Privacy Policy
DATA PROTECTION
This Privacy Policy covers the way in which the congregation of Drymen Church will use and disclose personal information that members, employees, volunteers, donors and others associated with the Church may provide us with.
Personal information includes any information that identifies you personally, such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number.
The Congregation recognises the importance of your privacy and personal information. We are registered with the Information Commissioner through the “umbrella” registration of Stirling Presbytery and strive to comply fully with Data Protection Law.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.
The congregation may require to share personal information held for a number of reasons including to provide pastoral or other assistance, process donations or carry out any other contractual obligations. This Data may be disclosed to:
- The relevant Presbytery
- Other bodies within the Church of Scotland
- Relevant agents and third parties
- Employees and/or volunteers including the Charity Trustees/Office Bearers.
The Congregation may also have to disclose information if required to do so by Law. Any information that is superseded or is no longer needed is deleted.
Anyone who considers that our policy has not been followed should contact the Session Clerk.
COOKIES
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most reputable websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information.
We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
You can find out more about Google's position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631
Social Media Tools
(a) third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from this websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads,
(b) users can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting,
(c) users can access a mechanism for exercising such choice on the following pages http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
(d) Facebook's cookie policy can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see www.aboutcookies.org.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.