Website Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website www.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk and served by Voyage Learning Campus and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and the Voyage Learning Campus take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. This website notifies all users on their first visit that we use cookies. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

The links below explain how you can remove/block cookies from our website

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-cookies-site-data-firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy
Apple Safari - Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Apple Safari - iPhone & iPad: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265

Categories of Cookies

Category of cookies	Why we use these cookies
Strictly Necessary	Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Analytics	Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement	Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.

The Cookies We Use

Cookie	Domain	Type	Description	Duration
loc	.addthis.com	Advertisement	AddThis sets this geolocation cookie to help understand the location of users who share the information.	1 year 1 month
_ga	.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Analytics	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.	2 years
_gid	.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Analytics	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 day
_gat_gtag_UA_68169622_2	.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Analytics	Set by Google to distinguish users.	1 minute
uvc	.addthis.com	Analytics	Set by addthis.com to determine the usage of addthis.com service.	1 year 1 month
at-rand	voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Analytics	AddThis sets this cookie to track page visits, sources of traffic and share counts.	never
__atuvc	www.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Functional	AddThis sets this cookie to ensure that the updated count is seen when one shares a page and returns to it, before the share count cache is updated.	1 year 1 month
__atuvs	www.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Functional	AddThis sets this cookie to ensure that the updated count is seen when one shares a page and returns to it, before the share count cache is updated.	30 minutes
DYNSRV	www.voyagelearningcampus.org.uk	Necessary	This cookie is used for load balancing purposes to decide which server to send the visitor.	session

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or the Voyage Learning Campus do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 2018. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

The Voyage Learning Campus use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the services we offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; Folded Book Art or Cottages in Pembrokeshire.)

The Voyage Learning Campus cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and the Voyage Learning Campus cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website does not contain any sponsored links or adverts.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

This website uses AddThis to enable users to share parts of our website via social media platforms or email. You can read the AddThis privacy policy here https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html

Shortened Links in Social Media

The Voyage Learning Campus, through their social media platform accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/2fxbVG5).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore the Voyage Learning Campus cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.