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Cookies Policy
What are they?
A cookie is a little text file composed of alphanumeric characters, which is created on your computer when your browser accesses a website that uses cookies. These cookies are used to help your browser navigate our website and fully use all its features like logins, preferences, among other common features.
When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the our website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.
You can choose not to accept our cookies by clicking on Privacy Settings or the bar at the top of your webpage.
We use Google Analytics to help analyse use of our website. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. To find out more about cookies, including how to control and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, or to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics and across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Names of the Cookies used by Google Analytics:
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This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit to your site from that web browser. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to your site and it is updated with each page view.
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This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with your site. When a user views a page on your site, the Google Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different page on your site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-
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This cookie is no longer used by the ga.js tracking code to determine session status.
Privacy Policy
1.0 Our core beliefs regarding user privacy and data protection
- User privacy and data protection are human rights
- We have a duty of care to the people within our data
- Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
- We loathe spam as much as you do!
- We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information
2.0 Relevant legislation
Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
This site is compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well.
3.0 Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
3.1 Site visitation tracking
This website does not use site visitation tracking.
3.2 Contact forms and email links
Should you choose to contact us via the email link on this website, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0.
3.3 Email newsletter
If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit will not be stored within this websites own database, but we may store it on our secure internal computer system.
Your email address will remain within our database for as long as we continue to use it for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.
If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.
4.0 How we store your personal information
We do not store your personal information on this website, as detailed in section 3.2.
5.0 About this websites server
This website is hosted by Your Name Here within a UK data centre located in Blackpool.
6.0 Our third party data processors
We may use a approved third party to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. These third parties privacy policies can be accessed from the links below.
Google (Privacy policy)
7.0 Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this websites database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
8.0 Data Controller
The data controller of this website is: Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary, a UK Company Registration No: 3714183, UK Registered Charity No: 1076645.
Whose registered and operating office is:
Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary,
Caehopkin,
Abercrave,
Swansea Valley,
SA9 1UD
South Wales, UK
9.0 Data Protection Officer
Mrs Jan Garen
Director, Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary
Telephone: 01639 730276
Email: info@ape-
10.0 Changes to our privacy policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.