Cookies and Privacy Statement

We take your privacy seriously! We at Stoney Middleton Heritage guarantee our commitment to respecting and protecting your online privacy.

This includes your need and your right to know what we do with the personal information you share with us. It also guides our organisation’s policies regarding the management of this data, including how the information is collected, processed, and for what purposes.

Privacy Statement

By accessing this website you are consenting to the way information is collected and used, as described within this Privacy Policy. In return, Stoney Middleton Heritage gives the commitment that we will use the personal data you provide only in ways that are compatible with the following Privacy Policy.

The Collection of Information

Every time you log on to our website your IP (Internet Protocol) address registers on our servers. Your IP address reveals no information other than the number assigned to you. We do not use this technology to get any personal data against your knowledge or free will (i.e., automatically recording e-mail addresses of visitors). Nor do we use it for any purpose other than to help us monitor traffic on our website, or (in case of criminal activity or misuse of our information) to cooperate with law enforcement.

Cookies

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. Below you will find instructions on how to block cookies in most major browsers.

Google Chrome

  1. Click the Chrome menu button (three horizontal lines) on the browser toolbar
  2. Select Settings
  3. Click Show advanced settings
  4. In the Privacy section, click the Content settings button
  5. Internet Explorer
  6. Click the Tools button (cog image) on the browser toolbar
  7. Click Internet options
  8. Click the Privacy tab
  9. Under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies

Firefox (Windows)

  1. Select the Tools menu, and select Options
  2. Then select the Privacy tab
  3. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history
  4. Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them

Firefox (Mac OS X)

  • Select the Firefox menu, and select Preferences
  • Then select the Privacy tab
  • Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history
  • Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them

Safari

  1. Click on the Safari menu
  2. Click on the Preferences… item in the menu
  3. Click on the Security icon near the top of the window

Opera

  1. Click on the Tools-menu
  2. Click on the Preferences… item in the menu
  3. Click on the Privacy selection near the bottom left of the window

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its Analytics service at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

WordPress

Our websites runs the popular WordPress CMS and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with WordPress, and whether you have logged into WordPress. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.

More information on session cookies and what they are used for can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

Emails

Some emails that we send you have no tracking in at all e.g. service emails. Other emails we send we can track, at an individual level, whether the user has opened and clicked on the email. We do not use this information at a personal level, rather we use it to understand open and click rates on our emails to try and improve them. If you want to be sure that none of your email activity is tracked then you should opt out of our emails which you can do via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send.