Privacy Policy

At the Jac Lewis Foundation, we are committed to protecting your privacy and respecting your rights when it comes to your personal data. This Fair Processing Notice explains how we use your personal data when you receive support from the Jac Lewis Foundation.

Data Controller

The data controller responsible for the personal data we collect through our website is the Jac Lewis Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales (charity number: 1185246).

Our registered office is located at: 216 Cwmamman Road, Glanamman, Ammanford, SA18 2AN.

Personal Data We Collect

When you visit our website or receive support from us, we may collect the following types of personal data:

  • Your name and email address if you contact us through our online contact form or sign up to receive our newsletter.
  • Your IP address, browser type and version, operating system and platform, and information about your visit to our website, including the URL clickstream to, though and from our website, pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To respond to your enquiries and provide you with the information and services you request from us.
  • To evaluate the services, we deliver.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • For the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering a contract
  • For our legitimate interests in running and improving our charity.
  • For compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Your Rights

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • The right to access the personal data we hold about you and to receive a copy of it.
  • The right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to ask us to delete your personal data or restrict the way we use it
  • The right to object to our use of your personal data or to ask us to stop using it for a particular purpose.

To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any questions about how we use your personal data, please contact us.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application.

Your web browser (such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like personalised details or user preferences.

Cookies are very useful and do lots of different jobs which help to make your experience on websites as smooth as possible. For example, they let you move between web pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience.

They are referred to as session or persistent cookies, depending on how long they are used:

Session cookies only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period of time specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.

Which cookies does the Jac Lewis Foundation use and why?

When you use our website, the following four categories of cookies may be set:

Necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in helping you to move around our website and to use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.

Without these cookies, some parts of the website might not function properly.

These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

Functional cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features.

These cookies don’t collect things like your name or email address. Instead, they collect a unique user identifier code.

This enables us to identify your device so that we can improve your experience and make sure your settings are remembered correctly. For example, functional cookies are used to remember if you’ve saved favourite content.

Analytics cookies
In order to keep our website easy to use and up-to-date, we use analytics cookies to help us understand how people use them. Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google.

Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how visitors use the site in the aggregate. It does not collect personally identifiable information, and does not track your movements between different websites.

The cookies used by Google Analytics are:

Cookie: Universal Analytics

Names: _ga, _gali, _gat_UA, _gid

Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

You can opt out of Google Analytics on all websites, or just for this website, by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Third party cookies

Occasionally, third parties may set cookies on our websites which the does not control. These are called ‘third party cookies’.

On some pages of our website we may include embedded content, for example from YouTube. When you visit a page with embedded content, the service provider (for example, YouTube) may set its own cookies on your web browser to track the success of their application or to customise their application to you.

The Jac Lewis Foundation does not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.

How to control your cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Permitted Use

Visitors to the Jac Lewis Foundation website are granted permission to access published materials (content) subject to these terms. By using the website, you agree to be bound by the terms of use.

Whilst content may be accessed, downloaded and used for personal and non-commercial purposes (e.g. private research, study or in-house use); visitors must not reproduce or re-publish any material from this website without permission from the website / copyright owner.

Images, logos and graphics used on this site are owned by us and/or third parties. These must not be used without obtaining permission from the copyright owner.

You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights relating to this website belong to the Jac Lewis Foundation, and where applicable, third party associates.

Personal Information

When you voluntarily submit identifiable data on this website, the information submitted is used solely to respond to your queries and for its intended purpose. We do not share web user information with third parties.

Virus Protection

We make every effort to check and test material for viruses. However, it is recommended that you run an anti-virus program on all materials downloaded from the internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Disclaimer

Care is taken to ensure that the website content is accurate. Nevertheless, content is provided for general information only, and you use it at your own risk. We will not be held liable for damage or loss ensuing from any act or omission resulting from the use of information on this website.

External Websites

The Jac Lewis Foundation is not responsible for the content or reliability of any linked websites. We accept no liability in respect of the content or for the consequences of following any advice included on such sites. Listing should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind.

We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of the linked pages or change of website address.

The Jac Lewis Foundation reserves the right to reject or remove links to any website.

Future Amendments

Subsequent changes to these terms will be made available on this website.