Cookies Policy – SDF Learning Centre

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

At sdf, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information You Give Us

Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, and any other details you provide when filling out forms on our site, contacting us directly, booking events, or applying for jobs.
Communication Data: Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication).

Information We Collect About You

Technical Data: Including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

To provide and improve our services: Ensuring that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device.
To manage event bookings: Processing your event bookings, sending confirmations, and providing you with information related to the events you are attending.
To manage job postings and applications: Processing job applications, communicating with job applicants, and handling recruitment processes.
To communicate with you: Responding to your queries and providing you with the information, products, and services that you request from us.
To comply with legal obligations: Processing your data as required by law or regulation.
To manage our website: Administering our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
For marketing purposes: Providing you with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. We will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights:

Right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our provided contact information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

Last Update Date: 20th May 2024

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

Email: commsteam@sdf.org.uk

Address:
Scottish Drug Forum
91 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3LN

TEL: 0141 221 1175