Cookie and Privacy Policy
PRIVACY STATEMENT AND WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Healthy-U is committed to respecting your online privacy and recognises your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us. Healthy-U has established this Online Privacy Policy so that you can understand the care with which we intend to treat your Personal Information. Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit Healthy-U’s Website without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some of our Site pages utilise “cookies” and other tracking technologies. A “cookie” is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about Site activity. For more information on cookies please click here . Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Web user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Site. Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our Site and your Web experience. We may also analyse information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics. We will not facilitate the merging of personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information previously collected from Display Advertising features that is based on the DoubleClick cookie unless we have give you robust notice of, and received your prior affirmative (i.e. opt in) consent to, that merger. We may use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimise and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Website. To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:
SECURITY
Wherever your Personal Information may be provided to Healthy-U or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorised access or disclosure.
COMMITMENT
We are committed to privacy and support current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet. Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and the Site is constantly evolving to meet these demands. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Online Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@healthy-u.org.uk. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.
YOUR CONSENT
By using the Site, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to Healthy-U processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where Healthy-U collects Personal Information on the Web. Healthy-U reserves the right to change this Online Privacy Policy change at any time and in the event of change we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on the Site for a reasonable period of time.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Questions regarding this Statement or the practices of this Site should be directed to Healthy-U by e-mailing such questions to info@healthy-u.org.uk with the subject “Privacy Statement Enquiry”. Healthy-U takes every effort to ensure that the information published on the Site is accurate. However, Healthy-U cannot accept any liability for the accuracy or content. Visitors who rely on this information do so at their own risk. General information about data protection may be found at: Information Commissioner’s website
CONTENT
Some of the content used on Healthy-U is provided by 3rd party suppliers. We often experiment with shared content and add credits where required.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies and how they Benefit You
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
You can also learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. We are using Google Analytics cookies on this website.
Functionality cookies – These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make such as your user name, or saves the type of device which is being reported to the website to determine whether the site should display the mobile or desktop version. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Blocking cookies – Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. Please refer to the help documentation for your browser. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics which are the performance cookies we use on this website, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or an embedded Google map.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we may have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.