Privacy policy for this Website

The North of England Refugee Service is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals visiting this Web Site. The North of England Refugee Service is registered as a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to help you in your interactions with the site. Most cookies are session cookies, lasting only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No personally-identifiable data is collected. Examples of the sort of information that is collected via session cookies are provided below. This list is not exhaustive:

The last search term that you used within the site
Your preference in terms of accessible viewing options
A unique ID to track your session from page to page, which is vitally important should you sign into the site
Which page you are looking at within a multi-paged index of content, or search results.
Certain cookies are persistent, meaning that they last beyond your session, enabling an enhanced user-experience when you return to the site. Again, a non-exhaustive list of examples of the use of persistent cookies includes:

The option to “Remember my username” when signing-in to the site

From time to time, we may embed external content from third-party websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube) within our website.These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be that published on the website of that third-party content provider.

Other Web Sites
This Privacy Statement only covers this Web Site. It does not cover other web sites to which this Site may be linked. Other web sites will have their own privacy policy, which may be different to ours.

Further Information
The Data Protection Act 1998
Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2426, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Office of the Information Commissioner