Cook­ie Policy


OURCOOK­IEPOLICY

TERMSANDCONDITIONS

BACK­GROUND:

This web­site www​.faithin​strangers​.co​.uk (“Our Site”) uses Cook­ies and sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies in order to dis­tin­guish you from oth­er users. By using Cook­ies, We are able to pro­vide you with a bet­ter expe­ri­ence and to improve Our Site by bet­ter under­stand­ing how you use it. Please read this Cook­ie Pol­i­cy care­ful­ly and ensure that you under­stand it. Your accep­tance of Our Cook­ie Pol­i­cy is deemed to occur when you press the accept but­ton when prompt­ed. If you do not agree to Our Cook­ie Pol­i­cy, please stop using Our Site immediately.



  1. Def­i­n­i­tions and Interpretation
    1. In this Cook­ie Pol­i­cy, unless the con­text oth­er­wise requires, the fol­low­ing expres­sions have the fol­low­ing meanings:


Cook­ie”

means a small file placed on your com­put­er or device by Our Site when you vis­it cer­tain parts of Our Site and/​or when you use cer­tain fea­tures of Our Site;

Cook­ie Law”

means the rel­e­vant parts of the Pri­va­cy and Elec­tron­ic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions (EC Direc­tive) Reg­u­la­tions 2003[and of EU Reg­u­la­tion 2016679 Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (“GDPR”)];

per­son­al data”

means any and all data that relates to an iden­ti­fi­able per­son who can be direct­ly or indi­rect­ly iden­ti­fied from that data, as defined by [the Data Pro­tec­tion Act 1998] OR[EU Reg­u­la­tion 2016679 Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (“GDPR”)]; and

We/​Us/​Our”

means Faith In Strangers Ltd a lim­it­ed com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in Eng­land under com­pa­ny num­ber 11145283, whose reg­is­tered address is 17 Ethel­bert Cres­cent, Mar­gate, CT92DY.

  1. Infor­ma­tion About Us
    1. Our Site is owned and oper­at­ed by Faith In Strangers Ltd a lim­it­ed com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in Eng­land under com­pa­ny num­ber 11145283, whose reg­is­tered address is 17 Ethel­bert Cres­cent, Mar­gate, CT92DY.

    2. [Our VAT num­ber is 290345504.

    3. Our Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer is Richard Ran­dles, and can be con­tact­ed by email at hello@​faithinstrangers.​co.​uk, by tele­phone on 01843621337, or by post at 17 Ethel­bert Cres­cent, Mar­gate, CT92DY

    4. We are reg­u­lat­ed by the Infor­ma­tion Com­mis­sion­er’s Office.


  1. How Does Our Site Use Cookies?
    1. Our Site may place and access cer­tain first par­ty Cook­ies on your com­put­er or device. First par­ty Cook­ies are those placed direct­ly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cook­ies to facil­i­tate and improve your expe­ri­ence of Our Site and to pro­vide and improve Our prod­ucts and ser­vices. We have care­ful­ly cho­sen these Cook­ies and have tak­en steps to ensure that your pri­va­cy and per­son­al data is pro­tect­ed and respect­ed at all times.

    2. By using Our Site, you may also receive cer­tain third par­ty Cook­ies on your com­put­er or device. Third par­ty Cook­ies are those placed by web­sites, ser­vices, and/​or par­ties oth­er than Us. Third par­ty Cook­ies are used on Our Site for per­son­al­i­sa­tion of con­tent and adver­tis­ing our ser­vices to you. For more details, please refer to sec­tion 4 below.

    3. All Cook­ies used by and on Our Site are used in accor­dance with cur­rent Cook­ie Law. We may use some or all of the fol­low­ing types of Cookie:
      1. Strict­ly Nec­es­sary Cookies

A Cook­ie falls into this cat­e­go­ry if it is essen­tial to the oper­a­tion of Our Site, sup­port­ing func­tions such as log­ging in, your shop­ping bas­ket, and pay­ment transactions.

