Gliding Heritage Centre Web Site Privacy Policy

v1.1

The Gliding Heritage Centre (GHC) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you a powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the GHC Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the GHC website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

​The GHC, archives a number of key items of personal information on its membership database which have been obtained from an online application form or a manually completed form: - your name, home (or work) address, telephone number (mobile or home), and e-mail address. It may also hold your date-of-birth though this is not obligatory. It does not include race, religion, or political affiliations. These details are not held on the website.

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Use of your Personal Information

The GHC uses your personal information to help operate the Gliding Heritage Centre and its Web site and deliver the services members expect.

The GHC does not sell, rent, or lease any details of its membership database to third parties. The database is completely secure. In the unlikely event we received a request for any of a member’s details it would be refused – and the request forwarded to the member. The GHC does not disclose the personal information of members unless required to do so by law.

The GHC keeps track of pages visited, in order to determine what pages are most popular. This allows us to better identify what visitors to our website find of most interest and continually develop and improve the website.

 

Use of Cookies

The GHC Web site uses a very small number of "cookies" to help personalize your online experience, but only for internal purposes.  Note a cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. With our current website there is no cookie interface to third parties

 

Security of your Personal Information

The GHC secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

We do not transmit any personal information to a third party. For clarification regarding PayPal who are our only third party connection, all we provide is a link to PayPal, no personal information is transmitted. PayPal will ask you to supply personal information to enable payment. As this is a separate website it has its own Privacy statement.

 

Changes to this Statement

The GHC may occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to advise any significant changes and reflect company and customer feedback. Therefore, it is advisable to periodically check on the version number and date of issue.

 

Contact Information

The GHC welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. Please contact the GHC via communications@glidingheritage.org.uk

 

Version 1.1, issued 11 September 2024