Soul Of Adoption

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Privacy Policy

This policy explains the way that we collect, use and protect your data on Soul of Adoption as well as your choices with regard to your data.

Our aims and duty of care

We recognise our duty of care with regards to your data and will always endeavour to do the right thing with the personal data you choose to share with us, including: not compromising your anonymity; protecting your privacy; storing your data securely and giving you control over your own data.

Our mission at Soul of Adoption is to help make members' lives easier. We believe that securing your data, preserving your anonymity, protecting your privacy, and giving you control over your data are an important aspect of that mission.

We store: IP address, cookies, your device's unique ID, page browsing history, searches you've made on site, approximate location, and any enquiries you've made. For registered members we also store username, password and email address; discussions you may have with Soul of Adoption site moderators; and a summary of decisions we've taken if we've reviewed your use of Soul of Adoption for any reason.

We store your email address to register you and contact you (if you have asked for email newsletters) and we store things such as IP address, cookies and device ID so that our systems recognise you if you return to Soul of Adoption. When we look at this information across large numbers of users, it helps us see which parts of Mumsnet are well-used and which aren't, and this helps us to decide what sort of content and features might be useful to develop.

We don't require your name or address when you view Soul of Adoption content or register with the site, and you can use Soul of Adoption fully without providing it.

Subject to your permissions and choices, we collect, store and process the data listed in this section. We believe we provide a useful service, and therefore have a legitimate interest in processing your data which benefits both Soul of Adoption and you as a Soul of Adoption.

We store the following data for all users, whether registered or not:

*  IP address, cookies, device ID – to identify your web browser and device.
*  Page browsing information – to enable us to show you more relevant things and to understand how people use Soul of Adoption, so we can improve it.
*  Within our user database, we assign your internet browser and device a unique 'Identity Number'. Against this identity number we record the topic of the content that your device is viewing or creating, in other words, your device's 'reading habits'. This helps us understand what you may be interested in so that we can show you things we think may be relevant to you (Soul of Adoption content). When we look at this information from all users, we can see what is popular and less popular, helping us to develop Soul of Adoption over time.
* Searches you've made on site – to show you more content in future.

We store the following information for registered members:

*  Username, password and email address so that you can log in. We won't send you newsletters or mass email communications that you haven't asked for, and we don't sell your email address to anyone else.
*  Discussions that take place over email or via Private Messages between you and Soul of Adoption moderators so that we have a record.
*  A summary of any actions we may have taken with regard to your use of Soul of Adoption (usually in response to reported posts) so that we have a record and can moderate fairly.

We also store the following optional data for registered members:

*  Registration data: facts about you that you choose to provide in the sign-up process, such as your date of birth and gender. If you give us this data it helps us to show you more relevant things (for example, sending you emails about pregnancy if you have asked for them).
*  Permissions to email you, to send you newsletters that you have chosen to receive.
*  Private Messages that you choose to send other users.
 
Children and minors

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 years of age.

Posting on Soul of Adoption

Of your registration data, only your Soul of Adoption username is displayed on screen for other users to see and visible to anyone on the internet. So when posting, you should bear in mind that any personally identifying details you include in the text or pictures you post could be seen by anyone.

Registered members of Soul of Adoption can start discussions and add comments, pictures and videos to existing discussions within Soul of Adoption's forums under our Terms of Use. This is optional in the sense that it's up to you whether you post on Soul of Adoption or not; if you do post we always store the contents of those posts. These posts are public, but of your registration data, only your username is displayed on-screen. Your username is picked by you when you join Soul of the Adoption you can change it at any time in Profile.

Soul of Adoption forums are visible to search engines. This means that any personal information users choose to share in their posts can be seen widely. We cannot control who sees these posts.

In all your posts across Soul of Adoption, in personal messages to other users, and in choosing your username, you should be mindful about the possibility that information you choose to disclose could lead to someone working out who you are in 'real life'. For example, anything that references your real life name, your children's real names, where you live or your date of birth could make it easy for someone to work out who you are.

Soul of Adoption is for anybody 16+ and we believe that our users are adults/youth who can decide for themselves what information they choose to share on Soul of Adoption. That said, if you're ever worried that you've said too much, hit 'report' on one of your posts and explain the problem to our moderation team; they will be happy to help if they can if you can't modify your post.

You should be aware that the moderation team and a small number of other members of staff at Soul of Adoption have access to your posts and can see that content in combination with your registration data. We restrict the number of staff who have access to this data to the minimum and we constantly review this. You can check your registration data in Profile.

Your permissions and choices

You can change your registration data and your email preferences on Soul of Adoption at any time on your Profile page.

Your registration data

You can change the information that you provided when you registered, including your email address and Soul of Adoption username, on your Profile page.

Your email preferences

You can change which newsletters you receive, or ensure that you do not receive any newsletters from Soul of Adoption by going to My Account.

Your posts

If you're ever worried that you've said too much, hit 'report' on one of your posts and explain the problem to our site moderation team; they will be happy to help if they can.

Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. A cookie is a small, temporary file which a web server sends to your web browser to be stored. Cookies allows Soul of Adoption to identify your web browser and device if we see it again.

Cookies do not contain your name or other personal details and there are some benefits to you and Soul of Adoption.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

    Google Chrome
    Microsoft Edge
    Mozilla Firefox
    Microsoft Internet Explorer
    Opera
    Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Private Messages are stored until you delete them.

Exceptional circumstances - safeguarding and official investigations

If there are obvious safeguarding reasons, or if we are contacted by the police about a possible breach of the law, we may share your personal information with public authorities without your permission. If we are compelled to do so by a court order, we will share your personal data to the extent specified in the order.

If there are compelling safeguarding considerations, we may share your data with public authorities without your permission. We understand 'compelling safeguarding considerations' to mean credible evidence of imminent risk of serious harm, especially to a child or vulnerable person.

In such circumstances, on the judgement of a senior person within Soul of Adoption  we may proactively contact relevant authorities (the police or ambulance service, for example) and share any relevant data we have, such as location data, relevant posts, private messages, details of any children who might be at risk, and descriptions of the situation.

If contacted by the police about possible breaches of the law disclosed in posts, we may sometimes on the judgement of a senior person within Soul of Adoption share your personal information with them. We will share your personal information if compelled to do so by a court order, for example under Section 5 of the 2013 Defamation Act.

Complying with the law and best practice around data

The way that we store and process data is compliant with the following legislation:

UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)ePrivacy Directive 2002 (amended 2009)

We always aim to comply both with the spirit as well as the letter of the law and to be responsible