Privacy Statement
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT BEFORE ACTING ON ANY INFORMATION THAT MAY BE GIVEN ON THIS SITE
Privacy Statement for 1st Wentwood Scout Groups web site/s
1st Wentwood Scout Group has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: 1st Wentwood Scouts.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. 1st Wentwood Scouts will not disclose any information gathered from this web site to any other party or willingly allow any other third party to use this information.
Any names and contact details that appear on this site do so with that person/s permission.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information. The customer's contact information may be used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Public Forums
This site may make chat rooms, forums, guest books, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The level of security is in line with the content and financial constraints of the site.
Guide Lines
This site has been constructed within the guide lines set down by The Scout Association in its document titled "Developing a Scouting website" item code FS295207 May/03 Edition no 3 (available from The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW )
Children's Guidelines
This site collects online contact information from children without prior parental consent or parental notification.
This site gives children the ability to publicly post or distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
1. You can send an email (see contacts)
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
1. email us see contacts
Content
The internal content on this site should be suitable for children of Scout age and upwards.
1st Wentwood Scouts will not knowingly allow material of an unsuitable nature to be displayed on the site.
The site is also listed with The Scout Associations website directory.( SiD )
1st Wentwood Scouts can not be held responsible for the suitability of content on any external link. If any linked site does offend, contact us and we shall remove the link.
Data protection
This section is intended to pre-empt some questions and reassure visitors about this site by listing the eight basic principles of data protection as proposed by the Data Protection Registrar (DPR) and outlines the approach adopted by 1st Wentwood Scout Group.
There are laws in place that provide data protection in the United Kingdom and they are available for public viewing in great detail from www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
The Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 1 March 2000. It sets rules for processing personal information and applies to paper records as well as those held on computers. The 8 rules are that information gathered must be:
fairly and lawfully processed;
processed for limited purposes;
adequate, relevant and not excessive;
accurate;
not kept longer than necessary;
processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
secure;
not transferred to countries without adequate protection.
It is 1st Wentwood Scout Groups commitment to adhere to the above rules as far as it is practically possible.
There are a number of exemptions to the need to register with the Data Protection Registrar and 1st Wentwood Scout Group is currently seeking clarification on a claimed exemption as being a "not for profit organisation".
( Information based on the publication, Data Protection item code FS27001 July 2000)
available from The Scout Association info centre, email infocentre@scout.org.uk www.scoutbase.org.uk
Copyright
1st Wentwood Scout Group will allow copying of information with certain *restrictions from this site if its use is for Scout related non-profit sites, (a link back to this site would be appreciated).
The copying of material and images for use on commercial sites and/or for financial gain is prohibited.
Restrictions
some pages or images may have a "right click" disablement, where this feature is active the copyright on this content is restricted. Attempts to over ride this feature will class as an infringement of our copyright.
Some images on this site have been copied from the web, if you should require your copyrighted image to be removed then contact us and we will remove.
Disclaimer
1st Wentwood Scout Group, its members, web master, contributors or any of its agents can not and will not be held responsible for any injury or damage caused by acting on information from this site. Activities can carry some element of risk, it is up to the individual who may use this information to ascertain the level of risk of these activities and personally determine the risk to themselves and others who may be in their charge.
End of Statement
Privacy Statement for 1st Wentwood Scout Groups web site/s
1st Wentwood Scout Group has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: 1st Wentwood Scouts.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. 1st Wentwood Scouts will not disclose any information gathered from this web site to any other party or willingly allow any other third party to use this information.
Any names and contact details that appear on this site do so with that person/s permission.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information. The customer's contact information may be used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Public Forums
This site may make chat rooms, forums, guest books, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The level of security is in line with the content and financial constraints of the site.
Guide Lines
This site has been constructed within the guide lines set down by The Scout Association in its document titled "Developing a Scouting website" item code FS295207 May/03 Edition no 3 (available from The Scout Association, Information Centre, Gilwell Park, Bury Road, Chingford, London E4 7QW )
Children's Guidelines
This site collects online contact information from children without prior parental consent or parental notification.
This site gives children the ability to publicly post or distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
1. You can send an email (see contacts)
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
1. email us see contacts
Content
The internal content on this site should be suitable for children of Scout age and upwards.
1st Wentwood Scouts will not knowingly allow material of an unsuitable nature to be displayed on the site.
The site is also listed with The Scout Associations website directory.( SiD )
1st Wentwood Scouts can not be held responsible for the suitability of content on any external link. If any linked site does offend, contact us and we shall remove the link.
Data protection
This section is intended to pre-empt some questions and reassure visitors about this site by listing the eight basic principles of data protection as proposed by the Data Protection Registrar (DPR) and outlines the approach adopted by 1st Wentwood Scout Group.
There are laws in place that provide data protection in the United Kingdom and they are available for public viewing in great detail from www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
The Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 1 March 2000. It sets rules for processing personal information and applies to paper records as well as those held on computers. The 8 rules are that information gathered must be:
fairly and lawfully processed;
processed for limited purposes;
adequate, relevant and not excessive;
accurate;
not kept longer than necessary;
processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
secure;
not transferred to countries without adequate protection.
It is 1st Wentwood Scout Groups commitment to adhere to the above rules as far as it is practically possible.
There are a number of exemptions to the need to register with the Data Protection Registrar and 1st Wentwood Scout Group is currently seeking clarification on a claimed exemption as being a "not for profit organisation".
( Information based on the publication, Data Protection item code FS27001 July 2000)
available from The Scout Association info centre, email infocentre@scout.org.uk www.scoutbase.org.uk
Copyright
1st Wentwood Scout Group will allow copying of information with certain *restrictions from this site if its use is for Scout related non-profit sites, (a link back to this site would be appreciated).
The copying of material and images for use on commercial sites and/or for financial gain is prohibited.
Restrictions
some pages or images may have a "right click" disablement, where this feature is active the copyright on this content is restricted. Attempts to over ride this feature will class as an infringement of our copyright.
Some images on this site have been copied from the web, if you should require your copyrighted image to be removed then contact us and we will remove.
Disclaimer
1st Wentwood Scout Group, its members, web master, contributors or any of its agents can not and will not be held responsible for any injury or damage caused by acting on information from this site. Activities can carry some element of risk, it is up to the individual who may use this information to ascertain the level of risk of these activities and personally determine the risk to themselves and others who may be in their charge.
End of Statement