Privacy Policy

The Brothers of Charity Services in England is committed to protecting your privacy. This website privacy policy describes how the Brothers of Charity Services in England protects and makes use of the information you provide when you use this website.

If we ask you to provide information when visiting our website, it will only be used in the ways described in this privacy policy.

This policy is updated from time to time and the latest version is published on this page.

This website privacy policy was updated on 18/02/16.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us by emailing: communications@brothersofcharity.org.uk or write to: The Marketing Team, Thingwall Hall, Broadgreen, L14 7NY.

Why we gather data:

We gather and use certain information about individuals in order to provide products and services and to enable certain functions on this website.

We also collect information to better understand how visitors use this website and to present timely, relevant information to them.

What data we gather

We may collect the following information:

  • Name and job title
  • Contact information including email address
  • Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • Website usage data
  • Other information relevant to service enquiries

How we use this data

Collecting this data helps us to understand what you are looking from us as a company. Enabling us to deliver improved products and services

Specifically, we may use data:

  • For our own internal records
  • To improve the products and services that we provide
  • To contact you in response to a specific enquiry
  • To send you e-newsletters about our services

GDPR Privacy Notice for Employees, Workers and Contractors

View our Privacy notice here.

Cookies and how we use them

View our Cookie Policy here.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. It enables our website to identify your computer as you view different pages on our website.

Cookies allow websites and applications to store your preferences in order to present content, options or functions that are specific to you. They also enable us to see information like how many people use the website and what pages they tend to visit.

How we use cookies

We may use cookies to:

  • Analyse our web traffic using an analytics page. Aggregated usage data helps us to improve the website structure, design, content and functions.
  • Test content on our website. For example, 50% of our users might see one piece of content, the other 50% may see a different piece of content.

Cookies so not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us.

Controlling cookies

You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.

However, please not that doing this may affect how our website functions. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you.

Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit it.

Controlling information about you

When you fill in a form or provide your details on our website, you will see one or more tick boxes allowing you to:

  • Opt in to our mailing list

If you have agreed that we can use your information for marketing purposes, you can change your mind easily via one of these methods:

Email: communications@brothersofcharity.org.uk

Write to: The Marketing Team, Thingwall Hall, Broadgreen, L14 7NY.

We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed under our data protection policy, in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Security

We will always hold your information securely.

To prevent unauthorised disclosure or access to your information, we have implemented strong physical and electronic security safeguards.

We also follow stringent procedures to ensure we work with all personal data in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Links from our site

Our website may contain links to other websites.

Please note that we have no control of websites outside the brothersofcharity.org.uk domain. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.