Privacy Policy

1. Introduction
2. Visitor Information
3. What is a cookie?
4. Submitting personal information
5. Access to your personal information
6. Users 16 and under

1. Introduction

This policy covers The Lambeth Children's Fund's use of personal information that we collect when you use www.lambethchildrensfund.org.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies

From time to time, you will 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 and membership.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable us 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 Lambeth Children's Fund will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

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2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to the site, 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 games pages, we might find this out from your cookie and allow access to game features such as leaderboards on subsequent visits.

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3. What is a cookie?

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. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the site features. 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 the site anonymously until such time as you wish to register for our services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

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4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to the site (e.g. for competitions) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use that 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 Lambeth Children's Fund will only be used within The Lambeth Children's Fund 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 the site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the site, The Lambeth Children's Fund 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, or, in the case you no longer wish to continue your registration as a site member. For safety reasons, however, we may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of the site services such as Connector for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you are notified on the site that your information may be used to allow us to contact you for "competition purposes", this means that The Lambeth Children's Fund may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to let you know that you have won a competition etc. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on the site unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional information.

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5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information The Lambeth Children's Fund holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please email LMattausch@lambeth.gov.uk.

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6. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to this website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

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