Cookies and privacy policy
A Good Society website is administered and managed by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI). A Good Society emerges as a place that re-builds the spirit by offering hope. It integrates different generations and faiths, and models’ healthy ways of living and being.
This privacy policy sets out how CTBI uses any personal information that you give to us when you use this website. We take your use of this website as consent to our using personal data and/or cookies in the ways specified below.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
CTBI may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated 27 June 2023.
What we collect and how we use the information
Visitors to our website
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which the website places on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to the visitor in a particular way and certain parts of our website make use of them, for example to determine whether you have accessed a certain web page before. We do not use cookies to personally identify you.
Disabling cookies
You are free to disable cookies within your browser (see this guide). However, if you disable cookies you accept that parts of this website (and other third-party websites) may not work correctly.
Third party websites and systems
The website also links to some third-party websites and systems which also make use of cookies:
Videos
On some web pages we embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo and both these services may use cookies. See Vimeo and Google (YouTube) for more details.
We do not hold any responsibility on how the third-party websites collect and use your personal information. We encourage you to check the individual website privacy notices when using their sites.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites of interest. 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 are encouraged to read the privacy statements applicable to the other websites you visit.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
Your rights
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
You can read more about these rights from the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) website – https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my-information-being-handled-correctly/
Complaints or queries
CTBI makes every effort to meet the set standards of data protection when collecting and using personal information. This privacy notice was drafted to include a concise overview of how CTBI collects and uses personal data via www.agoodsociety.org However, it does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of CTBI collection and use of personal information.
If you want to make a complaint, have a query or would like to make suggestions on any aspects of this privacy notice, please contact us in the first instance and we will try our best to help at the earliest convenience at [email protected].
If you feel we are unable to help, please contact the ICO https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/raising-concerns/
Access to personal information
Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 1998. If we do hold information about you we will:
- give you a description of it;
- tell you why we are holding it;
- tell you who it could be disclosed to; and
- let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.
If you would like to enquire about any information we have about you, please contact us at [email protected] in the first instance.
Changes to this privacy notice
We endeavour to keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated 4th April 2018.
How to contact us
If you want to request information about our privacy policy you can email us or write to:
CTBI Data Collection
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
Interchurch House
35 Lower Marsh
London SE1 7RL