Privacy Policy

 

As your privacy is important to us when you surf Fresh Air’s web site, this page is designed to explain how the site’s operation affects your privacy, whether as a visitor or a member of Fresh Air.

 

Collection of Information

Fresh Air, like the vast majority of web sites on the Internet, collects basic and generic information about your computer when you access a page on Fresh Air’s web site. This information includes:

  • Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, which identifies the virtual location of your computer on the Internet. You can find out your IP address by visiting services such as WhatIsMyIP.com;
  • Your computer’s operating system and web browser version, useful for formatting pages for accessibility purposes;
  • The address of the page you accessed, so the server can supply the page; and
  • Any cookies freshair.org.uk is allowed to access, such as login cookies for the site and its forums.

This information is collected and stored for maximum of 90 days, for the purposes of creating aggregate statistics for the licensing agencies we work with (in the case of our Internet radio stream) and for our advertisers, who help fund the web site. The data supplied to these organisations contains neither your IP address nor any other information that can be associated with you personally.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text-only data that web sites can send to your computer along with a web page you visit, for your computer to store. Cookies relating to a specific web site can then be accessed by that web site the next time you visit. Again, the majority of web sites on the Internet make use of cookies, mainly for specific tracking purposes such as remembering who you are.

Fresh Air uses a number of cookies to track its visitors, mainly for the visitor’s convenience when browsing Fresh Air web site. If you use our forums, a cookie helps determine when you last visited so it can display a list of the newest posts for you, and if you have an account on the web site or forums cookies can help you stay logged in from your computer even when you close your browser, so you don’t have to re-enter your username and password the next time you visit. In addition, our advertisers use cookies to track the popularity or otherwise of their ads, but again this is for generic statistical purposes only.

Fresh Air uses two types of cookies: session cookies, which are deleted usually when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which are stored until a certain date which is extended as you revisit the web site. Fresh Air never requires you to accept a cookie in order to use its web site except for when you log in to use the forums or access certain member-only information. Most popular web browsers allow you to view a list of the cookies stored on your computer, and in some cases to block specific cookies or disable them entirely: check your browser’s documentation for further information. Be aware though that Fresh Air uses cookies only to make the site easier for you to use, and never uses them for malicious purposes.

Personally-Identifiable Information

When you register with Fresh Air’s web site, forums or mailing lists, you will be required to provide some personally-identifiable information (at the bare minimum, a valid e-mail address) in order to access or use these areas fully. Fresh Air society members are required to supply additional details as part of their membership application form, which is used (but restricted from public view) in order to manage the membership database and contact members directly.

While this information can be used to track and prevent abuse of the site and forums, Fresh Air will never supply or sell your information to third parties, or use the information itself to specifically market to you any products or services from third parties, except those directly offered by Fresh Air.

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy that you wish to raise, please contact the webmaster directly at webmaster[ @ ]freshair.org.uk.