Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in compliance with data protection laws in order for you to understand how our website and electronic communications collect and make use of personal information. We rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis for collecting, storing or using any data about you.

Our website address is: https://whitstablecommunity.org

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information and provide anonymised tracking date to third party applications like Google Analytics.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser on how to do this.

Visitor data

Similar to other websites, our website utilizes server logs to collect information about how our site is used. This may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP (Internet Protocol) address.

We only use visitor  information for the purposes of monitoring overall traffic to our website. We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will any information be sold or otherwise disclosed or transferred to third parties without your prior approval.

Embedded content

Our website may contain embedded content from other websites, which behaves as if you have visited the other website, including the collection of data about you, use of cookies and additional third-party tracking.

External links

Whitstable Community contains links to websites operated by third parties under different privacy policies. Should you choose one of these links, you will be leaving our website and this privacy policy will no longer apply.

Email communication

If you choose to contact us via email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online. This also applies when you register for our website by signing up through our joining form using your or your organisation’s email address.

If you upload images to the website via the joining form, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, lease or otherwise disclose email addresses to third parties, and we will not provide your personal information to any third party individual, company or government agency at any time unless legally compelled to do so.

In order to respond to a given request by you, we may be legally obliged to ask you to supply certain information. While there is no statutory obligation to provide us with the required data, we may not be able to fulfil your request without it.

You can ask us at any time to provide you with a copy of any information we hold about you, why we are storing it and what we are using it for. You can also request either the amendment or deletion of any information we hold.

We may email you from time to time to help us improve our website and the service we offer. Any email sent by Whitstable Community will be from the website’s email address.

You can contact this address to opt out of receiving emails at any time.

Changes to this policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time. However, if our privacy policy changes in the future, we will not use any personal information that you have already submitted in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this privacy policy, without your prior consent. We will remain committed to ensuring that confidentiality of personal information is protected.

If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us.