Privacy Policy and Website Terms

This privacy policy is for this website and any services provided through the ordinary course of business. Our website is https://www.prideoutside.org.uk (“The Website”) and is owned and operated by Pride Outside CIC, a company registered in England and Wales (“The Company”). This policy governs the privacy of both users who choose to use our website or engage with any of our services for both with and without consideration (“Users”).

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and The Company. Furthermore, the way this website and company processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy. For the avoidance of doubt the website and all company data is hosted, stored and maintained within the UK.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user's computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies used on this site are detailed below along with the life span and purpose.

Cookie Name: svSession | Life Span: Permanent | Purpose: Creates activities and BI

Cookie Name: hs| Life Span: Session | Purpose: Security

Cookie Name: incap_ses_${Proxy-ID}_${Site-ID} | Life Span: Session | Purpose: Security

Cookie Name: nlbi_{ID} | Life Span: Persistent cookie | Purpose: Security

Cookie Name: XSRF-TOKEN | Life Span: Persistent cookie | Security

Cookie Name: smSession | Life Span: Two weeks | Identify logged in site members

Analytics

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact and Communication

Users contacting this website and/ or The Company do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in General Data Protection Regulation. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or inquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

In sending the company or the website your personal information you are consenting to allow the company to contact you subject to the above conditions. Any data held by the company relating to individuals will be stored and destroyed once a period of 12 months of no communication has occurred between The User and The Company.

The company will never knowingly or willingly pass information it holds on Users (For clarity this includes: clients, prospects, or website users) onto a third party without the consent of the said user.

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide and operate the Services;
To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How we store, use, share and disclose data obtained through our website

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Email and Newsletters

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

From time to time The Company operates various email campaigns program, (at all times we refer to these as a Newsletter Program) used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the General Data Protection Regulation you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website's email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

At all times our email campaigns are run through third party providers such as Mailchimp. Users are advised to refer to the specific terms and conditions attached to these third-party companies. Users can easily remove themselves from any email communication by “unsubscribing”. Here is Mail Chimp’s privacy policy.

The Company holds no liability as to any damages or losses associated with the use of any third-party email service provider. In engaging with the company or continuing use of the website you hereby expressly accept that the Company holds no such liability.

Withdrawing Consent

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at support@prideoutside.org.uk or send us mail to: Office 2/3 Second Floor, 48 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP.

External Links

While ever effort has been made to include quality, safe and relevant external links within this website, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)

The owners of this website and the company cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website, the company, and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

The Company holds responsibility for any and all comments, posts or any other action taken on social media belonging to the company. Social media can easily be identified as belonging to the company by the name of the account on the relevant social media platform. Any and all comments and actions made on social media are not intended to cause offense or serve as a defamatory action. Each and every posting will be checked for accuracy.

If you believe your intellectual property rights, personal rights, or any other rights have been infringed by any action on social media you are to notify the company as soon as possible so that the company has an opportunity to rectify and/or remove the post.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy domains and URL's to third party pages.

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Updates to Privacy Policy & Website Terms

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This privacy policy and any and all items posted on behalf of the company are strictly subject to the Laws of The United Kingdom (or in the alternative England and Wales). Any disagreement that arises under the use of personal information shall be resolved through the Courts of England and wales.

The User, in using the website or engaging in social media belonging to the company expressly agrees that they are accepting the terms of this privacy policy.

Any disagreement and all notices are to be delivered to the company registers office.

If any part of this policy is found to be defective, the remaining elements of the policy shall remain in place.

The Company registered office and address for service is Office 2/3 Second Floor, 48 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP.