Privacy Policy

This is the web site of St Cuthbert’s Society Junior Common Room (JCR), also known as ‘www.cuths.com’ and ‘cuths.com’.

Our postal address is
St Cuthbert’s Society JCR
12 South Bailey
Durham, DH1 3EE

St Cuthbert’s Society JCR can be contacted via e-mail at cuthberts.president@dur.ac.uk. Other questions or requests can be directed to cuthberts.webmaster@dur.ac.uk.

From time to time you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself on the St Cuthbert’s Society JCR website (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable St Cuthbert’s Society JCR to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information St Cuthbert’s Society JCR will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

During the course of any visit to St Cuthbert’s Society JCR, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a ‘cookie’, are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. St Cuthbert’s Society JCR currently uses cookies to enable a ‘remember me’ function on the forum.

When you supply any personal information to St Cuthbert’s Society JCR we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and explicitly tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to St Cuthbert’s Society JCR will only be used within the society. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to St Cuthbert’s Society JCR or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour, we can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as University authorities, your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

For services St Cuthbert’s Society JCR offers such as the Forum we will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of St Cuthbert’s Society JCR membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a member. For safety reasons, however, St Cuthbert’s Society JCR may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of St Cuthbert’s Society JCR Forum such for as long as necessary. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other St Cuthbert’s Society JCR services, that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that the St Cuthbert’s Society JCR website holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to the St Cuthbert’s Society JCR Webmaster, cuthberts.webmaster@dur.ac.uk.

We collect extensive statistics regarding access to the St Cuthbert’s Society JCR website including users IP addresses. This information we collect is used strictly to improve the content of our Web pages.

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, outside organisations may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.  For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
Amazon UK: http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=2

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses.