Privacy Statement
Coverage
This privacy policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information which the Parish Church of St. Andrew's, Medstead collects when you are in the St. Andrew's website.
This site contains links to other websites. The Parish Church of St Andrew's, Medstead will make it as clear as possible where such links are being made. Those sites are provided by independent third parties and the Parish Church of St Andrew's, Medstead is not responsible for their availability or content.
The inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the linked site by the Parish Church of St Andrew's, Medstead. You link to any such linked site entirely at your own risk.
Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy. If you follow a link to these sites, please note that they will be covered by their own privacy policy statement and/or personal information collection statement.
The Parish Church of St Andrew's, Medstead, does not accept any responsibility or liability for protection of personal data which you may submit to a third party's site. We recommend you check the wording of the relevant privacy policies before you submit any personal data to those sites.
Information Collection
You can visit our site and use many of the services without telling us who you are or giving us any personally identifiable information.
It is only when you complete a form which specifically requests personal information that you can be identified. When completing such forms you may be asked for personal information such as your name, address, email address, etc.
Information Use
Where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details, they will be used exclusively for providing you with the information or service you have requested.
We will not store your details any longer than is necessary to process your request.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
We will only send personally identifiable information about you to other organisations when we have your express consent. This is only necessary when we need to share your information in order to provide the information or service requested.
We may also have to disclose or share your personal data if we are required to comply with any legal obligation in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process.
Cookies
Here we explain what cookies are, which ones we use and how you can manage or remove them.
Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device. These include small text files known as cookies. They are stored in the cookie directory of your device, and may or may not not expire at the end of your session.
Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie; please refer to your browser's help information for more details.
To learn more about cookies, including how you can manage cookies yourself please see the Direct Gov website pages on internet browser cookies, what they are and how to manage them.
This site uses a limited number third-party applications to make it more useful to visitors. These applications create cookies which collect non-personal user information:
- We use a limited subset (freebie mode) of the functionality provided by Reinvigorate to gather non-personally identifiable website statistical and analytical information to allow us to evaluate use, and compile reports on activity, for example, which pages are most popular and browser type to allow us to optimise the design of this site.
- We include the sharing functionality provided by Add This to help visitors share content on selected pages to Facebook, Twitter and over 300 other social sites.
These cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept these cookies, this will not affect your ability to access the content on our site.
Cookies may also be set by other, third-party, sites you visit through accessing links on this site. You should refer to their privacy and cookie policy for more details.
Security
Whilst we strive to keep the information you supply secure, please be aware the Internet is not a fully secure medium. So, whilst we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot ensure the security of data transmitted by you. Any transmission is at your own risk.
Policy Changes
By using our site you agree to accept and consent to this privacy and cookie policy and are aware that our policy may change with time. Any changes to this policy will appear on this web page.
Glossary
Browser
Software application used to display Web pages, for example Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, Netscape®, and Safari™.
IP Address
All networks connected to the internet use the Internet Protocol (IP), a technical standard which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) ensures messages between hosts are delivered and understood. To enable this, every computer connected to the internet has a unique identifying IP address, in the form of a dotted number sequence, for example 212.36.133.133.
Webserver
A computer which is dedicated to delivering, or serving up, web pages to a browser.