Portsmouth

Privacy & Cookies Policy

To understand how we collect, use, and store your personal data.

Who we are

Portsmouth Tech and Cultural Hub is a registered community interest company in England and Wales (16408734). Our website address is: https://www.patecs.co.uk/

How to contact us

Full name of legal entity: PATECS TECHNOLOGIES (PORTSMOUTH TECH AND CULTURAL HUB) CIC

Email address: Support@patecs.co.uk

Our commitment to you

  • We will only collect information that is relevant
  • We will use your personal information fairly and only for the purposes for which it was given
  • We will make sure your information is updated when needed
  • We will not hold your information longer than necessary
  • We will make it easy for you to exercise your rights under the law

How we collect your personal data

We collect information when you make a donation, join a campaign, respond to appeals, volunteer, purchase services, or complete any online form on our site.

How do we use your information?

We may use your information to:

  • Provide you with information, products, or services you've requested
  • Inform you about our work or activities
  • Invite you to participate in website features or events you've registered for
  • Process donations or fundraising activities
  • Manage internal records and respond to feedback or complaints
  • Contact you as a representative of an organisation or supporter
  • Analyse interests and preferences to provide more relevant communication
  • Comply with legal obligations

This helps us understand which activities are most meaningful to our supporters.

Comments

When visitors leave comments, we collect the data in the form, their IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

Media

Visitors who upload images should avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as others can download and extract location data from those images.

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to target the content displayed to the user’s interests.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org

What information do we collect using cookies?

We use cookies to track how visitors come to our site. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Financial Information:

Donations made by card through our website are securely managed by GiveWP. View their Privacy Policy.

Donations made through Just Giving are subject to their data processing rules. View JustGiving Privacy Policy.

Donations made by card through Stripe are managed by them securely. View Stripe’s Privacy Policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Website statistics analytics

Our website currently uses Google Analytics. 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.

We never disclose your personal information for direct marketing purposes; however, we may need to disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How to disable cookies

Find out more detailed information on disabling cookies by visiting allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

Notification of change of Privacy and Cookie Policy

From time to time, Patecs Technologies (Portsmouth Tech and Cultural Hub CIC) may need to make changes to this Privacy & Cookie Policy.

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