Privacy Policy
Belfast Healthy Cities work with central government and local councils, elected representatives and community leaders, local stakeholders and organisations from across the city of Belfast and beyond.
In order to provide our services, we may need to process Personal Data from time to time.
How we collect your information
- Contact information such as your full name, email address, job title and the organisations that you are associated with.
- Records of your registration and attendance at events, such as conferences, seminars, awards, explorer awards, training sessions and formal meetings that we organise or host.
- Photographs or video recordings of events and training sessions for use in printed and electronic media, for promotional and archival purposes.
- Records of your subscriptionto our Information Service including a log of whether you open the emails and clicked on links.
Information we collect from other sources
Standard internet log information such as your IP address and visitor behaviour patterns. We use Google Analytics to analyse website traffic. Please see further information on Google’s security and privacy principles here. See also: BHC Cookie Policy below
Information Service
We use a third party provider, Mailchimp, to deliver our information service. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks. For more information, please see MailChimp’s Privacy Notice
Job Applications
Information provided during an application process will only be used for the purpose of progressing your application, or to fulfil legal or regulatory requirements if necessary.
Data security and retention
We minimise the amount of personal data we keep about you and the period of time we hold it for.
In some cases, we retain records for the length of time that we are legally obliged to do so. In other cases, we apply our retention schedule when we no longer require personal data and ensure its secure deletion or disposal.
Links to other websites
This privacy notice does not cover any websites linked to from this website.
BHC Cookie Policy
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. We use cookies on this website to:
- recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the site as you do not have to log on each time);
- obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
- carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitors’ requirements and interests;
- target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests;
- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable;
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form).
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. The exception is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested.
Consent
If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in our Privacy Policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely.
Third-party cookies
We may from time to time work with third-party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website, for example, Google Analytics. These third-party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site. If you want further information please go to the website for the relevant third party. You will find additional information in the table below.
Description of cookies
The table below is designed to provide more information about the cookies we use and why:
Name of cookie | Owner | Purpose for the cookie |
Drupal CMS | Belfast Healthy Cities | The content management system on this website uses sessional (temporary) cookies to store login information and handle e-commerce transactions. |
Google Analytics | This is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (eg how long they stayed on the site, the average number of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had. |
How to turn off cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org