PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

PAWS Uzumlu UK and PAWS Uzümlü are both registered charities. As a data controller we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you.

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PAWS  is responsible for and is committed to using personal information in accordance with all applicable data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”).

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The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain about personal information, how PAWS meets its obligations and what your rights are. This notice is available on the PAWS website.​

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WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?

Personal information is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. Some categories of personal information are treated as what is known as “special categories”, which broadly comprise more sensitive personal information which may need to be treated differently.

 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information collected by us can take many different forms. It may be factual information, expressions of opinion, images or other recorded information, which identifies or imparts something of significance about a living individual. It may be held electronically, in hard copy paper form or held as photographic images.

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The extent of the personal information that we collect relating to any one individual will depend upon the nature of that person’s interaction with us. We will only collect personal information that is proportionate and necessary.

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PAWS UK WEBSITE:

• Log files

PAWS follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.​

 

• Visitor data from forms

PAWS collects data from visitors that complete forms on the site. This information is used solely to enable payments to be made and/or for PAWS to maintain a list of contacts, including email addresses, to contact supporters. This information will never be used by a third party.

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• Cookies and web beacons

Like any other website, PAWS uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

 

• Third party privacy policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on PAWS, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that PAWS has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

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PAWS's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

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You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.