General
This is a privacy policy for the Friends Social Group of Solihull website. We respect your privacy and will not sell or pass your personal data to any third party. We are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of your data. Any personal information you provide we will treat in accordance with this policy and current UK Data Protection legislation.
Information
We do not collect information about visitors except for that gathered by Google Analytics. Also when we contact prospective members we do so based on public domain information. The data we collect is contact information and website usage data. We will use your data to contact you in response to your enquiry.
A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer to help the site provide a better user experience as you view different pages on our website. We may use cookies to:
- Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package. Aggregated usage data helps us improve the website structure, design, content and functions.
- Identify whether you are signed in to our services.
Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us.
If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies. Refusal may affect how our website functions and some information may be unavailable to you. To learn more about cookies and how they are used, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Controlling information about you
Any personal information you provide we will treat in accordance with this policy and current UK Data Protection legislation.
Links from our site
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control of websites outside the Friends Social Group domain. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.
Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the site’s data protection and privacy policies fully.
Embedded Links
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.