Privacy Policy

 

Welcome to the official website of The Parish of Baildon (the “website owner”).

Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed.

The website owner is committed to protecting your privacy. Please take a moment to read this website’s Privacy Policy.  References to “we”, “us” and “our” in this Policy are references to the website owner.

This Policy describes what happens to the information which you supply to us.

All information collected is done so for order processing and for promotional reasons, you will only receive promotional material if you have joined a mailing list or requested it, all promotional material sent will provide customers with notice of their ability to opt-out of the promotional activities. We will honour our customer’s requests not to receive e-mail, mail, telephone or other solicitations. Information is collected by us through the ordering registration process, through email enquiries and through our ‘join mailing list’ form and is done so lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We recognise that the consumer marketing information we maintain must be used responsibly, in beneficial ways and with respect to individual choice.

If you are part of a mailing list and wish to unsubscribe please do so by using the unsubscribe option in the control panel within your account or unsubscribe link in the email.

We do not send random marketing emails to personal email addresses (spam).

1. In using this website, you are agreeing to the terms of our Privacy Policy.  If you do not accept these terms then, you should exit this website now.  We reserve the right to change the terms of the Privacy Policy from time to time and your use of the website following such change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change.

2. We do not collect sensitive information about you except when you specifically knowingly provide it. We do not sell, rent or exchange your personal information with any third party for commercial reasons without your consent to do so.

3. To help us tailor our site to the needs and interests of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a small entry in a text file, called a cookie, on your hard drive. The cookie contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you’ve visited. We aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other users to track overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our users. We also use cookies to make sure you don’t see that same ad repeatedly when you visit our site. Cookies don’t reveal personal information; the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies can’t read data off your hard disk.

4. Our webserver automatically collects some information about you when you request pages from our server, including your IP address. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. This information does not identify you personally.

5. By law, you are entitled to:.

(i) receive, upon payment of a fee, a copy of any personal information about you which is held by us.

(ii) require the rectification, erasure or blocking of any of your personal information which is inaccurate or not up to date held by us.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you wish to opt-out of any future processing of your personal information held by us, then please write to the contact address set out below stating your full name and address and providing any other relevant information.

6. This Privacy Policy only applies to the collection of data by us and the use of that data by us and those whom we authorise.  It does not cover third party sites to which we provide links, nor does it cover advertisers and content partners within our service who may also collect your personal information.  They may have their own privacy policies and/or terms and conditions of use.
If you choose to place your personal details on any publicly accessible page (for example, on a message board), then this data will not be covered by the Privacy Policy.

7. If any provision of these Conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provision of these Conditions and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected.

8. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information please do so in writing and send to: The Parish of Baildon, The Vicarage, Church Hill, Baildon, Shipley, BD17 6NE.

Cookie Policy

Cookies are very small text files that some websites store on your computer when you visit them. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently and remembering your preferences. We use cookies on our website to make your browsing experience better. By using this website you agree to the following policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

About cookies
Cookies consist of pieces of text, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).
A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies on this website
We use persistent and session cookies on this website.

How we use cookies
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

(1) to recognise your computer when you visit our website;
(2) to track you as you navigate our website, and to enable the use of the shopping cart on our website;
(3) to improve the website’s usability;
(4) to analyse the use of our website;
(5) in the administration of this website;
(6) to personalise our website for you.

Third party cookies
When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies. Our advertisers/service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:
(1) to track your browser across multiple websites;
(2) to build a profile of your web surfing;

In addition, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Our advertising services providers may send you cookies for the purpose of enabling the service of advertisements based on your previous visits to our website.

Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
(1) in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector;
(2) in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use the shopping cart or account features on this website.

Deleting cookies
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:
(1) in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
(2) in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.

Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Contact us
This website is owned by The Parish of Baildon. If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy, please do so in writing and send to: The Parish of Baildon, The Vicarage, Church Hill, Baildon, Shipley, BD17 6NE.