Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following information through our website:

Contact details such as name, telephone number and email address
Information submitted through contact forms or enquiries
Information relating to donations, fundraising or event registrations
Newsletter and marketing preferences
Technical information such as IP address, browser type and website usage data collected through cookies and analytics tools

How We Use Your Information

We use personal information to:

Respond to enquiries and requests
Provide information about our services and activities
Send newsletters or marketing communications where consent has been provided
Improve our website and services
Meet legal, regulatory and safeguarding obligations

Lawful Basis for Processing

We process personal information under one or more of the following lawful bases:

Consent
Legitimate interests
Legal obligations
Performance of a contract
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw this at any time.

Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

Retention of Information

We only keep personal information for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected, including to meet legal, accounting and safeguarding requirements.

Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have rights including:

The right to access your information
The right to request correction of inaccurate information
The right to request deletion of your information in certain circumstances
The right to restrict or object to processing in certain circumstances
The right to withdraw consent where consent is relied upon
To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details below.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): Make a complaint | ICO

Cookies

Our website may use cookies and analytics tools to help improve user experience and monitor website performance.

You can control cookies through your browser settings.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Caching

This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.