Privacy

This page informs website visitors of our policies for the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information.

If you choose to access and use our service, you agree to the collection and use of information as detailed within this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving our service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

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Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our service, we may require you to provide us with certain personal identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

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Log Data

Whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

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Cookies

Please note that when you use the Stoke Speaks Out website several cookies are copied onto your computer or device. A “cookie” is a small text file that holds some website settings and is not used to track you in any way. It helps manage your session on the site and is automatically removed soon after you leave.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. You may configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Further information on how to prompt or block cookies on various browsers is available on the all about cookies website. If you choose to block all cookies, parts of the Stoke Speaks Out website may not work properly.

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Google Analytics

Stoke Speaks Out uses Google Analytics (which uses cookies), as a web analytics service, provided by Google, Inc (“Google”), to analyse the use of our website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Google will store this information. For more information see Google’s privacy policy and details of Google Analytics. Details of how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics can be found here.

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Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals for the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;

• To provide the Service on our behalf;

• To perform Service-related services; or

• To assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obliged not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

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Security

We value your trust in providing us your personal information and strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. All systems and software we use to provide our service, to the best of our knowledge, are GDPR compliant.

 

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by Stoke Speaks Out. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after posting.

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Intellectual Property

The content of this website is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, as applicable, and is provided solely for your personal use. Republication or redistribution of any of the content available (unless specified for download purposes e.g. activity and help sheets) on the website including by framing or similar means is prohibited.

You may use downloadable content for personal and/or direct classroom use only. In order to support us, we ask that you always acknowledge Stoke Speaks Out as the source of the resource.

You must not use any content for commercial purposes and also you must not alter the digital versions of our resources in any way. Copying our logos and/or any other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.

 

Hyperlinking to us

You are welcome to make a link to any page on our site if you think it is useful. However, you must acknowledge our copyright if you copy any text or graphics from our pages onto your own, or include any graphics on our site within your pages.

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