Privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how Bath Arts Workshop History Group (BAWHG) uses and protects any information that you give BAWHG when you use this website.

BAWHG is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

BAWHG may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 31st July 2021.

Compliance with the law

Our privacy policy complies with the law in the United Kingdom, specifically with the Data Protection Act 2018 (the ‘Act’) accordingly incorporating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (‘PECR’).

What we collect

We may on request collect the following information:

  • name

  • contact information including email address and telephone number

  • demographic information such as postcode

  • ages if participants are under 18

  • information about disabilities or support needs

What we do with the information we gather

We may require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping

• To improve our products and services and to report to funders on the use of their investment

• To contact you - we will only contact you using the details you provide for reasons directly relating to your purchase of services

Security and controlling your personal information

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure and will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties. We will only pass on your personal information if we are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. We may charge or refuse if we deem the request to be manifestly unfounded or excessive. If we do refuse we will tell you why and what your next steps are. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us with your request.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

E-communications

You will be able to stop these at any time by emailing us.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Cookies Policy

A cookie is a small file which can be placed on your computer’s hard drive, the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Provided cookies are not blocked by your browser, our website will automatically deploy cookies on your computer when you arrive at one of our web pages. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information only for statistical analysis purposes to help us improve our website, we never use this information for any kind of marketing or advertising.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can easily restrict or block the cookies used by this website through your browser settings, the Help function within your browser will provide detailed instruction of how to change these settings.

You can find more information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org, this site provides instructions on how to block cookies on all the major browsers and also explains how you can delete cookies that have already been stored on your computer.

You should be aware that most cookies are harmless and restricting them may impact on the functionality of the websites you visit.