Privacy & Cookie Policy

Save the Children Northern Fundraisers (scfnw.org.uk) is committed to protecting your personal data, whether you are a supporter, volunteer, or just surfing by.

WHO ARE WE?

The processing of your personal data is carried out by or on behalf of myself, Brian Stockdale, owner of the website domain scfnw.org.uk.

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?

If you have any questions or concerns regarding my Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal information, please contact me in the first instance via my contact form

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE OF PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY

This Privacy & Cookie Policy may change from time to time. Please visit this website section periodically in order to keep up to date with the changes in our Privacy Policy. We will notify you about significant changes  by placing a prominent notice on our website.

COOKIE CONSENT

By using our website, our social media pages (such as Facebook, Twitter), or subscribing to our services, you agree that, unless you have set your computer’s browser to reject them, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.

In order to remember that you have accepted our use of cookies, we will place a temporary cookie to remember your consent for 6 months.  For more information about how we use cookies on this site, please review our Cookie Policy below.

PRIVACY POLICY

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION?

We may collect aggregated or anonymous information when you visit our website or interact with our content

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

When visitors leave entries on the site via our guestbook we collect the data entered in the guestbook form and possibly the IP address and hostname of the visitor to help spam detection.

An anonymized 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 entry, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your guestbook entry.

The entered entry and its metadata may be sent to third parties like Akismet and Stop Forum Spam to help spam detection. Their respective privacy policies are at https://automattic.com/privacy/ and https://www.stopforumspam.com/privacy.

WE DO NOT PROCESS ‘SENSITIVE’ PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • To contact you where you have been identified as a contact person for an organisation, such as a school (if we obtain your contact details in this way, we will only use them to contact you in your capacity as a representative of that organisation unless you have separately indicated that you are happy to be contacted as an individual via our contact or guestbook forms);
  • Where we are required by law to disclose or otherwise use your information.

OTHER WEBSITES

I cannot be held responsible for the privacy of data collected by websites not owned or managed by myself, including those linked through my website.

EMAILS TERMS OF USE

Emails aren’t always secure, and they may be intercepted or changed after they’ve been sent. I do not accept liability if this happens.

COOKIE POLICY

COOKIES AND HOW WE USE THEM

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to target the content displayed to the user’s interests.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu for a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies

DO WE USE COOKIES?

Yes.

TYPES OF COOKIES

There are two broad types of cookies – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:

First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer, and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.

Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator, and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer when you visit other web sites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for web site analytics or advertising purposes.

In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached. We use both session and persistent cookies.

COOKIES IN USE ON THIS SITE

Our Cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. 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.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Some of our pages contain embedded content such as YouTube video, Twitter feed/follow or Facebook feed/likes and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. I do not govern the publication of third-party cookies. To understand more about their cookies and privacy statements, please visit the relevant sites.

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 if 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 instead of marketing spend.
We use: Statcounter.com 

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

TURNING COOKIES OFF

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

CONTENT DELIVERY

In addition for security and stability we route our website through Cloudfare servers who cache and serve our web content

Most of the cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.