St Michael's Website Privacy Policy

This page explains our privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit this website.

The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.

We never pass on your details to any third party unless you give us permission to do so.

What information do we collect?
We collect three kinds of information from visitors to the website of Linlithgow: St Michael's Parish Church: feedback (through visitors emailing us); credit card and other details from visitors placing an online order for a particular resource; and site usage information, from cookies and log files.

Feedback
We welcome your feedback.

If you send an email or letter to us, asking for information, we may need to contact other organisations to find that information.

We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so. Once we have replied to you, we may keep a record of your message for reference and audit purposes.

Site usage information

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. Two cookies are created when you visit the Linlithgow: St Michael's Parish Church website.

Our first cookie stores a random number on your computer to help us count the number of times users return to our site. The second type of cookie tracks any purchases of resources that you make through our website – this cookie is securely discarded after you have made your purchase.

The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual user.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you do not know how to do this, contact us, giving details on the type of browser you are using, and we will do our best to help.

Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. No one other than Linlithgow: St Michael's Parish Church’s Web Development Team have access to this information and this data is never shared with external organisations. We use this information to analyse how popular certain sections of our website are with visitors.

Log files do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.

What happens when I link to another site?

We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site

This website contains links to other websites, both of Christian NGOs and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.

We never pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties