Garden Organic Privacy Notice


This is the privacy notice of Garden Organic. Garden Organic is the working name of the registered charity Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA).

In this document ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’ refers to Garden Organic and its wholly owned subsidiaries Organic Enterprises Ltd and Garden Organic Ltd. It includes all of our programmes operating under any of Garden Organic’s sub-brands e.g. Master Composter, Master Gardener.

This notice also covers projects we jointly run in cooperation with other partners where Garden Organic acts as a joint data controller. 

Garden Organic is the UK’s leading organic growing charity, dedicated to researching and promoting organic growing. Garden Organic’s purpose is to get as many people as possible growing organically. Our registered charity numbers are 298104 (England and Wales) and SC046767 (Scotland). Our company number is 2188402.  Our ICO registration numbers are Z8463885 and Z8330422.  

Garden Organic is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold, whether you are a member, donor, volunteer, supporter, beneficiary or service user.

The purpose of this notice is to provide clarification on how Garden Organic uses the personal information given to us whether that’s online, via the phone, via email, in letters/other correspondence or from data provided to us by third parties.

We ensure that we use your information in accordance with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information. This notice explains:

•    What information Garden Organic may collect about you;
•    How we will use that information;
•    Whether we disclose your details to anyone else;
•    Your choices regarding the information you provide to us; and
•    How we use cookies to provide services to you or to improve your use of our websites.

If you have any queries about this privacy notice or how we process your data please refer to our ‘How to contact us’ section at the end of this notice.