Smile for Life Privacy Statement

At Smile For Life we are committed to protecting your privacy. This statement is made with regards to the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in order to advise about Smile For Life’s data processing practices which will govern the processing of your data. If you have any queries about this statement please contact Smile For Life, 27 Ashburton Road, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 4XN or email info@smileforlife.org.uk.

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

For each visitor to our website we collect and store information regarding how you use the site, the pages you visit and time spent on each page. This information is used for statistical analysis and helps us to improve the website.

Where visitors request further information or services, we store personal information about you, for the purpose of contacting you with the information you have requested. When you request further information, we also ask for your consent to use this information to contact you from time to time, for our own marketing purposes. Your personal information is not sold, lent, hired or shared with other parties and is only used by ourselves. With your agreement we may contact you with offers that may be of interest to you. At anytime you may contact us and we will stop using any personal details held about yourself.

We may disclose information about you insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy. In addition, we may disclose information about you to the extent that we are required to do so by law; in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings; in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Just Giving. You should only provide your personal information to Just Giving after reviewing the Just Giving privacy policy. We will share information with Just Giving only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website.

We use cookies on the website. A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to keep track of you whilst you navigate the website and we will use the persistent cookies to enable our website to recognise you when you visit. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.