The Data Protection Act
Under the Data
Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any
information we collect from you. We use appropriate
technologies to safeguard your data, and keep strict security
standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not
pass on your details to any third party unless you give us
permission to do so. We do not send you subsequent
communications unless you give us permission to do so.
What information do we collect?
We use
customer contact information from the ‘contact us’ form to
send the visitor information or materials as may be requested
by the visitor. The visitor's contact information is also used
to contact the visitor when necessary, for example, to fulfil
a query.
From time to time, our site may use an order or donation
form for visitors to request information, products, services
and make donations. We collect visitor's contact information
(like their email address), demographic information (like
their age, profession), and financial information (like their
account or credit card numbers).
Contact information and financial information from the
membership and donation forms are used to fulfil orders. The
visitor’s contact information is also used to get in touch
with them when necessary, for example to be able to fulfil an
order.
We may use online surveys and campaign form which may ask
visitors for contact information (like their email address)
and demographic information (like their post code,
organisation or age).
We use "session cookies" on our website, which store some
of the visitor’s "preferences" while they move around the
site. Cookies are pieces of data created when users visit a
website. Visitors can set their computer not to accept
cookies. Session cookies are deleted when visitors leave the
site. They do not contain any personal information about
users, and do not hold any information about which sites they
visited before the Grandparents As Parents website.
We collect log file information from all our visitors,
which we use to help make changes to the layout and content of
the site based on the way visitors move around it. Log files
allow us to record visitors' use of the site. This information
is gathered using Statistical gathering code providing us with
website usage information.
What happens when visitors link to another
site?
Grandparents As Parents website contains
links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to
our site, so visitors should always be aware when they are
moving to another site to read the privacy statement of any
site which collects personal information.
We do not pass on any personal information about our
visitors to any other site and we are not responsible for any
information posted to those sites.
Access to your information
Visitors can
check the information that we hold about them by e-mailing
us.
Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16
or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission
beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the
Grandparents As Parents website. Users without this consent
are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
Changes to this privacy policy
If this
privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated
version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures
visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how
we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share
it with other parties.
