Privacy Policy

 1. Introduction and General Terms

ISLAND LIFE is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using ISLAND LIFE services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the islandlife.info and islandlife.org websites.

In order to provide you with the full range of ISLAND LIFE services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:

·         what information the ISLAND LIFE may collect about you;

·         how ISLAND LIFE will use information we collect about you;

·         when ISLAND LIFE may use your details to contact you;

·         whether ISLAND LIFE will disclose your details to anyone else;

·         your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;

·         the use of cookies on ISLAND LIFE website and how you can reject these cookies.

As set out above, ISLAND LIFE is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Act 2001 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws"). Registered under the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2001, registered number 011182.

The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2. What information will ISLAND LIFE collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any islandlife.info and islandlife.org website, such as newsletters or competitions, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable ISLAND LIFE and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application to be a contributor on a political party we may need to know your political leanings). When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

ISLAND LIFE may use cookies (see paragraph 12 below for details) and collect IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We may use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

We may also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from Guernsey or not.

3. How will ISLAND LIFE use the information they collect about me?

ISLAND LIFE will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

·   for "service administration purposes", which means that ISLAND LIFE may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);

·    to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide;

·    to personalise the way ISLAND LIFE content is presented to you;  

·    IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and

·    to analyse and improve the services offered on islandlife.info and islandlife.org. e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.

Where ISLAND LIFE proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

4. When will ISLAND LIFE contact me?

ISLAND LIFE may contact you:

·    in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that ISLAND LIFE can deliver the services to you;

·     where you have opted to receive further correspondence;

·     in relation to any contribution you have made to islandlife.info and islandlife.org;

·     to invite you to participate in surveys about ISLAND LIFE services (participation is always voluntary); and

·     for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)

Local pages will give you detailed information about how ISLAND LIFE will contact you in relation to specific services.

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

ISLAND LIFE won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.

6. Will ISLAND LIFE share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within ISLAND LIFE. However, sometimes ISLAND LIFE uses third parties to process your information. ISLAND LIFE will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and ISLAND LIFE will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

7. Offensive or inappropriate content on ISLAND LIFE website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to islandlife.info and islandlife.org, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on islandlife.info and islandlife.org, ISLAND LIFE may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.

Where ISLAND LIFE reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of the island of Guernsey (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), ISLAND LIFE may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to ISLAND LIFE's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. How long will ISLAND LIFE keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with ISLAND LIFE or ISLAND LIFE's retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as an islandlife.info and islandlife.org member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.

Where you contribute to islandlife.info and islandlife.org ISLAND LIFE will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, ISLAND LIFE will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for the duration of the competition. However other projects are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration.

ISLAND LIFE may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by users. Therefore, some content submitted to or shared with ISLAND LIFE may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in ISLAND LIFE's Archive, which is true of News contributions which are published. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives. Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.

10. Can I find out what personal information ISLAND LIFE holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information ISLAND LIFE holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, P O Box 298, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3RY).

11. Changes to ISLAND LIFE's Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any islandlife.info and islandlife.org website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

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12. Cookies Policy -Information ISLAND LIFE MAY collect from you

a. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the islandlife.info and islandlife.org features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

During the course of any visit to islandlife.info and islandlife.org, the pages you see, along with a cookie, may be downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

b. How does ISLAND LIFE use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. ISLAND LIFE also uses a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to ISLAND LIFE sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website.  ISLAND LIFE may use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. ISLAND LIFE strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes (see paragraph 6 above). Certain other areas of islandlife.info and islandlife.org may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.

c. ISLAND LIFE cookies?

A list of the main cookies that islandlife.info and islandlife.org sets (and what each is used for) together with ways to minimise the number of cookies you receive will be published if Cookies are enabled.

13. Contacting ISLAND LIFE about this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;

The Data Protection Officer
Island Life
P O Box 298
St Peter Port
Guernsey
GY1 3RY