Our Privacy Policy
Who we are
We are the Spean Bridge, Roy Bridge and Achnacarry SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation). Our website address is: https://srascio.scot and is accessed more usually via www.srascio.scot
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.The same information is collected when members join online. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are placed in your browser to track how you travel through this site a. Some are essential to running this website. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, as visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Who we share your data with
We may share anonymised data (for example the numbers of members per postcode) with regulatory or funding bodies, but we will not share specific personal information without your express consent. We will never use your information for marketing, or contact you to market a service to you unless you have specifically given consent in writing.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments on our site, or if you become a member, you can request access to the personal data we hold about you and you can ask us to change any factual mistakes in the information we hold. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you: “the right to be forgotten”. However, this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
For more information about your information privacy rights or to make a complaint you can contact the Information Commissioners Office through their website https://ico.org.uk/
Changes to this policy
If we have to make changes to this policy which are inconsistent with the original purposes for which your data was collected then we will notify you in advance wherever possible and give you the opportunity to withdraw consent for your information to be held or processed.
