Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for the website bitternline.com owned by Community Rail Norfolk, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy. Information collected and stored is done so in adherence with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 5.

The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Cookies
We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small file that is placed on your PC, tablet, or smartphone whenever you visit our website. We only use ‘functional cookies’ which help our website load faster the next time you visit and ‘analytical cookies’ which tell us the number of visitors to our website, the pages they view, and how long they view those pages. None of the cookies provide any personally identifiable information.

Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR Regulations (Article 5). This website and its owners use any information submitted by the user to provide the user with further information about the relevant Community Rail Partnership or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted at the time. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls. Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking on any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Resources & Further Information
● Data Protection Act 1998
● EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
● Guide to the General Data Protection Regulations
● Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
● Twitter privacy policy
● Facebook privacy policy

Updated 18th May 2018