Introduction
McFarlane Trust is a charity registered in Scotland, Company number,SC115949, charity number SC007486, registered office, Unit 902, Abbeymill Business Centre, 12 Seedhill Road, Paisley, PA1 1JS
We understand that the privacy and security of your personal information is important to you, and we are committed to protecting it. We aim to be completely transparent on how we collect, process and store your personal information. This privacy policy explains how McFarlane Trust (“we,” “us,” “our” “the Group”) collects and processes your personal information, and your related privacy rights.
Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. You may be asked to provide personal information through this website. If you do provide any personal information to us, we will comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulations 2018.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
- Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
- You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at contact@mcfarlanetrust.org if you wish to make a request.
Please read this policy carefully as it contains essential information on:
- Who we are?
- The personal information we collect about you
- What we do with your personal information
- Who your personal information might be shared with?
By using our website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Policy
External Links
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations of which we have no control over. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them via links from our website – although all measures are taken to ensure sites are safe at time of linking.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.
Information Collected
By browsing our website, only the most basic and minimum of information will be collected from visitors. We use standard technologies such as cookies and server logs.
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you use our website – through Google Analytics or when you willingly contact us about products and services using our email address or phone number.
Server Logs
Like the majority of other websites on the Internet – we collect server logs. These are collected from every visitor, be it human or robot (e.g. Google bot). These logs include anonymous information such as visitor browsers and version, date & time visited and referring website. The logs also include potentially personally identifiable data in the form of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
We collect these pieces of data to better understand how our visitors use the website and also to monitor and protect the security of the website.
Our Use of Cookies and Tracking
Cookies
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by a web server to your browser and stored on your hard drive. They allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They are typically used to collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual.
We have purposely designed our website in such a way that we have no need to use any first party cookies (however, third party cookies are used) to ensure you have an ideal browsing experience.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free web analytics service offered by Google. It offers the tools to measure site traffic, performance, and understand how people use our website. No personal or sensitive information is kept on Google Analytics.
We use it to collect information about how our website performs, how our users navigate through and use the website. This helps us improve our content and website performance.
You may opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Tracking
“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference you can set in your browser if you do not want online services to collect and share certain kinds of information about your online activity from third party tracking services. We do not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site beyond our basic Google Analytics tracking.
How We Secure Collected Information
We use all measures necessary to secure all data. We follow accepted industry standard techniques to protect our stored data.
No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
How We Share Information We Collect
We do not share, sell, rent nor trade any information collected from our visitors for any purposes other than when we are required to by law.
Photography/Videos
We will only use your photograph or video on our website if you have given us prior consent. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact: contact@mcfarlanetrust.org
Third Parties
The third-party developers of this website have access to any personal data we hold on this site if we choose to store it. They are bound by third party policies not to share or sell any personal data they access.
They use Google Analytics to track and report website traffic to us. It offers the tools to measure site traffic, ad performance, and understand how people use our website. No personal or sensitive information is kept on Google Analytics.
To find out more about our third-party developer’s privacy policy, please click here.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may from time to time update our Privacy Policy. Changes will be noted by a change in the amendment date within the policy.
If you have any questions about this policy or our website, please contact us at contact@mcfarlanetrust.org
Last updated – September 2022