Privacy Policy
We are committed to keeping your data secure.
What information do we collect about you?
We only collect data from you when you give it to us, this may include;
- Your name
- Your address
- Your contact details (telephone number or email address)
- Other information in relation to services offered by the UK Owl and Raptor Centre.
Except from joining our mailing list, data is only collected when you purchase a service or product from us, your data will remain with us for 12 months from purchase to allow us to keep a proof of purchase. After 12 months, your information will be deleted from our system.
Holding on to your data.
We only hold on to your data for as long as reasonably necessary (usually no longer than 12 months), and in accordance to law. Data for those who sign up to our updates will be held until the user withdraws from this.
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You have the right to contact us to request a copy of all of the information that we hold about you, this may be done by emailing us.
Security.
When processing payments, we have no access to your credit/debit card details, except for the last 4 digits of the card number. We use Stripe and Square to handle the processing of our payments, BookingHound for our gift vouchers and experience day bookings. Guests who do not wish for BookingHound to hold their information can contact us directly via email or telephone.
Your data will not be shown or given to anybody outside of the UK Owl and Raptor Centre, nor will it be sold. Only authorised staff have access to these details. BookingHound will be able to see data when assisting with technical issues.
Cookies.
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A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
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Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
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Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
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We use cookies for the following purposes:
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(a) [authentication and status - we use cookies [to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to determine if you are logged into the website][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]];
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(b) [personalisation - we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]];
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(c) [security - we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]];
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(d) [advertising - we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]];
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(e) [analysis - we use cookies [to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]]; and
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(f) [cookie consent - we use cookies [to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]].
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Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
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We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.[ The relevant cookies are: [identify cookies].]
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Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
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(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
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Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
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Visitor Analytics
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Visitor Analytics is a simple website analytics service which measures the traffic on our website and website visitors' general details. We collect statistics like which pages visitors visit and when, where they are approximately located, where they land first or if they are coming from a specific referral, to make our website visitors' experience better .
As a website operator using Visitor Analytics, we processinformation about our visitors' device type and screen size/resolution, approximate location, browser, OS, IPs, page visits, bounce rate, conversions, conversion funnels, average sessions per visitor, average pages per session, average session duration, time spent on the website and preferably visited content on the website. All this data is pseudonymized and Visitor Analytics will not use the collected data to identify individual users or to match the data with additional information on an individual user.
We do not use cookies to collect this data. Instead, we use the so-called fingerprinting technology that does not require placing any cookies, files or technology on your device. Fingerprinting relies on your device’s technical attributes and combines them to identify your device as a unique device and allow for reliable analytics.
2. Visitor Recordings
Visitor Recordings is an additional feature to Visitor Analytics (described above) in the form of a simple website replay tool that records in statistics where our website visitors scrolled to and what they clicked on our website. We can see this information in playbacks and so called “heatmaps”. Collecting these statistics helps us to make our website more user-friendly as well as to reproduce and fix technical errors.
Basically, as a website operator using Visitor Recordings, we are using a snippet of tracking code to collect data about our visitors’ journey on our websites, which subpages they visit, what they clicked on, where they moved their mouse cursor to and where they scrolled. All this data is pseudonymized and Visitor Analytics will not use the collected data to identify individual users or to match it with additional information on an individual user.