1. Who We Are
Our website address is: allaboutbirth.co.uk, We are a Northern Ireland based community interest company, dedicated to benefiting the community through our services and products.
2. Data Collected
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
We collect personal data such as your name, email address, phone number, and postal address to provide and improve our services. This data is collected when you fill out forms on our website, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us directly.
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, 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.
3. Content
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the 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.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
Necessary Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cflb | api2.hcaptcha.com | Third-party | 30 minutes | This cookie is used for load balancing and for identifying trusted web traffic. It helps in ensuring consistent service and user experience by managing traffic and routing users to specific servers. |
Performance Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | Third-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _ga_* | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | Third-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| sbjs_migrations | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to track user interactions and migration between different pages or sections of the website to improve user experience and website performance analytics. |
| sbjs_current | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to track users' activities and interactions across the website to facilitate better analysis and understanding of traffic sources and user behavior. |
| sbjs_first | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to store information about the user's first session on the website. It tracks details such as the source from which the user came, the path they took, which search engine and keyword were used, and their location at the time of the first visit. This information is used to analyze and improve the website's performance by understanding user behavior. |
| sbjs_udata | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to store user-specific data to help monitor and analyze the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns and optimize the user experience on the website. |
| m | m.stripe.com | Third-party | Session | This cookie is generally used for performance and optimization of payment processing services, facilitating caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| sbjs_first_add | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to store details about the user's first visit to the website, including timestamp, referring site, and source of the traffic, to assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and website sources. |
| sbjs_session | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to track user activity and sessions to improve the performance and usability of the website, helping to understand how visitors interact with the website. |
| sbjs_current_add | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to store information about the current visit to distinguish between users and sessions. It typically includes details such as source of traffic, campaign data, and user behavior to help in tracking and analyzing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. |
Functional Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __stripe_sid | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | Third-party | 30 minutes | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| __stripe_mid | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | Third-party | 1 year | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| trx_addons_is_retina | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | Session | This cookie is used to determine if the user's device supports retina display features. It helps in optimizing the content and images to better suit the user's display for a improved visual experience. |
| adp-popup-9109 | .allaboutbirth.co.uk | First-party | 1 year | This cookie is used to store details about the user's first visit to the website and if the user has seen and approved the cookie notice. |
5. Analytics
We use analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our services and user experience. These tools may collect data such as your IP address, browser type, and pages visited.
6. Lawful Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on your consent, our legitimate interests, or to fulfill a contract with you. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
8. Security Measures
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.
9. Your Data Protection Rights
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You can also object to or restrict the processing of your data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
10. Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We may also share your data with third-party service providers to help us operate our website and provide our services.
How We Protect Your Data
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
11. Community Interest Statement
As a Community Interest Company, our data practices are designed to support our mission of benefiting the community. We ensure that all personal data collected is used in ways that align with our community objectives.
12. Asset Lock Information
Our CIC has an asset lock in place to ensure that all assets and profits are used for the benefit of the community. This means that any surplus funds are reinvested into our community projects and services.
13. Annual Community Interest Report
We prepare an annual Community Interest Report (CIC34) to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to community benefit. This report is filed with our accounts and is available for public review.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.
15.Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].