Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

At Wilba, we take your privacy seriously. Our privacy policy explains how we collect your data and what we use it for. Any personal information you share with us will only be used in accordance with the following statements.

Purpose

Wilba Conservation is a Private Limited Company based in Llandrindod Wells, Powys which aims to protect and encourage wildlife. Wilba collects and uses information to improve the service and experience we offer. This policy applies to all staff, volunteers, supporters, members and contracted workers.

Company no. 14063562

Information From Website Visitors

If you are just browsing the website, we will collect standard internet logs and user pattern behaviour using a third-party service called Google Analytics, which involves the use of cookies. This basic information is collected from everyone that uses the website, regardless of whether you have an account or not.

The data we collect remains anonymous, meaning we can’t use it to identify individuals.

Information from Interactions

If you subscribe using your email, become a member, call, or conduct business with ‘Wilba Conservation’ we will collect some basic data for the legitimate interest of the business. We don’t collect sensitive personal data, but we do record the following:

• Full name

• Address

• Telephone number

• Email address

How we use your information

We process the information for the following reasons:

• To improve our website.

• To tailor the services and experience we offer.

• To contact you about any relevant information.

• To process your membership.

• To determine the effectiveness of promotions and advertisements

Financial Security

All online transactions on our site are currently processed through either PayPal or Stripe. Both use the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol for encryption. (See ‘Thrid Party Providers’ and ‘Donorbox’ for more information about how we process payments).

Links to Other Websites

On our ‘Business Leaderboard’ page we include links to the website of our top five businesses. We also include links to other websites, where we have worked with those organisations, or we think the site holds relevant information to our readers. We have no liability for those sites and advise users to check the privacy policy on those sites.

Third Party Providers

We use Google Analytics to collect data. We need this data to understand how you use our website so we can improve its design and functionality. We also need the data to get the most out of our marketing campaigns. With your consent, Google Analytics will process and collect your personal data (cookies and IP address) to give us valuable information. To learn more about Google's data transfer policies, click here.

Currently, all donations are processed via Donorbox. Donorbox will collect basic information from you when you choose to donate; for more information about how your personal details are used by Donorbox click here.

We do not use any third-party providers to manage our social media accounts or interactions. Anything you post on our social media platforms will be subject to the policies of that platform. Any private or direct messages you send us via social media will be stored in said platform and will not be shared with any external organisations.

Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic and allows web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your experience by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages our audience use and analyse this data to tailor our website to our consumer’s preferences. This information is solely used for statistical analysis, and once used, will be removed from our system.

Overall, cookies help us improve our website by monitoring which pages users like and dislike. Cookies in no way give us access to your computer or personal data other than the information you choose to share with use. You can choose to accept or decline cookies.

The Cookies We Use

• Crumb

Used by Squarespace to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

• ss_cvt and ss_cvr

Used by SquareSpace to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s sessions on a site.

• _ga

Used by Google Analytics to store anonymous information about visitors including the number of visitors, session and campaign data, and site usage.

• apisid

Used by Google Ads when you interact with the YouTube video player, whether it’s on your phone, tablet or computer, this cookie may be established

• hsid

Used by Google, the HSID cookie is a critical security feature. This cookie plays an essential role in safeguarding user data. HSID cookies primarily work together with another type of cookie known as the SID

• nid

Used by Google, to collect information from users signed out of a Google account. This cookie assigns an ID to that user’s browser, allowing Google to provide that preference data to businesses using Google Ads.

• sapisid

Used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.

• sid

Used by Google, these cookies help keep everyone safe from cyber-attacks and even help deliver ads that we might be interested in.

• sidcc

Used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic.

• ssid

Specifically designed by Google Ads Optimization, the main purpose of an SSID Cookie revolves around personalized advertisements.

• ss_analytics-id

This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors to our site.

• ss_mid

This cookie identifies a unique visitor. No visitor information is stored except a unique ID dropped on visitors to the site.

• ss-session-id

This is a functional cookie used to identify users for the duration of their visit to our site

• _fbp

This is a cookie set by Facebook and is used to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

• _gid

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

• _uetvid

Used by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.

• notice_preferences

Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box

• ss_i18n

The purpose of this cookie is to improve the user experience by providing content that is adapted to language preferences and the user's location.

Disabling Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your preferences using your web browser settings. You can choose to receive notifications when cookies are being used or choose to refuse all cookies. However, some features of our services may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

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