Media Friendly Cookie Policy
This site uses cookies or similar technology to collect information about your access to the site. Cookies are pieces of information that include a unique reference code that a website transfers to your device to store and sometimes track information about you.
A few of the cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the site and will last for longer.
Most computer and some mobile web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Or you could browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.). Please note however, that by blocking or deleting cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the site.
What we use cookies for:
- We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
- We also use them to track information about your browser (its name and type, e.g. Chrome or Firefox) in order to allow us to diagnose problems and see what types of browsers are in use that we need to account for when creating the website (they all work a little differently).
- Finally, we use cookies to see how you found us, for instance, was it by searching on Google or did you come from a paid advert we have placed. This helps us know whether the money we are spending on advertising is worth it.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. They also allow us to see if we are spending our advertising budget wisely. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Cookies on the Media Friendly site
Google Analytics – we use this to understand how the Media Friendly site is being used in order to improve the user experience. Your user data is all anonymous.
Media Friendly– Ironically, we use a cookie to know whether you have accepted the use of Cookies or not. We also use a session cookie (one that is removed once you stop browsing) to see if you are logged into www.Mediafriendly.org (not that you can login). Finally, there are some cookies that track how you found us and how many times you have visited us (to see if our advertising is worth the expense).
How we use what we collect
We use information about you for:
- Following up with you after you have requested a course
- Internal record keeping
If you don’t want us to use your personal data for any of the other reasons set out in this section, you can let us know at any time by contacting us and we will delete your data from our systems.
Where we store your data
Your data will normally remain within the European Economic Area (EEA). If you have applied for a course, then your name and email address will be stored in our Customer Relationship Management system hosted in the UK. The system we use for this is GDPR compliant.
By giving us your personal data, you agree to this arrangement. We will do what we reasonably can to keep your data secure.
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described in this policy, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. In any event, we will conduct an annual review to ascertain whether we need to keep your personal data. Your personal data will be deleted if we no longer need it.
Disclosing your information
We are allowed to disclose your information in the following cases:
- If we want to sell our business, or our company, we can disclose it to the potential buyer.
- We can disclose it if we have a legal obligation to do so, or in order to protect other people’s property, safety or rights.
- We can exchange information with others to protect against fraud or credit risks.
We may contract with third parties to supply services to us. These may include payment processing, search engine facilities and customer relationship management (CRM) services. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. These are the third parties that have access to your information:
- Intouch (our CRM)
- If you directly contact us via email
Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under GDPR and the law. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Your rights:
You can ask us not to use your data for marketing. You can do this by ticking the relevant boxes on our forms, or by contacting us at any time at moyafillmore@mediafriendly.org
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
- request access to, deletion of or correction of, your personal data held by us at no cost to you;
- request that your personal data be transferred to another person (data portability);
- be informed of what data processing is taking place;
- restrict processing;
- to object to processing of your personal data; and
- complain to a supervisory authority.
You also have rights with respect to automated decision-making and profiling as set out in section Automated Decision Making below (spoiler alert – we don’t do any automated decision-making or profiling with your personal data).
To enforce any of the foregoing rights or if you have any other questions about our site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at moyafillmore@mediafriendly.org
Links to other sites
Please note that our terms and conditions and our policies will not apply to other websites that you get to via a link from our site. We have no control over how your data is collected, stored or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
Dispute Resolution
The Parties will use their best efforts to negotiate in good faith and settle any dispute that may arise out of or relate to this Privacy Policy or any breach of it.
If any such dispute cannot be settled amicably through ordinary negotiations between the parties, or either or both is or are unwilling to engage in this process, either party may propose to the other in writing that structured negotiations be entered into with the assistance of a fully accredited mediator before resorting to litigation.
Within 14 days of the appointment of the mediator, the parties will meet with the mediator to agree the procedure to be adopted for the mediation, unless otherwise agreed between the parties and the mediator.
All negotiations connected with the relevant dispute(s) will be conducted in confidence and without prejudice to the rights of the parties in any further proceedings.
If the parties agree on a resolution of the dispute at mediation, the agreement shall be reduced to writing and, once signed by the duly authorised representatives of both parties, shall be final and binding on them.
If the parties fail to resolve the dispute(s) within 60 days (or such longer term as may be agreed between the parties) of the mediator being appointed, or if either party withdraws from the mediation procedure, then either party may exercise any right to seek a remedy through arbitration.
Any dispute shall not affect the parties’ ongoing obligations under this Privacy Policy.
