Privacy policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website www.inspiringhousing.co.uk and served by Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors. This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ]. Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

 Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the GDPR 2018. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk. This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter programme the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

 External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to: www.inspiringhousing.co.uk The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/1U4FXPU).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Terms and conditions

This website is provided and operated by Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014  (registration number 8335 ).

Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust is an independently govern organisation not for profit organisations which is a subsidiary of the parent Charity Inspiring Communities Together

These terms and conditions explain how you may use this website www.inspiringhousing.co.uk which is provided to you free of charge.

You should read these Terms carefully before using the Site.

By accessing or using the Site or otherwise indicating your consent, you agree to be bound by these Terms and the documents referred to in them.

If you do not agree with or accept any of these Terms, you should stop using the Site immediately.

If you have any questions about the Site, please contact us at office@inspiringcommuntitiestogether.co.uk

We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time.

You can download any of the material from www.inspiringhousing.co.uk for your own use on the following terms:

You accept all risks from downloading, installing or using the material. We will not be responsible for damage (including damage caused by viruses) to your computer or software, or any losses you suffer as a result of downloading, installing or using the material.

Copyright

All Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust copyrights are reserved. This material may be reproduced without formal permission for the purposes of non-commercial research, private study and for criticism, review and news reporting provided that the material is appropriately sourced and attributed. The Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust logo should be retained on all publications.

You must not, without our permission in writing:

Reproduce or redistribute any of the material for commercial purposes

Alter any of the material or remove the Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust logo without specific permission; or

Alter or remove our copyright notices on the material

For any other re-use of the material please contact us directly.

All materials produced through voluntary and paid work for Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust are the property of Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust unless clearly stated otherwise.

Rules about linking to our Site

 You may link to our Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Site on any website that is not owned by you.

Our Site must not be framed on any other site.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Disclaimer

 The Site and the Content are provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us and our activities, news, services and other websites that may be of interest.

Whilst Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust aims to keep information as accurate and up-to-date as possible, Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust cannot be held liable for anyone acting or failing to act based on this material.

While we try to make sure that the Site is available, accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, we do not warrant that provision of the Site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

This website contains links to external websites that Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust cannot control and is not responsible for maintaining. Any information, products or services on those sites are not necessarily endorsed or recommended by Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust.

No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person or organisation acting or refraining from action as a result of material on this site can be accepted by Inspiring Housing Community Land Trust.

We may suspend or terminate operation of the Site at any time as we see fit.