Scottish Family Party (“Scottish Family Party”) operates scottishfamily.org and may operate other websites. It is Scottish Family Parties’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Scottish Family Party collects non-personally-identifying information
of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type,
language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Scottish
Family Parties’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand
how Scottish Family Parties’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Scottish Family Party
may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report
on trends in the usage of its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Scottish Family Parties’ websites choose to interact with Scottish Family
Party in ways that require Scottish Family Party to gather personally-identifying information.
The amount and type of information that Scottish Family Party gathers depends on the nature of
the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with Scottish Family Party are asked to provide
additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required
to process those transactions. In each case, Scottish Family Party collects such information
only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction
with Scottish Family Party. Scottish Family Party does not disclose personally-identifying information
other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying
information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related
activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Scottish Family Party may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites.
Scottish Family Party may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However,
Scottish Family Party does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described
below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Scottish Family Party discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i)
need to know that information in order to process it on Scottish Family Parties’ behalf or to
provide services available at Scottish Family Parties’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not
to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may
be located outside of your home country; by using Scottish Family Parties’ websites, you consent
to the transfer of such information to them. Scottish Family Party will not rent or sell potentially
personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees,
contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Scottish Family Party discloses
potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to
a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Scottish Family Party believes
in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Scottish
Family Party, third parties or the public at large. If you send us a request (for example via
email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to
help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Scottish Family
Party takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use,
alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the
visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Scottish Family Party
uses cookies to help Scottish Family Party identify and track visitors, their usage of Scottish
Family Party website, and their website access preferences. Scottish Family Party visitors who
do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies
before using Scottish Family Parties’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Scottish
Family Parties’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Scottish Family Party may change its Privacy Policy
from time to time, and in Scottish Family Parties’ sole discretion. Scottish Family Party encourages
visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued
use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such
change.
Other Privacy Policies
scottishfamily.org is hosted by SiteGround. Please see their privacy policy
here.
We use a membership site PaySubsOnline. Please see their data protection statement here. We use PayPal and GoCardless for taking donations and membership fees. Please see their respective Privacy Policies here and here. We use Facebook and Twitter. Please see their respective Privacy Policies here and here.