Website Privacy and Data Policy

Our policy is  to obtain permission before putting details or photographs including any individual on this site. If we have failed to do this, or if anyone appearing here no longer wishes to do so, please inform us  and we will remove or obscure the image or text immediately.  Articles published on this site are usually provided by the brethren, and are not necessarily the views of Leopold Lodge 1760, Grand Lodge or Provincial Grand Lodge.

Please note that if you submit any form appearing on this website, Leopold Lodge 1760 may store and use any personal or other data  you provide in order to respond to your query, check any information you have provided, configure web services for your specific use and improve the quality of the services it offers.

We will make no attempt to identify other visitors, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In all cases, we reserve the right to attempt to identify any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of our web services.

THIS SITE USES COOKIES

Our website uses cookies, as do almost all websites. The purpose of these is to help provide you with the best experience possible.

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies enable us to:

  • Make our website work as expected

  • Improve the speed/security of the site

  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Instagram, etc.

  • Continuously improve our website for you

  • Track visits to the sites articles so we know what kind of information is popular for our visitors

We do not use cookies to collect any personally identifiable information or  to collect any sensitive information.

Granting us Permission to Use Cookies

If the settings on your web browser are set to accept cookies we understand because of that, and your continued use of our website, you are in agreement of how we use cookies. Should you wish to reject our cookies you may do so, either by global browser settings or our own cookie control panel. However this will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

MORE ABOUT OUR COOKIES

We use cookies to make certain functions on our website work including the login process.

Third party functions

Like most websites we include functionality provided by third parties. Our site includes the following which may use cookies:

  • Videos (powered by YouTube and Vimeo)

  • Location Maps

  • Other embedded content

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Social Website Cookies

So that you can share our content on the likes of Facebook and Instagram we may include sharing buttons on our site and these may set cookies.

Cookies are set by Facebook and Instagram.

The privacy implications of this will vary from social network to social network and will depend on your settings with them.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

We collect anonymous visitor statistics for our site using  Squarespace Analytics. This includes how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac OS X or Windows PC) which helps to identify how our site works on particular platforms. This helps us to continuously improve our website. This so-called "analytics” program also tells us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from Google) and what pages they view. We do not use cookies in visitor statistics collection and data is collected anonymously, that is, we cannot identify any individual visitor from it.

Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You may change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the small blue cookie icon at the bottom left corner of the screen.

If You’d like to view our full cookie policy, please click here.