Erin Hounds

Mixed Breed · Female

At Erin Hounds we take your privacy very seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website or contact us in other ways, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and we are aware of our obligations under this regulation. We may change this policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this policy. Who are we? Erin Hounds was established to help save some of the many Irish greyhounds and lurchers who find themselves abandoned, neglected or mistreated and in need of rescue. We find them loving homes in the UK through our dedicated team of volunteers. Our registered charity number is 1148768. Our Data Protection Officer is Cathy Manson, Erin Hounds, c/o Macclesfield Community Garden Centre, West Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 3BJ How do we collect information from you? We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you complete the contact form, make a donation, sign up for our newsletter or purchase a product from our shop. By giving us your personal information, you consent to us collecting and using that information in the ways that we describe in this privacy policy and/or that you have specifically consented to. What type of information is collected from you? The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, phone number, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a donation online or purchase a product from us, your card information is not held by us; it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below. Like many sites, we use cookies on erinhounds.co.uk. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser on a device when you visit a website. Some are necessary for the site to function properly and to store users’ preferences. Cookies allow the website to recognise when you are returning to the website and to respond appropriately. What we use cookies for Strictly necessary cookies: we use cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website – for example enabling users to make a donation. Performance cookies: we use cookies to anonymously track user behaviour and demographics on our website. This helps us to improve the website so that we can ensure it is as engaging and effective as possible. Advertising and remarketing cookies: to help us be most effective with our budgets, we use a range of cookies which record your visit to our website and your activity on it, to make our advertising more efficient and track how well our adverts are performing. Third party cookies: We use functionality from social websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 to allow you to share content from our site on these social networks and use their functionality. These sites use third party functionality cookies to allow this to work. Changing your cookie preferences The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. Below is some helpful guidance about how to make these changes. How to disable cookies If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block Erin Hound’s website cookies, you can perform the following: 1. On your browser tools menu, select ‘Internet Options’ 2. Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and then on the ‘Sites’ button 3. Type into the ‘Address of website’ field: 4. www.erinhounds.co.uk` 5. Click on the ‘Block’ button 6. Click on the OK button 7. Other browsers: - Firefox cookie management - Chrome cookie management - Safari cookie management Find more detailed information on disabling cookies from www.allaboutcookies.org. We may use your information to: We also process your information for our legitimate interests, as follows: Legal basis for using your information We are required to set out the legal basis for our processing of personal information. We collect and use your personal information because it is necessary for: We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us. Who has access to your information? Only authorised personnel (eg members of the homing team) have access to your personal information. We will not sell or rent your information to third parties or share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to process donations and send you mailings). However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and they are required to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime. When you are using our secure store pages, your payments are processed by a third party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us. Your choices You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. We do not contact you for direct marketing purposes. If you wish to sign up for our newsletter please do so by filling in the form on the “news and events” page of the website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter you can unsubscribe at any time. Your rights in relation to your personal data It is important that the data we hold about you is accurate. Please keep us informed if the personal information we hold about you changes. Data protection legislation gives you the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information (if you have previously consented). You also have the right to access information held about you. In accordance with your rights you can ask us to undertake the following: Please send any requests to: The Data Protection Officer, Erin Hounds, c/o Macclesfield Community Garden Centre, West Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 3BJ, specifying your name and the action you would like us to take. Data protection legislation may allow or require us to refuse to comply with any requests made in accordance with these rights, but if we cannot comply with your request we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions. Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. We do not store sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details). When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. Non-sensitive details (your email address

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