Privacy Policy

Our Policy

The Surrey Hills Society complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will endeavour to keep your personal information accurate and up to date.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you fill out a form.

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

The information we collect from you is used to keep you informed about the activities of the Society and to administer your membership.

If you make an order through the website or purchase membership of the Society, the information is used solely to fulfil that order or to administer that membership.

We use MailChimp to send out information by email to our members. By supplying your email, you consent that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.  You may unsubscribe from these communications by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order.

Do we use cookies?

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

What is a cookie?

  • A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the site can remember who you are.
  • A cookie will typically contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
  • We cannot identify you personally by using a cookie. Cookies store no personal data and are not used to gather personal information.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to better understand our audience.

Third party cookies

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Some third party services embedded within this website set their own cookies. These are known as third party cookies because they are not set by our website. We have no control over the cookies that are set by third party services. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can do this. You can learn more about all the cookies set by our website above.

Turning cookies off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not disclose your personal information to any third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so.

Your rights

  • You may request that the Surrey Hills Society stops processing your personal data in relation to any event or workshop.
  • You are entitled to request access to a copy of any information we hold about you.
  • You may request that you are removed from our mailing lists at any time.

Please contact the Surrey Hills Society at info@surreyhillssociety.org  to exercise any of these rights, or let us know if you have a complaint about how your information has been collected, how it has been used or how long we have kept it for.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.