Website Data Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website belongs to Channel Sailing Division (CSD) which in turn is part of the Civil Service Sailing Association (CSSA) which in turn is part of CSSC Sports and Leisure(CSSC). See also CSSC Privacy Policy.

Our website address is: channelsailing.org.

Personal data: What we collect and why

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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. 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.

Contact forms

Data, including personal data, may be collected though contact forms on this website for the purpose of communicating with members or visitors to this site.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact 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, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

reCAPTCHA

This website uses the Google reCAPTCHA service to prevent abuse.  Your use of this invisible reCAPTCHA service is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Analytics

We may analyse data relating to visits to this website but do not ordinarily share this data with other organisations.

More specifically, for security purposes, we log visits to this site and changes that result from activity on this site.  This data, including IP addresses is retained for 6 months.

Who we share your data with

Data may only be shared with the CSSA and in some cases with the CSSC.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

The webmaster is the first point of contact for any matter relating to this website

Additional information

How we protect your data

We endeavour to use appropriate technical and physical security measures to protect personal information which is transmitted, stored or otherwise processed from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access, whenever this is collected in connection with our services.

For example the communication path between your browser and this website are protected by configuring this site to use the https protocol.

What third parties we receive data from

None

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None

Channel Sailing is a division of the CSSA