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Privacy and cookies

This page explains how we collect and use information, and how we protect your privacy.

Changes to the privacy and cookies policy

If this privacy and cookies policy changes in any way, we will post the new information on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Data Protection

Under the Data Protection Act and GDPR, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. You have a right to access your personal data and change any inaccuracies. We use leading technologies to safeguard our data, and strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We will ensure that any information we obtain and use will always be held, used and transferred in compliance with all applicable data protection rules.

Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website.

How we share information with third parties

We do not sell or pass on your personal information to others.

This site embeds the feed of posts from our Facebook page. Facebook has access to information you post on that page, e.g. comments, and if you are logged into Facebook while using this site, Facebook may be able to track some information about your visit. Read more about Facebook’s privacy policy.

Use of cookies

When you visit our website, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a ‘cookie’ or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. With most internet browsers you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

The web statistics package we use on our site, Google Analytics, sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast. The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

Cookie Name Expiration Time Description
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate.

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Analytics documentation.

How to reject or delete these cookies

Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on All about cookies website under the ‘manage cookies’ section.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us at any time not to contact you, or to change your preferred methods of contact for marketing purposes.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

 

Links

This website contains links to other websites that are not controlled by HSLFL. This privacy policy applies only to this site.

Withdrawing your permission

You may, at any time, withdraw your permission for HSLFL to use your personal information for the purposes of sending you information about products or services. You can do this by email to secretary.hslfl@gmail.com.