  1. Ana­lyt­ics Cookies

It is impor­tant for Us to under­stand how you use Our Site, for exam­ple, how effi­cient­ly you are able to nav­i­gate around it, and what fea­tures you use. Ana­lyt­ics Cook­ies enable us to gath­er this infor­ma­tion, help­ing Us to improve Our Site and your expe­ri­ence of it.

  1. Func­tion­al­i­ty Cookies

Func­tion­al­i­ty Cook­ies enable Us to pro­vide addi­tion­al func­tions to you on Our Site such as per­son­al­i­sa­tion and remem­ber­ing your saved pref­er­ences. Some func­tion­al­i­ty Cook­ies may also be strict­ly nec­es­sary Cook­ies, but not all nec­es­sar­i­ly fall into that category.

  1. Tar­get­ing Cookies

It is impor­tant for Us to know when and how often you vis­it Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (includ­ing which pages you have vis­it­ed and which links you have vis­it­ed). As with ana­lyt­ics Cook­ies, this infor­ma­tion helps us to bet­ter under­stand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and adver­tis­ing more rel­e­vant to your inter­ests. Some infor­ma­tion gath­ered by tar­get­ing Cook­ies may also be shared with third parties.

  1. Third Par­ty Cookies

Third par­ty Cook­ies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third par­ties that pro­vide ser­vices to Us and/​or to you. Third par­ty Cook­ies may be used by adver­tis­ing ser­vices to serve up tai­lored adver­tis­ing to you on Our Site, or by third par­ties pro­vid­ing ana­lyt­ics ser­vices to Us (these Cook­ies will work in the same way as ana­lyt­ics Cook­ies described above).

  1. Per­sis­tent Cookies

Any of the above types of Cook­ie may be a per­sis­tent Cook­ie. Per­sis­tent Cook­ies are those which remain on your com­put­er or device for a pre­de­ter­mined peri­od and are acti­vat­ed each time you vis­it Our Site.

  1. Ses­sion Cookies

Any of the above types of Cook­ie may be a ses­sion Cook­ie. Ses­sion Cook­ies are tem­po­rary and only remain on your com­put­er or device from the point at which you vis­it Our Site until you close your brows­er. Ses­sion Cook­ies are delet­ed when you close your browser.

  1. Cook­ies on Our Site are not per­ma­nent and will expire [after «insert peri­od»]OR [as indi­cat­ed in the table below].

  2. For more details of the per­son­al data that We col­lect and use, the mea­sures we have in place to pro­tect per­son­al data, your legal rights, and our legal oblig­a­tions, please refer to our Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy www​.faithin​strangers​.co​.uk/​p​o​l​i​c​y​-​a​n​d​-t-cs.

  3. For more spe­cif­ic details of the Cook­ies that We use, please refer to the table below.


  1. What Cook­ies Does Our Site Use?
    1. The fol­low­ing first par­ty Cook­ies may be placed on your com­put­er or device:

Name of Cookie

Pur­pose & Type

Strict­ly Necessary

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«yes / no»


  1. The fol­low­ing third par­ty Cook­ies may be placed on your com­put­er or device:

Name of Cookie

Pur­pose & Type

Provider

Strict­ly Necessary

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»


  1. Our Site uses ana­lyt­ics ser­vices pro­vid­ed by «Insert Name of Ana­lyt­ics Ser­vice Provider(s)». Web­site ana­lyt­ics refers to a set of tools used to col­lect and analyse anony­mous usage infor­ma­tion, enabling Us to bet­ter under­stand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the [prod­ucts] AND/OR [ser­vices] offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cook­ies, how­ev­er whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your pri­va­cy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to con­tin­u­al­ly improve Our Site, mak­ing it a bet­ter and more use­ful expe­ri­ence for you.

  2. The ana­lyt­ics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) ana­lyt­ics Cook­ies to gath­er the required information.

