Introduction
Jayess Newbiggin Brass Band is a traditional brass band based in Northumberland in the north of England. See our Welcome page for more details.
Your privacy is important to us and we are required by UK Data Protection law to protect any personal data you share with us. The following sets out what data we may collect about you, and why we do so.
We will not ask you for personal information unless we need it.
We will not store your personal information unless required for the on-going operation of our website or, with your consent, so that we can maintain contact with you.
We will only share your personal information with other individuals or organisations when it is necessary and relevant or where it is required or allowed under law.
Website visitors
Our website uses digital services provided by 3rd parties (known as “plugins”) for a variety of functions such as: anti-spam protection; protection from malware, virus and cyber attack; website traffic analysis. Some of these collect and store your IP (Internet Protocol) Address which is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 assigned to a device connected to a computer network and can be considered as personal information because it can identify your device and your location. See “Who we share your data with” below.
Some visitors to our website may choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. E.g. if you leave a comment or send us a message via our contact form.
Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our website. From time to time we may release non-personally-identifying information in an aggregate form, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our website.
Comments
We ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a name and email address. We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you use Gravatar profile then, after approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here.
Note that our website Blog is not currently in use, and we refer interested visitors to view our X (Twitter) or Facebook news feeds instead.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Details of the cookies used on our website can be found in our Cookie Declaration. To change your cookie consent settings, just click on the round black circle with white paperclip symbol at the bottom left of any page.
If you deny the use of cookies, then you will not be able to interact with some of the pages of our website, including those detailed above i.e. you will not be able to leave a comment on a blog post. Also you will find that embedded content including X (Twitter) and Facebook news feeds, and You Tube videos, do not work but you will still be able to view these directly using the links.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, social media news feeds, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We share your personal information with our Band Committee Members and other registered volunteers who work on our behalf, as and when they need it for the on-going operation of the band, and who have agreed not to disclose it to others.
We share your personal information with the following digital service providers:
- Our website is hosted by Hostinger web hosting services who host our website. They receive your IP Address. Their Privacy Policy can be found here.
- We use Google Analytics to monitor website traffic and trends. They receive your IP Address. Their Privacy Policy can be found here.
- We use the Akismet anti-spam service from Automattic to check visitor comments. They receive your name, email address and IP Address. Their privacy policy is here.
- We use the Wordfence security service to detect malware, viruses and cyber attacks. They receive your IP Address. Their privacy policy is here.
We will also share personally identifying information and potentially personally identifying information to appropriate authorities if required by law, or we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the charity, third parties, or the public at large.
We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of personally identifying information and potentially personally identifying information.
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.
If you have given us your contact details, we will retain your data indefinitely or until you request to be removed from our mail-list and request for your data to be deleted from our records.
If you have made a financial donation, we will retain your data for as long as is required by law, which is at least 6 years from the end of the financial year in which the donation was made. However, we may retain your data for a longer time until it is convenient for us to delete expired data, or until you request that we delete it.
What rights you have over your data
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.
For a full guide to your data rights please see UK Data Protection law.
If you have any concerns or complaints, please contact us as soon as possible and we will try to resolve them to your satisfaction. Our contact details are on our Contact page.
If you are unhappy with our response, you may ask the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to intervene. You can contact them via their website or write to them at: ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; or call their helpline number: 0303 123 1113