Caledonia Cremations is a not for profit Community Interest Company wholly owned by the Scottish anti-poverty charity Community Renewal Trust.
Privacy Policy
Who are we?
Caledonia Cremation is the trading name of Affordable Cremations Scotland CIC, registered at 18 Orkney St Govan G51 2BX. Write to us or call 03000113311 with any queries.
How do we collect information from you?
We obtain information about you when you use our website or call us, for example, when you contact us about our service, charitable activities, make a donation/payment or seek advice.
How do we collect information from you?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a payment online your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below.
How is your information used?
We may use your information to:
process a donation/payment that you have made;
process requests for service that you have submitted;
to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
dealing with entries into a competition;
seek your views or comments on the services we provide;
Ask you the participate in research;
notify you of changes or new services;
send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities, promotions of our associated companies goods and service.
We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory or contractual obligations). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity.
Who has access to your information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf.
When you are using our payment or donation pages, your donation is processed by a third party payment processor of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.
Your choices
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us, you can opt out as you pr vide your data or anytime later. Call 03000113311 with any queries.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent. We will not contact you for marketing purposes by post or email if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us on 03000113311.
How you can access and update your information
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If any of the information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, write to us at the above address.
Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. Any sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details) is encrypted and protected with the following software 128 Bit encryption on SSL. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Less sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Profiling
We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
Use of ‘cookies’
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer, visit our full cookies policy. Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Transferring your information outside of Europe
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (“EU”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy.
If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
