Privacy Statement

3rd Reading Scout Group take the issue of privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting and respecting our users’ privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our current data processing practices. If you have any queries or concerns regarding these practices, you should contact us

1. The information we collect

The only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

2. Registration information

When you register with the website, we ask for your name and email address. We also capture your IP address at the time of login.

3. Sharing of data

We may shared supplied data by you (or collected about you) with other parts of the Scout Group, this data does not leave the Group.

4. Legal jurisdiction

All personal information and details held on and processed by computers is situated within the EU.

5. Disclosure of data by order of a Court and Security

We reserve the right to communicate a Member’s personal information as we hold to third parties who are empowered by regulation, statute or order of a court.

We have security measures in place to protect our information. Access is restricted, however it remains each Members’s responsibility: to keep their password secret; to protect against unauthorised access to your personal data; to ensure against use by anyone else of the website service through the machine that Member uses while they are “logged on” to the service.

6. Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

We use the “3rdreading” cookie to optimise the website for users. This cookie is essential to the running of the website and member areas. Without this cookie members will not be able to access secure areas.

7. The Data Protection Act

You can obtain further information about the data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/the-data-protection-act