Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by The Youth Federation, or subsidiary or affiliated companies that it may create.
 
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at our Main office
 
The Web team (privacy)
The Youth Federation
Unit 4 Rossmore Business Village
Inward Way
Ellesmere Port
Cheshire
CH65 3EY
webteam@youthfed.org.uk
 
Information we collect and how we use it
 
We may collect the following types of information:

• Information you provide – When you sign up for an account at the Youth Federation website, we ask you for limited personal information.  We combine the information you submit under your account with information relating to Youth Federation Membership or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information. You can use your Amicus Dashboard to learn more about the information associated with your Account.
• Cookies – When you visit our website, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences and improving search results.
• User communications – When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
• Third Party Applications – We may make available third party applications, such as gadgets or extensions, through our services. The information collected by us when you enable a third party application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the third party application provider is governed by their privacy policies.
• Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Youth Federation services only.

 
In addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our servicesand develop new services; and
• Protect the rights or property of the Youth Federation or our users.

 
If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
 
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Information sharing
 
The Youth Federation will only share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of The Youth Federation in the following limited circumstances:

• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of The Youth Federation, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

 
Information security
 
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorised access to systems where we store personal data.
 
We restrict access to your personal information to Youth Federation employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
 
Accessing and updating personal information
 
When you use the Youth Federation website, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you
delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.

Spam Protection Policy
 
This privacy policy explains how The Youth Federation ("we") processes your personal data. Please read it carefully, as it specifies which rights you have and how you can exercise your rights.
 
Our web service – We operate a web service that tries to determine the quality of messages posted to a website, and particularly tries to determine whether these messages are to be considered as unsolicited messages (also called "spam"). Nowadays, websites that allow visitors to contribute or post comments (such as blogs, discussion forums, wikis, etc.) are flooded with inappropriate commercial messages that are distracting for all visitors, and are sometimes even highly illegal. These commercial messages are often uploaded in an automatic way. Our website screens messages before they are posted to the website.
 
How it works – When a message is posted to the site, the website's server analyses the message and performs several complex statistical computations in order to assess the quality of your message (e.g., spam, abuse, etc.).
 
If our server determines that the content of your message is of insufficient quality or constitutes spam or abuse, the server may reject your message, or provide you with an additional question to find out whether you are in fact a human being, and not a machine trying to send out as much commercial communications as possible. Please note that it is sometimes possible that our server makes a mistake so may, very rarely, treat your message as spam or abuse.
 
What we store about you – We store all information provided to us by the website. This will include, in particular, the following personal data about you (to the extent effectively provided to us by the website): the content of your message, your name or nickname, IP address, user ID, OpenID, e-mail address, URL of your website, and the date and time you post a message.
 
How we use your personal data – We use your personal data to assess the quality of your message, and to find out whether your message constitutes spam, by comparing your data with all other data of all other users in our databases. Afterwards, we also use your personal data to make similar assessments for all other websites that use our service, as the more information we store in our database, the better we can assess whether a message is genuine.
 
How we protect you – We are bound by the strict laws and rules of the UK and European data protection legislation, which prevents us from making unlawful use of your personal data. Please note that the website's operator may be bound by other rules, depending on his jurisdiction.
 
Your rights – You have the right to gain access to, correct and/or remove all personal data we store about you on our servers. All this is provided to you free of charge. In order to exercise your rights, please email us

Changes to this Privacy Policy
 
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).