PRIVACY POLICY
WHAT IS THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR?
This privacy policy is for boxing4life.co.uk and boxing4life.org and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use them. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
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THE WEBSITE
The Boxing4Life website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. The website complies to all UK national and EU laws and requirements for user privacy.
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USE OF COOKIES
The website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. The website uses cookies, and informs users of this on their first visit, and each 6 months after that time. This complies with recent EU legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.
Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
The website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy for further information.
Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
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CONTACT & COMMUNICATION
Users contacting the website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.
The website and its owners use any information submitted to provide users with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist them in answering any questions or queries they may have submitted. This includes using user details to subscribe them to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to them and their
express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. User details are not passed on to any third parties.
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EMAIL NEWSLETTER
The website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about the services supplied by this website and by Boxing4Life. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior agreement with the user.
Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 users may request a copy of personal information held about them by this website's email newsletter program.
Email campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity (this is by no means a comprehensive list). This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.
In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email.
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EXTERNAL LINKS
Although the website only seeks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout the website.
The Trustees cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users are warned on the website that they click on external links at their own risk and the website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
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SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that the website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised on the website to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. The website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and this public policy encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
The website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save the request to share a web page respectively through social media platform accounts.
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CONTENT REMOVAL
Any visitor to the Boxing4Life website can request content removal through the website by contacting website@boxing4life.org. Any such reports will be reported to the Trustees at the next available opportunity who will carefully review the material in question and consider blocking, removing or restricting access to it. Where content removal is linked to safeguarding matters, for instance for photographs of minors, the content will be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Trustees reporting and assessment will follow.