Privacy Policy
Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by our terms and conditions of use, which together with this privacy policy govern GBS’s relationship with you in relation to this website
If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.
The terms ‘Gloucestershire Befriending Services Ltd’, 'GBS' or similar or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose company registration number is 12176897, registered in England & Wales. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.
Gloucestershire Befriending Services Ltd are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of anyone using our site and the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use any personal information that we may obtain from you.
Data Protection Act 1988 (‘the Act’)
We are registered under the Data Protection Act and comply with the Act in all our dealings with your personal data.
Use and collection of personal information
In general you can visit our website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. If, however, you use our site and submit a referral form, you will be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details. We will store this data and hold it by computer or otherwise.
We may use information that you provide:
To provide our befriending service, either to you or to the client being referred.
To register you with our website and to administer it.
For assessment and analysis, e.g. marketing, customer and product analysis, to enable us to review, develop and improve our services.
We do not sell or share your information with third parties unless:
In the event we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we might disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer or seller.
If we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with or meet any legal obligation.
Security
We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data that you disclose online and we will not be responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will aim to inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or we intend to disclose your information to any third party.
General
You have the right to see personal data (as defined under the Data Protection Act) that we keep about you upon receipt of a written request and a payment of a fee of £10. Any request should be sent to:
Data Control, Gloucestershire Befriending Services Ltd, 9 Kingsholm Square, Gloucester, GL1 2QJ.
Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new or updated version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
Third party websites
This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites.
Contact
If you have any questions about this please contact us through our contact page.