For what is this privacy policy?
This privacy policy is for this website, www.oldcarolians.org.uk, and served by the Old Carolians Association, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects users' data will also be detailed within this policy.
The website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to users' privacy and ensure that the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for users' privacy.
Use of cookies
This website uses cookies to better users' experience while visiting the website. Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system, allowing users on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their devices. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on users' devices.
Cookies are small files saved to users' devices' hard drives; they track, save and store information about users' interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide users with tailored experiences within this website. Users are advised that, if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers' hard drives, they should take necessary steps within their web browsers' security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics, and it uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to users' computers' hard drives to track and monitor their engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Other cookies may be stored on users' computers' hard drives by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral-tracking, and typically expire after thirty days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
Contact and communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Their personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time that it is no longer required, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process, but users using such form to email processes do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide users with further information about the products/services that they offer or to assist users in answering any questions or queries that they may have submitted. This includes using their details to subscribe them to any email newsletter program that the website operates, but only if this were made clear to them, and their express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process, or, whereby they, the consumers, have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is, by no means, an entire list of users' rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Users' details are not passed to any third parties.
External links
Although this website looks only to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites, such as www.edgebound.co.uk.
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should, therefore, note that they click on external links at their own risk, and that this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts and sponsored links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, which may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts that they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send users to the advertiser's website through a referral program, which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies, which may, in turn, be saved on users' computers' hard drives. Users should, therefore, note that they click on sponsored external links at their own risk, and that this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social media platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms, on which this website and its owners participate, are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms, and they encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised, before using such social sharing buttons, that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save their request to share a web page respectively through their social media platform account.
Shortened links in social media
This website and its owners, through their social media platform accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (web addresses); this is an example: http://bit.ly/21kI9mc.
Users are advised to take caution and use good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and, therefore, this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.