Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://banefoundation.org.
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.
We use the following cookies:
Google Analytics – We set cookies to get information on site usage and popularity, for the purposes of improving the site.
Browser capabilities – We store your display dimensions and device capabilities, to more quickly serve content adjusted to display well on your device.
User account settings – To persist your login and preferences, our site places cookies.
Third-party Cookies
Several modules we use on our website are provided by third party companies, and by displaying them the third party may place cookies on your machine for their own purposes. The reasons for including these third party services are as follows:
Google Maps – To use interactive maps. View policy.
Google Ads – To deliver relevant and contextual advertising. View policy.
Disqus – To display user comment threads. View policy.
How to disable Cookies
To opt out of cookies, you can configure your browser to disable them. Find out how for your relevant browser:
Chrome – View instructions
Firefox – View instructions
Internet Explorer – View instructions
Mobile Internet Explorer – View instructions
Safari – View instructions
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Android – View instructions
Opera – View instructions
Please note that disabling cookies will result in some parts of the site not functioning correctly.
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.
Contact forms
Through using the contact form on the website, we receive the following personal information; name, email address and IP address.
We use the information in the following ways:
To provide you with information and/or services that you request from us. We will not supply user personal information to any third parties and will not use the data for any other purposes.
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.
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.
If you wish to remove any personal data please contact our data protection officer at [email protected]
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If at any point user data is compromised, Our data protection officer will notify users immediately via email about the breach and what actions have been taken to regain a secure website.
