Our site is operated by The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (“Alliance”, “we”, “our”, “us”), a charity registered in Scotland under registration number SC044174. Our registered office is at 14 City Quay, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 3JA, and our postal address is Floor 17, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT.
To contact us, please email admin@acffglobal.org or call us +44 (0)20 7848 8481. We have a small staff team and usually operate during UK working hours. Consequently, you may experience a delay before you receive a reply to an email, letter or telephone voicemail message. However, we will respond to all communications as soon as practicable.
Any changes we make to our privacy and cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy and cookies policy.
PRIVACY POLICY
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.acffglobal.org (our site) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future, Floor 17, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT.
Information we collect from you
We will collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms (on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise). It includes information you provide when you register for the members area of our site, enter a survey, when you report a problem with our site or contact us through the web contact form. The information you give us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, and personal description.
- Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we will automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page.
- Aggregated data. We use aggregated data to report on the activities facilitated by our site, including the number of members, details of searches, the number of downloads and the number of contact forms received. We use the data and may share it with third parties, including the Charity Commission.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- to provide you with relevant information about other goods and services we, or those acting on our behalf, offer that are similar to those that you have already requested or enquired about;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Disclosure of your information
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except in the following circumstances:
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Alliance, visitors, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you will be stored at a destination within the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing at any time by contacting us.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Any access request must be made to admin@acffglobal.org.
COOKIES POLICY
Information about our use of cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to provide visitor information such as geographical location, the type of device and browser used, the length of time a visitor visited our site and the number of pages that were viewed during the session. Google Analytics uses IP addresses and cookies to enable the anonymised data to be shared with us.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the cookies we use on following pages: https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookies/
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.