Salford CVS Website – Privacy Notice

Salford CVS is the city-wide infrastructure organisation providing support for the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE). Our support services include providing specialist information, advice and development support.

We are incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee (registration number 1948293) and registered as a Charity (registration number 519361).

Salford CVS is registered with the Information Commissioners Officer (registration number Z6689753) and you can find out more about work through the about us section of our website.

 

Gathering of Non-Personal Information

Salford CVS website collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, this includes browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our websites.

From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

 

Gathering of Personal Information

Certain visitors to the Salford CVS website (https://www.salfordcvs.co.uk/ ), choose to interact with the sites in ways that require Salford CVS to gather personal information to access services. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the service you are accessing e.g. the volunteer portal.

However, Salford CVS only collects information that is necessary or appropriate to deliver our services. Further details are always provided as part of our website and individuals can visit our organisational wide privacy notice for further information.

Individuals can always refuse to supply personal information, but doing so may prevent them from accessing certain activities online or require them to contact us directly.

Salford CVS also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We do not use such information to identify our visitors and do not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that we use to disclose personally-identifying information, as described below.

 

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Salford CVS is registered with the ICO and takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of personally-identifying information. Salford CVS discloses personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

  1. need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at Salford CVS websites, and
  2. that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country but we guarantee not to move your data out of the UK. Salford CVS will never rent or sell your personal information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Salford CVS discloses personal information only when required to do so by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Salford CVS, third parties or the public at large. More information on these can be found in the broader organisational privacy notice which can be view on our website  

 

How long do we hold onto your information?

Information has to be kept for different lengths of time that is often dictated either by law, business need or funding terms and conditions. This can vary from three months to several years. 

Your information will also be held for the minimum length of time that these various laws and legal regulations state they must be held for.  Where laws do not specify how long information must be kept for the organisation will use recommendations from specialists and internally regarding the legitimate need to process the information. All decision that are not based on legal requirement have to be explained and justified.

Due to the many different types of information that are used by Salford CVS it would not be practical for us to list all of them and the periods they will be held for here. However, if you wish to know the length of time particular information regarding yourself or your organisation is held please contact Salford CVS for further information.

 

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Salford CVS uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our websites, and their website access preferences. Salford CVS website users who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Salford CVS’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of these websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Salford CVS website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics and HotJar which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here and the HotJar Privacy Information here for further information.

 

External links

Although Salford CVS try to ensure that it only includes quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)

Salford CVS cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should be aware that they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Salford CVS will review this statement on a regular basis and the updated document will be made available on our website. Your continued use of this Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then / current Privacy Policy.

This policy was last renewed on the 26th February 2021

This policy notice forms part of a broader organisational privacy notice which can be view on our website  if you have any queries regarding how we handle your data or the information Salford CVS may hold on please contact data@salfordcvs.co.uk 

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Salford CVS is the city-wide infrastructure organisation for the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector; providing specialist information, advice, development support and opportunities for influence and collaboration.