  3. The ana­lyt­ics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) the fol­low­ing ana­lyt­ics Cookies:

Name of Cookie

Pur­pose & Type

Provider

Strict­ly Necessary

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»

«insert file name»

«insert user-friend­ly description»

«insert name of provider»

«yes / no»



  1. Con­sent and Control
    1. Before Cook­ies are placed on your com­put­er or device, you will be shown a «insert descrip­tion of prompt, e.g. pop-up» request­ing your con­sent to set those Cook­ies. By giv­ing your con­sent to the plac­ing of Cook­ies you are enabling Us to pro­vide the best pos­si­ble expe­ri­ence and ser­vice to you. You may, if you wish, deny con­sent to the plac­ing of Cook­ies [unless those Cook­ies are strict­ly nec­es­sary]; how­ev­er cer­tain fea­tures of Our Site may not func­tion ful­ly or as intend­ed. [You will be giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to allow and/​or deny dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of Cook­ie that We use.] [You can return to your Cook­ie pref­er­ences to review and/​or change them at any time by «insert descrip­tion».]

    2. In addi­tion to the con­trols that We pro­vide, you can choose to enable or dis­able Cook­ies in your inter­net brows­er. Most inter­net browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to dis­able all Cook­ies or only third par­ty Cook­ies. By default, most inter­net browsers accept Cook­ies but this can be changed. For fur­ther details, please con­sult the help menu in your inter­net brows­er or the doc­u­men­ta­tion that came with your device.

    3. The links below pro­vide instruc­tions on how to con­trol Cook­ies in all main­stream browsers:
      1. Google Chrome: https://​sup​port​.google​.com/​c​h​r​o​m​e​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​95647​?​h​l​=​en-GB

      2. Microsoft Inter­net Explor­er: https://​sup​port​.microsoft​.com/​e​n​-​u​s​/​k​b​/​278835

      3. Microsoft Edge: https://​sup​port​.microsoft​.com/​e​n​-​g​b​/​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​s​/​m​i​c​r​o​s​o​f​t​-edge (Please note that there are no spe­cif­ic instruc­tions at this time, but Microsoft sup­port will be able to assist)

      4. Safari (macOS): https://​sup​port​.apple​.com/​k​b​/​P​H​21411​?​v​i​e​w​l​o​c​a​l​e​=​e​n​_​G​B​&​l​o​c​a​l​e​=​en_GB

      5. Safari (iOS): https://​sup​port​.apple​.com/​e​n​-​g​b​/​H​T​201265

      6. Mozil­la Fire­fox: https://​sup​port​.mozil​la​.org/​e​n​-​U​S​/​k​b​/​e​n​a​b​l​e​-​a​n​d​-​d​i​s​a​b​l​e​-​C​o​o​k​i​e​s​-​w​e​b​s​i​t​e​-​p​r​e​f​e​r​ences

      7. Android: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en (Please refer to your device’s doc­u­men­ta­tion for man­u­fac­tur­ers’ own browsers)


  1. Changes to this Cook­ie Policy
    1. We may alter this Cook­ie Pol­i­cy at any time. Any such changes will become bind­ing on you on your first use of Our Site after the changes have been made. You are there­fore advised to check this page from time to time.

    2. In the event of any con­flict between the cur­rent ver­sion of this Cook­ie Pol­i­cy and any pre­vi­ous version(s), the pro­vi­sions cur­rent and in effect shall pre­vail unless it is express­ly stat­ed otherwise.


  1. Fur­ther Information
    1. If you would like to know more about how We use Cook­ies, please con­tact Us at hello@​faithinstrangers.​co.​uk, by tele­phone on 01843621337.

    2. For more infor­ma­tion about pri­va­cy, data pro­tec­tion and our terms and con­di­tions, please vis­it the following:
      1. www​.faithin​strangers​.co​.uk/​p​o​l​i​c​y​-​a​n​d​-t-cs;