Privacy Policy & Legal

Privacy Policy & Legal

At Machen Lodge 1782, accessible from www.machen1782.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by Machen Lodge 1782 and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website concerning the information that they share and/or collect in Machen Lodge 1782. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via other channels (i.e. The Lodge's Facebook and/or Twitter Accounts, see these respective platforms' privacy notices), only this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.

Consent:

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time. Any amendments made by us and published here shall be deemed the current policy terms and those agreed to by anyone accessing this site.

Information we collect:

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your employment status, proposer and seconder details; the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register an interest to participate in our fraternity or make enquiries about us, we usually ask for your personal contact information, including items such as your name, home and/or business address, email address, and telephone number(s), etc.

How we use your information:

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website.

Improve, personalize, and expand our website.

Understand and analyze how you use our website.

Keep historical records of your Masonic Career for reference.

Develop new ideas, useful information, features, and functionality.

Communicate with you, either directly or through our extended organisation, to provide you with updates and other information relating to this website, and for promotional purposes of our wider fraternity and others associated with us.

Send you electronic correspondence. (i.e. emails, flyers, etc...)

Detect and prevent fraud.

For further information concerning Data Protection offline we refer you to this NOTICE.

Log Files:

Machen Lodge 1782 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 includes 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 personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons:

Like any other website, Machen Lodge 1782 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.

For more general information on cookies, please read the "Cookies" article from the Privacy Policy Generator.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks employ technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Machen Lodge 1782, which are sent directly to users' browsers. 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 Machen Lodge 1782 has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies:

Machen Lodge 1782'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.

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

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's data, not sell the consumer's data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights:

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's & Adolescent's Information:

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children or those under the age of consent while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Machen Lodge 1782 does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from individuals under the age of  eighteen (18). If you think that your child or dependent adolescent provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will employ our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

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NB. We are committed to acting following these principles to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

If you wish to make a complaint or want any information about yourself on our website to be deleted or modified, please get in touch with our:

 Webmaster