1. Introduction

The Anthony Seddon Fund needs to keep certain information on its customers and visitors to its various social media platforms and website to carry out its day-to-day operations, meet its objectives, and comply with legal obligations.

The charity is committed to ensuring any personal data received through these means will be dealt with in line with all relevant data protection legislation, as laid out in IG-001 – Data Protection & Confidentiality Policy. To comply with the law, personal information will be collected and used fairly, stored safely, and not disclosed to any other person unlawfully.

This document feeds into the larger charity privacy policy – IG-009 – Privacy Policy and is specifically related to the websites and social media platforms owned and operated by The Anthony Seddon Fund.

2. What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information about you when you use our online contact form or sign up for our mailing lists to ensure that we can respond to any and all correspondence that we receive. Any information that you share with us is confidential unless we feel that you are at risk of harm to yourself or others, in which case we will refer to Section 6.5 of IG-001 – Data Protection & Confidentiality Policy, available upon request.

We also collect information when you voluntarily complete surveys and provide feedback to the charity. Website usage information is collected using cookies.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

For further information, visit www.whatarecookies.com or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. In a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

3. How Do We Use Your Information?

Most information kept by The Anthony Seddon Fund relates to individuals, staff, trustees, and volunteers. Information collected via social media and the website is kept to enable colleagues to understand the needs of the individual in order to deliver the most appropriate services, monitor effectiveness and visitor levels to our website and social media platforms, and guide marketing and promotion of our activities and services.

4. How Do We Protect Your Information?

We take the security of your personal information very seriously. We have put in place appropriate security measures to protect your information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. Further information can be found in IG-001 – Data Protection & Confidentiality Policy, IG-006 – Information Security Policy and IG-007 – Information Risk Management Policy.

5. Your Rights

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information and to the transfer of your personal information to another country.

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up-to-date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think in inaccurate.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your rights, please contact us at office@tasfund.org.uk.

6. Other Websites

Our website and social media platforms contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website and social media sites owned and operated by The Anthony Seddon Fund. When you link to other websites, you should read their own privacy policies. The Anthony Seddon Fund is not responsible for the content of any external website or social media account.

7. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review, and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 31st March 2023.

8. Review

This policy will be reviewed annually to ensure that it remains up-to-date and reflects the needs and practices of the organisation.

The policy may also be reviewed if legislation changes or if monitoring information suggests that policy or practices should be altered.

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