This Privacy Policy applies to all $EDIT-org-name communities hosted under $EDIT-URL. We want you to be able to trust us when we say:
We try to keep the amount of identifying data that we collect about you to the minimum necessary. If you're using our communities without signing in, we collect no identifying information about you at all. If you sign up for an account, we'll ask for a few things:
As you're browsing the communities we host, we'll also collect a small amount of non-identifying information automatically, including:
If you sign up for an account or for our mailing list, you're directly providing us with the data that we collect. Our automatic collection of non-identifying data is done behind the scenes based on information that your browser sends while you're using our sites.
We collect your data so that we can:
We do not:
If you've signed up for an account on our sites, your information is stored in our database, which we host on an Amazon Web Services server. Amazon staff do not have access to our server or to your information. If you've signed up for our mailing list, your email address is stored on the email provider's servers. In all cases where we're storing your data, we use strict access controls to ensure the minimum number of people have access to your data. We don't access or use your data without good reason, such as to fulfil one of the purposes listed above, or in the security and maintenance of our sites. Our analytics data is stored using an instance of Matomo which we host ourselves. This means that all our analytics data never leaves our own servers, and we don't use non-self-hosted options like Google Analytics.
As an international organisation, we extend the rights granted by the EU GDPR to everyone. Therefore, all our users have the right to the following:
We may take up to one month to respond to a request in regards to any of these rights, though we will try to respond as soon as practicable. If you'd like to make use of any of these rights, please email us at $EDIT-contact-email.
Cookies are small, temporary text files that your browser places on your computer at our request. Their use is standard practice across the Internet to keep hold of information that we need about your visit. You can visit allaboutcookies.org for more information about them. We use them in a small number of ways:
Our cookies are split into two distinct types of cookies:
If you'd rather we didn't set any cookies on your device, you can set your browser to refuse cookies from us and remove any that have already been set – have a look at the website above for details on how to do so. Please be aware that this may mean our sites don't work as they should: for example, if you block all cookies from us, we won't be able to keep you signed into your account.
We review this privacy policy regularly to make sure we're always giving you the correct information. If we make significant additions or changes to what data we collect from you or how we use it, we'll let you know via email, if we have an email address for you. This privacy policy was last updated on $EDIT-update-date.
If you have questions about this policy or you wish to exercise one of your rights, please contact us at $EDIT-contact-email. If you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that we haven't adequately resolved your concerns, you have the right to make a complaint to a relevant authority. To do so, you should contact the statutory data protection authority in your country of residence. Please be aware that if you live outside the EU, you may not have this right.