The Health Lottery operates on behalf of The Health Lottery Foundation, PO BOX 8109, Daventry, NN11 1JA. Promoter: Delva Patman.
We take the security of your information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how and why we gather your personal information and how we protect and process your data. The Health Lottery is the controller for the personal information we process unless otherwise stated. We are registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and our registration number is Z2211065.
Any changes that we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be available on our website. Where appropriate, we will notify you of these changes.
We process personal information provided to us for the following reasons:
The information you give us will include your name, address, date of birth, e-mail address, username, password, answers to security questions, phone number, financial and payment card information.
This information will be provided by you when you register to use our website, play our games, enter a promotion or correspond with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise filling in forms on our website, app or through our retailers.
We process personal information that is not directly provided by you, for the following reasons:
If it is not disproportionate we’ll contact you to let you know we are processing your personal information.
The information we collect means that we can:
We use third-party data processors, people who do not work for us directly, who provide elements of services for us. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will hold it securely and retain it in line with our retention periods.
In some circumstances, we are legally obliged to share information.
We may be requested to share information with:
Your information will also be made available to service providers carefully chosen and operating under a contract with us:
The security of your information is taken very seriously and our site is regularly audited independently to protect our data.
We use reasonable physical, technical and administrative measures to safeguard the personal information you provide through the Sites or in connection with our products and services.
The Health Lottery site is accessed using https rather than http ensuring that all sent and received information is encrypted.
Please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit on or through the Sites and you do so at your own risk.
The Health Lottery website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or electronic device when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us to:
We do not use cookies to:
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:
Granting us permission to use cookiesThe use of cookies on our website is governed by Cookie Law. This is known as the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations or PECR for short. We must tell you if and how we use cookies, hence this notice, and the choices you have in controlling the use of cookies on your devices.
Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect, as detailed in the ‘Our cookies help us to’ section above.
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Social website cookies
Please review the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks, they are outside of our control.
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you.
We use:
Advertising cookiesCookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither we nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
We use:
Remarketing cookiesYou may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves, pay for these adverts. We use these adverts to offer special offers to encourage you to come back to our site.
How to manage cookies!You can usually control cookies by adjusting your browser settings in order to:
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted or anonymised (so that it can no longer be associated with you) and used for research or statistical purposes. In some circumstances you may be entitled to ask us to delete your data: see ‘Your rights’ below for further information.
You have the right: