Privacy and cookies

Your privacy is important to us.

The information on this page refers solely to your privacy in relation to the use of this website and the data we collect on it.

What information do we collect?

When you visit our website, you may provide us with personal information such as your name, address, email address or telephone number.

Here are some examples of when you can provide us with personal information on this website:

Anonymous information is automatically collected for every visitor to this site. We collect anonymous information about how you have used our website and the technology you have used to access it.

What do we do with your personal information?

The personal information we receive from you is used only in the context in which it was submitted.

In providing personal information you consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such information in, other countries or territories. Any such transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this privacy statement.

Any information you provide to us will only be used by Cancer Vanguard staff and on occasion, our agents and services providers. It will not be disclosed in any other way unless we are obliged to do so by law.

Disclosing and sharing information

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

We may share your information with selected parties including:

  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you
  • Third party IT providers, for example who host or manage the website or provide IT support

Also, under strictly controlled conditions, we will share personal data with:

  • Contractors
  • Service providers

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in order to comply with a legal obligation, or to enforce other agreements. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations to protect against fraud.

What do we do with anonymous information?

The anonymous information we collect is used to help us improve our website and the information on it.

It helps us to understand how our website is being used and how we can make it better.

Here are some examples of the anonymous information we collect:

  • Pages viewed
  • Feedback rating
  • Feedback text (This would be treated as personal information if you chose to include any personal details within your feedback).
  • IP address (Not stored and only used to determine city/country)
  • Browser type
  • Browser language
  • Operating system
  • Viewport of the screen

We do not make any association between the anonymous information we collect and a visitor’s identity.

How do we keep your data secure?

We are subject to UK law and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. We will ensure your information is safe and managed correctly.Personally identifiable information is stored on our servers and is not publicly accessible.

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.

Any information you send to us over the internet is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998.

While we take the necessary steps to make your information safe, please kind in mind that no method of transmission of data over the internet is 100% secure.

Do we place cookies on your device?

Like most websites, we use cookies (small data files that are sent to your device when you visit the site) to gather and store information about your visit to our website.

We use some cookies to help make the website work and we use other cookies to help us make the site better. Some cookies are set by our own servers, others are set by third parties.

The cookies we use on this site cannot be used to identify you individually.

Our cookie policy

To make full use of our website you need to accept cookies. Without cookies you can still visit our website but some features won’t work.

If you would like to limit or block the usage of cookies you can do so in your browser settings.

You can learn more about cookies and how to manage them yourself at www.aboutcookies.org

What cookies do we place?

In addition to the cookies set by our website, a visit to this site will also set cookies from other services that we have decided to use in order to help improve our site.  These services are described below.

Google Analytics

We use this service to track and monitor website usage. We have chosen to enable features of this service known as ‘advertiser features’. These features benefit us by allowing us to see more information about how this website is used. By enabling these features we enable Google Analytics to collect data about site traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers.

If you would rather that your visits to this website are not recorded then please consider looking at Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs.

Google Analytics sets these cookies on your device:

  • _ga is used to distinguish users. This cookie does not contain any personal information. It expires after two years
  • __Utma keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. This a persistent cookie and does not expire
  • __Utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. It expires after 30 minutes
  • __Utmz keeps track of the page a visitor came from to get to the site. It expires after six months
  • _dc_gtm_UA-32175898-1 is used to add the Google Analytics code from Google Tag Manager. It expires after 10 minutes

Changes to this statement

As we add functionality and make improvements to our website it is possible that there will be new ways in which we can capture personal information, as well as setting additional or different cookies.

Given this, we reserve the right to make changes to this statement without notice and at our sole discretion.

We recommend you check this page regularly to make sure you are familiar with these changes.

This document was last modified on 29 August 2017.