Privacy Policy (for volunteers & potential volunteers)
Preservation of your privacy is important to Volunteer Centre East Lothian. We are committed to letting you know how we use your personal information.
1. Information about you
(a) We may collect personal information from you when you:
- Register to apply for a voluntary role.
- Enquire about the Website.
- Register interest in Saltire Awards or with our befriending service.
- Contact us through the Website, or any other channel
This personal information may include but is not limited to the following information about you:
- Your name (including your first name(s) and surname);
- Your date of birth
- Your email address
- Your postal address
- Your postcode
- Your phone number
- Your age
- Your gender
- Other details about you such as disabilities, ethnicity and employment status
We may also ask for or collect some non-personal information from you
2. How we use this information
(a) Your personal information will only be used by us to:
- Process your requests
- Respond to your questions or comments
- Process any enquiries or submit application data to organisations that you apply for.
- Provide you with information relating to services provided by Volunteer Centre east Lothian that we feel may be of interest to you;
- We may disclose your Information about your postcode, gender, ethnicity, status, age, any disability, to for example, our funders, or in our Annual report, but only in the form of statistics and not in any way that identifies you.
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3. Security
(a) We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorised alteration of information you give us.
(b) Communications in connection with the Website and its content may be sent to you by us by e-mail. For ease of use and compatibility, communications will not be sent to you in an encrypted form. E-mail is not a fully secure means of communication. Whilst we try to keep our systems and communications protected against viruses and other harmful effects we cannot guarantee this.
4. Cookies
(a) A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a website user’s computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie.
(b) The types of cookie we use are “session cookies”, which keep track of information you have entered or looked at as you travel from page to page within the Website. These cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a short time of you leaving the Website. We do not use other types of cookie that track your internet activity after leaving the Website.
(c) We use cookies to tell whether you have logged in to the Website, to see how you are viewing the Website and how you navigate around the Website, and to assist us in providing the services we offer.
(d) Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies.
(e) If you do not consent to our use of cookies, you must not use the Website.
5. Other Information
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(b) This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, so please check it regularly.
