ROTHERHAM FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

RFHS Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect and store about you.

1. Introduction
2. Visitor Information
3. What is a cookie?
4. Submitting personal information
5. Access to your personal information
6. Users 16 and under
7. How to find and control your cookies
8. How do you know which sites use cookies?
9. How to see your cookie code
10. List of rotherhamfhs.co.uk cookies

1. Introduction

This policy covers RFHS's use of personal information that we collect and store when you use rotherhamfhs.co.uk or submit to us by any other means.  The policy also gives you information about cookies, if they should ever be used by this site; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name, membership number and email address, etc) in order to receive information or use the services on our website.  Such services include , or may include in the future, newsletters, competitions, message boards and rotherhamfhs.co.uk or RFHS membership.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable RFHS and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.  Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy.  When using your personal information RFHS will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to rotherhamfhs.co.uk, the pages you see are downloaded to your computer and at some future date the site may use short text files called 'cookies' which will aslo be downloaded to your computer.  Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before.  This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. 

Bravenet, an independent company, gathers non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf and provides statistics about the use of our site, this information may be viewed by clicking the Bravenet button under the web counter on our home page.   RFHS uses this information to help it improve the services to its members.

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's server and stored on your computer's hard drive.  Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences.  Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at all.  The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the rotherhamfhs.co.uk features should we decide to use cookies at some future date.  Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org .

4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to rotherhamfhs.co.uk or to RFHS by other means (e.g. for on line forms, RFHS membership, etc) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use this data.  We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to RFHS will only be used within RFHS and will only be disclosed to other where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on, or to rotherhamfhs.co.uk and RFHS or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on rotherhamfhs.co.uk, RFHS will use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour.  This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service(s) you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of RFHS membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a RFHS member.  For archive purposes however, RFHS may store member names, and contact details arising from membership of RFHS for a period of 2 years in case membership is resumed during that period.  We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information RFHS holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.)  Please address requests to the Secretary, RFHS, 36 Warren Hill, Rotherham S61 3SX (Email: brian_allott"@"msn.com).

6. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the RFHS's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

7. How to find and control your cookies

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files

1. View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.

1. View
2. Options
3. Advanced
4. View Files.

9. How to see your cookie code

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

10. List of rotherhamfhs.co.uk cookies

This is a list of the main cookies that rotherhamfhs.co.uk sets, and what each is used for: