Privacy - Women's Aid

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North East Lincolnshire Women’s Aid Privacy and Cookies Policy
This policy sets out how Women’s Aid use and protects any information that is given when using the website www.womensaidnel.org. Women’s Aid is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

About Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us to analyse web traffic on our website.

Women’s Aid use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used and which are not. This allows us to improve and create a better website tailored to the needs of our users.

A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the information you have shared with us.

We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

You can choose to decline permission for cookies, however, this may mean that you are unable to take full advantage of our website.

What we collect
If you agree to join our mailing list we will retain your name and contact information including your email address.

What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs better and provide you with a better service and in particular for the following reasons:

to update our email list
to send promotional emails about our services, activities and domestic violence information or other information which we think you may find interesting.
to occasionally ask you about taking part in surveys etc. We will contact you by email only.
to customise the website according to your interest.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and these sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Security and controlling your personal information
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect online. We do not give or sell any information to any third parties.

If you believe that any information that we are holding on you is incorrect or you wish to change your mind about being on our email list, please let us know as soon as possible by sending an email to support@womensaidnel.org . We will promptly remove you from our email list or amend any information found to be incorrect.