Our Privacy Policy
Fair Processing Statement
At Carers of West Dunbartonshire, we take your privacy very seriously. When registering with our organisation – with your permission – we will add you to our database. We will only use your personal information to support you, e.g. from time to time, we may contact you about services or support that we think will be of benefit to you or the person that you are caring for. If you are happy for us to contact you for this purpose, we will generally do this in writing. If we are referring you to another organisation, we will not share your details without first getting your permission to do so. We may also be asked by our funders for information about the people that use our services. This can help us attract funding and develop services. When providing this information, we will only share specific data sets, e.g. ethnicity, postcode or gender. We will never share your name.
Online Privacy Policy
Carers of West Dunbartonshire (“Carers of West Dunbartonshire“) operates www.carerswd.org as its only website. It is Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Carers of West Dunbartonshire collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Carers of West Dunbartonshire may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Carers of West Dunbartonshire also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on www.carerswd.org blogs/sites. Carers of West Dunbartonshire only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s website choose to interact with Carers of West Dunbartonshire in ways that require Carers of West Dunbartonshire to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Carers of West Dunbartonshire gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, if we were to ask visitors to sign up at www.carerswd.org, they would be required to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Carers of West Dunbartonshire are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Carers of West Dunbartonshire collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Carers of West Dunbartonshire. Carers of West Dunbartonshire does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Carers of West Dunbartonshire may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. Carers of West Dunbartonshire may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Carers of West Dunbartonshire does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Carers of West Dunbartonshire discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s behalf or to provide services available at Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country. By using Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Carers of West Dunbartonshire will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Carers of West Dunbartonshire discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Carers of West Dunbartonshire believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Carers of West Dunbartonshire, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Carers of West Dunbartonshire website and have supplied your email address, Carers of West Dunbartonshire may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Carers of West Dunbartonshire and our services. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Carers of West Dunbartonshire takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Carers of West Dunbartonshire uses cookies to help Carers of West Dunbartonshire identify and track visitors, their usage of Carers of West Dunbartonshire website, and their website access preferences. Carers of West Dunbartonshire visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Carers of West Dunbartonshire, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Carers of West Dunbartonshire goes out of business or enters bankruptcy; user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Carers of West Dunbartonshire may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads or external links to other sites appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Carers of West Dunbartonshire and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Carers of West Dunbartonshire may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s sole discretion. Carers of West Dunbartonshire encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a www.carerswd.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.