Privacy Policy
Updated: 18 May 2012
At The Cancer Awareness Toolkit we are committed to protecting your privacy and security. We let you know what information we collect, why we collect it, and how we safeguard it. Our Privacy Policy aims to make these things clear so that you can make informed choices about how to interact with this website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us on 01772 647040 or write to us at: Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Network, Room 141, Preston Business Centre, Watling St. Road, Fulwood, Preston PR2 8DY.
Information that we collect and how we use it
We provide a lot of material that does not require you to register or provide any personal information to us. However, in order to provide our full range of services, we may collect some personal information such as; email address and phone number but you will always be notified of this.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We use a number of cookies:
- “_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz” — Google Analytics. To collect information about how visitors use our site (e.g. where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited). To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- “tracker” — End of session. Contains the last 5 pages viewed. Typically used for form or error message returns.
- “last_visit” — 1 year. Date of the user’s last visit. Can be shown as a statistic for members and used by the forum to show unread topics for both members and guests.
- “last_activity” — 1 year. Records the time of the last page load. Used in conjunction with the last_visit cookie.
- “cookies_allowed” — 1 year. Indicates whether the user has given consent for cookies to be set.
- “notify_me” — 1 year. Indicates that a user wants email notification of new comments to an entry.
- “save_info” — 1 year. Determines whether personal information should be stored in a cookie in order to pre-fill fields in the comment form.
- “my_name” — 1 year. The user’s name, as entered in the comment form.
- “my_url” — 1 year. The user’s URL, as entered in the comment form.
- “my_email” — 1 year. The user’s email address, as entered in the comment form.
- “my_location” — 1 year. The user’s location, as entered in the comment form.
Managing & Deleting Cookies
This website cannot currently provide a manual “opt-out”. However, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please be aware that disabling or preventing some of our cookies may negatively affect your use and experience of our website.
Other Websites
This Privacy Policy applies to The Cancer Awareness Toolkit services only. We do not exercise control over any websites linked to from within our website.
Choices for Personal Information
When you submit a form with us, we ask that you provide some personal information. If we use this information in a manner different from the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Information Sharing
The Cancer Awareness Toolkit will only share personal information if we believe that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of The Cancer Awareness Toolkit, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Information Security
We restrict access to personal information to The Cancer Awareness Toolkit employees, contractors or agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data Integrity
The Cancer Awareness Toolkit processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to make sure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to make sure the personal information we process is accurate, complete and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time but we expect that most changes will be minor. If the changes are significant, we will provide a prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.