Privacy Policy

This policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you or that you provide to us. Read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data processing is carried out at Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) -- your details are stored, maintained and protected by Gender Action for Peace and Security under our hosting arrangement.

"Personal Data" is information that might help identify you as an individual, such as your name, contact details, IP address or CV. We are focused on the protection of your personal data and privacy.

Most of the personal data we collect is provided freely by you when filling any forms on the website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. Other pieces of data you give us includes information you provide when you and when you report a problem with the website.

Data we collect about you:

For each of your visits to the Ashawomen.org.uk website, we will automatically collect the following pieces of data:

  • Technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, and operating system and platform;
  • Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. They are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

What type cookies do we use?

  1. Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the CharityJob website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the CharityJob website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  2. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the CharityJob website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.
  3. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the CharityJob website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the CharityJob website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

* Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. *

We will strive to ensure that any personal data in our care will be kept safe and where your information is disclosed to a third party we will seek to ensure that the third party has sufficient systems and procedures in place to prevent the loss of personal data.

On a very rare occasion, we may need to disclose your details, if required, to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisors or to comply with a court order or a legal obligation. In these circumstances we will be careful to only provide information that we are required to provide.

Your rights

You have the right to request that we cease processing your personal data in relation to any of our services. Where possible, we will seek to comply with your request but there may be some situations where we will not legally be able to do this. However, ceasing to process this data may cause delays or hinder our ability to provide services to you.

You are legally entitled to request access to and receive a copy of any information that we hold about you. We will seek to comply with your request but there may be some situations where it will not be able to do this in full, for example where information held was given in confidence, this may include information given to us by a third party.

For further information about either requesting access to your personal data or to cease processing personal data please contact us.