Privacy policy
At several points in this site, you can submit personal information. The information that you give us will be treated in accordance to the Data Protection principles outlined in the Data Protection Act 1998.
Data protection
BG Healthy You is required by law to comply with the Data Protection Act, 1998 (the 1998 Act). To comply with the law, information is collected and used fairly, stored safely and not disclosed to any other person unlawfully. To do this BG complies with the Data Protection Principles which are set out in the 1998 Act. In summary these state that personal data shall be:
- processed fairly and lawfully and shall not be processed unless certain conditions are met.
- obtained for specified and lawful purposes and not further processed in a manner incompatible with that purpose.
- adequate, relevant and not excessive.
- accurate and where necessary up to date.
- kept for no longer than necessary.
- processed in accordance with data subjects' rights.
- protected by appropriate security.
- not transferred without adequate protection. The Organisation is committed to ensuring that current employees comply with this Act regarding the confidentiality of any personal data held by the Organisation, in whatever medium.
The site carries information that is already publicly available, such as organisational structures, membership and responsibilities of governing bodies and committees, staff contacts list, photographs of key staff, list of students to whom awards have been made or are likely to be made by the Organisation. Wherever necessary, permissions have been sought before publication of material. Information that is already publicly available is exempt from the 1998 Act. It is the policy of BG to make public as much information about the Organisation as possible.
Images
The images on this site are either covered by our own copyright or, where the copyright holder is another person or organisation, have been specifically cleared for our our use by the owner.
Cookies
Cookies are text files which contain data which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website.
Cookies cannot look into your computer and obtain information about you or your family or read any material kept on your hard drive and, unless you have logged onto an authenticated page, cookies cannot be used to identify who you are.
Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer.
BG summer schools’ website uses cookies to make continuous improvements to the website. None of the information gathered through Google Analytics can be traced to an individual - we do not know who you are as a unique user, merely that there are a certain number of people using this site. The cookie only relates to what goes on in this site and the information cannot be used for marketing on an individual basis.
This website uses the following cookies:
| Type | Name | Purpose | Information |
| Session Cookies | These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your computer until you close your browser (at which point they are deleted). | ||
| sIFR | sifrFetch | This cookie is required for the technology used to replace fonts used throughout www.bghealthyou.org.uk The cookie determines if the user is visiting the site for the first time and pre-fetches the flash movies.
This cookie is deleted when you leave the bgsummerschools website. |
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| Google Analytics and MDX Play | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site and to continually enhance visitor experience. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Read the overview of privacy at Google |
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These cookies receive information such as which web page you came from, which type of browser you are using, and your general geographic location. When you and others use AddThis tools to share content, they aggregate data about what pages are shared, when, and how. | Read the overview of privacy & data practices |
| Google Maps | PREF NID |
These are used by Google to track how many people are using their Maps, which appear on our Location pages. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
| MDX Play | mdx_session lu p c_ user xs presence act |
These session cookies are used to validate form submission to stop Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - Confirmation/error message carried between pages during user interaction with the website.
These cookies are set by the embedded Facebook content on the About Us page. Without these Cookies a user would not be able to view this embedded content. |
Cookies outside of mdx.ac.uk domain
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| DoubleClick by Google | id | When you are accessing the web through a digital device, Google uses cookies to improve your online experience, and track ad response rates to improve the effectiveness of online advertising on external websites. | Read the overview of advertising and privacy at Google |
The web browsers of most computers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web browser to disable cookies or to inform you when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your computer's cookie file.
E-mail: info@bghealthyou.org.uk