Privacy and cookies statement
Introduction
We respect the privacy of visitors to our site and strive to provide you with an enjoyable, and personalised experience.
This document outlines our policy on the personal information that we collect about you. This document also provides you useful information about the use of cookies.
We recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner in accordance with current legislation and best practice. That is why we have put a policy in place to protect such personal information. Please read on for more details about our privacy practices.
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.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Intelligent Giving and its internet 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 Intelligent Giving will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to intelligentgiving.com, the pages you see, along with a tiny 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 for 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 volunteering page, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight volunteering information on your second and subsequent visits.
What are 'cookies'?
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server - the computer that operates a web site. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tells a web site when the user has returned.
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 and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the intelligentgiving.com 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 intelligentgiving.com anonymously until you want to register for intelligentgiving.com services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
How do we use your information?
When you supply any personal information to Bite Studio we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data.
In general, any information you provide to Bite Studio will only be used within Bite Studio 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 intelligentgiving.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on intelligentgiving.com, Bite Studio 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 of Bite Studio membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a Bite Studio member.
We promise that, unless you give your express permission to the contrary, we will never use your personal information for any other purpose than to contact you about your account or about content on the Bite Studio site.
We take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.
How to find and control your cookies?
- On your Task Bar, Click Edit, then Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
- Choose Tools, then Internet Options
- Click the Privacy Tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Click on the 'Advanced' button
- Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box
- Select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
- Choose Tools, then Internet Options
- Click the Security tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5
- Change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
- Choose View, then Internet Options
- Click the Advanced tab
- Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security
- Choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
- On your Task Bar
- Click View, Options, Advanced, then
- Click on the button that says 'Warn before Accepting Cookies'.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
- On your Task Bar
- Click Edit, then Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?
- On your Task Bar
- Click Edit, then Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
- Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
- Choose Tools, then Internet Options
- Click the General tab Click Settings
- View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
- On your Task Bar
- Click View, then Internet Options
- Under the tab General (the default tab) Click Settings
- View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
- On your Task Bar
- Click View, Options, Advanced, View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
- 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.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
How to see your cookie code?
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.
Other Important Information
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Passwords
In order to bring you more personalised services, we may ask you to establish one or more passwords to gain access to certain services or sections in the Bite Studio web site. You are solely responsible for the control and use of each password you create.
Access to your personal information
You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.
Please address requests info@bitestudio.co.uk
Children
We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from visitor under the age of 16.
Changes
We may occasionally update this privacy statement. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to the privacy statement and any updates.