Privacy and Policies
Exeter City of Literature is a learning organisation and we want to be inclusive. With this in mind, if we do get anything wrong please do let us know via our Contact Form
Our Privacy Policy
Exeter City of Literature is committed to looking after any information that is made available to us when you visit our websites in accordance with data protection law. As is required by GDPR legislation, our information is outlined below.
You don’t have to create an account or provide us with any personal information to access any part of our website. However, we may ask for some personal details if you wish to access some of our features, for example:
to subscribe to email marketing communications such as online newsletters
to submit an event to our Events Calendar
The vast majority of the personal information we hold about you will be obtained via our websites’ contact forms or if you contact us by email.
Some of the personal data we store and process (should you apply for an opportunity hosted by Exeter City of Literature) may include:
biographical information consisting of your name and geographical information
your contact details including address, email address and phone number
your professional interests e.g. if you run an event in the city of Exeter relevant to our audience
Instances where we are not directly responsible for the hosting, storing, or processing of information include:
Third party events or opportunities (where information is supplied by another organisation, business, or individual) in which you navigate away from Exeter City of Literature’s website. For example; to purchase tickets for an event, to sign up for a writing class, or to apply to another City of Literature’s writing residency.
Who we are
This website is owned and operated by Exeter City of Literature. Exeter City of Literature is a registered charity No. 1196686
Exeter City of Literature’s current registered address is: Exeter City of Literature c/o Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS
You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) by email, using email addresses published on our website from time to time.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Cookies
You may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These cookies will last for one year.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies if you’d rather. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
Remember that blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We gather information about traffic to the website via Google Analytics. We only use this data to improve content and functionality of the website. You can prevent your browser from giving us this information via Google. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Website visitor statistics aside, we don’t share any data with third-party individuals or organisations. In the event this changes, we would clearly notify all users of any change and we will never share your information with for any reason whatsoever without your express and clear consent.