FacebookOur Privacy Policy and GDPR
This unit and Girlguiding UK take the privacy and safety of both parents / guardians and the young Rainbows members seriously. We receive training on Privacy, Data Protection (GDPR) and Safeguarding, through Girlguiding UK.
Sharing photos and videos safely
In promoting the unit, we will share photos and videos of activities that the girls engage in with, your permission. Upon registration of your daughter's interest in guiding, your permission would have been sort for the use of images that feature your daughter. This permission or, prohibition is held upon a national database that, we regularly reference before publishing of any media which may feature your daughter.
How is permission sort?
Girls wishing to join guiding for the first time must first register their interest upon the national guiding database. During the registration the following options were offered and recorded.
I am happy for photographs/videos to be taken of my daughter during guiding activities and used in national and local guiding publicity, communications, publications or digital channels (eg websites, social media).
I am happy for photographs/videos to be taken of my daughter during guiding activities for use within the unit only, not used for national and local guiding publicity, communications, publications or digital channels (eg websites, social media).
I do not wish any photographs/videos to be taken of my daughter while she undertakes guiding activities.
You can of course retract any permission and the database will be amended. Please contact both the Unit Leader and Administrator, for prompt action.
Large scale events - photo / video permissions differ for large-scale events (where over 100 participants are present). Consent forms will state clearly if an event is large scale, and will request parents to tell Leaders if they do not wish photos/videos of their daughter to be taken at the event.
Website cookies
Cookies are small, usually randomly encoded, text files that help you navigate through a website. They are generated on the sites that you visit as well as by third-parties that websites work with to manage key elements of their
business (user functionality and advertising, for instance). In most cases they do not involve or use personal information in any way.
Our website does not use cookies. With the exception of Girlguiding UK, we do not use any third-party services that would have their own cookies.
Email mailshots / Newsletters
We will take steps to ensure that your contact details and email address are not published. Email mailshots and newsletters will be sent BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) so that, no personal details can be harvested. Should you have any concerns, please contact the Unit Leader and Administrator, for prompt action.
Email cookies
We, the unit, do use what is known as transparent images within our emails. Primarily, we do this in our 'newsletter' emails purely, to track deliverability through, recording when you open and interact (click a link), with our email. The unit does not share this data with anyone else.
