Privacy Policy

Poole Young Carers is committed to protecting your privacy and using technology that gives you a safe online experience when visiting this website. This Privacy Policy applies to the Poole Young Carers site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Poole Young Carers site, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

Collection of your Personal Information

Poole Young Carers collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Poole Young Carers also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Poole Young Carers website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Poole Young Carers for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Poole Young Carers website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Poole Young Carers public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Poole Young Carers does not read any of your private online communications.

Poole Young Carers encourages you to review the privacy statements or policies of websites you choose to link to from Poole Young Carers so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Poole Young Carers are not responsible for the privacy statements or content on other websites.

Use of your Personal Information

Poole Young Carers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Poole Young Carers website and deliver the services you have requested. Poole Young Carers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Poole Young Carers and its affiliates. Poole Young Carers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Poole Young Carers does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Poole Young Carers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Poole Young Carers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Poole Young Carers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Poole Young Carers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. Poole Young Carers keeps track of the pages our users visit within Poole Young Carers, in order to determine which of our services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content within Poole Young Carers to users whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Poole Young Carer websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Poole Young Carers or the site.

(b) Protect and defend the rights or property of Poole Young Carers.

(c) Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Poole Young Carers, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

Poole Young Carers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Policy

Poole Young Carers will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect feedback. Poole Young Carers encourages you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how Poole Young Carers is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Poole Young Carers welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Poole Young Carers has not adhered to this Policy, please contact us at [email protected] We will make reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.