Earlswood Lakes Sailing Club
Privacy policy
This policy covers the ELSC's use of personal information that the ELSC collects when you use the ELSC website, register for training or become a member of the club. The policy also gives you information about cookies; ELSC and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.
From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards and ELSC membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the ELSC and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information the ELSC will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
During the course of any visit to the ELSC website, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our training pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse ELSC anonymously. For further information on cookies please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.
When you supply any personal information to ELSC (e.g. for enquiries about training or ELSC membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to the ELSC will only be used within the ELSC and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to ELSC website or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on ELSC website, the ELSC can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. For safety reasons, however, the ELSC may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information the ELSC holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.)
Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, (Email: DPA@jamespatterson.org).
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the ELSC's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines. [Top]
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.