Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
The following information outlines A TIME LTD and SHAS-A-THON privacy policy and legal disclaimer.
Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on A TIME and SHAS-A-THON website, this website is referred to in this Policy as A TIME and SHAS-A-THON website.
A TIME and SHAS-A-THON regards the privacy of those who use this website as very important. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information is collected about you and how we may use it. A TIME and SHAS-A-THON processes personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This policy may change from time to time, so please check this page periodically.
Contents:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you?
2. How your information is used
3. Who has access to your information?
4. How you can access, update or delete your information
5. Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
6. Use of 'cookies' on the website
7. What are cookies used for?
8. How to control cookies?
9. How to unsubscribe from emails
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you?
When you visit the website, A TIME and SHAS-A-THON collects your IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. An IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet. We also collect any information that you may choose to give voluntarily, such as, but not limited to: contact details and history, interests, donation history, data protection consents etc.
If you make a donation online or purchase a product from us, your card information is collected by FirstData but is not held by A TIME and SHAS-A-THON.
From time to time, we link to, or embed, external content from third-party websites (e.g, YouTube) within our website. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that applies to such third-party content will be published on the website of that third-party content provider. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of these third party websites and your use of them is at your own risk.
2. How your information is used
As well as using it so we can send you communications that you have requested or information about activities that may be of interest to you, A TIME and SHAS-A-THON may use your personal information to help us understand more about how our site is used so that we can improve it, along with the quality of our services. We may also use your information for marketing purposes and appeals and promotions, and to give you details of our fundraising, promotions and campaigns.
3. Who has access to your information?
A TIME and SHAS-A-THON, organisations affiliated to A TIME and SHAS-A-THON and organisations acting on A TIME and SHAS-A-THON behalf are the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to third parties without your express consent.
From time to time, where you have given consent, we may want to contact you about other A TIME and SHAS-A-THON services and products or pass your details to other companies affiliated to A TIME and SHAS-A-THON or that help us provide our services, or, similar organisations.
When you are using our secure online donation pages, your donation is processed by FirstData who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, email [email protected]
If you do not want to continue receiving information by email from us, you can unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected]
4. How you can access, update or delete your information
The accuracy of your information is important to A TIME and SHAS-A-THON. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that A TIME and SHAS-A-THON holds about you.
If you change your email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, you may access your account online to update your information.
If you want to remove all information A TIME and SHAS-A-THON holds about you, you should email us by sending an email to [email protected]
5. Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
When you give A TIME and SHAS-A-THON personal information, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely. Any sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details) is encrypted and protected.
Information transmitted over the Internet can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure during transmission. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, A TIME and SHAS-A-THON cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we use our best endeavours to ensure that it is secure on our systems.
6. Use of 'cookies' on the website
Like many other websites, this A TIME and SHAS-A-THON website use cookies. 'Cookies' are small text files created by your web browser and saved on your computer. Most cookies are session cookies, lasting only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No data is collected from cookies from which you can be personally identified.
7. What are cookies used for?
Cookies are used to help us to improve services for you through, for example: measuring how many people are using each page of the site and their duration on the site so that we can try to improve the quality of our website; enabling you to view content shared on other sites e.g. YouTube; A unique ID to track your session from page to page, which is vitally important should you sign into the site;
If you are making a donation, the site may use 2 session cookies. 1 is for normal shop pages and 1 is for encrypted / secure pages. Inside the cookie the site only stores the session-ID to be able to save the content of the donation while you browse through the pages. When the customer closes his browser the cookie is deleted.
Certain cookies are persistent, meaning that they last beyond your session, enabling an enhanced user-experience when you return to the site. Anon-exhaustive list of examples of the use of persistent cookies may includes: The option to “Remember my username” when signing-in to the site; The use of Google Analytics to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Google Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed. The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.
8. How to control cookies?
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Disabling cookies may restrict some functionality on our website. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer please visit www.aboutcookies.org
Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our sites.
9. How to unsubscribe from emails
If you do not want to continue receiving information by email from us, you can unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected]
If at any time you have a question about anything contained in this statement or a general query on privacy, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
