This website is operated by Surf Life Saving Great Britain. We take your privacy seriously. This privacy policy describes how and why we obtain, store and process data which can identify you.

The information we collect

We use cookies on our website, to collect information about your use. When you visit the website you can allow or disallow it to store cookies on your computer, by customising your cookie preferences using your web browser’s preferences/options/tools.

We also receive your contact and other related details if you choose to complete any of our web forms. If you do not wish for any sensitive data or information about your health or your personal contact details to be stored on our webserver or within our trust please do not use these forms.

Cookie Name Cookie Category Description Duration
wordpress_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user. session
wordpress_logged_in_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_ 2 WordPress cookie for a logged in user session
wordpress_test_cookie 2 WordPress test cookie session
wp-settings- 1 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies.
The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table.
This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
1 year
wp-settings-time- 2 WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. 1 year
PHPSESSID 1 To identify your unique session on the website session
SESS 1 To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. session
__utma 2 This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. permanent
__utmb 2 __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site. session
__utmc 2 __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. 30 mins
__utmz 2 Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. 6 months

Why we collect this information

We collect information about you so we can personalise your use of the website and we can analyse data in order to improve our content, marketing and the services we offer to you. We also use this data to better understand how the investments we make return value to us, for example online advertising or partnerships with other organisations.

We also collect aggregated information about every single link and page on our website, so we can measure the website’s performance. This allows us to create more of the pages that users like and to remove unused content.

 

 

Security

Keeping information about you secure is very important to us. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Questions?

If you have any questions concerning anything on this page, please contact us here contact us.