Who we are
Our website address is: https://circlesnetwork.org.uk.
Privacy Policy
Circles Network aims to provide its members, organisations and individuals with the best possible service. Circles Network welcomes feedback, including complaints arising in regard to our services or operations. These allow us to correct any problems with our service, give us a chance to improve our relationships, and enable us to learn how to improve our service quality.
Policy and Procedure
Cookies
A cookie is a small bit of information that a website stores on your device. When you revisit a website, your browser sends the information back to the site. Circlesnetwork.org.uk use cookies to, among other things, keep track of services you have used, record your user preferences, keep you logged in, facilitate payment procedures, and track the pages that you visit.
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit circlesnetwork.org.uk
Analytics cookies monitor how users reach the site, and how they interact with and move around it.
Advertising cookies are placed on your computer by ad servers in order to display advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to you. These cookies do not gather any personal information about you.
Circles Network (CN) cookies are “first-party cookies”, and can be either permanent or temporary. These are necessary cookies, without which the site won’t work properly or be able to provide certain features and functionalities.
Personalisation cookies are used to recognize repeat visitors, these cookies record browsing history, pages visited, settings and preferences.
Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
Site management cookies are used to maintain your identity or session on the site so that you are not logged off unexpectedly, and any information you enter is retained from page to page.
Third-party cookies may be placed on your computer when you visit the site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.
How to opt-out of cookies:
Chrome
Step 1: Go to ‘Menu’ > ‘Settings’
Step 2: Scroll down and click ‘Advanced’ > ‘Content settings’
Step 3: Click ‘Cookies’ > ‘Block all third-party cookies’
Firefox
Step 1: Go to ‘Menu’ > ‘Options’
Step 2: Click on ‘Privacy & security’ > ‘Browser privacy’ > ‘Content blocking’ and select ‘Custom.’
Step 3: Select “All third-party cookies” or “All cookies” from the drop-down menu.
Safari
Step 1: Click ‘Safari’ in the top left-hand corner
Step 2: Select ‘Preferences’ > ‘Privacy’
Step 3: Tick ‘Block all cookies’
Microsoft Edge
Step 1: Click ‘More actions’ button in the top right corner
Step 2: Select ‘Settings’ > ‘Site permissions’
Step 3: Untick ‘Allow sites to save and read cookie data’ and select ‘Block third-party cookies’
Opera
Step 1: Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Privacy and security’
Step 2: Click Cookies and other site data’
Step 3: Select ‘Clear cookies and site data’ when you close Opera
Mobile browsers:
Chrome
Step 1: Open the Chrome app on your Android device
Step 2: Click ‘More’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Site settings’ > ‘Cookies’
Step 3: Turn cookies on or off
Firefox
Step 1: Select the ‘Menu’ tab next to the address bar
Step 2: Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Privacy & Security’
Step 3: Tick ‘Block cookies’ & choose the type of cookies you want to block
Safari
Step 1: Open Settings > Safari
Step 2: Scroll down to ‘Privacy & Security’
Step 3: Select ‘Block cookies’
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.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.