Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is National Red Plaque Fire Service Memorial policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, https://www.fireservicememorial.org, and other sites we own and operate.

1. Information we collect
Log data: when you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details.
Device data: we may also collect data about the device you're using to access our website. This may include the device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, device settings, and geo-location data.
Personal information: we may ask for personal information, such as your name, email, social media profiles, date of birth, phone/mobile number, home/mailing address, and work address.
User-generated content: we consider "user-generated content" to be materials (text, image and/or video content) voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of publication on our website. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials.

2. Legal bases for processing
We will process your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. We collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so. Where you consent to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time. We don't keep personal information for longer than is necessary. While we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

3. Collection and use of information
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information to enable you to customise your experience of our website; to enable you to access and use our website and associated platforms; to contact and communicate with you; for internal record keeping and administrative purposes; for analytics, market research and business development; and to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes.

4. Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We may disclose personal information to third-party service providers (including IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, analytics and professional advisors); our employees, contractors and related entities; and courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law.

5. International transfers of personal information
The personal information we collect is stored and processed in the United Kingdom, or where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. Where we transfer personal information from the European Economic Area to a country outside it, that transfer will be protected by appropriate safeguards.

6. Your rights and controlling your personal information
By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information, request details of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to erase it. If you believe we have breached a relevant data protection law you may contact us and also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority.

7. Cookies
We use cookies to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site.

8. Business transfers
If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us.

9. Limits of our policy
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

10. Changes to this policy
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect current acceptable practices. We will take reasonable steps to let users know about changes via our website.

Data Controller: The National Red Plaque Fire Service Memorial — info@fireservicememorial.org
This policy is effective as of 19 June 2024.