Privacy Policy
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy
sets out how we will treat your personal information.
The Short Version
- We will store your personal information in order to administer the Old Maidstonians
Society, its membership and this website.
- We will not pass your information to any third party without your express permission.
- If you want to know what we know about you, or you want to change what we hold about
you then just email us at OMS@oldmaidstonians.org.uk
The Long Version
- What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
- information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website
(including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source,
length of visit and number of page views);
- information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;
- information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website
services, email notifications and/or newsletters;
- any other information that you choose to send to us.
- Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored
by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser
requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track
the web browser.
We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies on the website. We will use
the session cookies to keep track of you whilst you navigate the website. We will
use the persistent cookies to enable our website to recognise you when you visit.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they
reach a specified expiry date.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates
statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are
stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is
used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to
reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse
all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block
all cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have
a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, and will completely remove
your ability to log into any site that uses Macro Level Solutions Central Sign-on.
- Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified
in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
- administer the website;
- improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
- enable your use of the services available on the website;
- send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
- send to you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses
of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by
email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require
marketing communications);
- deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any
third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.
- Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents,
suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as
set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing
information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
and
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information
to third parties.
- Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the
loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password-
and firewall- protected) servers.
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot
guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We
will not ask you for your password.
- Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on
our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with
any changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy with a notice on the login
page.
- Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.
Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently
fixed at £10.00).
You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by
email at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance
to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you
with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)
- Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to
be corrected or updated.
- Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal
data, please write to us by email to OMS@oldmaidstonians.org.uk or by post to:
Old Maidstonian Society
c/o Denise Friend
Maidstone Grammar School
Barton Road
Maidstone
ME15 7BX
or our hosting company at developers@macrolevel.co.uk or:
Macro Level Solutions
4 Rosemary Road
Bearsted
Kent
ME15 8NN