Friends of
Fog Lane Park

Privacy Policy

This website is maintained and managed by Friends of Fog Lane Park this privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you, on this https://foglaneparkfriends.org.uk/ website.

We may update this policy to reflect changes in how we use your information. You may wish to check this policy each time you provide Friends of Fog Lane Park with your information. Where appropriate, we will provide you with notice of any significant changes to how we use your information. 

What information do we collect about you?

The information we collect on our users come from two clear sources:

  1. Contact and Membership Forms
  2. Plugins
  3. Cookies

We have used WordPress and various plugins to develop this website and we collect information relating to the usage of our website is collected using cookies. These are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. We’ll use your information collected from the website to personalise your repeat visits to the site.

We try at all times to keep all personal data collected and processed accurate and up-to-date.

Cookies

We use a cookie placed on your computer to recognise you as a previous visitor to our website. This will also let us know if you’re already a user.

We include some cookies from other providers on our website. As such they will be able to see some information about you. For analysis of our website traffic, we use Google Analytics. You can find their privacy policy here. Google will place a cookie on your computer for this purpose. We use their IP anonymisation feature to remove personally identifiable information from the data they hold.

Who Do We Share Your Data With

We do not share your data with anybody without your permission. Your data is managed by:

The Friends of Fog Lane Park Committee https://foglaneparkfriends.org.uk/

Hugehug.net https://hugehug.net/ our web developer.

Plugins and Third-Party Portals

Plugins:

Contact Forms 7

We have a contact form on the site. If you choose to message us, the contact form is emailed a ticketing management system managed by The Friends of Fog Lane Park Committee and Hugehug.net. Furthermore, the message you send is stored in the database, the messages are deleted from the database after 365 days unless they are still being used. No further correspondence is stored beyond your original message.

  • Personal Data collected: Name, email address, and any information to provide in the comment box and subject line.
  • Place of processing: United Kingdom

Third-Party Portals

We use the following tools to help us with marketing and making sure the site is secure and backed up regularly.

Website BackUp’s

We host our site with 34SP.com who do a weekly back up which is kept for 30 days until replaced with a new backup. Please do read the 34SP Privacy Policy for further information on their data retention.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

  • Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
  • Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
  • Place of processing: United States

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en). If you’d like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

3rd Party Marketing and Social Media

MailChimp

We use MailChimp for our marketing, you can unsubscribe if you have subscribed by logging into their site. There is also an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every mailing we have sent out from their site.

https://foglaneparkfriends.org.uk/ uses Mailchimp, and both The Friends of Fog Lane Park and Hugehug.net have access to. Mailchimp stores all its data in a secure cloud server, it’s a private account with no other individuals being able to access the data. Mailchimp is an email customer relationship management (CRM) system. 

Here is a link to Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy, https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Facebook 

The Friends of Fog Lane Park has a Facebook page, currently have access to and management of https://www.facebook.com/groups/226252798012470/

Facebook stores all it’s information and data on a remote secure server, it is a public page where anyone can find it, but only we will have access to data of individuals. Facebook is a social media network website. 

Here is a link to Facebook’s Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/legal/FB_Work_Privacy

Twitter

The Friends of Fog Lane Park currently has a Twitter profile https://twitter.com/fog_friends, access is shared with some members of the committee. 

Any data Twitter collects is stored on a remote secure server, it is a public profile so anyone can view the posts, however only we can see the data Twitter has collected. Twitter is a social media network website. 

Here is a  link to Twitter’s Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

What can you do if you are unhappy with how your personal data is processed?

You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection. In the UK this is:

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113 (local rate)

https://ico.org.uk/

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Friends of Fog Lane Park reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.

Last modification was made in July 2020.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you (we can remove any data we store about you): by email at webmaster@foglaneparkfriends.org.uk