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Privacy Policy

Definitions

The terms ‘Customer’ and ‘Company’ that are used within this Privacy Policy are defined in our Terms & Conditions – please refer to the document for full definitions. This Privacy Policy is applicable to any personal information, which is given by the Customer to the Company (‘User Information’) via the website cancervaccinesuk.org and any associated sub-domains (‘Sites’). This Policy is devised to help you feel more confident about the privacy and security of your personal details. Hereafter, ‘You’ shall mean you, the user of the Sites. ‘We/Us’ means the Company. ‘Users’ means the users of the Sites collectively and/or individually as the context allows.
Please note that we process personal data only in strict compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and associated legislation.

Data Collection

When using the Sites You may be asked to enter User Information. Such User Information will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected, for any other purposes specified at the collection point and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How We May Use Your Data

By entering Your User Information, You accept that we may retain Your User Information and that it may be held by Us. We shall be entitled to use Your User Information for the following purposes: 

  • In order to enable Us to comply with any requirements imposed on us by law.
  • Our own market research, including statistical analysis of user behaviour which we will not disclose to third parties.
  • In order to send You periodic communications (this may include e-mail), about features, products and services, events and special offers which we hope will be of interest to you.

Communications from Us will not include advertising for third party companies. You may withdraw consent by replying to the ‘unsubscribe’ link in our emails. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties without permission.

Cookies

You should be aware that information and data may be automatically collected through the use of Cookies. These are small text files that are used to store pieces of information. They are stored in your browser when you visit a website – they do not attach to your system or damage your files. In our case, these cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

Change/Withdraw Consent

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.cancervaccinesuk.org
Your current state: No consent given. Manage your consent.

How do we use cookies ?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use ?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

CookieDescription
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analyticsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functionalThe cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessaryThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-othersThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performanceThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policyThe cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

How can I control the cookie preferences ?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage your consent” link provided for your convenience above in the section entitled: Change/Withdraw Consent. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Security and Data Retention

Security is extremely important to Us. Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) encryption technology is used for protection of information in transit for any sensitive transactions such as payments. We will comply with all relevant Data Protection legislation in relation to the period for which We retain any information You disclose to us.

Updates

We may change this privacy policy from time to time and you should check these regularly. Your use of the Sites will be deemed an acceptance of the privacy policy existing at that time.

Google ReCaptcha

All forms, including Contact forms and Sign-up forms on our website, are protected by Google reCAPTCHA. We use Google® reCAPTCHA, so as to ensure we keep bots away. Using reCAPTCHA transmits data to Google® that Google® uses to determine if you are truly human. Thus, reCAPTCHA serves the security of our website and consequently also your safety. For example, without reCAPTCHA use in the registration process, a bot could easily register users’ email addresses. With reCAPTCHA we can avoid such bot attacks and therefore protect internet users in general.

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. 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.