At the Caldecott Foundation we place high importance on integrity, building positive relationships and being socially responsible. In fact these are three of our four core organisational values. As a result being open and honest with you about how we use your personal data is really important to us.

We want you to know that unlike other companies we will never sell, rent or trade your personal information for any reason. But in order to be completely transparent with you we have put together this Privacy Notice which sets out when and why we collect your personal information and what we do with it.

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We hope you will find the information on our website interesting and during your visit you may wish to contact us. If you do call or email us using the contact details provided on our website then your details will be used to get in touch with you. Depending on the nature of your enquiry it might be necessary for us to store your personal information. If this is the case then we will seek your written consent to do so and explain how your data will be stored and used.

Alternatively you might choose to use one of the two forms on our website to contact us and bot forms ask for personal information.
Our ‘Get In Touch’ form asks for you name, email address and phone number. This information will only be used in order to get in contact with you. Depending on your message and in order to get you the best response we may need to forward your details onto another member of our team. Your information will never be shared outside of the organisation without your consent.

Our ‘Make a Referral’ Form will be used by professionals and parents looking to place young people in our services. This information will only be used in order to get in contact with you. Depending on your message and in order to get you the best response we may need to forward your details onto another member of our team. If you are enquiring about residential or education services then your information will not be shared outside of the organisation. However, if your referral relates to fostering services then we will forward your information to our sister company Caldecott Fostering Limited whose website address is http://www.caldecottfostering.co.uk/

We are constantly looking for ways to keep our costs as low as possible so that more money can be used to support our children and young people. In regards to donations and fundraising one way we do this is to use two other companies to collect online donations on our behalf and provide a facility for our fundraisers to gather donations online. These are the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and JustGiving.

We have tried to make it really obvious when you will be transferred to one of these two websites and for your convenience we have provided links below to both of their privacy notices:

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) – https://www.cafonline.org/navigation/footer/privacy

JustGiving – https://www.justgiving.com/info/privacy

We are always looking for ways to improve our website and the information that we provide to our visitors. As a result, and like most websites, we use small files (known as ‘cookies’) which are placed onto your computer and collect information about how users browse our websites. The cookies will also remember any notifications that you’ve already seen so that we don’t show them to you again.

It is really important for you to know that:

• cookies from our website aren’t used to identify you in any way
• you will see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer

If you want to find out more information on cookies from an independent source then we would suggest you look at the Information Commissioners Officer (ICO) website which has lots of useful information including how to control cookies through your own web browser. For your convenience we have included a link here – how to manage cookies.

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

In order to help us understand the information that the cookies collect and identify areas to improve the information we provide on our website we use a service called Google Analytics which is operated by Google, a third party. Please be assured that this information can’t be used in any way to identify you.

Google Analytics stores information about:

• the pages visited on our websites
• how long visitors spend on each page of our websites
• how a visitor found our websites
• what a visitor clicks on while they are on our websites

 

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

Universal Analytics

Name	Purpose	Expires
_ga	This helps us count how many people visit our websites by tracking if you’ve visited before	2 years
_gid	This helps us count how many people visit our websites by tracking if you’ve visited before	24 hours
_gat	Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made	10 minutes

 

Google Analytics

Name	Purpose	Expires
_utma	Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to our websites or to a certain page	2 years
_utmb	This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our websites	30 minutes
_utmc	This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser	when you close your browser
_utmz	This tells us how you reached our websites (for example from another website or a search engine)	6 months

 

Making secure connections to websites

Your browser uses cookies to make secure connections to websites with a ‘https’ URL. There are different versions for different levels of security.

Name	Purpose	Expires
TLSVersion	Tells us the highest version of TLS your browser uses so we can decide which versions to keep supporting	When you close your browser

 

 

You are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold. If you would like to do so then please let us know by emailing dp@caldecottfoundation.co.uk

Info on who to contact if they want to view, amend or delete their personal data.

Our Privacy and Cookie policies were last reviewed on 1 st March 2018. In order to ensure all the information provided is up to date we will review these policies at least once every year. However, whenever we make a change to our website which might affect how we collect and use data this will also trigger a review.