All of our websites comply with latest data protection regulations. The Brightside Trust and our contracted partners respect your privacy and recognise the importance of protecting the information collected about you. They have adopted this Privacy Policy which guides how they collect, store and use the information you provide.
References to the ementoring coordinator refer to an authorized individual by The Brightside Trust and/or contracted partners who implements and maintains the ementoring programme and holds a Criminal Records Bureau enhanced certificate.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 8th 2010.
A cookie is a small text file written to your hard drive and does not contain any personally identifiable information. The use of cookies is now widespread. The reason that this website uses cookies is to save you time (so that you do not have to log in more than once) and, also, so that your experience of this website can be personalised. If you set up your browser to reject the cookie, you may still use this website, although functionality will be impaired.
Your contact details (email address, mobile phone number, school etc) will be kept confidential by The Brightside Trust and will be seen only by The Brightside Trust, our contracted partner, your ementoring coordinator and third party organisations which are appointed by The Brightside Trust and/or the contracted partner for matters relating to this website, which parties are contractually obliged to keep your personal data secure and confidential. If you would like further information regarding this, please contact us at support@thebrightsidetrust.org
All messages will also be kept private from any individuals except those listed above. From time to time, The Brightside Trust staff and your ementoring coordinator will review all messages to protect your safety by ensuring that there is no misuse of this website or of your mentoring relationship.
In order to receive and/or evaluate some services, you have to complete a registration form. During registration, you are required to give contact information (such as your full name and e-mail address). This information may be used to contact you about the services for which you have expressed interest and, also, other goods, services and features The Brightside Trust and/or the contracted partners believe that you will find interesting. Each time you are contacted, you will be told whom you need to inform if you do not want to be contacted again by that person.
Periodically, The Brightside Trust and/or the contracted partners may request your permission to use parts of your and your mentor/mentee's journal for marketing and demonstration purposes. In these cases, the Brightside Trust and/or the contracted partners will only use materials if your express permission has been granted; we will also try to change names to protect your identity.
This privacy policy only relates to this website and does not extend to your use of the internet outside this website; in particular, it does not relate to any websites to which you may link using the hypertext connections within the Library section of this website and The Brightside Trust and the contracted partners are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. You are encouraged to read the privacy statements of other websites. By using this website you consent to the use of information obtained from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Please note that we may occasionally change our Privacy Policy, but will always post those changes here; so please re-visit this page from time to time. If, at any time, we decide to use your data in a manner which is different to that stated at the time we collected your data then we will notify you. You will have a choice as to whether we can use your information in that manner. We will use your information in accordance with the version of the Privacy Policy under which your information was collected.
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement or our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@thebrightsidetrust.org You should also use this e-mail address to let us know if any of your personal data changes.