Cookie Policy

Cookies and how they Benefit You

This website is operated by Leatherhead District Scout Council. Like most websites, we use cookies to help provide visitors with a safe, effective and user-friendly experience.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you browse websites.


How we use cookies

Our cookies help us to:

  • Make the website work as you would expect
  • Improve the speed, security and reliability of the site
  • Understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it
  • Enable embedded content and basic site functionality

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect personally identifiable information without your knowledge
  • Collect sensitive personal information
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Sell or share personal data with third parties for marketing purposes

Managing your cookie preferences

By continuing to use this website and by configuring your browser to accept cookies, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

You can restrict or block cookies by changing your browser settings at any time. Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect how this website functions.


Types of cookies we use

Website functionality cookies

These cookies are essential for the basic operation of the website. They may be used to:

  • Support core site functionality
  • Remember whether you have accepted cookie notices
  • Maintain site security

These cookies cannot be switched off without affecting the operation of the website.


Third-party functionality cookies

Some parts of the website include content or functionality provided by third parties. These third parties may set their own cookies.

Examples include:

  • YouTube (embedded videos)
  • Jetpack by WordPress (site performance and security features)

Disabling these cookies may prevent embedded content or features from working correctly.


Social media cookies

The website may include social sharing buttons to allow content to be shared on platforms such as Facebook or X (formerly Twitter).

These platforms may set cookies when you interact with their content. The privacy implications vary depending on the platform and your own privacy settings on those services.


Analytics cookies

We use analytics cookies to collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website. This helps us understand what works well and where improvements can be made.

Information collected may include:

  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the site
  • How visitors arrived at the site
  • General device and browser information

We use the following services:

  • Google Analytics
  • Jetpack by WordPress

Analytics data does not include personally identifiable information.


Turning cookies off

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can choose to accept or reject cookies, or to be notified when a cookie is being set.

You can also delete cookies already stored on your device.

As browser settings vary, you should refer to your browser’s help pages for instructions. Further guidance is also available from the website aboutcookies.org.

Please note that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this and many other websites.

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Who we are

Our website address is: https://ldscouts.org.uk.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

 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. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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