DIsclaimer
All articles on the site are copyright Croydon Conservative Federation, unless otherwise stated in the text. The Croydon Conservative Federation is not responsible for the content of any external sites linked to or otherwise referenced to within its website at www.croydonconservatives.com. All pages on this site have been designed and created specifically for the Internet, and are intended for viewing exclusively online at the Croydon Young Conservatives website at www.croydonycs.co.uk, unless otherwise stated in the text.
Third parties are welcome to link to any page within this site, but are asked to notify the Federation by email to [email protected].
Third parties are welcome to link to any page within this site, but are asked to notify the Federation by email to [email protected].
Privacy policy
Your views matter to Conservatives.
We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to get in touch and let us know about the issues that really matter to you. We also want you to do this with confidence. We take privacy very seriously and want you to know exactly what happens to any information you send us.
If you feel that we are not abiding by our privacy policy, please contact the webmaster in the first instance. His email address is [email protected]. If this does not resolve the matter, please contact the Agent of the Croydon Conservative Federation, Ian Parker. His email address is [email protected]. You can also write to the webmaster or the Agent at: Croydon Conservative Federation, 36 Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey, CR8 2LG.
Information Collection and Use
We are the sole owner of any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this information to anyone outside of the Conservative Party.
We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to get in touch and let us know about the issues that really matter to you. We also want you to do this with confidence. We take privacy very seriously and want you to know exactly what happens to any information you send us.
If you feel that we are not abiding by our privacy policy, please contact the webmaster in the first instance. His email address is [email protected]. If this does not resolve the matter, please contact the Agent of the Croydon Conservative Federation, Ian Parker. His email address is [email protected]. You can also write to the webmaster or the Agent at: Croydon Conservative Federation, 36 Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey, CR8 2LG.
Information Collection and Use
We are the sole owner of any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this information to anyone outside of the Conservative Party.
Join or volunteer
We need additional information if you want to join or volunteer. This includes contact information (such as your full postal address) and personal information that we must collect to abide by legal and voluntary codes of conduct (such as the constituency in which you are registered to vote).
Surveys and contests
Our site sometimes includes surveys or contests. You choose whether to take part and it is therefore always up to you whether you answer the questions and disclose contact information. We use your contact details to notify winners and award prizes. Your other answers help us improve the site and also ensure that Conservatives continue to tackle the issues that matter to you. We are committed to listening to Britain.
CooKies
www.croydonycs.co.uk uses a number of cookies to provide important functionality in our web site. The cookies we set do not store any of your personal data, nor do they transmit any of this back to us, although the third-party cookies used may do so. Depending on the browser that you use, if you prefer you can set your preferences to block or refuse cookies, or alternatively to ask you before they are placed. There is a website, www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information about how to do this on a variety of browsers.
Firstly we use a cookie to enable our web server to serve you the pages you have requested. This is a temporary cookie set by our web server which is deleted when you leave our site and contains no personal information.
This site also uses www.statcounter.com to collect anonymised information about how our visitors use this site. This information helps us understand whether our visitors are new or repeat visitors and what areas of our site they are most interested in. This helps us improve the website. When you visit our site, the pages that you look at, together with a very small text file called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. The cookie does not contain any of your personal details. Please visit statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/ should you wish to prevent Statcounter collecting data on your usage of any web site which uses stat counter for its web statistics.
Finally our site also sets cookies to enable our official Twitter account to be displayed on the home page. Twitter will automatically create two cookies on your machine:
The cookie “guest_id” - This cookie is used to identify you to twitter. If you do not have a twitter account or never accessed the twitter.com website directly then twitter will assign you a unique code to track your visit to the Twitter feed. Twitter has the ability to track surfing habits (on Tweet button enabled websites) of users that have no Twitter account and have never visited a Twitter website before. When using the same browser to create an account at Twitter afterward this collected data of the past can theoretically be linked to the freshly created profile. This cookie will expire in two years’ after creation. This cookie is classified as one which might be considered moderately intrusive, in that it does capture some user-identifiable information.
The cookie “k” - In order to show our official tweets on the croydonycs.co.uk website, we need to use the official Twitter API. This API creates a cookie on your machine called “k”. This cookie contains the IP address of the visitor. This cookie will expire in one week after creation. This cookie is classified as one which might be considered moderately intrusive, in that it does capture some user-identifiable information.
Firstly we use a cookie to enable our web server to serve you the pages you have requested. This is a temporary cookie set by our web server which is deleted when you leave our site and contains no personal information.
This site also uses www.statcounter.com to collect anonymised information about how our visitors use this site. This information helps us understand whether our visitors are new or repeat visitors and what areas of our site they are most interested in. This helps us improve the website. When you visit our site, the pages that you look at, together with a very small text file called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. The cookie does not contain any of your personal details. Please visit statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/ should you wish to prevent Statcounter collecting data on your usage of any web site which uses stat counter for its web statistics.
Finally our site also sets cookies to enable our official Twitter account to be displayed on the home page. Twitter will automatically create two cookies on your machine:
The cookie “guest_id” - This cookie is used to identify you to twitter. If you do not have a twitter account or never accessed the twitter.com website directly then twitter will assign you a unique code to track your visit to the Twitter feed. Twitter has the ability to track surfing habits (on Tweet button enabled websites) of users that have no Twitter account and have never visited a Twitter website before. When using the same browser to create an account at Twitter afterward this collected data of the past can theoretically be linked to the freshly created profile. This cookie will expire in two years’ after creation. This cookie is classified as one which might be considered moderately intrusive, in that it does capture some user-identifiable information.
The cookie “k” - In order to show our official tweets on the croydonycs.co.uk website, we need to use the official Twitter API. This API creates a cookie on your machine called “k”. This cookie contains the IP address of the visitor. This cookie will expire in one week after creation. This cookie is classified as one which might be considered moderately intrusive, in that it does capture some user-identifiable information.
Log files
We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Even where it is possible, we do not use IP addresses in order to track the movement of individual users.
Links
Our web site links to other sites, but we shall always try to warn you when this is the case. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites: make sure you read their privacy statements if you are concerned about the information they are collecting about you. This statement only applies to our web site.
Correcting/updating personal information
We recognise that details such as your post code or email address are bound to change over time. We will do what we can to ensure that you can change the information we hold about you.
Choice/opt out
You will always be able to opt out of having your information used for any purpose other than that specifically related to the page where we ask for it. If you ever want to stop us getting in touch, you can opt out by following the instructions at the foot of every email we send.
Notification of changes
If we change our privacy policy, we shall post a link to those changes on our homepage so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. When we collect information from you, we tell you what we intend to do with it; if we later want to use that information for a different purpose, we shall first send you an email setting out our plans - and it will be up to you whether or not we do so.