics will not collect the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet. You can ask Google to provide an extraction of your data related to the Lancet Countdown website. 

• • Our website may also download “cookies” to your device – this is described in our cookie statement (below) 

• Information that third parties collect about you on our website by performing actions: 

• • This is information about you that you give to third parties (such as Facebook, Google and X) by making use of the social network sharing buttons and widgets available on our website. 

• Information that third parties collect about you on our website by browsing it:  

• • This is information about you recorded / tracked by third parties just by making use of the website itself, such as navigating from one page to another (this event will be tracked) or by viewing an embedded YouTube video (if you are logged in to YouTube)  

3) LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

Our processing of your personal information is necessary: 

• For the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us. 

• In order to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject; or 

• For the performance of contracts to which you will be a party to and in order to take steps at your request prior to you entering into those contracts. 

4) LEGITIMATE INTEREST

Where our processing is based on the legitimate interest grounds described above, those legitimate interests are: 

• Collecting personal information to provide you with a smooth and efficient experience; 

• Running our organisation; 

• To provide the services you have requested; 

• For our own marketing, research and development. 

6) HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of data to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal data on our systems for as long as is necessary for purposes set out above, or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required. 

7) INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We may disclose personal information about you where we have obtained your consent or where it is reasonably necessary for the various purposes set out above: 

• to Lancet Countdown centres which are based in the region you took action from on this website; 

• to service providers who host our website or other information technology systems or otherwise hold or process your information on our behalf, under strict conditions of confidentiality and security; 

• to judicial authorities or other public authorities, in case our legal or moral responsibility compels us to do so; 

• or litigation counterparties, in any country or territory, although only if we are legally required to do so and have no satisfactory basis or prospect to challenge disclosure. 

These disclosures may involve transferring your personal information overseas. If you are dealing with us within the European Economic Area, you should be aware that this may include transfers to countries outside the European Economic Area, which do not have similarly strict data privacy laws. In those cases, we will ensure that our arrangements with them are governed by data transfer agreements or mechanisms, designed to ensure that your personal information is protected. 

8) YOUR RIGHT AS DATA SUBJECT

At any time, you have the right: 

• to request access to or a copy of any personal data which we hold about you; 

• to ask for a rectification of your personal data, if you consider that it is inaccurate; 

• to ask us to delete your personal data, if you consider that we do not have the right to hold it; 

• to withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data (to the extent such processing is based on previously obtained consent); 

• to ask us to stop or start sending you marketing messages (e.g. our newsletters) at any time by using the below contact details; 

• to restrict processing of your personal data; 

• to data portability (moving some of your personal data elsewhere) in certain circumstances; 

• to object to your personal data being processed by us on legitimate interest grounds and other certain circumstances; and to not to be subject to a decision based on automated processing and to have safeguards put in place if you are being profiled based on your personal data. 

Any request from you for access to or a copy of your personal data must be in writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in compliance with data protection legislation. We will comply with our legal obligations with regards to your rights as a data subject. 

9) COOKIES

“Cookies” are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit the site. GAIN uses Cookies for our own internal purposes, to track how users navigate through our website. 

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. The “Help” or “Internet Settings” functions within your browser should tell you how. Please be aware that if you select to refuse or restrict cookies this may impact on the functionality of our website. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. 

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used (in particular Google Analytics). This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our site in order to tailor it to user needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes; these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals. 

We use information resulting from cookies in order to: 

• ascertain how users are using our website and if we can improve user experience; 

• facilitate users’ ability to navigate through the website; 

• personalise the services we offer by understanding your preferences and by establishing which areas are most relevant to you.

10) THIRD PARTIES

We use a number of third-party providers to support our communications approach. Each of these services sets its own cookies and privacy policy when using their platform. 

• We use Google Analytics to track website usage and YouTube to host videos. You can read Google’s privacy policy here. 

• We use social media platforms such as X and LinkedIn to reach audiences. These platforms also allow us to target audiences with paid advertising. You can read X’s privacy policy here, and LinkedIn’s privacy policy here. 

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy or notice of every website you visit. 

11) CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review, and it may be periodically updated. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page – please check back from time to time. If there are significant changes to this Notice, we will use reasonable efforts to contact you directly to inform you through the appropriate means. This Privacy Policy was last updated in September 2024.  

12) CONTACT US

We welcome questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy statement and our processing of personal information. 

Please contact us via email at info@lancetcountdown.org or write to: 

The Lancet Countdown  

Institute of Global Health 

90 Tottenham Court Road 

London 

W1T 4TJ