Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files sent to your computer or mobile device by a website. They provide information to the owner of the site.

The SafeTea website is owned by The Scar Free Foundation

This website uses Google Analytics cookies to track users’ behaviour whilst on the site. The information collected by the SafeTea website includes IP address, pages visited, browser, operating system and broad geographical area .

We also have some additional cookies for identifying the type of website user e.g. parents/carers; people who work with children (broad categories of profession) those who are just interested in SafeTea.

The data will not be used to identify any user personally. The cookies we use on our site are:

CookieNamePurpose
User type SafeTeaUser Based upon what was selected in the site popup or user registration (Parent, Professional, Interested, etc)
Google Analytics _ga
_gid
These cookies are used to find out how visitors use our site. We use the information to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including demographic information, the number of visitors to the site, whether they have visited before and the pages that they visit.
Word Press WPRole
WPLoggedIn
to identify if user is logged into Word Press and what is their role e.g. administrator /subscriber

Data stored in the data base for a limited period of time for registered users includes the following by agreement with the user :email address, name (if not registered on the front-end form) SafeTeaUser:  as described in the cookie, these details are purely to send out the SafeTea survey when the user has consented to a survey on registration.

Web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

What information do we collect?

We monitor user activity to enhance content provided on this site. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ and JavaScript code to help analyse user activity on websites. The information generated about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored on Google servers in the United States.

Google will use this information to produce user activity reports for this website. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data previously held. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note that if cookies are disabled, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Read Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Terms of Service for detailed information.