Cookies

This Website uses cookies and the through following information we seek to provide you with details about cookies and how we use them in order to help you to make informed decisions about using the Website and your browser settings regarding the use of cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain web sites. Each cookie is unique to your web browser and can only read or retrieved by the server that created it.

Cookies are then sent back to the originating web site on each subsequent visit allowing the web site to remember things like:

  • your preferences or
  • what’s in your shopping basket and therefore improve your user experience.
  • enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task.
  • recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested.
  • measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

Cookies are either used for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

The cookies we use

First party cookies

This web site does not use first party cookies.

Third party cookies

The third party cookies are those controlled and managed by domains that are not owned by ourselves.

These are detailed in the following table:

Name of Cookie Purpose
WordPress WordPress uses cookies to verify who you are. There are cookies for logged in users and for commenters. You can find more information here.
Social Media Sharing Buttons Some of our pages provide social media sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter or Google+, etc, which may set cookies. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and do not provide any tools that will block cookies from those web sites. You should check the relevant third party web site for more information: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or use the links below to find out more about viewing and configuring your browser cookie settings.

Managing cookies

To make it easy for you to use and share our website we embed features from other websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Browsing the Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum website may place cookies from these third party websites on your computer. Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum has no control over these cookies so it is not always possible to list them, and they are liable to change without notifying us.

We may refer to companies, organisations and public bodies and enable access to their websites directly from our website. Each company, organisation or public body operates its own policy regarding the sale of personal data and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest in, or concern regarding the way your data will be used then you are advised to read the Privacy Statement on the relevant website.

In addition to these policies your personal data is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998. Under this Act we will only process any data we hold about you in a lawful and fair manner. We will keep your data securely to prevent unauthorised access by third parties. Your personal data may have to be disclosed if we are required to disclose it by law, or as a result of a lawful request by a governmental or law enforcement authority.

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it, or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.

Use the browser settings to do this, the Help function within your browser should tell you how.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit aboutcookies.org or AllAboutCookies.

Accessibility

We aim to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, which help make the web more user friendly for all people.

Our website should display correctly in the current and previous two versions of Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera. There may be some areas that require you to have JavaScript turned on to work.

While we strive to adhere to standards for accessibility and usability, there are areas we are still working on to improve such as providing video and audio transcripts, audio captions and audio descriptions. If you have concerns or issues you wish to raise please contact info@RMNF.org.uk

Accessing documents

If you require an alternative accessible version of any documents that can be downloaded from our website (for instance in audio, Braille or large print) please contact info@RMNF.org.uk: or ring 07970715904