Privacy statement
www.woisscouts.com and WOIS Scouts Without Frontières take the issue of privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting and respecting our users’ privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our current data processing practices and should be read in conjunction with our terms and conditions. If you have any queries or concerns regarding these practices, you should contact our at [email protected]
The only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.
When you register with www.woisscouts.com we ask for your name, email address and postcode. We usually also capture your IP address at the time you register.
We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with other parts of WOIS Scouts Without Frontières.
www.woisscouts.com may include interactive advertising for other businesses as part of the site operation. We may use, and provide to third parties, your contact details if you have given us permission to do so.
All personal information and details held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.
www.woisscouts.com will as part of it’s normal operation send out to information emails. Members can decide to ask for these emails as they register.
We reserve the right to communicate a Member’s personal information as we hold to third parties who are empowered by regulation, statute or order of a court.
We have security measures in place to protect our customer database. Access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member’s responsibility:
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
Module cookie | Module_layout1 module_layout2 module_layout3 module_open |
These cookies are used to store your personal homepage layout of the Scouts.org.uk home page. | We are working towards developing a new system that will remove the need for this Cookie. |
Session cookies | res_width res_height PHPSESSID |
These cookies are used to optimise you screen resolution for user logged in areas. These are session cookies and only last as long as you browser is open | These cookies are essential to the running of the site and member areas. |
Style cookie | style | This cookies determines you default font size for Scouts.org.uk. On the main menu of Scouts.org.uk you can increase or decrease you font size. | We are working towards developing a new system that will remove the need for this Cookie. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
YouTube cookies
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk.
If you want to contact us to raise any questions about this privacy statement, or any general matters relating to www.scouts.org.uk, you can contact us using this email address: [email protected]
Please use this address if you wish to request from us a copy of the personal data we hold about you. Please note that under English law we are entitled to charge you a fee for providing this service.
Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:
This data is only used to optimize our website for our visitors.
This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as: