At YMCA Cardiff Group we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Whenever you provide any personal information to us, we will treat your information in accordance with this privacy policy and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We use cookies on our websites. By using our website you agree to this policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Personal information we may collect

When you donate, register online, buy merchandise from our online shop, take part in a sponsored event, contact us or interact with us in any other way, YMCA Cardiff  Group  may receive personal information about you, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, debit/credit card or direct debit details.

How we use your information

We will use your information in a number of ways, such as processing a donation that you have made, processing an order from our online shop, sending you information about YMCA, sending you communication you have subscribed to or responding to correspondence you have sent to us.

We will not contact you for marketing purposes unless you have given your express consent. You also have the right to advise us at any time if you no longer wish to receive any further communications from us that you might have consented to.

Disclosure of your information

We will keep you personal information confidential and will not disclose it to any third party without your consent, unless we are obliged to do so by law.

We sometimes use third parties to process your information on our behalf (for example, to process a donation). However, we require them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own business purposes.

Accessing and updating your personal information

You can ask us what information we hold about you by contacting us.

Write to YMCA Cardiff Group, The Walk, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3AG; call on +44 (0) 2920 465250 or mail enquiries@ymcacardiff.wales with your request. Please also help us to keep your information up to date by letting us know of any changes using the contact details above.

Third party websites

From time to time, this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. This policy only applies to this site, so if you follow a link to a third party site, please make sure you read the privacy policy on that site.

Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page, so please check back from time to time.

Contacting us

This website is owned and operated by YMCA Cardiff Group, The Walk, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3AG. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.