Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is for this website www.creativehertfordshire.com served by the University of Hertfordshire on behalf of the Hertfordshire Cultural Partnership and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
At the University of Hertfordshire we believe strongly in protecting our users’ privacy. We will not wilfully disclose information about our users to any third party without first receiving the relevant user’s consent. This Privacy Policy sets out the privacy practices for the services offered on any University of Hertfordshire (‘the University’) owned and/or operated websites (‘the Website’). Some parts of our on-line systems and services and our collaborative agreements are operated on our behalf by third-party organisations. By submitting your personal information you are consenting to the University holding it, in accordance with this policy, and where necessary carrying out these services by providing the relevant information to such organisations.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time-to-time. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
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 with the laws of England and requirements for user privacy.
Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies to better the user’s 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 placed by Google on our behalf:
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These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page. Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may 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.
Cookie placed by us:
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This is the cookie set by the website to track your session information, so that we can perform a number of critical functions on the website, such as security and page preferences etc. When you leave the website and close the browser, this session cookie should be removed by your browser automatically.
Opt-Out
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics. Please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Information about how to configure your browser to block cookies can be found at:
Your Personal Information
Our website provides forms that allow you to submit personal information to us. This personal information includes your name, email address, postcode and telephone number and any other information necessary for you to publish your creative profile on our website.
We store your data so that it can be displayed on our website when users visit.
On occasion, we may export your data to a secure server so we can analyse where our members come from. The only people who will have this information are the Creative Hertfordshire Administration Team. If you would not like to be included in this, please email us at support@creativehertfordshire.com
All information transmitted in this way is encrypted for your security using SSL technology. To read more about SSL technology, please visit the following website https://www.digicert.com/ssl/
Data Deletion
You have full control to delete your profile and any content that you have added to our website by logging in to your account, navigating to the section in which you uploaded your content and selecting “Delete”. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking “unsubscribe”.
At any time that you delete your data or unsubscribe from our newsletter, your data will be immediately deleted from the website’s database.
Embedded Video
We will embed videos into our web pages, mostly from YouTube and Vimeo. These third parties might be gathering usage information and setting their own cookies. Details of their privacy policies can be found here:
