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Privacy statement

as at 01/02/2013

General

This site is provided and managed by Barnardo's, Registered Charity nos. 216250 and SC037605.

This statement only applies to the Barnardo's web site at www.barnardos.org.uk.

Barnardo's fully complies with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Barnardo's is registered with the Office of the Information Commissioner for those purposes for which personal information is collected on this web site.

Personally identifiable information

Barnardo's will only collect personal information when you specifically and knowingly provide it to us. Examples of personal information are:

your name
your address
your telephone number
your e-mail address

Where stated we may use the personal information you provide to contact you in the future about Barnardo's work. If you do not want this to happen please tick the appropriate box where provided.

Non-personally identifiable information

Aggregate or summary information is collected automatically by our webserver. This information is used to monitor the web site and will not contain information that can identify you as an individual.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file on the user's browser and hard drive that uniquely identifies the user's browser. There are two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are erased when the browser exits. Persistent cookies remain on the user's hard drive until the user erases them or until they expire. Here is a more complete explaination of what cookies are and how they work.

Barnardo's cookies

Font size change (newFontSize)
This cookie simply stores a user preference if they have opted to increase/decrease the website's font size. This enables the font size to be standard throughout the site.

Website statistics analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. 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. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
The Googles Analytics overview.

Third party cookies

Google Remarketing (interest-based advertising)
A 3rd party cookie is set. This cookie will identify a user when they visit other 3rd party websites and will allow better and more relevant ads to be displayed to the user..
The information collected and used for this type of advertising is not personal, in that it does not identify you – the user – in the real world. No personal information, such as your name, address or email address, is used.
To learn more about, and control 3rd party remarketing, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

You may notice some cookies that are not related to the Barnardo's whilst visting www.barnardos.org.uk. Some of our pages contain embedded content such as Youtube video, Vimeo video, Facebook buttons or Flikr photos, and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. Barnardo's does not govern the publication of 3rd party cookies. To understand more about their cookies and privacy statements, please visit the relevant sites.

Tracking cookies on our Fostering and Adoption microsite

(www.barnardos.org.uk/fosteringandadoption.htm)

Flash Talking

Cookie name: http://servedby.flashtalking.com/spot/

This cookie is used to track and report on performance of online ad campaigns, helping us to evaluate their effectiveness and optimise media allocation in the future. These cookies collect information in an anonymous format on pages visited by individuals exposed to online advertising activity.

Duration: 30 days lifetime

MediaMath

Cookie name: http://pixel.mathtag.com/event/img?mt_id

This is an anonymous cookie which collects behavioural data on individuals that have carried out certain actions on your site e.g purchase, site visit. The role of this cookie is to deliver audience insights so that we can deliver and optimise ad campaigns to reach more relevant users.

Duration: 30 day lifetime

Quantcast

Cookie name: http://secure.quantserve.com/quant.js

Duration: 30 days

Blocking cookies

Please note that blocking cookies could affect the functionality of the Barnardo's website.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block Barnardo's website cookies, you can perform the following:

On your browser tools menu, select 'Internet Options'
Click on the 'Privacy' tab and then on the 'Sites' button
Type into the 'Address of website' field:
www.barnardos.org.uk
Click on the 'Block' button
Click on the OK button

Other browsers:

Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities somewhere in their preferences settings, please refer to your browser's 'Help' facility.

Third party sites

This web site contains links to other web sites. Please be notified that Barnardo's cannot be held responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage all visitors to be aware and read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.