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This website is operated by CALM Scotland. CALM Scotland is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and complying with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003). CALM Scotland is a Data Controller in terms of GDPR. This statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from my users. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding personal information. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement you should contact us using the details given at the end of this statement.
Please note that this policy applies only to the CALM Scotland website and not to the websites of other organisations to which we may provide links. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such third party sites and you should make your own enquiries in respect of them.
We collect personal information from you when you access the website and when you contact us to request information on services we offer and for auditing usage of the site. Your details will also be entered into our database for general administration purposes. The information we may collect will comprise some or all of the following: your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, IP number and post code. If you do not wish us to collect your personal data please do not provide it.
We may in some cases collect information about you that may not be personal data. For example the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of a website from which you are linked to our website.
We will use the information we collect to track and monitor the usage of my website and help us understand the patterns of site visitors. This will help us operate the site more effectively, identify what sort of information is of interest to our users and assist us in business processes such as accounting, marketing and record keeping.
To keep you informed about our services and events, we may occasionally contact you by email or post. If you wish not to receive such communications please contact us at the address below.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal data. We use appropriate standards of technology and operational security to protect personal information including a Secure Server and network firewall connection. Operationally, access to personal information is restricted to CALM Scotland, and we are under a duty to maintain the confidentiality and security of such information.
The Internet is inherently insecure. Personal Data submitted by means of the Internet may be vulnerable to unauthorised access by third parties. Submission of Personal Data using the Internet is at your own risk. We will take reasonable and appropriate technical measures to ensure that your Personal Data is stored in a secure manner. However, we shall have no liability for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or the fraudulent, negligent or other illegal acts of a third party, such as ‘Hacking’. Any transmission of personal information on or through the use of our website is at your own risk.
This website uses cookies to better understand the users’ experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies in accordance with Google’s privacy policy:-
Name | Purpose | Expires
_ga | This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years
_gid | This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours
_gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes
Name | Purpose | Expires
_utma | Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to the site or to a certain page | 2 years
_utmb | This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on the site | 30 minutes
_utmc | This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser | When you close your browser
_utmz | This tells us how you reached the site (for example from another website or a search engine) | 6 months
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available, users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party antivirus software or similar applications.
While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the Resources section below.
We will not transfer your Personal Data to a country outside the European Economic Area without your prior consent and without first having assessed the adequacy of protection for individual rights in respect of personal data available in that country.
You have certain rights as a Data Subject under GDPR to request details and in certain circumstances a copy of the personal data which we hold about you. If you would like a copy, please write to us at the address below and mark your envelope “Personal information request”. Should you discover any inaccuracies in such personal data, please notify us as soon as possible at the same address. We will then correct our records and notify any third parties to whom such personal data may have been supplied.
We reserve the right to modify or amend this privacy policy at any time and for any reason. Details of any changes will be posted at the top of the privacy policy web page.
If you have any queries in relation to the above please do not hesitate to contact:-
Nicos Scholarios
MSM Solicitors
51 Moss Street
Paisley
PA1 1DR
or call 0141 889 6244.
