Privacy Policy

Website visitors

This privacy policy sets out how Caravan Writers’ Guild uses and protects any information that you give Caravan Writers’ Guild when you use this website.

Caravan Writers’ Guild is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Caravan Writers’ Guild may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from July 2018

What we collect
We may collect the following information via the ‘Contact Us’ page:

• Name
• Email address and telephone number
• Other information supplied by you

What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and to respond to you. We may also use the information for:

• Internal record keeping.
• Improving our services.

We do not use the information to send out unsolicited marketing material.

Time limits
Information supplied by you may be kept by us for as long as is reasonable for the purpose for which it was obtained.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

We use the following Google Analytics cookies:

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

We also use a cookie in conjuntion with out ‘Cookie Consent’ popup. This records when consent was last given by the browser in use and ensures the pop up does not appear for a set period. The idea is to avoid annoying the user with constant pop ups. At the time of writing the consent period was set to seven days.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Our website does not contain any third-party cookies.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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.

Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018. This will be given free of charge in electronic format. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to: secretary@caravanwritersguild.org.uk

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly put right any information found to be incorrect.

Right of erasure
You can request deletion of any data stored by us, on you, at any time. Simply drop an email to: secretary@caravanwritersguild.org.uk

Guild members

Guild members can see a statement regarding their personal data and the new GDPR legislation in the Members’ area of this website.