Protection of children

As a child charity we always protect the privacy of our children and avoid giving too much information on individual children in our general publications. We have a clearance process for use of photos and avoid in general using the children's real names. We only use photos where we have relevant permission. Some photos used on our website are of children who have since grown up, and are no longer recognisable.

Charity Data protection policy

We only send mail, whether by post or electronically, to people who have indicated that they are happy to hear from us. We give everyone an opportunity to state their preferences on our use of their details and strictly respect those preferences. Please contact us if you would like to change your preferences.

Personal data that A Small Comfort collects is not distributed, shared, rented or sold to companies or organisations that are not a part of A Small Comfort's organisational structure except for organisations involved in the technical delivery of our IT services.

We also try to avoid sending emotive or "negative" messages or images to people. We receive plenty of very sad stories in our office but we feel that most people are aware that there are cases of desperate need, and find "in your face" appeals intrusive. We try to ensure that people receive good news about some of the positive progress being made for vulnerable children by A Small Comfort..

Information collected automatically

We automatically collect information about your visit to our site. This information is used to make your visit to our site more efficient, and to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can make regular improvements. We may also automatically log your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device.

Use of Cookies on our web sites

 We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

We do not associate the cookies with personal data such as your name or address, or build any profiles of other sites you may have visited. We do not make the fact that your browser has visited our site available to other organisations.

Our cookie policy was framed in view of the widespread acceptance of such cookies across the internet, the ability of any individual surfer to set their PC to refuse cookies and the fact that it allows us to further reduce our fundraising and administration costs.  For further information about cookies and for an explanation of how you can disable them please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

We are open to any comments on this policy, please do not hesitate to get in touch with your views about it.