Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998).

We collect information about you for 2 reasons:  firstly, to process your donation and second, to provide you with the best possible service.

We will not e-mail you in the future unless you have given us your consent by providing us with that email address. We will give you the chance to refuse any marketing email from us or from affiliated traders in the future.

The type of information we will collect about you includes but is not limited to:

  • your name
  • company
  • address
  • phone number
  • email address

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.

The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.

The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.

Cookies

Like most websites, this site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics (used to understand how people are using our site to help us improve it).

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc). We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Cookies used on this site

Functional cookies

These cookies are used to make the website function properly.

  • Javascript cookies
  • PayPal use their own cookies to process the donation

Anonymous analytics cookies

  • Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc,_utmz): These cookies are used by Google Analytics to collect anonymous information about visits to our site (number of visits, numbers of times pages are viewed, browser used etc) to help us make the site work better.

By using this website you are agreeing to use of cookies, these cookies are required to add functionality to the website and improve user experience.

If you have any questions/comments about privacy, you can contact us using one of the many methods provided from within our contact page.

This website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers. This instance of Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Reports provided by Google Analytics are used to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.

You may opt out of this tracking at any time by activating the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser.

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from https://policies.google.com/privacy.

You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers including AdWords and opt-out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs.

More Information?

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to Contact Us.

More Information?

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us on +44 (0)1386 553891 or you can visit our website at http://www.waterloo-schools.org/ for the latest information.