Effective Date: 01/01/2025
Registered Charity: Switch Youth Services
Website: https://switchyouthservices.co.uk
Email: info@switchyouthservices.co.uk
Who We Are
Switch Youth Services is a registered charity in the UK, dedicated to supporting young people through various initiatives and services. Our website address is: https://switchyouthservices.co.uk.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymised string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can read their Privacy Policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images.
Cookies
We use cookies to improve your browsing experience. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings.
When You Leave a Comment
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter these details for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
Login and User Cookies
- If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info and screen display choices:
- Login cookies last for two days.
- Screen option cookies last for one year.
- If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.
- If you log out, these cookies will be removed.
- When you edit or publish content, an additional cookie may be saved which stores the post ID. It contains no personal data and expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited that website.
These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you are logged into that external site.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email for security purposes.
We do not sell or rent your data to third parties.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.
For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided to us.
You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To make a data request, please email: info@switchyouthservices.co.uk
Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, such as Akismet or similar.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we use your data, please contact us at:
📧 info@switchyouthservices.co.uk
🌐 https://switchyouthservices.co.uk